I try to get all the best hip hop throughout the year. But there’s so much hip hop released every day (!) that it’s impossible to keep up. Hence, once every January I try to sit down and scrap the web for songs and albums that I missed. On the note of summarizing the year, …
It got a bit critical in the previous newsletter. Rightfully so, I would like to add. When I collected all albums of 2018 to create a list of the top ones, I can’t really say there’s that one album that really stood out. Not like previous years, where we’ve received classics like To Pimp A Butterfly, etc. There’s …
The Donald Trump year is about to end. Donald has reached the front pages each and every other day. He even had an impact on hip hop by being referenced to in multiple songs. Kanye also connected with Trump which stirred up major news articles and debates online. Anyhow… the newsletter is introduced by something …
We’re closing 2018 shortly. I thought I’d summarize the year with a short series of the best tracks of 2018. I’ve decided to start off with the best young artists this year. Let’s go! 6LACK He has kept releasing quality music the past years. He has just put out an album that has gone big. …
We’ve all perhaps read about the shift in hip hop distribution and the labels role for artists. Labels have played some terrible cards throughout the years: keeping Lupe Fiasco from releasing music during his best years because they wanted his songs to sound differently compared to how he wanted it. Same story with Big K.R.I.T. …
Hip hop is an art form in itself. It’s reflecting personal thoughts. Or someone’s mood. Or a generation. It can paint a picture of something with so little; a couple of rhymes. Wu-Tang Clan did a brave move a couple of years ago. They made a case for hip hop being a fine art form, by …
These past two weeks has been absolutely fantastic in terms of new hip hop. There’s been major album releases as well as smaller EP releases. Throw in a couple of high quality singles and there we have 14 days of great hip hop. I can’t even feature everything here because the mail would get too …
There’s a lot happening in hip hop nowadays. Perhaps because we’re exposed to it more. I suppose it’s because that hip hop generally have popular artists that are very young today. Young rappers are ridiculously active on social media such as Twitter and Instagram and the hip hop magazines are just having a field days …
It’s the last days of summer, so it’s a perfect time to promote the color green. It’s a reference to the synonym to youthand young. The featured artists this newsletter has a low average age, hence the topic. Overall, it’s been an insane amount of hip hop that has been released this year so far, and more is to come. …
One year has passed by since I first started this. The benefits of running this newsletter has been many. First and foremost my interest for hip hop and rap has increasedeven further (which I didn’t believe was possible). It has also been an inspirational experience to start and run a newsletter: keeping it updated, refreshing the design, trying …