Issue 61

Best time of the year: almost summer. There’s a gap during summer where there’s not as many releases. So the artists release a lot of new music just before summer. They want to get those summer radio plays which is a huge opportunity to make it. This means that all rappers release their best shit in the next 3-4 weeks in hopes to be the summer hits.

Influential

One can’t deny that other genres has been greatly influenced by hip hop. The trap beats are to be found in a lot of major pop songs today. The background instrumentals, the sampling, the rapping(!) even – all of this has moved into almost all other genres that are popular on radio today. One can …

No Features

This weeks theme is no features. There’s a meme surrounding J Cole and his ”went platinum with no features” after his album release. The genre is known for inviting features on tracks. It can be too much as well though, something that The Game got heat for when he released the album ’Jesus Piece’ – 21 features …