Make way. Rico Nasty turns up the heat and brings the chills in her new music video, “Gosta Get Paid”. Created by by JayJay, the CGI-infused visual depicts Rico set on various eerie landscapes including a graveyard on a cliff and whimsical forest before torching a pasture and baring a blizzard on a mountain. She […]
Video: Icewear Vezzo “They Can’t FWM”
Fuck with Vezzo if you wanna. Icewear Vezzo is untouchable in his new music video, “They Can’t FWM”. Over Cash Out Beatz’s production, the Detroit rapper delivers his braggadocios bars for his nonbelievers and his opps (“A stick on me, bitch, I got a tool, I’m trying to fix something / Gang members, don’t call […]
Tory Lanez “Why Did I”
Tory Lanez’s back outside. With his new project, Sorry 4 What dropping September 30, Tory Lanez distresses over regrets with his latest track, “Why Did I”. On the melodic tune, the controversial rapper from Toronto vents on a troubled relationship by detailing a toxic outing. “How you tryna go viral but you tryna go legit? […]
Russ “Last Night”
Grand opening, grand closing. Russ cherishes the final moment of a relationship on his latest track,”Last Night”. On his self-produced record, a vulnerable Russ recalls the final moments with his former love. “You left me stranded / Don’t know what to do, it went unhanded”, he sings. “Don’t know where to go and where I’m […]
Leggy – “Lipstick On The Mic”
The Cincinnati indie band Leggy’s 2019 full-length Let Me Know Your Moon inspired my colleague James Rettig to declare, “This album fucking rocks!” Today they’re back with their first new song since then, a woozy mid-fi rocker called “Lipstick On The Mic” that might have you swinging your hips and/or bobbing your head. The opening […]
Armani Caesar – “Paula Deen” (Feat. Westside Gunn)
Two years after she released her rock-solid Griselda Records album The Liz, the Buffalo rapper Armani Caesar is getting ready to follow it with The Liz 2. The new project was supposed to be out by now, but it got pushed back until next month. Still, The Liz 2 is shaping up nicely. We’ve already […]
Homeboy Sandman – “Satellite”
The Queens underground rap veteran Homeboy Sandman has been busy lately. Earlier this year, he released There In Spirit, an EP that he recorded with producer Illingsworth. Then, Sandman revived Lice, his collaborative project with Aesop Rock; their three EPs are now on streaming services. And today, Sandman has announced a new album called Still […]
YG – “Maniac”
All year, the Compton rap great YG has been releasing one-off singles like “Toxic” and the J. Cole/Moneybagg Yo collab “Scared Money.” It’s all been leading up to next week, when YG will release his new album I Got Issues. A couple of days ago, YG shared the new album’s tracklist, which includes appearances from […]
SpiritWorld – “Deathwestern”
In the prime pandemic time of 2020, Las Vegas musician Stu Folsom put together a metallic hardcore band called SpiritWorld and released the hellacious debut album Pagan Rhythms. That album alone was enough to get attention; SpiritWorld’s whole sound is a theatrical riff-rumble attack, and the LP is a concept album about Satan coming to […]
R.A.P. Ferreira – “Mythsysizer Instinct” (Feat. Hemlock Ernst)
R.A.P. Ferreira, the indie-rap veteran who used to use the name Milo, has his own ideas of how he wants to conduct his career, and he’s been doing it in ways that have refreshingly little to do with anyone’s expectations. After moving in a kind of beat-poetry direction on his 2021 album bob’s son: R.A.P. […]