Photo essay: Chicago, 2014 — Sara Coe
Sara Coe I’ve had a five-year unexplainable love affair with New York. But now New York has competition, and his name is Chicago. When I heard my good friend was moving to Chicago for three months, I...
View ArticleInterview: Kamandi — Red Bull #BREAKMUSIC
Tyrone Frost aka Kamandi. Photo by JAM Photography. ‘Much to my mum’s displeasment my uncle bought me a Tupac tape and that’s when I fell in love with hip hop’ says Kamandi, birth name Tyrone Frost....
View ArticleInterview: Third3ye — ॐ
Angelo “[ON3NESS] is not a bad fad at the end of the day, and I expected when we first began doing Third3ye, if it did pop off, this is what could happen you know; people could start taking this as a...
View ArticleInterview: Kid Vishis — Timing Is Everything
For Royce Da 5’9”s little brother Kid Vishis rapping is like a healthy release. “I like to write a lot when I’m angry,” says the Detroit native who now lives in the “super suburbs, with deers and...
View ArticleNew: Kamandi produces Azizi Gibson’s title track ‘Backward Books’
“There’s something about Kamandi’s instrumentals that just like take me to this open space, this open canvas where I’m just like ‘Oh yeah I can go absolutely anywhere from here’. I’m so happy that Red...
View ArticleInterview: P-Money scores Kiwi film The Last Saint, and will hopefully...
From left: P-Money & Gappy Ranks ‘Baddest’ music video. Social media and Even chatting on “Twitter can be put in to the ‘work’ category depending on what you’re chatting about you know”. P-Money...
View ArticleReview: PARTYNEXTDOOR — Party Next Door . II. (The same formula Drake uses to...
If you really look at the cover for Jahron Anthony Brathwaite aka PARTYNEXTDOOR’s Party Next Door II you wonder where the face for the initial image went. And what you’re expected to make of it. Song...
View ArticlePleez presents Raiza Biza, The Imperfectionist Album Release, Kapiti
“Kapiti always know how to turn up,” says Blaze The Emperor, who is Snapchatting in Mickey Poppy Lees’ back yard. Having just discovered the ap a couple of days prior, his new obsession has his...
View ArticleProtected: Review: 1Roof Takeover — Bodega
This post is password protected. You must visit the website and enter the password to continue reading.Filed under: Feature, Interview, Review Tagged: 1Roof, Basin Noodle House, DJ Pleez, Mad Handsome,...
View Article#Ferguson
When an entire state’s minority have to deal with a Police state so bad an innocent boy is shot while his arms are in the air, riots should be expected. Photo Credit: Whitney Curtis for the New York...
View ArticleBuggs Tha Rocka — It’s time, “I feel it”
Cincinnati’s Buggs Tha Rocka will release ‘Scattered Thoughts of an American Poet’ December 10, 2014. “I fell in love with hip hop at the age of six, I remember it vividly… and even though we got a...
View ArticleTop 14 of 2014 According to Hariata Sanders
14: Azealia Banks – Broke With Expensive Taste I’ll admit, I had been anticipating this album since the drop of track ‘212’ (over a year ago). I remember when I first heard it, my boyfriend at the...
View ArticleEditorial: WDYFILWHH Albums of 2014
It’s another day, but a brand new year and what better way to welcome the new year than to reflect on the last. Personal benchmarks achieved and new heights ventured, WDYFILWHH would firstly like to...
View ArticleMikey Ellesmere — MAD GENESIS
It’s been a minute since Dope Music Entertainment’s Mikey Ellesmere made noise in the NZ hip hop-sphere. He says: “I can’t wait for March to get here. I am really intrigued to see how people react to...
View ArticleGeorge Harach — A moment that I’ll never forget
St Pat’s old boy, George Harach remembers being at the school dances, which town schools were so good at hosting in the early 2000’s. It’s been a while since I was at high school but interviewing...
View ArticleInterview: Stussybeats on Godwave
A revisit is my take on a remix says Stussybeats. He says it’s an opportunity for him to recreate a track the way “I think it should’ve sounded.” But there are no dramas here as Stussy was also the...
View ArticleNEW: Weekly Top 5 with Mya
Okay so this is a new segment with my girl Mya. She’ll pick a top five turn up list and a top five turn down one which we’ll post every Sunday. Here it goes: UP 1. All day – Kanye 2. Ambitionz of a...
View ArticleWeekly top 5 with Mya
Okay so this is a new segment with my girl Mya. She’ll pick a top five turn up list and a top five turn down one which we’ll post every Sunday. Here it goes: UP 1. Old veteran – Super Cat 2. Shake up...
View ArticleRED BULL SOUND SELECT MEETS RECORD STORE DAY!
To celebrate World Record Day, Red Bull Sound Select are releasing a limited edition 12” EP on Saturday April 18, as part of the international celebration of vinyl records and the shops that sell...
View ArticleAmarafleur — In the right place at the right time
Thandi Ntshinga aka Amarafleur is a 21-year-old recording artist from Johannesburg, South Africa. Born in Umtata, in the Eastern Cape province — being the daughter of a diplomat meant a life already...
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