UK Hip Hop
[MP3 + Music Video] Headie One x Drake – Only You Freestyle
Apparently too grimy for Mavado!
[MP3 + Music Video] Scarlxrd – HEAD GXNE.
New music from UK trap-metal exponent, Scarlxrd.
[Music Video] Wiley, Sean Paul, Stefflon Don Feat. Idris Elba – Boasty
STRAIGHT FIYA!
Stream or download/buy the “Boasty” MP3 HERE.
[MP3 + Music Video] Stefflon Don – Senseless
More island-influenced sounds , this time from underrated (but happily, rapidly becoming less o) female London rapper, Stefflon Don. I’m cosigning this one simply off the strength of her sucking her teeth in the middle of the record, jokes!
Previously on the Kitchen:
– Stefflon Don – Real Ting (Prod. by Rymez) [MP3 + Music Video]
[MP3 + Music Video] GAIKA – Crown & Key
New joint from the UK’s GAIKA from his forthcoming (July 27) album. Peep the science in this PR blast:
GAIKA presents his debut album, BASIC VOLUME, after captivating listeners with a blistering pair of acclaimed, self-released mixtapes Machine and Security and Warp-released EPs SPAGHETTO and The Spectacular Empire. Now GAIKA’s darkly magnetic blend of gothic dancehall and industrial electronics has expanded into his most far-reaching work yet.
BASIC VOLUME is a sprawling yet cohesive album that devours genres and spits them out, tangled around personal tales of love, loss and rebellion. With BASIC VOLUME,GAIKA continues to simultaneously push the boundaries of electronic music and the legacy of the UK’s indelible soundsystem culture, inviting listeners into a sonic world of his creation. The 15 track collection is co-produced by GAIKA, with additional production from similarly forward thinking contemporaries, including SOPHIE, Dutch E Germ, Dre Skull and DADRAS, Aart as well as previous collaborators including Jam City, Nick Leon and Frank Ocean’s Blonde and Endless collaborator Buddy Ross.
BASIC VOLUME is today announced by the explosive arrival of ‘Crown & Key’. A muscular rallying-cry, ‘Crown & Key’ is accompanied by truly captivating, cinematic visuals, directed by Paco Raterta. Raterta says “The first time I heard ‘Crown and Key’, it reminded me of the funeral chants in the chapels of the village where I grew up, and it opened up all the biblical nightmares I use to have as a kid. If you know Christian visuals, they are very grotesque, stiff and very beautiful at the same time. The camera movement is inspired again by my memories as an altar boy, it’s basically a POV memory of mine, entering the church, carrying the bible and seeing everyone around, but the faces were always never clear, I can feel like they are looking at me, but I don’t see them at all.”