Hip-Hop
[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.”
[Album Stream] Preme – Light Of Day
How’d we miss that Toronto rapper, Preme (the artist fka P. Reign) just dropped a brand new album, Light Of Day a month ago??! Record features Offset of Migos, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil Wayne, DJ Khaled, Partynextdoor, YG (on a track produced by DJ Mustard) and Post Malone . Not only is it stacked, feature-wise but it’s pretty decent as well. Kind of crazy that this album is not getting more burn or are we just out of it and not feeling the buzz? Major miss on everyone’s part if I’m right though, sad…
[MP3] Vic Mensa. – Reverse Feat. G-Eazy
We were major, major fans of The Autobiography (missed it? Hit the jump…) so new music by Vic Mensa is very much welcome.
Related:
– Watch Rosenberg interview Mensa on his new (?) Open Late show on Complex right HERE.
– Vic Mensa teases new collaboration with Chance The Rapper and Valee [The FADER]
[MP3] Jaay Cee – Flex / Get Up
Not sure where the ‘Prince of The Burbs’ is from exactly but he is Canadian (but also claiming Barbados).
[MP3] Nicki Minaj – Rich Sex Feat. Lil Wayne
New Nicki! It’s cool. No doubt it’ll prolly go but have to admit, my wig ain’t completely blown off, personally. Also, is it just us or do Wayne‘s verse sound like it was written by Drake? Also, who’s going to see Nicki and Future on the ‘NICKIHNDRXX’ tour? (See flyer after the jump…)
#DK11: The album, This One Goes To Eleven… OUT NOW
