Category: Hip-Hop

Posts related to the world of hip-hop and rap

1st June 2018

The Drake v Pusha T Beef | Video Breakdown

The Drake and Pusha T came screaming back into the headlines with the release of Push’s latest album, the Kanye West produced Daytona. The album closes with “Infrared” which features an assault towards the Canadian MC, Drake quickly fired back with the “Duppy Freestyle”, which featured several vicious attacks on Pusha. At this point, many people thought that Drake had won the beef,...

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22nd April 2018

Novelist Guy is Continuing Evidence for a Golden Age of Grime

Novelist Guy is the debut album by 21-year-old Novelist, a brilliant project from a rising star with huge potential. Continuing what looks like a new golden age of British rap music, we already have a candidate for album of the year. Novelist has steadily built buzz since appearing on 2015’s BBC Sound of List alongside Stormzy and Years and Years....

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6th April 2018

Nas Made These Bold Predictions in 1999. How’d He Do?

Nas is many things, poet, innovator; despite naming his fourth studio album Nastradamus, he can’t see the future. Released on the cusp of the millennium, this messy project shows a fascination with the new century. There’s even a feature from the Millennium Thug aka Nashawn, whose career died on 1st January 2001. Rap in general was in a bleak place...

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20th March 2018

Video: Quick Thoughts on Lil Yachty – Lil Boat 2

In the first ever Culture Hash video review, we are looking at Lil Yachty’s second studio album, Lil Boat 2, sequel to the mixtape which brought the Atlanta rapper to prominence. We’ve spoken about our old friend Lil Yachty quite a lot on here, his last album Teenage Emotions was disappointing and it was looking like he struggled to match the early...

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9th February 2018

Rush Hour 4 | Migos – “Stir Fry” Video Breakdown

Migos have returned with Culture II, the Atlanta trio’s third studio album clocks in at a monstrous 1 hour 45 minutes. We all know what to expect from Quavo, Takeoff and Offset by now. So much so that we were able to review the project six months before it came out and got it mostly right. But we aren’t here...

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31st January 2018

No One Expected Cardi B To Revive New York Hip-Hop

In case you missed it, Cardi B has emerged as an established New York MC. We all know “Bodak Yellow” was monster hit; but any expectation of one hit wonder status were scuppered when her first five charting singles became five of the top 10 Hip-Hop/R&B on the American charts. Cardi B has become the first woman to have 5...

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