"I find it amazing the way that you juggle your kids, the biz, the fame / The bitches that's hatin', they sit around / Waitin' for you to fall off, like the album I'm makin,'" J. Cole raps over a minimalistic beat. "Between the hectic sounds of your precious baby crying / ...
With staccato raps and catchy flows, Elliott struck a perfect balance between romantic vulnerability and self-assured flexing, an approach that felt like uncharted territory within a world that hypersexualized women. The album also assembled late ’90s R&B and rap luminaries like Lil’ Kim, ...
Rick Ross’s guest verses are always in-demand not only because of his consistency, but also, more importantly, because the luxurious aroma of his raps naturally seeps into his collaborators’ verses. He builds worlds where boss-talk and displays of envious wealth are the lingua franca. In th...
The Bay Area B.U.M.S, also known as Brothas Unda Madness, had a penchant for throwing the kitchen sink into their raps. The duo, alongside frequent producer Joe Quixx, relied on lush samples and an R&B influence to subvert traditional West Coast g-funk and hardcore hip hop. The chorus...
What also distinguishes “Munch” among the flood of drill records that emerged from Brooklyn and the Bronx this decade is its restraint: Ice Spice raps as if walking an older coworker through the company software system for the nth time, her stoic delivery wobbling only as far as “...
“My baby boo, you either heal n—s or you kill n—s/ Both is true, it take some tough skin just to deal with you” Lamar raps on "gloria" featuringSZA, a track that opines on his relationship with the genre. The Compton-born rapper (who was born Kendrick Lamar Duckworth) wasn'...
UberDuck is heavily focused on making music with AI vocals. So, if you want to craft some cool music and add lyrics in the Yoda voice, Uberduck is the recipe for endless hours of fun! You can create raps and remixes by selecting your favorite beats, adding lyrics, and creating voiceove...
Grime emcee Dizzee Rascal never quite broke through in the states, but the UK emcee made a bold entrance for British hip-hop. Incorporating elements of Billy Squier’s “Big Beat,” on “Fix Up, Look Sharp” Dizzee’s charismatic chaos makes it his own. He raps circles around most of ...
Label: Software Recording Co. Yes, Autre Ne Veut a.k.a. Arthur Ashin is a white guy. And yes, he lives in Brooklyn. And as "indie" music continues to trend more and more towards R&B, fulfilling the prophetic critique that it spent too long being too white for its own good, so ...
You know the controls on photo software—exposure, saturation, hue? Or on recording apps—volume,gain? Imagine being able to twist each of those knobs to skew the life before you—the daylight, the evening, dream. Nick Krgovich sings in a murmur over warble and hoot; a keyboard sings a ...