One of the year’s most charmingly low-key pop songs came from Kansas City trio BLACKSTARKIDS, whose DIY aesthetic and ’90s alternative influences don’t preclude ’00s daydreams about living life like the titular all-capped icon, along with other video greats of the late-MTV era. The so...
After releasing debut LPX 100preat the end of 2018, Bad Bunny teamed up with Puerto Rican producer Tainy in Spring 2019 to drop “Callaita,” a song about an introverted girl who likes to party hard and live life to the fullest. The enchanting reggaetón track beautifully melds the sounds ...
Drake knew this. So,More Lifeis a “playlist,” not an album. It’s a clever conceit, and a format that Drake, in his jetsetting voracity for new sounds, is extremely well-suited to—instead of a single statement, it’s a long collection of songs that he thinks sound dope. With a...
20 or so years later and Yo Gotti continues to be one of the loudest and most consistent voices coming from the south. IfArt of the Hustleis anything to go by, the emcee is realising that the more he opens up about his life, the better off his music is. “Momma” is one of his ...
Conscious and hard, the sample beats not as supple as the live band's, but more to the point. Not sure why it's "Cane" instead of "Cain" -- I'm often eluded by fine lyrical points (assuming there is an explanation, like slavery was built on sugar). ** 35. Lyrics Born & ...
life’ (2011) image credit: kevin mazur/wireimage even though this track is sometimes overlooked in the discussion of beyoncé’s best dance records, it remains one of the clearest points of contact to her longtime love of disco . mixed by dj swivel — who has declared it one of the ...
Chances are, before the coronavirus kept people in quarantine this year, you were hitting the scene, getting lit and screaming the lyrics to Drake and Future’s“Life Is Good.”Ambezza, a somewhat mysterious beat composer, co-produced the two-part banger. He also made his presence felt by...
After releasing debut LPX 100preat the end of 2018, Bad Bunny teamed up with Puerto Rican producer Tainy in Spring 2019 to drop “Callaita,” a song about an introverted girl who likes to party hard and live life to the fullest. The enchanting reggaetón track beautifully melds the sounds ...
This time, over a typically woozy, drunken soundscape, Tesfaye opens his wounds deeper than ever: “I almost cut out a piece of myself for your life,” he wails in one of many personal lyrics, presumably referencing his ex Selena Gomez’s kidney transplant last year. If the confessional ...