“Make sure you’re at the next block party, J! I’m gonna send you the details.” Ambush is excited when he talks about his block, the Camden streets that raised him alongside his God-fearing, Angolan-born mother. As we’re quick to find out on his newest mixtape, Ask My Brother, Ambush has been through some “silly events” in his time, many of which could’ve ended up in no-way-out situations, but he believes it’s the prayers of his mum that have kept him above ground…
Haviah Mighty’s music sounds like Brampton, which is to say that it borrows, fuses, and collaborates. It’s steeped in the dense lyricism and hard-nosed energy of grassroots Brampton rap, but also…
On “Dancing in the Rain,” from Blu & Exile’s 2007 debut album Below the Heavens, rapper Blu describes a symbolic act of defiance. He clocks out of work in a rainstorm and discovers that…
Is it just us or are the prodigiously brilliant getting younger? Last year, at age 17, Billie Eilish’s album sold more than any other in the States and she hit six billion streams on Spotify.…
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