Louisville born Kid SkyWalker aka Kool Kid is like a youthful breeze that was missing in Hip Hop. In 2011 he emerged on to the Midwest music scene with his first project THE KOOLEST SHIT EVER. Rapping over some of the industry’s hottest beats he shows wisdom foreign to most high schoolers. It’s no surprise [...]
So, me and Dukie picked a few of our favourites artists of 2011. There were so many. Too many to list them all and we just didn’t want to focus on the mega ones. I hope there are at least a couple names on the list you may be unfamiliar with. But the following definitely [...]
We “ummm’d” and “ahhh’d” for a while about whether or not Rawroots should do a “Best Of 2011″ or not. In the end, we reckoned that we probably should – of not only to ensure that a few of the artists on our list were given a mention SOMEWHERE during the year I like to affectionately coin [...]
I seldom have time to sit down and write entire album reviews, but The Roots “Undun” album has been one that I have been impatiently waiting on for some time now. “Undun” has not been a disappointment, not that I thought it ever would. Opening with sounds of a heart monitor and the morbid echoes [...]
When I first heard Yelawolf would be accompanying Wiz Khalifa on his Rolling Papers tour I jumped online to get a ticket. We don’t get too many names coming to the North East so it was nice to see Wiz Khalifa would be stopping by the O2 Acadamey in Newcastle whilst over in the UK. [...]
In the greatest of human desires I greet you in PEACE. The Name is Born Islam, if you don’t recognize my name, get familiar real quick. I don’t like to open with some sappy intro like you used to. Beats, Words and sights is what im about, kicking the actual factuals is my first languidy, [...]
This week saw the release of “God Save the King” proper English version, another banger from from Ohio based underground legend Copywrite. An album which features colaboratoions with UK artists like SAS, Genesis Elijah and Iron Braydz and US artists Crooked I, Killah Priest, Royce da 5’9 amongst others. We connected with Copywrite via Skype [...]
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