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Photos by: Anthony D’Elia – Los Angeles-based hip-hop artist Hopsin, who released his fourth album, Pound Syndrome, on July 24th, 2015 via Funk Volume/Warner Bros., which featured the singles “Ill Mind of Hopsin 7”, “Crown Me”, “Fly”, and “Fort Collins”, and which followed up his 2013 album, Knock Madness, which featured guest appearances by SwizZz, Dizzy Wright, Jarren Benton, and Tech N9ne, among others, performed … Continue reading
Photos by: Miles Norwood – Hip-hop artist Mod Sun, who released his debut album, Look Up, on March 10th, 2015 via Rostrum Records, which featured guest appearances by Blink-182’s Travis Barker, G-Eazy, Riff Raff, and MGK, performed at First Avenue in Minneapolis last night.
By: Staff – Run The Jewels have followed up their devastating main stage Coachella performance this weekend with the release of a new music video for “Love Again (feat. Gangsta Boo),” from their groundbreaking sophomore album, Run The Jewels 2. Watch it below. Produced by JASH and Pulse Films for go90, the Ninian Doff-directed clip pairs beautiful HD footage of butterflies and bumblebees engaging in colorful floral … Continue reading
Photos by: Priti Shikotra – Hip-hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, who released their second album, This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, on February 26th, 2016 via Macklemore LLC, which featured the singles “Downtown” featuring Eric Nally, Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, and Grandmaster Caz, and “White Privilege II” featuring Jamila Woods, performed at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, UK last night.
Photos by: Jaime Espinoza – New York City-based rapper Skizzy Mars, who released his debut EP, The Red Balloon Project, on February 3rd, 2015, which peaked at number 4 on the US Billboard Rap Albums, performed at The Mod Club in Toronto last night with hip-hop artist P-Lo, who is best known as a co-founder of Redmond, … Continue reading
Photos by: Anthony D’Elia – Vans celebrated 50 years of “Off the Wall” with a celebration of music, art, action sports and street culture at a special event at a converted warehouse in Toronto’s Davenport neighbourhood last night, which featured performances by acclaimed hip-hop artist Kool Keith.
Photos by: Katrina Lat – Scottish hip-hop/pop trio Young Fathers, who released their second album, White Men Are Black Men Too, on April 6th, 2015 via Big Dada, which followed up their 2014 Mercury Prize-winning debut album, Dead, which debuted at number 35 on the top 100 UK album chart, performed at The Horseshoe Tavern in … Continue reading
Photos by: Stephan Ordonez – Swedish rapper/producer Yung Lean, who released his second album, Warlord, on February 25th, 2016 via Year 0001, which featured the singles “Hoover”, “AF1s”, and which followed up his 2014 album, Unknown Memory, which featured a guest appearance by Travis Scott, performed at The Hoxton in Toronto last night with Chicago-based rapper Adamn Killa, … Continue reading
Photos by: Saidy Lopez – Grammy-nominated hip-hop artist Nas, who released his newest album, Life Is Good, on July 13th, 2012 via Def Jam, which featured the singles “Nasty”, “The Don”, and “Daughters”, and which followed up his 2010 collaborative album with Damian Marley entitled Distant Relatives, and which features lyrical themes concerning ancestry, poverty, and the plight … Continue reading
Photos by: Justin Roth – Toronto-based jazz trio BadBadNotGood, who released a new collaborative album with Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah called Sour Soul (out Feb. 24th, 2015 via eOne Music Canada), which follows their Polaris Music Prize-Nominated album III (out May 6th, 2014), performed at The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto last night with New Jersey-based rapper Marvel Alexander, who released … Continue reading
