Lav's Music Corner

I'm pretty sure there's more rap music out there than I could possibly critique in a single calendar year, much less alongside all the other stuff I'd like to review. Once again I'm doing my best to cover some of the more critically acclaimed and relevant hip-hop records of the underground this year. Nothing To Declare  - 700 Bliss 700 Bliss is a collaborative project between queen of the underground Moor Mother and DJ Haram. The project's first release was the Spa 700  EP all the way back in 2018 and they're now adding on to a very prolific streak for Moor Mother in the past few years with a full length debut. Like many Moor Mother projects, this one is particularly hard to define with conventional genre labels and even across the record's first run you'll get tracks with stuttering electronic beats that are more dance than hip hop and features singing muddled but easily identifiable pop melodies. The relatively short song lengths and 16 tracks that mak...

Oh another week. This time around there were two big headliners in terms of new singles but that didn't stop quite a few of the other new releases from standing out. Enjoy <3 5.  D.M.B  - A$AP Rocky For a while now A$AP Rocky and Rihanna have been a celebrity couple purely in the paparazzi sense. From compelling photographs of two of the most gorgeous people on earth together to a hilarious stream of memes resulting from the great fake cheating scandal, that kind of couple. But now they officially graduate into a bonafide celeb couple through the guise of their work, or Rocky's work at least. With this new single and accompanying video their prescence is cemented, and the song itself isn't half bad either.  Listen 4.  Degree  - Cola From the ashes of Ought, one of the best indie bands of the 2010's, came Cola. While the band hasn't quite blow me completely away yet I have been enjoying what they do more and more as the weeks go by and this is no different. Th...