Lav's Music Corner

Skepta Is a british Grime rapper who has established himself as one of the most well respected and veteran MCs of this decade. His 2016 album Konichiwa was a huge critical and commercial success and through his association with the A$AP Mob as well as a crossover hit with A$AP Rocky in Praise Da Lord he has also become one of the most well known grime rappers internationally. Review By Lavender: I will be the first to admit I was a late comer to Skepta as I am to far too many grime rappers being an American, and as I am trying to remedy with Slowthai. But by the time Konichiwa came around I was more than comfortable with Skepta's back catalog and that album blew me away. Leading up to this record I had heard Skepta drop some great verses on various A$AP Mob tracks as well as drop a decent EP in 2017 I was excited for this release. After hearing it I certainly am not head over heels but it is still a solid outing. The lead single for this thing was an excellent track that I...

Slowthai is an up and coming UK rapper who has gained a high profile in the early months of 2019 by delivering a standout feature on Flume's  This Is Flume  mixtape followed by an uncredited vocal feature on the recent Tyler The Creator album that hit #1 on the hot 200 and ending with the release of this albums fifth single featuring grime legend Skepta. Nothing Great About Britain  is his highly anticipated debut full length album.  Review By Lavender: Unlike so many of the albums and project I review for this blog I had the opportunity to go into Nothing Great About Britain mostly blind. Since most of the singles for the project were released before I was aware of his growing presence and times have been busy since his standout moment on that Flume mixtape I hadn't heard any of the singles from this album before going into it. So going into Nothing Great  I had no expectations or anticipation to get in the way and I came out on the other end decentl...