Lav's Music Corner

Megan Thee Stallion is a Texas based rapper who blew up last summer with her "Hot Girl Summer" catchphrase and a series of viral hit singles, all coming from her debut mixtape Fever . After popping up for a number of features and contributing to some movie soundtracks over the last few months she surprised announced a new 9 track 24 EP that followed in line with her first two official releases. Review By Lavender: Megan Thee Stallion mostly won me over last year, while I thought her debut mixtape was solid and nothing to incredible she proved to be fantastically consistent. When she finally teamed up with Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign to turn her marquee phrase into a song it was one of my favorite singles of the year and went even further to establish herself as one of rap music premiere bad bitches. On Suga  she goes even further to prove that she may be unmatched when it comes to crafting sexually charged bangers, but she also shows some lack of versatility on numer...

Halsey is a New Jersey born pop singer who blew up around five years ago on the back of her debut record Badlands  and its smash single New Americana . Manis  is her third record and it comes three years after her last project Hopeless Fountain Kingdom , but Halsey hasn't been quiet in those years with a consistent output of new music and singles as well as a consistently presence in pop music headlines for a number of reasons. Review By Lavender: There has never really been a time when I've considered myself a Halsey fan. For every genuinely good pop tune like Ghost  or Strangers  there are mountains of painful, generic and incredibly underwritten pop tunes under her belt. After hearing the long list of singles leading up to this record I was pretty sure I wasn't going to like Manic  any more than her last two records, but the best way I can describe it is as one step forward and about five steps back. The lead single for the record was the track Witho...