Lav's Music Corner

GoldLink is a Washington D.C. rapper who rose to prominence on an extreme wave of hype a few years ago around the midpoint of this decade. His impressively smooth flow and sharp lyricism landed him a spot on XXL 2014 Freshman List but since then despite his talent and a handful of moderately successful songs he has yet to drop an album to critical acclaim.  Review By Lavender; GoldLink is so clearly talented. I have dished out some big time praise to numerous singles of his and last year he landed the #1 spot on my guest verses of the year list with his standout addition to Denzel Curry's Black Balloons . That's why it has been so frustrating to watch his career evolve over the years, and why I'm disappointed he has once again failed to present a quality full length album on Diaspora . While his 2014 breakout record The God Complex  is probably his best and most consistent, and I would challenge people who haven't heard 2015's and after that we didn't ta...

Denzel Curry is a well established Florida rapper who has released some of the most critically acclaimed hip hop albums of the past 5 years. On the back of his mega hit and meme feature Ultimate  Curry dropped two critically acclaimed studio albums Imperial  and Taboo  and has now returned with yet another project after coming off of two excellent singles in Ricky  and Speedboat .  Review By Lavender: Denzel Curry has been nothing but sharp for years now. Even if some of his earliest material was punching below his weight once Ultimate  took off Curry proved that he made it for a reason and dropped the cutthroat and excellent Imperial  in 2016. This was followed by one of my favorite EPs of 2017 the similarly hard hitting 13  and finally in 2018 he dropped an album that ended up landing in my top 15 of the year Taboo . Given that Taboo  was thematically as dark but executed a wider variety of sounds with even sharper consistency it...