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For South Kilburn-raised Knucks, rhyme-based genres have been an integral part of both his childhood and artistic expression. Dabbling in grime specifically, he began MCing to himself at age 12, often downloading beats on platforms such as LimeWire and piecing together choruses, experimenting with his flow and cadence. In later years, Knucks went on to study […]
The fourth Tuesday of every September is National Voter Registration Day. This year, the holiday falls a month and a half before one of the most crucial elections in modern U.S. history. Typically, every election is critical, but with the COVID-19 pandemic wreaking havoc on our public health, educational system, and economy, the 2020 presidential […]
After a tumultuous week in Kanye West’s world—one in which he released over 100 pages of his recording contracts on Twitter, claimed he was the “head of adidas,” and called himself “the new Moses” who would free artists from their recording contracts—he proposed a series of “new recording and publishing deal guidelines” on Twitter yesterday, […]
Americans broke into stores and took whatever they could in response to George Floyd’s gruesome murder and rampant police brutality. Many saw it as looting. Some saw it as protesting. Others viewed it as disrupters co-opting the peaceful demonstrations. But Ariel Atkins, a Black Lives Matter organizer in Chicago, saw it as something more justifiable: reparations. […]
After several years of providing vocals and songwriting for club hits like Duke Dumont and Jax Jones’ “I Got U” and Second City’s “I Wanna Feel”, as well as backing vocals for A-listers like Adele and Leona Lewis, South London singer-songwriter Kelli-Leigh made the plunge into a solo career in 2018 with “Do You Wanna Be Loved Like […]
This week is jam-packed with new music. Baby Keem returned with two new songs, including the rambunctious single “Hooligan.” Saba also made a comeback releasing “Mrs. Whoever,” his first single in nearly two years. Kamaiyah and Capolow teamed up for a joint project featuring the standout track, “Finer Things,” while Summer Walker and Lil Tjay […]
Quarantine be damned, the New Balance 992 is making a strong case for one of the best sneakers of the year. Originally released in 2006, the 992 was designed by Jonathan Bacon and functioned as a follow-up to 2001’s 991 model. A “dad shoe” before dad shoes were even a thing, the former performance runner saw its […]
It is the elephant in the room, the question that will hover over the Raptors’ off-season until there’s something definitive: Will Masai Ujiri remain in Toronto beyond the 2019-20 season? Over the course of his tenure with the franchise, he has helped raise the Raptors from drudges of their existence as perpetual cellar dwellers to […]
On Wednesday, Kanye West’s Twitter account briefly turned into a law clinic. The volatile mega-star capped off a series of tweets about the state of the music business and the importance of artist ownership by tweeting out 114 pages of his record contracts. In the melange was everything from a 2005 renegotiation with Roc-a-Fella to […]
“From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.” -Proverbs 13:2 Netflix’s The Devil All the Time is an unbelievably grim yet enthralling piece of cinema. Based on the novel by Donald Ray Pollock, the film spans decades in the lives of its […]
