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Last year, we opened this feature with the words “2019 has been strongly mixed”, and given the thunderstorm of horror that has been 2020—a dreadful cocktail of a globe-trotting deadly virus, worldwide economic devastation and worsening race relations—we’d do just about anything to go back to those halcyon days. However! Music, as always, has been an […]
Rimzee is living his Upper Clapton dream. Released in 2012, Upper Clapton Dream—the rapper’s debut project—saw him capture the UK streets in a major way, but with its recent follow-up, his outlook has changed. “It feels like I’m starting from scratch again,” Rimzee tells Complex. “Obviously, I was away for a long time and now there’s a whole new […]
Few things are undebatable when it comes to discussing hip-hop, but one of the genre’s absolute certainties is that Kendrick Lamar is one of the greatest rappers working today. This still-young millennium has featured plenty of rappers who couldn’t quite meet the commercial and critical hype. But like a teenage LeBron James, Kendrick Lamar is […]
Toronto hip-hop trio Prime Boys have dropped a new merchandise line that’s been a long time coming. The crew from Toronto’s Esplanade area—comprised of Jimmy Prime, Jay Whiss, and Donnie—first unveiled an early iteration of the collection a couple years ago via a pop-up-shop truck that traveled around the city, selling a limited run of the threads. Now, the merch […]
It’s March 2020. The world has been in an uproar due to the COVID-19 pandemic brewing. Enoch Ncube and David May have just moved into their new place in Toronto’s Little Italy, and have just had all their plans derailed. The pair have been close friends since 2005, and together are known as the genre-blending duo MONEYPHONE. Hailing […]
Raised on Peckham’s infamous North Peckham Estate, South East London, poet Caleb Femi’s story speaks to the crucial importance of preserving your imagination amidst the harshness of a system built to trap you. Caleb’s unbreakable imagination has empowered him: in 2016, he was named as the first Young People’s Laureate for London; he’s directed short films […]
Although he was notoriously forced into retirement decades ago, Moses “Shyne” Barrow’s post-rap career has been extremely fruitful. Belize held its national elections on Wednesday during which Shyne won the Mesopotamia seat in Belize City for the House of Representatives. Barrow took to Instagram where he celebrated his victory by reminding his followers that he went from “HIP HOP TO […]
For Hackney’s Bree Runway, the past couple of years have been the most dramatic example of the “how it started vs. how it’s going” meme. Seemingly capable of making things happen by speaking them into existence, in March, she tweeted hip-hop superstar Missy Elliott asking her jump on a remix to one of her songs, and just […]
“Loving a Black woman feels like a privilege; it feels like I’m seen,” Kiesh says softly to Crystal as she stares into her lap. This video of two Black women talking about Black Love for Refinery 29’s Unbothered platform has been shared over 70,000 times on Twitter and ‘liked’ more than double that amount. The five-minute […]
Former Bad Boy artist and Harlem World representative, Loon (who is now known as Amir Junaid Muhadith), has joined the REFORM Alliance. Muhadith will serve as the inaugural Fellow for the REFORM Alliance’s new Fellowship Program. This program was established to provide “practical and transferable job skills” to former inmates who are interested in pursuing careers in advocacy. For Muhadith, […]
