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The west Londoner is up for two Brit awards and is hoping for a No 1 album – but fame and success haven’t eclipsed his insecurities or impoverished past
Pretty Summer Playlist, the follow up to Saweetie’s 2019 EP Icy and her breakthrough debut from 2018, High Maintenance, the West Coast rapper shines a light on some of her favourite rising stars. There’s Sacramento vocalist Kendra Jae on punchy track “Baby Mama Coochie”; San Antonio singer-songwriter Lourdiz adds her vocals to “Back Seat”, a slinky and sexy take on 00s hip-hop; and LA star Drakeo the Ruler joins the rapper on lead single “Risky”. Elsewhere, Saweetie AKA ICY GRL spits some bars over Bbyafricka’s “Baby Mama Coochie” and Loui’s TikTok hit “Talkin’ B...
Standout stars: Joe Strummer, AJ Tracey, Vikingur Olafsson and more Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size â â â â ½ Few pianists have had such immediate impact as the brilliant young Icelander Vikingur Olafsson, and this delightful album, alternating between French musical revolutionaries two centuries apart, who each took keyboard playing in new directions. Olafsson says both had relentless intellectual independence, noting Rameau, a âcompletely obscure autodidact from the provincesâ, wrote ...
Flu Game, the west London rapper asserts that “I’ll take a genre that nobody’s fuckin’ with / Changin’ it up and I’ll make it a buck”. It’s this mission statement that Flu Game lives and dies by, with disappointing creative results. The stylish, charismatic, and famed Tottenham Hotspur supporter begins by serving up a solid enough opener in ‘Anxious’. The track’s hi-hat tapping hip-hop beat is simple, but unobtrusive, allowing AJ Tracey’s trademark ice-cold flow to glide. The early tempo is upheld by ‘Draft Pick’ and ‘Eurostep’ which are both anchored to puls...
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