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La La Rue’s new EP Hi-Fidelity
Song of the Day: Stylish, woozy, lazily cool summer funk and hip hop from the West London queer rapper featuring guest rapper aka Jessica Smyth in this title track from La Rue’s forthcoming EP
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Some of Kendrick Lamar’s morphed appearances of well-known figures in the video for The Heart Part 5
Song of the Day: The vibrant fifth track in the acclaimed rapper’s ‘Heart’ series that began in 2010, and while also released this week, separate to his latest album Mr Morale and the Big Steppers, it powerfully focuses on the problematic portrayal of black so-called culture and violence, and also includes a reworking of Marvin Gaye’s I Want You.
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A visual taste of Pan Amsterdam’s Rigatoni
Song of the Day: Produced by Damu The Fudgemunk (Earl Davis), another food-titled piece of highly original hip hop by the American rapper Leron Thomas, here with a chess-move theme, and doing a jazz trumpet solo at the end
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This single is taken from the forthcoming album Cheat Codes by Danger Mouse and Black Thought
Song of the Day: Another dynamic hip-hop-producer pairing with slick wordplay by The Roots rapper and classic soul and jazz grooves from Brian Burton in this first track taken from their forthcoming album Cheat Codes
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Joe Unknown’s second single, Silent
Song of the Day: Sharp, fast, wildly inventive, alternative hip hop by the British rapper with unusual phrasing, mesmeric beats, breathing sounds and a rising, searing siren-like sound, all in this second single after last year’s debut Ride
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Eda Eren’s new release remix
Song of the Day: Continuing on from a trio of blue-themed songs, a new mix by the jazztronica duo Blue Lab Beats (NK-OK and Mr DM) of a catchy fusion of disco, jazz and hip-hop about mood and songwriting by the London artist
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Ishmael Ensemble
Song of the Day: “I keep questioning this war …. Whose fight is this? Who wrote the rules? I struggle to understand the reasons. Where was my right to choose?” A powerful, prescient but also timelessly relevant new version of the song by the Bristol jazz collective featuring words by the Gloucester poet, rapper and MC
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Bob Vylan
Song of the Day: Sharp, articulate, witty and candidly bang-on point new single by the London rapper about junk food, poverty, education and health from his forthcoming album Bob Vylan Presents The Price of Life, out on 22 April
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Yugen Blakrok
Song of the Day: Powerful, dark, articulate hip-hop with an industrial synth sound, additional trumpet and echoes of 90s Tricky from the South African rapper in a song about re-building, growing oneself and breaking the mould
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Kae Tempest
Song of the Day: This brand new, upbeat, synth-infused track and focus point of forthcoming album The Line Is A Curve by the poet, playwright and author is about channelling the energy of stress, with guest from LA hip-hop band Brockhampton, and long-time producer Dan Carey
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Tierra Whack: fluid delivery
Song of the Day: Fluidly innovative, oddball and quick-witted, this new track mixing hip hop with electronica and dolphin noises by the ingeniously mischievous rapper, singer, and songwriter
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Figure of Speech’s debut album
Song of the Day: Taken from the recent, excellent debut eponymous album, the Bristol-based Mancunian poet joins forces with producer Boca 45 on a 70s-style funk track delivering sharp hip-hop lyrics that have an anti-racist theme inspired by the George Floyd murder
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The friend we all need: Kay Young
Song of the Day: Joyously uplifting, positive, affirming and catchy new single about friendship by the London rapper, producer and singer, with the soulful voice of JNR Williams, and taken from Young’s new self-produced EP This Here Feels Good
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TOKiMONSTA and Channel Tres
Song of the Day: Superbly catchy disco-funk-hip-hop collaboration between the American LA-based producer and DJ also known as Jennifer Lee and the rapper aka Sheldon Young from Compton, California
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Moonchild Sanelly is instantly recognisable by her blue hair and high voice
Song of the Day: Fresh and lively electro hip hop from the South African artist also known as Sanelisiwe Twisha from Port Elizabeth who learned her skills on the poetry and music scenes in Durban Johannesburg, developing her brand of ‘future ghetto punk’
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Super What? is the second collaborative album between Czarface and MF DOOM
Song of the Day: Wonderfully quirky work about the eccentric masked character in this posthumous work by by brilliant lyricist and sadly late rapper MF Doom joined by US rap supergroup of 7L & Esoteric and Wu-Tang Clan’s Inspectah Deck from their second collaborative LP Super What?, out on Silver Age Records
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Yeti Season …
Song of the Day: A wonderfully oddball mix of funk, soul, hip hop, Turkish, Asian and jazz styles by the group founded by New York-based bandleader and multi-instrumentalist Leon Michels, here about the famous mythical Himalayan creature, and featuring Hindi singer Piya Malik
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Scotch Rolex’s new album Tewari
Song of the Day: Stunning electronica and hip hop from the legendary Nyege Nyege Studios and sub label Hakuna Kulala by acclaimed Japanese producer Shigeru Ishihara (aka DJ Scotch Egg) under the moniker Scotch Rolex joined by Kampala, Uganda’s fiercely wonderful rapper MC Yallah
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From the video for Introvert by Little Simz
Song of the Day: With epic orchestral production by Inflo, aka Dean Josiah Cover, who also co-wrote with the British rapper also known as Simbiatu Ajikawo, this powerful new single is about art, social injustice and summoning quiet person within oneself
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Drink it in … Kojaque with Town's Dead
Song of the Day: Check your head. A wonderfully surreal mix of electronica, hip hop and punk by the Dublin artist packed with strange sounds, beats and witty, caustically angry lyrics about modern life in his city and society
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