Review: The Baddest EP by P-Money and Gappy Ranks
You’d have to assume the ‘P’ in P-Money is for prolific. Having just released Gratitude in 2013 and an album with Duck Down’s Buckshot, he is back with London Dancehall vocalist Gappy Ranks on a new...
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Review: The Codes by PNC
With his last album, Under the Influence, PNC was in the midst of depression and the Rugby World Cup. He was in love and breaking up (sometimes in the same song!). He was small town NZ and big stage...
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Review: PGT/GRR by Louie Knuxx
Louie Knuxx has to have one of the most impressive vocal deliveries in New Zealand hip hop. He’s gritty and unabashedly willing to say things that others would balk at. But more importantly, there’s...
View ArticleReview: There’s No Success Like Failure by Frankie Daggers
There’s No Success Like Failure by Frankie Daggers The third instalment from Auckland MC Frankie Daggers sees him relaxed. There’s No Success Like Failure is a seven song EP that’s up for free...
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Review: SOULFEST 2014
For an overcast day, Western Springs was decked out to host a full star lineup consisting of both local and international acts which contributed to an atmosphere buzzing with high expectation and...
View ArticleReview: Blank Canvas: Wall and Piece by The Doqument
Blank Canvas: Wall and Piece by The Doqument The Doqument are nothing short of ambitious. Last year they released their debut, The Rookie Album, and this year they are back with a double, Blank Canvas:...
View ArticleReview: Nelly x Lupe Fiasco x B.o.B at Logan Campbell Centre, Auckland
Three international acts headlined a one-off that between them all had the hits, record sales and following to comfortably tick off the 2000’s generational net and there after. It was billed to be some...
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Biz Revue: Chris Jasper – The One (Album Review)
Now when this landed on my ‘desktop’, because were in that technological day and age now the name Chris Jasper was outside of or before my time of acknowledging who he was or so it seemed until I...
View ArticleReview: Drake (w/ 2 Chainz) Concert [Vector Arena – Auckland, N.Z]
Click here to view the embedded video. Drake performing ILoveMakonnen’s Tuesday @ Vector Arena 28yo, Canadian rapper sensation, makes his first appearance in N.Z. Being that his career is very much in...
View ArticleReview: The World Within by Moderator
Moderator is a 22 year old Greek producer who has just released his new album, The World Within through Cult Classic Records. Moderator has an almost horizontally relaxed take on woozy hip hop break...
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Review: Tha Movement – Transition of a Mad Man
Steady gaining rapport among his peers of the good and bad, an unavoidable stigma that comes with making moves in the music industry. Respected for the most part in what he’s accomplished to date, the...
View ArticleReview: Hong Kong Food City by Mareko
Samoan via Manurewa rapper, Mareko may not be flooding the radio waves like his Deceptikonz counterpart, Savage, but as he explains on his track, Rising Sun, “people ask me if I still rhyme/I tell ‘em...
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Review: Mobb Deep 20th Anniversary Tour (Auckland)
Click here to view the embedded video. The Studio, Auckland was billed as the final stop for The Infamous Mobb Deep AUS/NZ 20th Ann. Tour and so us city slickers impatiently waited for the...
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Review: To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar
LA rap superstar, Kendrick Lamar’s third album, To Pimp a Butterfly, not only cements his growing legacy as the saviour of West Coast rap but is also a crossover epic. This sprawling, jazz and funk...
View ArticleReview: The Good Fight by Oddisee 4/5
The Good Fight by Oddisee Funk-filled Washington DC rapper Oddisee is back with his new album The Good Fight. While it can be hard to decipher exactly which number record this is as he has put out a...
View ArticleReview: Wuavé Season EP by Spycc
Onehunga and Young Gifted and Broke (YGB) bright spark has a new EP out. It’s super smooth and will swim down ear holes everywhere. Partly that’s because you can download it for free or koha and partly...
View ArticleReview: Resin one vs Orphan
Resin One Vs Orphan by Resin One Vs Orphan Holly Mackerel! Let the raps spill, is not only a great opening line, but hell, both Resin One and Orphan mean it when they take up their respective positions...
View ArticleReview: Summertime ’06 by Vince Staples
The debut full-lengther by Long Beach, California native, Vince Staples, is quite simply a stunner. With production more or less overseen by Def Jam hit maker, Dion “No I.D.” Wilson, labels, critics...
View ArticleReview: Tiny Warm Hearts by Louie Knuxx
Louie Knuxx has been in the thick of a resurgence in progressive rap in this country for more than a minute. His last record, PGT/GRR took his gruff vocals and spun them out over interesting beats and...
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Review: The Block Party Festival (Auckland 20th May 2016)
Layzie Bone, Krayzie Bone & Wish Bone | The Block Party Festival 2016 | Auckland Bizzy Bone | The Block Party Festival 2016 | Auckland DJ Quik | The Block Party Festival 2016 | Auckland Havoc of...
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