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Hip Hop Anthem

.Roy Rekindles Hedonism and Hustle in His Hip-Hop Anthem, ‘Lush’

Posted on 15 April 2025

With Afrobeat and Dancehall motifs raising the temperature in the already fiery-from-the-fervent-flows track, Lush by .Roy is a serious contender for the underground hip-hop hit of the summer. Hedonism runs rampant through the rhythms and bars, getting you in the mood to throw away inhibition, knock back your favourite vice, and pull in somebody close. With far more substance than your average party hip-hop anthem, .Roy used the track as the perfect opportunity to flex his ability to wax lyrical while hyping the instrumentals to the nth degree. Lush deserves to reverberate on dancehalls and in house parties far and wide; it’s only a matter of time before the mainstream knows the trailblazer’s name.

Born in Newark, New Jersey, .Roy filters his sonic blueprints through love and universal order while refusing to confine himself to a reality designed by someone else. With a part-time Spirit Detective mindset and a full-time hero complex, .Roy’s music isn’t just a vibe, it’s a manifesto carved from chaos and imagination. His experimental tendencies never dilute his lyrical clarity—he knows hip-hop is his home, and there’s no lease expiry in sight.

Through Lush, he proves he can blur genre lines without losing his footing. While the rhythm intoxicates, the narrative sharpens—the push-pull between carnal abandon and spiritual self-awareness is what gives this track its bite. The period in his name marks not an end but a defiant continuation—and if Lush is any indication, the next chapter is already being written at full volume.

Lush is now available to stream on all major platforms, including YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast.

Cameron Jay Drops the Curtain on ‘Jimmy Kimmel’ in His Red-Hot Rap Track

Posted on 10 April 2025

Jimmy Kimmel is just one of the tour de luxe hip-hop forces featured on Cameron Jay’s EP, USB Dump Vol. 1. The track does so much more than wax lyrical on the legacy of the late-night figurehead; it drives stylistically smooth rhythms straight into your pulse. The reminiscences to Jay-Z don’t cloud the iconic innovation—Cameron Jay gives the flashy, fully fleshed, scintillating hip-hop timbres a new lease of life.

Born and raised in the Bronx, Cameron Jay is no stranger to sharpening his bars against the concrete of lived experience. With a stage history that includes sets alongside Trina, Joell Ortiz, Sadat X, Steele, and Craig G, and a discography that spans acclaimed mixtapes and 2019’s December’s Son—which saw Ya Tu Sabe rack up over 250,000 Spotify streams—Jay has earned his stripes without theatrics.

Now, with USB Dump Vol. 1, he unloads the vault. Jimmy Kimmel stands as a high-voltage benchmark in that archive—a track that fires through tight, textured beats with bars fuelled by raw charisma. His infectious lyrical delivery doesn’t hit the brakes until the atmospheric outro rolls onto the beat. He keeps the intricately layered instrumentals adrenalised to the last breath, leaving no second sounding like a throwaway cut.

This is more than a nod to pop culture; this is Cameron Jay playing host to his own story, with a delivery sharp enough to cut across the airwaves.

Jimmy Kimmel is now available to stream on all major platforms including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Grimreepa Wields His Bars Like Blades in ‘THE EVILS’

Posted on 6 March 2025

Grimreepa raps with the force of someone who has fought too many battles to waste a single breath. ‘THE EVILS’ is a tirade against the deception and injustice that keeps stacking up, delivered with the conviction of an artist who has lived through the worst and come out swinging. His bars cut through the noise, fuelled by a decade of sharpening his craft and a refusal to let anything dilute his message.

Boger Beats’ production is built to hit hard. The stabbing piano keys keep the intensity honed to a razor’s edge, while the oscillating electronic motifs pull the track into the future without losing its 00s hip-hop backbone. The weight of the instrumental leaves room for Grimreepa’s flow to land with impact, sitting somewhere between Jay-Z’s precision and Xzibit’s raw energy, but charging ahead with his own firepower.

With insidious forces reaching new heights, ‘THE EVILS’ arrives as a necessary release for anyone who feels the weight of it all. It’s a rallying point for those who see through the smokescreens. If hip-hop is a battleground, Grimreepa is making sure his voice carries.

‘THE EVILS’ is available to stream on Apple Music and Spotify now.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Hiram Torres’ ‘Devil’s Work’ Sets Fire to Hip-Hop’s Hollow Facades

Posted on 20 February 2025

When Hiram Torres raps, he cuts through the smoke and lets the industry choke on the fumes. With ‘Devil’s Work’, the final single from his upcoming EP Otay Mesa, Torres tightens his grip on hyper-rap’s pulse, tearing apart the hollow bravado that fuels hip-hop’s most uninspired voices.

Torres produces as viciously as he spits, ensuring the roaring bass and chopped-up samples do just as much damage as his no-prisoners lyricism. The unrelenting momentum is a wrecking ball swung at the mediocrity he’s been forced to witness in the Los Angeles music scene. From talentless hopefuls who should have picked a trade to the cesspool of pay-to-play promoters, he makes it clear: he’s sick of the game, but too in love with hip-hop to walk away.

At its core, ‘Devil’s Work’ isn’t just a takedown; it’s an unfiltered account of what it means to fight for credibility in a culture that’s been diluted beyond recognition. The bluesy rock-infused middle eight pushes the track into unexpected yet seamlessly executed terrain, echoing That Handsome Devil while proving that Torres isn’t bound by convention. If honesty is the devil’s work, Torres is more than happy to be hell’s mouthpiece.

‘Devil’s Work’ is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Skinny Blacks fired up a new wave of hip-hop with his hypersonically hot track, Getaway Bae

Posted on 20 September 2024

With roots stretching from South London to St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, Skinny Blacks delivered a pulsating summer anthem with Getaway Bae. If you’re searching for a track that hits harder than a heatwave in July, this high-octane single offers everything you’d expect from an artist fusing his Jamaican heritage with trap-heavy beats.

In an era where so much hip-hop sounds formulaic, Skinny Blacks smashes through the monotony with energy levels that could power a city. The track comes with the unrelenting force of a tropical storm, combining rhythmic precision with an edge that demands a replay.

By blending melodic rap with bold trap production, Skinny Blacks crafted an adrenalised hit for the wanderlust generation. Lyrically, it’s an unapologetic testament to being in control of your destiny, and musically, it’s a blueprint for the new direction UK rap is taking. It’s clear Skinny Blacks isn’t just riding the wave – he’s creating his own tsunami in the scene.

Getaway Bae was officially released on September 1^st; stream the single on all major platforms via this link.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

YTN Tee lit up the UK rap scene with his vibe-heavy hit, Lightsaber

Posted on 1 June 2024

YTN Tee used ‘the force’ to be a force to be reckoned with in the UK rap scene with his latest track, Lightsaber. With bars that flow with seamless rhythm and cheeky vibe-intense energy, YTN Tee carved a fresh edge into the industry through his roguishly razor-sharp wit. The only thing bigger than the expansively styled beats which paint across the hip-hop spectrum, produced by AyP, is YTN Tee’s presence in the mix as he waxes lyrical and never wanes.

Instead of joining the hip-hop flock and delivering hard and heavy lyrics, Lightsaber hits hard with the mischievously infectious buzz that reverberates throughout the single that will undoubtedly become the sunny-side-up hip-hop anthem of the summer. The track and music video flawlessly capture the spontaneous creativity that allowed the serotonin-soaked hit to pull together in a few days; it’s an explosion of uninhibited energy that sticks in the memory and strips away negativity. With an underpinned message life is what you make it, you’ll want to join YTN Tee at the vanguard of unabashed positivity as soon as you surrender to the groove.

Lightsaber is a culmination of YTN Tee’s experience in the industry. He started to cut his teeth at age 15 as a freestyler; since honing his talents, he’s racked up over 500k streams on his seminal release, Wazzup, and featured on BBC Introducing Northampton and 1Xtra. As only the start of what’s to come in 2024, YTN Tee isn’t an artist you will want to sleep on.

Lightsaber was officially released on May 29; stream the single on all major platforms via this link or watch the official music video, shot by SA, on YouTube.

Follow YTN Tee on Instagram.

Review by Amelia Vandergast