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Melodic Rap

Kearis’ Need Me Is a Lush-with-Lust Hip-Hop Single Built for Infinite Summer Replays

Posted on 12 June 2026

Summer hip-hop tranquillity met raw Southern energy in Kearis’ hottest single to date, Need Me, featuring BigTDawg, who, true to his moniker, is a force in his own right. The single moves with that sun-drunk confidence that makes a track feel instantly destined for car speakers, late-night link-ups and sticky-season playlists.

The hypnotically oceanic hit turns the rap bars into an unreckonable mesmeric force as they ebb and flow under waves of autotune and reverb, keying into the stylistic elements of CloudRap while Kearis turns up the temperature with Reggaeton heat. BigTDawg brings a grounded counterweight to the track’s floating melodic current, letting the chemistry sit right at the centre without overcrowding the mood.

Kearis has been building his name as an independent melodic rapper through emotionally direct storytelling, atmospheric production and a laid-back delivery that keeps ambition, relationships and growth within reach of the listener.

Following tracks such as Money and Fame, Need Me sharpens his sound into something smoother, warmer and ready to travel further, with enough crossover ease to pull casual listeners closer. If you’re looking for a hip-hop playlist staple that will bring the vibes all summer, look no further than this lush-with-lust hit that possesses infinite repeat appeal.

Need Me is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Apple Music.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Ïgor Gives Boom Bap Nostalgia a Sun-Kissed New Life in Lisboa Na Cabeça

Posted on 17 May 2026

Ïgor unleashed a monster of alt-rap euphoria with Lisboa Na Cabeça, a single that defines the anthemic vivaciousness of his seminal LP, The Curious Case of the Man in the Mirror. It swarms with sun-kissed kinetic rhythm as the independent artist pulls on his Portuguese roots and allows them to blossom in a track that gives hints of boom bap nostalgia a new lease of lust-filled life.

Ïgor has a distinct way of allowing cultural identity breathe through the beat instead of treating it as surface decoration in his discography, ensuring that the melodic rap phrasing glides with ease, while the laid-back, atmospheric production keeps the track suspended in a state of warm propulsion.

There is reflection in the tone, but the dominant feeling is liberation, desire, and movement, all stitched into a release that feels ready to spill from speakers across rooftops, parks, clubs, and long after-midnight car journeys.

Based in London, Ïgor has been building a sound rooted in Portuguese heritage, emotional vulnerability, and lifestyle-rich atmosphere. Through releases such as L.A.W (Love After War) and now Lisboa Na Cabeça, he opens up the wider world of The Curious Case of the Man in the Mirror, a project shaped by self-reflection, relationships, and identity.

It’s a lush pool-party playlist staple from one of the hottest underground architects of urban heat in the UK; festival stages should be screaming for his presence this summer

Lisboa Na Cabeça is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Dreamo ft Gaddy soaked summer in oceanic saturation with their afrobeat RnB release, BRAND NEW

Posted on 28 April 2026

For his latest single, the independent breakthrough artist Dreamo hooked up with Gaddy before soaking the sound of summer in wavy saturation, giving his afrobeat-tinged RnB-adjacent release an oceanic expansiveness while never compromising on the intimacy it pulses through; the dream pop guitars jangle through choral distortion, tempering the trap beat and adding plenty of colour to the production that gently holds Dreamo’s reggaeton-inspired harmonies.

BRAND NEW slips into the bloodstream with humid ease, letting melodic nostalgia and modern elasticity move as one. There are shades of Amaarae in the fluidity, Rema in the melodic lightness, and hints of Cruel Santino in the alte-leaning atmosphere, making BRAND NEW an easy-to-integrate playlist staple for afrobeat RnB fans.

Dreamo’s aural identity comes from a long relationship with music, beginning with rap in his teens before singing became his clearest emotional language. Ghanaian trap, highlife, afrobeats, bedroom pop, melodic rap, and dancehall all feed into his palette, and that breadth gives BRAND NEW its richness. With past highlights including work under Villain Sounds, a place on La Meme Tape: Linksters, a collaboration with Amaarae, and a slot on the Manifestive bill, Dreamo is moving with real momentum.

BRAND NEW is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

South London’s Sface Grounded the Art of Freestyle in the Woozy Semi-Lucidity of ‘Stolen Flow’ 

Posted on 15 February 2026

Media rarely reflects reality, and that disconnect feels like a societal disease in itself; as a remedy, the South London rapper Sface keeps everything grounded in Stolen Flow. Teaming up with Off the Record and pairing the release with a stripped-back visual shot outside his local off-licence, Sface freestyles in a way that quietly redefines the art form. The setting alone speaks volumes. There is no artificial gloss, no performative theatre. Instead, his bars remain effortlessly mellow, kicked with charisma that never strains for attention. That organic presence carries the performance piece, allowing his thoughts to cascade unfiltered into the mic while the cadence stays locked into a groove that melts into woozy, style-driven instrumentals drifting like a semi-lucid dream.

With Stolen Flow, Sface opens an honest conversation. The freestyle format grants him space to speak plainly, letting melody and realism co-exist without forced theatrics. The track was born instinctively. Heading into a four-hour studio session with a plan in place, he heard a different instrumental en route that mirrored exactly what he was navigating at the time. He wrote to it in transit and scrapped the rest, committing to that one beat. That first-reaction energy hums through the release, giving it an immediacy that can’t be artificially constructed.

Growing up in South London informs the subject matter and tone. His records document day-to-day pressure, ambition, and the push forward without fictional detours. Since officially releasing music in 2020, after early teenage studio experiments, he has built his catalogue independently, accumulating hundreds of thousands of streams and performing at venues including O2 Islington. Measured, melodic, energetic, and real, Stolen Flow stands as a clean snapshot of his instinct-driven approach.

Stolen Flow is now available on all major streaming platforms; for the full experience, watch the official music video on YouTube. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Setty Waxes Lyrical on Modern Malaise in Lookin for Peace – a Hip-Hop Aesthetic That Blurs All Borders

Posted on 16 July 2025

In Lookin for Peace, Setty locked into the cultural zeitgeist with a wavy aural aesthetic that blurs the borders between pop, trap, RnB and hip-hop until those lines are deliciously indistinguishable. Setty waxes lyrical on the weight of the collective psyche, using flex and tension in his bars to bring grit to the forefront of the track. Underneath it all, Lookin for Peace holds up a mirror to the pressure cooker reality so many of us are living through, asking, quietly but insistently, for respite from the boil.

The beauty of this playlist staple is how the production leaves space for your own strain, your own insomnia, to seep into the soundscape as you bounce to the metric precision in Setty’s charisma-soaked performance. There’s a cheeky, offhand charm to Setty, a vibe that explains why his streaming stats are racking up by the thousands. With an after-hours mindset stitched into every hook, he keeps things simple, catchy, and locked into late-night energy that is impossible to resist.

A product of Las Vegas by way of the internet, Setty (Seth Ortiz) has built his rep through cinematic tracks like “Penthouse” and “Didn’t Mean 2.” The Teeny Boppers EP sees him stepping up his evolution, serving three tracks that cover lazy confidence, fashion flexes, introspection and ambition.

Lookin for Peace is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify. 


Review by Amelia Vandergast

Vengeance is sweet but Fake Boujee’s shot-firing melodic rap track, HeartBroken, is sweeter.

Posted on 3 October 2023

At 21 years old, the Massachusetts-born, Providence-based rapper, singer, and audio engineer Fake Boujee, already has a finely honed sound, a unique edge that will effortlessly ensnare fans of melodic rap and other niche subgenres and an arsenal of hits.

Their most popular track to date, More Smoke, has racked up 65k+ streams on Spotify alone, and their latest single to come from their professional-grade studio, HeartBroken, is going to place them at even greater heights.

Created in collaboration with Hooper James, HeartBroken, makes no bones about pulling all the lyrical punches over the colourfully wavey instrumentals. Regardless of what the majority of tracks on the airwaves attempt to prove, heartbreak isn’t pretty, it leaves us raw with hope for karmic justice; for anyone wanting their ex to meet their karma-driven retribution, HeartBroken is a caustically consoling earworm, which carries all the Lil Peep-esque conviction necessary for true authenticity.

HeartBroken was officially released on September 22; stream it on Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Hook-Filled Bars Grind Against Reverb-Softened Beats in Sammi Sosa’s latest single ‘Reckless’

Posted on 3 February 2021
Sammi Sosa

Floridian Hip Hop artist, Sammi Sosa, started to find his feet in the underground in 2020, in 2021. His unique melodic approach to rap is set to take him to new heights. His latest single ‘Reckless’ featuring Forever will have plenty to do with his ascention.

With an ambient electronica prelude, you’ll instantly be drawn into the atmospherically-layered mix which drips with serenity; there’s an arrestive contrast between the sedative reverb-softened beats and Sammi Sosa’s grinding hook-filled bars. Plenty of new artists fall in the trap of assimilating popular Rap artists. Not Sammi Sosa. His fearlessness when it came to using his natural charisma allowed his authentic talent to shine through in Reckless. We’re already stoked to hear what urban earworms are in the pipeline.

Reckless was officially released on January 13th, you can check it out for yourselves by heading over to YouTube.

Stay up to date with new releases from Sammi Sosa via Instagram.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Drink in the Deep Grooves of Hip Hop Artist Spitty The Sequel’s Latest Single “Don’t Sleep”

Posted on 16 January 2020
Spitty the Sequel

US Hip Hop artist Spitty The Sequel dropped their latest single “Don’t Sleep” at the end of 2019. Will you excuse the pun if we tell you not to sleep on it?

For any insomniac contemporary Rap fans out there, you can consider Don’t Sleep a playlist essential. With the high-vibe energy poured into the spacy grinding Trap beats, sleep will be the last thing on your mind as you drink in the deep grooves and Spitty The Sequel’s lyrical wit. Instead, it’s a momentously up-vibe offering of resonance for anyone who feels the weight of the world on their shoulders at night.

Their Rap verses go beyond just keeping to meter and rhyme, you’ll find raw gritty meta poetry in the lyrics to Don’t Sleep. Combined with the sharp instrumental hooks, once you’ve hit play, you’re in it for the sticky-sweet duration.

You can check out Spitty The Sequel’s latest single Don’t Sleep for yourselves by heading over to Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Kelz TBK – La La La: An Irresistible Offering of Trap

Posted on 3 January 2018

At first, when I first listened to the latest track by the East London based artist Kelz TBK I was conflicted, I was unsure how to transcribe the feeling that he’d orchestrated La La La with.

The tone is ubiquitously lachrymose, yet the vocal delivery is imploring, pounding and brashly, playfully endearing. I was torn. Yet one thing is for sure, this chilled, Trap, Melodic Rap mix is one of the greatest feats to come from the Trap genre in 2017. Kelz TBK is by no means a new contender to the scene, he’s infiltrated the London underground with his infectious sound, and I can only imagine that with his ability to create a sound that grips you like a vice will see him go far within the scene and join other iconic artists such as Migos, Diplo, and Major Lazer in no time on the podium sipping Hennessey. Even if the 420 persuasion is much more of Kelz TBK’s bag, La La La was engineered for smokers who love Trap, if that sounds like you, head on over to SoundCloud now where you can check out his latest track:

https://soundcloud.com/kelztbk/la-la-la