Tag Archives: Kid Sister

Mixtapes I Don’t Hate: Micah James, Cadence Weapon and Juba Dance

Like I said yesterday, on the occasions when I find something to like about contemporary Hip-Hop I really like it. And for the last couple years some of the things I’ve liked the most have been “mixtape” projects. This despite the fact that for a number of years previous a decrease in mixtape […]

The “Sound of Kudoro” Is “the Titts”

Blame the internet, or M.I.A., but I can’t remember when there was so much international cross-pollination going on in dance music. Yeah, back in the day the Brits took House and Techno and made them their own, spawning the Rave culture that eventually found its way back to our shores, bringing us Drum-N-Bass in […]

Mixtapes I Don’t Hate: DLake, Diplo & Santogold and KiD CuDi

When I started slipping posts about mixtapes into my blog repertoire last year I felt it necessary to point out that I had been turned off by the whole mixtape subculture for a number of years. Regardless of my reasons (and if you really want to know what they were, you can go back […]

“Young girl, get out of my mind…”

I’ve mentioned both these girls in passing here in the not-too-distant past. But since they’ve both got new singles out I feel obliged to give them a little extra shine. They’re both part of a growing crop of ethnically diverse, distinctly underground, female Rap artists who don’t necessarily fit into the traditional Hip-Hop underground scene […]