![]() ![]() Unlock the Swag is perhaps the prime example of what the duo do best. Their album SremmLife debuted at No 5 in the hip-hop charts and follows lead-in singles Up Like Trump and last year’s ubiquitous No Type. ![]() Brothers Swae Lee and Slim Jimmy have become muses for Atlanta’s omnipotent beat-maker Mike Will Made It, with their super slow-mo delivery and talent for making sing-along choruses suiting his less-is-more approach to production. One for the heads.īorn in California, raised in Mississippi and made in Atlanta, Rae Sremmurd represent a healthy pan-American strand of hip-hop that’s started to circulate in early 2015. The album is out at the end of February and will be a contender for one of the strongest of 2015. Ghostface carries on the form he showed on 36 Seasons, but over the laidback production of BADBADNOTGOOD, he’s somehow even smoother. Blaxploitation is the theme of the video for Ray Gun as well, which has a cameo from the masked villain himself, Doom. Now they’ve teamed up with Ghostface Killah for Sour Soul, a brazen throwback album that’s enamoured by the cinematic sounds of the 70s with nods to the likes of Barry Adamson, Lalo Schifrin and Superfly-era Curtis Mayfield. But last year their self-titled album showed they can do atmospheric understatement and meandering noodling, as well as festival-friendly live trap. They made their name in hip-hop circles by covering Waka Flocka Flame’s crossover trap epic Hard in the Paint and working with Tyler, The Creator. On one hand, they’re one of the jazz groups making interesting contemporary albums alongside Roller Trio, Led Bib and the hirsute Polar Bear, and on the other, they’re the new Roots, providing precision backing for rappers. ![]() BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah – Ray Gun feat DoomīADBADNOTGOOD lead an impressive double life.
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