Our interviews are better than your interviews. This year we ate pussy with 2Chainz, found out Childish Gambino is going to die, and got hot in here with Nelly.
Nothing beats picking the brains of music’s finest via a good, old-fashioned chinwag. We had some cracking ones this year that hopefully, sucked you a little further into the musical microcosm we live and breathe.
Donald Glover: Fear and TremblingDonald Glover knows he’s going to die. He says it over and over again, not in a particularly dark way, but with a sense of finality most people reserve for talking about a wedding that they have to attend at the end of the year. It's just another thing that's going to happen. We’re at the Four Seasons in Toronto, seated, maybe two arm-lengths apart. He’s barefoot, wearing the same fur hat with ear flaps that he's worn in recent radio interviews, telling me matter-of-factly that he's going to die.
Eating Pussy with 2ChainzI already felt like I had a spiritual connection with 2Chainz – I mean we both like big booty hoes and draping ourselves in gold– but when he released a cookbook to complement his new LP I really CONNECTED, y'know? #MealTime is an opus of his most loved tour bus recipes that includes classy as shit, delicately prepared poultry and seafood dishes via recipes that have steps like "put on your Versace apron" and "taste the mixture with your 24 karat gold spoon".Read the rest of the article here…2013 Was The Year That Jessie Ware Got Super Famous, Took Selfies with Everyone and Became a Hippy
2013 was the year that Jessie Ware became a proper celebrity - getting selfies with cast members of Downton Abbey and Made In Chelsea, and a baby alligator. It’s also the year that she started wafting patchouli and clutching at crystals before shows. We talked to her about what it’s like travelling the world as a proper popstar.Read the rest of the article here…
Getting Hot In Herre With NellyPhoto by William CouttsNellyville was the first CD that I ever bought. “Ride Wit Me” was the first song I successfully etched into my brain. “Hot In Herre” soundtracked every E-number powered skid across a year six disco floor (and every shotgun on a crowded staircase at a sixth form party). Basically, Nelly is my boy. So, when I found out that he was in London for the first time in five years, could I make it? Damn right! I’d be on the next flight! Payin’ cash, first class, sittin’ next to Vanna White!
In the video for Yung Lean’s “Ginseng Strip 2002,” the 16-year-old rapper from the Södermalm district of Stockholm dons a bucket hat, does a version of the cooking dance and talks about about getting dome from a crackhead who looks like Zooey Deschanel. The Swedish teenager is a beguiling mishmash of American hip-hop’s more peculiar, Lil B-indebted elements, and he raises a lot of questions.Read the rest of the article here…
I spent 48 Hours In LA With King KruleIt's 3am in Los Angeles and I'm standing on a roof in Echo Park. A few hours earlier, Archy Marshall, aka King Krule, played his second sold out show at the Echo. Now, he's being led away by a woman.Read the rest of the article here…
Wavy Spice: The Schoolgirl KingpinI fucks with Wavy Spice. A lot. And so does London's hub for everything exciting in urban music, Rinse FM, apparently, as they cherry-picked her from Harlem and flew her over to the UK to hustle in their studios. In-between the 90s-tastic track "Bitch I'm Posh" and then confusing everyone by releasing the heavily Taino influenced "Yaya", it seems the Puerto Rican has something about her that's got 2013 craning it's neck to see what she comes up with next.Read the rest of the article here…
Banks Is The Sort Of Person You Want To Tell Your Secrets To
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I’m sitting on the pavement with my arse hanging out my trousers and my crumb-covered laptop splayed on my lap. I’m supposed to meet Banks in a minute, but I don’t know what she looks like. Well not exactly, after all I’ve seen her photograph on iTunes when I listen to “Before I Ever Met You”, her unflinchingly uncomfortable monologue about a relationship on the brink, and on stage playing to a pin-drop crowd at her first London show at Notting Hill Arts Club - but I’m not sure I could pick her out of a crowd.Read the rest of the article here…
Flatbush Zombies Think They're In The Top Five Best Weed Lyricists EverBeing a Flatbush Zombies fan these past few months has like going to the toilet at a party for two seconds and then coming out to find everyone's used the party poppers and the stripper's come out of the cake already. A few months ago they were these weird guys taking acid with VICE, now they're NYC's finest export. I feel like I can't even call them my best friends anymore.Read the rest of the article here…
Donald Glover: Fear and TremblingDonald Glover knows he’s going to die. He says it over and over again, not in a particularly dark way, but with a sense of finality most people reserve for talking about a wedding that they have to attend at the end of the year. It's just another thing that's going to happen. We’re at the Four Seasons in Toronto, seated, maybe two arm-lengths apart. He’s barefoot, wearing the same fur hat with ear flaps that he's worn in recent radio interviews, telling me matter-of-factly that he's going to die.Read the rest of the article here...
