hip hop

Picture the scene: It's 2015 and Drake is the undisputed king of rap. He's completely redefined what a rap star could be and is well into his phase of absolute pop superstardom. He has helped flame the careers of Kendrick Lamar, Future, The…

New Music Weekly is your one stop shop for new releases in the world of music each and every week. From the best of the best, to some of the rest, Mark Conroy is here to give you the low down on what you might have missed. This week; The…

2017 is passing by at an alarming rate, and it's almost hard to believe that some of these albums were released only in the last six months. June is the perfect time to reflect on the year so far, and this one has been a stormer. Mark…

New Music Weekly is your one stop shop for new releases in the world of music each and every week. From the best of the best, to some of the rest, Mark Conroy is here to give you the low down on what you might have missed. This week;…

Gorillaz Humanz For Gorillaz, a group long-obsessed with combing through society’s issues and fears, it couldn’t seem like a better time to make a return. Modern culture is at a feverishly-bleak, anxious high, with social media only…

New Music Weekly is your one stop shop for new releases in the world of music each and every week. From the best of the best, to some of the rest, Mark Conroy is here to give you the low down on what you might have missed. This week; Drake,…

New Music Weekly is your one stop shop for new releases in the world of music each and every week. From the best of the best, to some of the rest, Mark Conroy is here to give you the low down on what you might have missed. This week;…

To celebrate International Women’s Day I have put together a playlist of the best female rappers of all time. Across all sub-genres of Hip-Hop I have tried to represent a cross sectional view of the calibre of talent from the late 80s to…

My earliest experience in Hip Hop dates back to 1983 and hearing Malcolm McLaren’s Buffalo Gals for the first time, but it wasn’t until '84 that my first excursions into this world were made. I was 12 when I saw Breakdance (Breakin) in…

Let’s begin by trying to suggest what an encounter is (and is not). An encounter can take the form of an unexpected liaison; a kind of spark to begin thinking. But an encounter, in the sense of what I mean here, is about an ‘affect,’ the…