God Knows had already earned his place in Irish rap as part of the Choice-winning Rusangano Family. Our sound isn’t solely based in Hip Hop. But there’s real passion in the Dubliners’s music and, on second album CCTV, the sort of throbbing melancholy that can’t be faked. Tony Konstone: We listened to people like Pharell, 50 Cent, and Drake. The Class A'z are an Irish rap collective whose members include Terawrizt, Nugget, Siyo and Redzer. His forthcoming debut album, All the Leaves Are Falling, is full of the right stuff – no braggart collection of songs from an egotist, but rather trustworthy stories of youthful mistakes, exodus, drugs, love, death, mental health issues, and parental responsibilities. He lived there for a year, returning home only because his visa had expired. VideoBushfire koalas going back to the wild, Three elders reveal what it takes to be a leader. Bonus points for the song's accompanying video, too. Enjoy your art, your craft, and yourself. Be free with this and do your fucking thing. We’re just happy with it. When you have reset your password, you can, Please choose a screen name. It’s been a minute since we’ve dropped a catalog of music that was more than just a single. When were you guys first introduced to Hip Hop while growing up in Dublin? There were things going on within the band that needed to be dealt with and the label decided to go a different way. © 2020 BBC. We added the bass, the drums and then we laid our verses down. Wed, Sep 16, 2020
Three years in three minutes, In pictures: Trump and Biden through the years, Trump supporter replaces neighbour's stolen Biden sign. HipHopDX continued speaking with Hare Squead over the phone about their EP Superweird, how they’re keeping a level-headed attitude in the music industry, the confusion behind “Herside Story” being GoldLink’s song, how Tyler, the Creator influenced the group’s name and more. – LM, Aislinn Logan Hazy guitars and dreamy beats swirl devastatingly around Belfast-born, London-based Logan’s expressive vocals. The song is the lead single off his upcoming album Stride, which is set to drop on October 6. We decided to do the remix and that was really it. Ronan McCloskey, a filmmaker from Omagh, has been exploring this underground world for his documentary He recently dropped Deli Daydreams, a concept album of sorts that follows a week in the life of a deli worker, exploring what it’s like working a job you hate and still struggling to get by. – LM, Woven Skull Pop from the margins is the specialty of this sometime Leitrim-based outfit. “It felt that I didn’t belong anywhere except within that community, at the gigs, with the people. But yeah they never wrote “GoldLink HerSide Story The Remix” by Hare Squead. – EP, Aoife Nessa Frances Frances grew up steeped in the arts, the daughter of a fiddle-player father and alt-health therapist mother (her aunt is singer and actress Flo McSweeney). We’d listen to all the old stuff too so whatever we were feeling and whatever was the mainstream.
You should receive instructions for resetting your password. For more in this series, check out 10 Norwegian rappers you need to know. The disillusioned state young people are finding themselves in is clear with young rapper Kieron Ryan aka Redzer. That’s what we like about it because each song is unique. If you really love this shit, you’ll focus on the music aspect of things. We were definitely influenced by that at the time. Lilo Blues: We just worked harder. Twentysomething Kerryman Ronan Kealy’s remarkable debut Pull the Right Rope brought something new to the genre with his singular phrasing and his striking voice. Tyler, the Creator and how he would always flip words and say weird shit. But then he put it on his album as well as if it was his track. On recent single Dreaming, her voice seems to come up from a deep dark place, mysterious and slightly ominous too. VideoTrump supporter replaces neighbour's stolen Biden sign, In pictures: Day of the Dead in Covid times. And so you want to make this happen above all other things.
His last album Yellow Creek, recorded live to tape in Memphis, is classic Deady: as authentic as they come. Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 05:00 Updated: Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 10:19 Tony Clayton-Lea Nealo: ‘I always felt that something huge was happening somewhere else and I wanted to be there.’ A total of 51 people speaking in English, French, Thai, Urdu, Hindi and Bahasa Indonesian claimed the award for 'most people in an online rapping video relay'. The five-piece are a thrilling prospect on the Irish scene, yet one in danger of being overlooked as the Fontaines juggernaut razes everything in sight. That said, with the scene still emerging, some of these artists haven’t even “made it” in Ireland yet, much less anywhere else. This new generation of rappers continue to struggle through Ireland's tough economic climate, the conditions of these impoverished estates are inspiring young people to express themselves in a new way with the hope of getting their voice heard. You will have your own Top 50 and it is just as valid as ours (you can put Dermot Kennedy in first, second and third place if you wish). He said it was reminiscent of Dublin in the seventies and early eighties when poor economic conditions created a wave of groups including Thin Lizzy and U2. “We do a lot more than just that,” Lilo Blues says in a phone conversation with HipHopDX. There’s a dollop of surrealism, also, on the track N.W.A.D.D. "Rapping is all about promoting a message and delivering it with power, strength and energy," she said. at the Disco and Fall Out Boy as Kanye West and Kid Cudi, members Jessy Rose, Tony Konstone, and Lilo Blues produce a mishmash of hip-hop, R&B, and pop.
HipHopDX: What goal are you guys trying to achieve in the music industry? A new generation of rappers, free thinkers and pop stars-in-training has risen in their place. Lilo Blues and Tony Konstone, the two talents that make up the Irish duo. We just make music, we’re not waving the Irish Hip Hop flag. We were listening to whatever was on TV like MTV and shit like that. HipHopDX: How did you guys develop this eccentric sound? “I’m trying the best I can to look at this year as a lesson in how to change my expectations and start living more in the present.