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Category: Music Videos

  • Spring Equinox nears, but Max Frost’s new visual will make you think about Summer: Watch ‘Back in the Summer’

    Max Frost, the First Day of Spring, is tomorrow and we’re on lockdown. Being someone who has had their experience in a jail cell, your record brings forth a yearning, unlike any other. ‘Back in the Summer’ is synonymous with being carefree, in the sunshine. It’s like how I feel when riding around in a droptop vehicle to Montauk for an event, or going to Robert State Moses Park to bathe in the Atlantic Ocean. Summer couldn’t come soon enough. Hopefully, by then, we will be in a post-coronavirus world—healthy and safe.

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  • Toronto rapper Calm shares split video for ‘LULL/MELT’: Watch

    In ways that some rappers do, Canadian artist Calm doesn’t readily hand over his facial features like others. As he—we think it’s him—sits at the table and plays the game of something with a friend, he raps about what he described as “low points in [his] life, they’re about isolation and facing your demons alone” in his pitch. Most importantly, do you hear this beat, though? How could you not want to listen to Calm at least once, and tell someone else about how fly is he? If he never makes anything as good again, ‘LULL/MELT’ is enough for me. I’m more of a ‘LULL’ fan if you’re curious.

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  • Irish singer-songwriter JC Stewart shares lush video for ‘Lying That You Love Me’: Watch

    Wow, how deep in love do you have to be to sing a song about missing someone who lies to you about loving you? The artist, as he’s explained, is spellbound. Unfortunately, we have partners and lovers out there who can make us feel as “foolish” as Irish singer-songwriter JC Stewart. It is a relatable topic, and it is beautifully-executed. From its composition to its video direction, ‘Lying That You Love Me’ will make me want to hear his other songs, just because of how he handled this one. Watch the video by the vocalist, recently highlighted as Apple Music’s New Artist of the Week.

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  • Nigerian star Burna Boy releases highly-anticipated visual for ‘Odogwu’: Watch

    Nigerian star Burna Boy released the official video for ‘Odogwu’ yesterday. It was a highly-anticipated release, as the artist has promoted it since February on his social media profiles. Watch it now. Hopefully, New York-based fans will be able to see Burna Boy on May 29 at the Ford Amphitheater.

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  • Award-winning director Nabil teams up with Jamaican star Chronixx for ‘Dela Move’: Watch

    Last week, Jamaican artist Chronixx released the powerful cinematic video for ‘Dela Move’. The track isn’t from a recent full body of music but is out through Soul Circle Music. Within the lines of the song, he talks about crabs in a barrel and seems to take on the trendy rhythmic rap-sing cadence that’s popular today. Watch the visual now. It’s well-executed by Nabil.

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  • South London-based artist Darkoo shares visual for ‘Juicy (Brown Skin Like Eva)’ featuring Hardy Caprio: Watch

    African singer-songwriter Darkoo released the official video for ‘Juicy (Brown Skin Like Eva)’ featuring British rapper Hardy Caprio. Pegged with beautiful scenery, the blue-haired artist sings about succulent beautiful women. Before this release, she released ‘Gangsta’, which has several remixes including Davido, Ms Banks, and others. Watch the visual now, directed by Capone.

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  • Late English rapper Cadet still finds success after death with single ‘Support Me’: Listen

    Blaine Cameron Johnson, also known as Cadet, was a British rapper, songwriter and record producer from South London. From the age of sixteen, he began appearing as part of the Gipset crew, a gang of aspiring lyricists based in Gipsy Hill, in South London where he was born. Their freestyles about gang life and living in London gained them a following on social media. After the crew’s disbandment in 2013, Cadet began to pursue his musical career more seriously, releasing a series of freestyles which gained millions in combined views. His EPs, ‘The Commitment’ released in 2016 and ‘The Commitment II’ released in 2018 both gained international attention. Cadet’s most recent single ‘Advice’, with Deno Driz, was released in October and peaked at number 14 in the charts. Unfortunately, the rising British rapper was killed in an early morning car crash in central England, on February 9. Since Cadet’s death, his family has released a freestyle and two of his singles posthumously.

    His latest posthumous single ‘Support Me’, was recorded last year, and is accompanied by a twelve-minute short film. Lyrically, the song tells a story of wanting unconditional support from his partner, constantly asking for reassurance in different scenarios. The split-screen video depicts two different worlds: one where his love interest fulfills his needs for support, and a world in which her support is nonexistent. Support Me is the lead single on the rapper’s upcoming album The Rated Legend, which will be released next month. The album is set to feature fellow artists including Krept, Chip, and Tion Wayne. Rest in power, Cadet.

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  • British singer-songwriter Rebecca Garton releases visual for ‘Don’t’: Watch

    R&B is making a comeback. Well, some will argue that it has never left, but let’s be real. When you speak about it, we have more rappers thinking they are making more R&B than actual singers. Don’t get me wrong, some of the songs are good, and I play all of the time, but don’t you ever want to hear a real singer actually singing a song that you want to play when you’re in your feels? Rebecca Garton’s new song, ‘Don’t’, speaks to a relationship that once was good, but now seems strange. Watch the visual below.

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  • Reminiscent of Drake’s flow, Absofacto delivers vivacious record ‘Lemon Drop’: Watch the video

    Many years ago, Absofacto released an album called, ‘Sinking Islands’. It was 2011, nearly a decade ago. The times were different than they are now, in regards to how we consume music and where he was creatively, but the music resonated with me, so I wrote about it on a now-defunct version of my website. This month, he’s back with the B-Side to ‘Python’, an uptempo song called, ‘Lemon Drop’. It’s a love song about a monogamous relationship and missing the love of your life. Watch the video below.

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    Mercury Lounge will have the pleasure of hosting the singer on June 22 in New York City. I hope I’m around so I can support him.

  • Danish recording artist Al Jacobi wants to know ‘R U UP?’: Watch the video

    The single, ‘R U UP?’ by Al Jacobi is literally the soundtrack to my life right now. I’m single-single, but not gonna lie, when I’m bored I will send that late-night ‘WYO’ text in hopes that I get the response. I mean, let’s be honest. Sometimes, that toxic part of my life feels like the only thing that is constant and can count on. It’s something about them, like, we don’t do anything right, but sex. But the sex? Oh boy! I’m okay with that, and it’s like, you just can’t stop fucking with them… Asking, “Are you up? I’m coming over”. Watch the video below.

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