"Clearing Out My Mind"

  In my lifetime I don't remember a time where the UKs scene and its influence has been greater. Stormzy's out here doing press runs with Hot 97 and Charlamange. Mo Gilligan had his Netflix special in the US top 10 for stand-up comedy. And Everyone and their uncle was learning about street life in the UK from Top Boy. Britain's influence in music, and entertainment more generally, has been, and is, growing to astronomical levels. With that however, there becomes a lot of risks and issues that are set to arise which I believe, in the past, and in the future have the potential to hamper British artists and the UK from having its desired impact and influence globally. Thus, with that I mind, I’ve identified a few issues which need be addressed within the UK scene in order to avoid falling into some of the same traps which have derailed the British artists in the past from having an even greater global influence. Firstly, PAY PRODUCERS AND ENGINEERS. I have seen too ma...

Having finished off 2019 recapping the artists and sounds which dictated the previous decade, I wanted to start off 2020 looking forward over the next ten years and predict who I feel is set up to take over this new decade. I took into account a number of factors in considering this, mainly age, output and how versatile I believe the artist can and will be. There are a great number of artist who I think are set for astronomical success over the next ten years. I firmly expect the likes of Da Baby, Roddy Rich, Rapsody, Tierra Whack & Dave to have a huge influence on the state of rap music throughout this decade. However, I’ve singled out YBN Cordae, as the artist who I feel will greatly define rap over the next ten years. In saying this, I do still expect the current big names such as Drake, Travis Scott, Kendrick Lamar and Tory Lanez to continue to have a significant hold upon hip-hop music, especially within the first 5 years of this decade. And if I had any faith tha...