Tag Archives: Alternative Rap

Sydney-based singer/songwriter and rapper Nick de la Hoyde wasn’t always a specialist musician. Before going after a profession in music, the youthful Syrian-British designer relocated to Spain to try his good fortune with professional soccer. There, he began rapping in an effort to allow off steam. Locating his center was …

New Orleans rap duo $uicideboy$ mixed their skills in 2014, however the pair were currently well-acquainted. The cousins — Ruby da Cherry and $lick $loth — was raised together, white children in dark neighborhoods for the east and western banks from the Crescent Town. However, they primarily veered down different …

Adam McIlwee, previous vocalist/guitarist for Scranton, Pennsylvania-based emo/indie rock and roll group Tigers Jaw, information solo materials as Wicca Stage Springs Eternal (sometimes just known as Wicca Stage). The task mixes components of hip-hop, goth, and emo, with Adam McIlwee’s Morrissey-inspired vocals crooning introspective, psychologically weighty lyrics over beats similar …

St. Louis rapper/vocalist Smino combines hip-hop with funk and spirit influences, very much like contemporaries Isaiah Rashad, Saba, and Ab-Soul. Blessed Christopher Smith, Jr., he grew up by a family group of music artists that supplied early contact with jazz, blues, and gospel music, which he’d continue to blend along …

Matt Shulman, alternately referred to as Matt von Roderick, is a jazz/pop trumpeter and vocalist who’s grounded in traditional jazz but has ventured into fusing his major genre with rap and EDM (electronic dance music). He began learning music with traditional piano and violin lessons in his indigenous Vermont at …

Bangs is a South Sudanese-Australian MC who also attracted the interest of Eminem, Honda, and Jimmy Fallon along with his quirky strike “Take U to Da Films.” Given birth to in the South Sudan, he spent two of his teenager years in Egypt before shifting to Australia. A lover of …

The project of Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and Interpol’s Paul Banking institutions, Banking institutions & Steelz balances chilly post-punk and hard-hitting hip-hop with techniques that are equally indebted to and unique from its users’ past work. Banking institutions, a longtime hip-hop lover, released his personal rap mixtape, Everybody on My Dick …

Dream Junkies, an optimistic, spiritually minded rap group from Southern California, includes Beleaf, John Givez, and Ruslan. All three people were set up as solo performers when they shaped the group in 2014. Beleaf and Givez are brothers-in-law, and everything three are deeply involved with their cathedral. Although their rhymes …

Acting just like a one-man edition of A$AP Mob, Toronto rapper Sean Leon can be a visual designer, producer, and movie director, and utilizes all the over in the presentation of his music. Given birth to and elevated in Ajax, Ontario, he kicked off his rap profession in 2013 using …

An Atlanta-based MC and maker who broke because of a track predicated on the rideshare overall economy, MadeinTYO (Malcolm Jamaal Davis) got his name from his teenager years, which he spent developing up in Tokyo, Japan. He resided there along with his old sibling, rapper Rolls Royce Rizzy, and referenced …