Apart from maybe Run The Jewels, the most exciting thing about hip-hop for me last year was Ikey. He only released a single track–a debut of sorts–but it was a perfectly chosen debut to serve as the gloves he came out swinging with. Initially elusive as all get out, the now-DC-based, mostly Nigerian-raised emcee seemingly […]
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Ikey Reigns Supreme; All Hail King Jaffe, Hip-Hop’s New Highness
May 12th, 2015 
Brian Leak 
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Tags: Any Means Necessary, Elmanium, Green Card, Green Card EP, hip hop (genre), IkeDaKid, ikey, Olodo, poetry, rap (genre), Return of Kind Jaffe, review, Sparkz, SparkzBeats, stream, timbuktu 
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The 25 Tracks That Dominated My 2014 Over All Others
December 31st, 2014 Brian Leak I already babbled on extensively about my favorite full releases and music videos of the year, but it’s been eating away at me that I didn’t put some focus on the individual tracks I spent a significant amount of time with since 2014 began. So without wasting any more of your time than needed, below […]
Posted in News, Reviews Tags: Alt-J, Anna of the North, best 25 songs of 2014, best of 2014, black tongue, Diamond Youth, Dikembe, drake cover, favorite songs of the year, ikey, john carpenter, Låpsley, lykke li, manchester orchestra, Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s, Marian Hill, Phantogram, pianos become the teeth, PUP, Run the Jewels, rx bandits, ski lodge, sunny day real estate, The Hotelier, The Rural Alberta Advantage, tigers jaw, Turnstile, Vancouver Sleep Clinic, Zella Day Comments Off on The 25 Tracks That Dominated My 2014 Over All Others