Showing posts with label rap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rap. Show all posts

Thursday, October 17, 2013

A look at the casual homophobia of Eminem's new tune



After some tweets on this yesterday Una Mullally asked me to do a guest post for her Irish Times blog Pop Life on the new Eminem tune Rap God and his use of homophobic language. It surprised me how few people were talking about it and realised that it's part of a wider acceptance of what made him so shocking in the first place.

Read the full piece here

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Azealia Banks Debuts Liquorice Video



Azealia Banks has ridden an impressive wave of hype within the year or so. She's already dramatically quit Twitter (and returned) and said she doesn't want to rap anymore but nothing seems to be really slowing Azealia down. She's just released the EP 1991, a four track collection that serves up enough of a teaser for that full length effort.

After 212, one of the key Azealia tunes that's had tongues wagging is the buzzing, jumpy house-tinged track Liqourice. A confident, attitude laden number, it doesn't quite have the frenetic dancefloor blast of 212 but it still pops a mighty punch. 

The track's new video has British photographer Rankin helming a sexy, impressive clip that sees Banks in Wild West territroy while also finding time to work a pair of cutoff denim shorts. It's a polished, big budget video that lets Banks vamp it up to the camera and show off the sort of visual flair her myriad fashion shoots have had (her team-up with uber-stylist Nicola Formichetti helping her no end). 

Peep the video below: