About Tom Rodwell
Nurtured on heavyweights like Jay Z, Nas and Kanye, Tom is a huge hip hop fan. Having also since discovered grime music's charm and enjoying a taste which becomes increasingly open-minded, he has grown comfortable with music in widely contrasting forms.
Rating: It has often been said that with the greats of rap music, you can “feel” or “hear” their city in their work. Although clichéd, you can feel the pain, the struggle, the passion and, of course, the love. You…
Rating: Politically motivated hip hop, in the eyes of most onlookers, is a concept so outdated it shares a graveyard with cassette tapes and shell suits. There’s no room for it in the modern era, they say, because a rapper…
Rating: It had been coming. Whether it was fooling around courtside with NBA stars, appearing at Kanye West’s Roc City gig or even releasing his own short film, Aubrey ‘Drake‘ Graham had been everywhere this week. Many called Drizzy’s surprise…
Rating: When you think of Manchester, you likely think of three things; the football clubs, bands like The Stone Roses and Oasis and of course, the rain. It was a smart move by Batz Inda Belfry, the brightest duo to…
Rating: Don’t call it a comeback. Those were the iconic words of LL Cool J back in 1991, shortly before legendary group and fellow New Yorkers Wu-Tang Clan shot to the peak of East Coast hip hop. Now, nearly a…
Rating: There are certain things you expect from Compton legend The Game. You expect anger. You expect disrespect. And, naturally, you expect more name drops than a Piers Morgan interview. But in a hip hop age of R&B hooks and…
Rating: In today’s music scene, the ability to release an album which offers everything loyal fans love, while taking risks and demonstrating something fresh, is something that’s becoming rarer and rarer and thereby more revered. It may come as a…
Rating: The most incredible thing about Dream Mclean’s debut album, Greyscale, is that it’s taken this long to finally reach us. Dream has been turning the heads of Annie Mac, Zane Lowe and MistaJam on Radio 1 alone for a…
Rating: You may have found your way to this review without any idea of who Yungen, the man behind Project Black and Red is. You may not know that he produces music so mature beyond his 21 years that he’s…
Rating: 25 years is a long time in anyone’s book. But in hip hop? A quarter of a century has seen more evolution and incredible individuals than just about anyone can count. NehruvianDOOM, though, uses those 25 years quite beautifully….