Steven Louis serves the newest edition of The Rap Up – with posthumous joints from the late Young Slo-Be and Big Scarr, a BabyStoneGorillas Christmas banger, a Rookie of the Year coronation for BigXthaPlug, a Quelle Chris & Cavalier collab and an up north trip to Montreal from Loe Pesci.

First it was Nasty Nas, now watch Evan Nabavian turn an apple into MacIntosh I notice when I hit shuffle that little of the rap music I listen to features rappers who can actually rap. There’s a surfeit of style, bluster, charisma, and swagger, but few dazzling constructions of wordplay. I have no right to […]