Tracks such as Serf bring in a groove metal sensibility to help it all swing. The moody breakdowns allow the explosive choruses to land all the more righteously, with vocalist Kim Song Sternkopf – a survivor of faith cults as a child – venting majestically into the mic. Photograph: Sebastian Apelīlending the blast beats and acid-gargling glottal mayhem of black metal with the uplifting, even sentimental guitar dynamics of shoegaze, “blackgaze” has become a vibrant corner of heavy music – and Danish quintet MØL became one of its best exponents with their second album.
cult survivor-singer Kim Song Sternkopf (centre) with band MØL. Until then, here are The 25 Best Rap Beats of The Last 5 Years.Faith no more. Hit us up in the comments to let us know what you think should've placed differently, what should've been left out, what we missed, and whatever else comes to mind.
The following is a list of the best rap beats of the last five years, an era where a new vanguard of self-made producers like Lex Luger and Young Chop hold court on the radio with legacy hip-hop maestros like the Neptunes, Just Blaze, Kanye West, etc. The walls around rap's mainstream are thinner than they've been in over a decade, and rap's gotten delightfully weird as a result. 16-year-old newcomer Wondagurl landed a beat on Jay Z's Magna Carta.Holy Grail after a series of email exchanges with Canadian beatsmith Boi-1da and Kanye West protégé Travi$ Scott. Chief Keef selected a beat for his major label debut after searching the name of the then-unreleased Finally Rich on Soundcloud. Where back in the day getting a beat to a rapper was a matter of luck and good connections, in the 2010s, it can be as easy as shooting a message out on social media or getting a hit on Bandcamp. Hip-hop production has exploded into a million different directions in the last five years due to the ever percolating influence of Atlanta's trap music cottage industry, the birth of Chicago drill, the resurrection of the West Coast as a commercial superpower, new New York's growing fixation on Texas trill, the OVOXO squad's coronation in Toronto, and the valiant efforts of thousands of lesser known producers making beats in bedrooms and basements all over the world.
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