Son Raw’s teeth grind like a skater do Could Odd Future make a comeback in the second half? After a mediocre compilation album complete with the worst videos since D12 and The Internet’s soporific Chillwave reheat, the once shocking group seemed in danger of becoming a permanent asterix in rap – the kind of entity […]

Son Raw sees no changes, all he sees is racist faces…wrong song. Just when you thought Danny Brown had gone off a molly fueled deep end in his recent Darq E. Freaker and Araabmuzik collaborations, comes this throwback jam (from 2009? 2010) over this Blu & Mainframe beat. It reminds you that he’s always been […]

Son Raw could use a rum punch “Thank You, I’m just a guy in South-London making tunes.” They say you should never meet your idols. It’s with this cliché in mind that I first spoke to Mala, possibly the most revered and idolized producer to have emerged out of London for the past decade. While […]

Son Raw is still adapting to full-time work. Another new one from Dubstep and/or Bass music troublemakers The Soap Dodgers. This one includes a picture of a cat and references to Detroit which suggest some sort of kinship with Techno music (and/or Tyler, The Creator’s daydreams) although I’d be damned if I see it. Who […]

Son Raw is heading out for the weekend. Lots of talk about Trap music these days. I won’t bore you with anymore details here (I have a tumblr for that) but it turns out that Americans who are into Dubstep shockingly ALSO enjoy Hip-Hop beats. Who’d have thunk it? Thankfully, while the Master Faders’ “It’s […]

Son Raw just got back from NYC. Here’s some recent listening from his ride back up state. Elijah Vs. Shiftee: USA meets UK mixtape This kind of cross-cultural meeting of minds rarely ends up as anything substantial since the gulf between what’s going on in the UK and the US rarely allows for any direct […]

Son Raw doesn’t smoke M39. I wanted to start this post by saying that Gunplay never appearaed on a song with Drake but the Internet debunked that. Thanks a lot Youtube, some things are better left forgotten. This shouldn’t matter though because Gunplay is still the anti-Drake: loud, insensitive and a 150 proof distillation of […]

Son Raw: reppin MTL since 1984 but is not affiliated with this label. Montreal label Raw Records’ free debut compilation is a couple of things: a collection of sick up to the minute beats, a major step up for the local bass music scene and a perhaps a tipping point for a couple of talented […]

Son Raw is NSFW At the risk of getting this site blocked at your place of employment, here’s another fairly NSFW video, this time from booty-house purveyors Hot City. I’d write some pseudo-intellectual justification for this one but frankly, I just like watching Japanese girls on exercise equipment while listening to booty-house. Don’t blame me, […]

Son Raw’s sippin pepto bismol. Also that video’s got drugs and titties so NSFW. Biggie, Jay-Z or Nas? These days the discussion around these parts goes Kendrick, Danny or Rocky… with Bam Bam Bronson and Freddy Gibbs getting nods for good measure. While there’s still plenty of scrubs getting media attention (save Nicky and Azealia […]