Son Raw had to say it. Don’t work with Skrillex. I know it’s tempting given the guy’s sudden popularity and I’ll give A$AP Rocky a pass on the basis that even Method Man once worked with Fred Durst and it came out OK, but you don’t want to be associated with that little rat faced […]

Son Raw is trading arms in countries whose names you can’t pronounce. According to conventional wisdom, Alchemist should be in the twilight of his career. After all, by the time they’d racked up this many years in the game, his mentors Muggs & Premier were settling into comfortable lives as established producers, trotting out well-worn […]

LV feat Okmalumkoolkat: Sebenza (Hyperdub 2012) from Hyperdub on Vimeo. Son Raw slam boom bang like African drums. Fun fact: I’ve interviewed more Hyperdub artists than any other label (Kode9 interview dropping soon). You’d think that would make me unable to critically assess the their output and maybe that’s true: I get unnaturally defensive or […]

Son Raw shouldn’t be blogging at this hour Some say that when LHF visited Rinse.FM’s studios for an in-studio album release party, the converging pirate energies proved so strong that they created an electrical storm which immediately shut down the studio’s recording equipment. Others say claim an ordinary hard drive crash. I prefer the first […]

Son Raw thinks those seapunks are bound to dri-zown. Snarkier rap fans occasionally dismiss instrumental versions as background music or rapper food and for once they’d be right: Clams Casino’s latest instrumental tape is EXCELLENT background music and rapper food. That’s partially because his samples often sound like chopped n’ screwed whale songs but also […]

Son Raw blows big blunts on his way to brunch. The best rapper rapping (yeah, I said it) delivers the video to his Party Supplies produced summer anthem. Though he doesn’t carry the great one’s commercial clout, Brown’s come-up narrative and Spike Jonze inspired video treatment recall none other than Biggie and given his proclivities […]

Son Raw is a pirate on the Black Atlantic. As Abe so eloquently put it, R&B kicked Hip-Hop’s ass in 2011, even as the seeds of rap’s triumphant revival were already paying off like a fast-growing weed plant. In terms of outside influence however, a completely different strain of urban vocal pop continues to have […]

Son Raw lick shots pon ya bloodclot ‘ead. While The Bug wets our appetites for his forthcoming Angels & Demons album via promises of Acid Ragga, Terror Danjah is mining the same fertile territory in a less conceptual manner. Of course, Grime’s potent mixture of Jamaican vocalization and electronic aggression has been around since its […]

Catch Son Raw in Cuba, polying with Assata. Mala isn’t just respected in the Dubstep scene, he’s revered with the same wide-eyed adoration bestowed on Dilla by beat heads and Eric Clapton by old white people. This near deification isn’t unwarranted given  the Digital Mystik’s genre transforming early singles but it can be a tad […]

Son Raw is knocking another one off the to-do list. So…hey. We never reviewed this, in my case because I wanted to take some time to figure out why it wasn’t clicking. Long story short, man is this OF Tape boring. The vast majority of the tracks are completely forgetable compared to their previous work […]