Son Raw refuses to cover anything with a “future” genre tag. A few years ago, there were barely enough instrumental Grime tunes seeing official release to make up a scene, let alone enough good ones to incite weekly purchases. Today however, the tide has shifted – consider Boomkat’s renaming their Dubstep/Grime/Funky section to Grime/FWD if […]

Son Raw suggests walking around to this at 1:00AM on a windy night “Do Your thing, just make sure you’re ahead of the game…” The opening words to Pangaea’s Release come courtesy of a Missy Elliot sample and seems awfully apropos in London circa 2012. After years of relentless evolution and transformation, the UK Bass […]

Son Raw bombs the system The history of London’s urban pirate radio is still murky and half-told with details only beginning to trickle out now that the format has mostly migrated to legal online locations. For those of us on North-American shores who’ve grown up in the hyper-commercialized Clear Channel era, there’s still something unbelievable […]

Son Raw beez in the office Voted “most likely to outlast music’s all-trap-everything phase,” Baauer makes the leap from having a hot single on Mad Decent to playing with the big boys on Rinse and signing to Scottish purveyor of all things beat related, Lucky Me. This is everything you’d expect: laser synths, claps galore […]

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 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 […]