In the Just Like Music channel of Loud News Net you will find an eclectic collection of music news, culture, album reviews, interviews, listicles, hip hop culture and much more. Loud News Net was birthed from Hip Hop culture and will always be who we are, but there’s too much other dope music in the world to not talk about it here. (s/o Marvin Gaye and EPMD)
Hip Hop: From Humble Beginnings Even though it’s been with us for over forty years, Hip Hop is still a fairly recent development in American culture. It started in the seventies in New York in the wake of block parties that would feature funk and soul DJs whose work would be sampled as backbeats for…
As someone who prides themselves on finding rising talent, COLORS is a perfect channel to indulge yourself in. In fact, COLORS, based in Berlin, puts on shows with artists from all over the world. Most of these creatives fall under the hip hop & R&B umbrella. Besides the beautiful music, each video has its own…
The U.K. has one of the most creative hip-hop scenes in the world. It stems from grime music, a genre created in London in the early 2000s. What is Grime Music? Grime draws influence from drum and bass, dancehall, hip hop, and jungle. The genre is gritty and can be heard in a club or…
This year has been crazy. As September comes to an end, it’s ALMOST 2021. This means a new year for new music, inspired by chaos and indoor experiences. So I’ve compiled top alternative hip hop & R&B albums of 2020 so far, in no particular order. Some of these albums fall back on electronic beats, while…
The Lil Peep Documentary, Everybody’s Everything, is the haunting profile of a genre bending star who was taken away too early. Even though the documentary came out about 10 months ago, his story is still a prime example of how toxic the industry can be for young artists. The documentary is made up of cell…
Vaporwave is strange. It’s likely what a postmodernist would envision music to become. I say that because in many ways vaporwave has surpassed what we know as a traditional genre of music. It evades proper meaning and is sometimes too abstract for its own good. But it’s in this polarizing niche that vaporwave thrives. So…
“I need some brain I think I lost mine. I’m higher than Swizz Beatz’ hairline” – Danny Brown “ “Ain’t it funny” that literary characters can come to life? Yes, Dr. Jekyll from Robert Louis Stevenson’s book the “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is a real person, but his name is Danny…
As controversial as Tupac Shakur might be, most 21st-century rappers and hip-hop fanatics give him credit to helping shape West Coast rap and agree that inequality and racial injustice are major themes throughout his discography. 24 years ago today, Tupac Shakur was pronounced dead after being shot six days prior in a drive-by shooting. This…
When you think of hip hop, you do not think about Ireland’s growing talent pool. During a time of industry plugs, a lack of artists writing their own music, and playlists filled with similar tracks, Rejjie Snow is a breathe of fresh air. Alex Anyaegbunam, better known by his stage name Rejjie Snow, is a…
Can Drake, the self-proclaimed king of hip-hop fall off? Old hip-hop heads will tell you “Nah;” not because he can’t fall off, but because you have to have been a talented MC first. But even they might agree that the new drake songs are weaker than the usual batch. To new hip-hop heads, however, it…
