XL Recordings Archives - RESPECT. | The Photo Journal of Hip-Hop Culture https://respect-mag.com/tag/xl-recordings/ The Photo Journal of Hip-Hop Culture Sun, 19 Jul 2015 23:13:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://i0.wp.com/respect-mag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-logologo.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 XL Recordings Archives - RESPECT. | The Photo Journal of Hip-Hop Culture https://respect-mag.com/tag/xl-recordings/ 32 32 56491895 New Video: Shamir Bailey – “On The Regular” https://respect-mag.com/2014/11/new-video-shamir-bailey-on-the-regular/ https://respect-mag.com/2014/11/new-video-shamir-bailey-on-the-regular/#respond Wed, 05 Nov 2014 22:38:14 +0000 http://respect-mag.com/?p=83706 What a fun pick-me-up video for this dreary Hump Day. Meet Shamir Bailey: a 19 year-old rapper from Las Vegas. Now signed to XL Recordings, Bailey released his first EP, Northtown on Godmode label. Last week, this quirky, original video for “On The Regular” was […]

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What a fun pick-me-up video for this dreary Hump Day.

Meet Shamir Bailey: a 19 year-old rapper from Las Vegas. Now signed to XL Recordings, Bailey released his first EP, Northtown on Godmode label. Last week, this quirky, original video for “On The Regular” was released, showing off the artists youthfulness and spunk.

Decked out in thrift store treasures, Bailey brings an energy to the game that’s naive and refreshing. He raps, “Don’t try me, I’m not a free sample. Step to me and you will be handled.”

Saint Heron likened Bailey’s style to that of Azealia Banks. What do you think?

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]]> Ratking Wiki Sporting Life Hakalu Hak XL RecordingsSubterranean NYC rap crew Ratking has released, “Canal,” the first single from their upcoming debut album, So It Goes. The song is a fluid assemblage of disparate sounds: a stream of opaque rhymes from Wiki, a high-pitched sample, overwhelmingly loud synths, schizophrenic percussion. No element of the song is individually discernible; the track rolls on as one unit, one experience. The best part of the song is the moment toward the end when additional vocals begin to overlap, like relay racers colliding as they leave their lanes.

“Canal” is a a strange beast,  but attempting to tame it isn’t the right approach. Instead, you have to become a beast yourself, embracing the song’s formlessness and losing your own form as well. Listen below.

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