"Best New Music"ed rappists (to borrow a mondegreen from Parks and Recreations' Jerry
Gergich), most of whom fail to live up to the hype apart from a song or
two, seem to emerge every week. With Azealia Banks being one of the
more recent examples but actually consistently banging out hot track
after hot track, from a statistical standpoint, I'm wary of praising twenty-year-old
Michigan-born rapper Angel Haze too soon; plus, her work I've heard
aside from "New York," from her Reservations EP due in a couple
of weeks, hasn't impressed me.
While I'm refraining from making any predictions about Angel Haze, I can say (and will say) "New York" totally kicks ass. But how could
it not when she pretty much straight-lifted Gil Scott-Heron's "New York Is Killing Me"?
Blog note: Starting with this post, I've created a new "watch out" tag for posting about emerging artists. I'll still use the "spotlight" tag, but I'll reserve it for more tenured artists.
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