- This decade passed, hip-hop fans have witnessed countless unique artists stake their claim in the online rap world. In this hypothetical list of future/current legends (depending on who you ask), it's hard to argue Thebe Kgositsile hasn't earned his place. Entering the public consciousness at just sixteen with the Odd Future collective, Earl Sweatshirt has gone on to unknowingly influence and then ride an exciting new wave of forthright street poets, their rhymes rooted in loops of the past and prescient observations.

<p><span><span>- Rolo Tomassi<strong> </strong>are constantly evolving between records. That may seem like a reductive statement but having followed the Sheffield Group for over ten years at this stage of the game, it's one I'm prepared to back. Each time a new record is released, it feels like a conversation with an old friend who you catch up with every once and a while. Something new has happened for them and you can’t help but beam with pride because of how they’re doing.

<p><span><span><span>- Gabriella Cohen returns with a new full-length, infused with her signature blues-rocking and also that subversive ability to visit all sorts of styles without you even realising. Unassumingly self-released -I mean, it’s not the time to be making big industry moves, is it?- it just might be the time, however, to throw off the smothering blanket of the last couple of years and be </span><em>Blue No More</em><span>.</span></span></span></p>