There is hope for hip hop when collectives like LA’s OFWGKTA are creating the kind of mad shit they’re coming up with at the moment. Leading the pack is the new track Yonkers from Tyler, The Creator. What makes this stuff interesting is their appropriation of mood and claustrophobic sounds from genres like witch house. There is a sense of dread pervading everything with dark creeping synths and rolling, menacing basslines. The rhymes are intricate and tumbling with no holds barred on content…

The collective also includes Hodgy Beats, Earl Sweatshirt, Domo Genesis, Mike G, Frank Ocean, Left Brain, The Jet Age of Tomorrow (previously known as The Super 3), Syd tha Kyd, Jasper Dolphin, and Taco Bennet.