Skandal: Hunger Pains | CD review

(Kilamanjaro)A new decade dawns, and UK hip-hop remains the Old Reliable of genres: commendably solid, bound by enough tradition and tendencies towards similarity that breakouts beyond its confines are rare. On the evidence of this mixtape, south Londoner Skandal possesses enough raw talent to move past his genre's stolid trudge: he ducks and weaves with scrappy energy on 72 Bars, demonstrates his narrative ability on Out Like a G, and on Suttin to Prove hits his stride and works himself into a ...

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