New music: ZZ Ward – Overdue

A blues-rap gem that shows this ZZ is topZZ Ward refers to her sound – a bluesy take on hip-hop – as "dirty shine", likening it to "backyard sauce that's so pure but so hard to swallow". Raised on a musical diet of Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters before becoming obsessed with hip-hop, the songs on her debut mixtape, Eleven Roses, attest to this sense of sullying sleek and shiny hip-hop. Featuring reinterpretations of songs by Tyler the Creator, Freddie Gibbs and Wiz Khalifa, Eleven Roses hin...

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