Rapper Nines won album of the year for 'Crabs in a Bucket', and best hip-hop act, while R&B singer Mahalia won best female act and best R&B/soul act at the 2020 Mobo awards, returning for the first time since 2017 to celebrate music of Black origin. Drill rapper Headie One was named best male act, while 'Don’t Rush' by pop-rap duo Young T & Bugsey was voted Mobo song of the year.
A funny story in the Guardian about UK's Relentless Records, a home to children's song, as well as some UK drill. In, 2018 Relentless' founder Shabs Jobanputr signed a deal to distribute 'Baby Shark', a children’s song that recently became the most viewed video ever on YouTube with 7.04bn views. The Baby Shark deal has proved a money-spinner for Relentless, and it has "given us a platform to do other things. It gives us more flexibility to take a few more risks with things like Headie One”, Jobanputra said.
Glitchy folktronica and crunching beats by Bon Iver in 'Faith', total thumper in 'I Drive' by Lower Dens, hazy, summer evening by Boy Pablo & Jimi Somewhere in ‘Never Cared’, stonking chunk of psychedelic-flecked rock in 'Black Finch' by Goon, catchy R&B tune 'Simmer' by Mahalia, total sugar rush in 'Hey' by Oscar Lang, festival-ready […]
