Rated by The Face: a weekly playlist
Playboi Carti makes a welcome return, Rina Sawayama embraces a guilt trip and Westside Gunn teams up with Tyler.
Griselda
Here’s what you need to know about the new Westside Gunn album
Virgil, Tyler and Covid-19 – there’s a lot going on with the Griselda rapper’s new project Pray for Paris.
Keisha Plum is the Griselda crew’s slick poet
Among the rap collective’s rugged, macho street raps, Plum has delivered prose with the precision of a silent assassin. Now, she’s ready to step out front with her solo material.
Griselda: the hip-hop group who beat the odds
Volume 4 Issue 3: Westside Gunn, Conway the Machine and Benny the Butcher formed more than 15 years ago, developing a gnarly sound inspired by the slimy criminal underbelly of Buffalo, New York. In a landscape of youthful, Auto-Tuned rap stars, they stand out like ugly ducklings.