Hip-Hop

Boy Math turns dreams inside out with poetic new single “I Never Had a Dream”

With his new single, “I Never Had a Dream,” artist Boy Math takes listeners on a unique journey into creativity that turns the idea of dreams upside down. Instead of the usual approach of dreaming about a goal and striving to achieve it, Boy Math explores a different idea of rewinding and looking at the outcomes of our dreams to understand where they began. He invites us to think about the moments before we drift off to sleep, creating a thought-provoking experience. The song feels personal and deep, unfolding like a story that moves through various thoughts and emotions. The sounds within the track come and go, resembling memories that fade away.

Boy Math’s singing shifts from soft to powerful, capturing the struggle between being awake and falling asleep. A surprising element in the song is its connection to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. This creates a striking contrast, while many songs celebrate dreaming big, “I Never Had a Dream” challenges us to consider the silence and possibilities that emerge after those dreams come true. It has elements of hip-hop but is not limited to just one style. The production varies, sometimes being simple and other times rich and layered, mimicking the gentle rhythm of breathing between being awake and asleep. The song has a mesmerizing quality, almost like a mantra that alters our perception of dreams and reality.

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G3 the Plug moves like a ghost on latest release “Danny Phantom”

G3 the Plug goes darker with his new single, “Danny Phantom,” a moody slice of hip-hop whose chord, and melody-led chills make it feel less like a song and more like this state of mind you have after the witching hour. Emotionally understated and raw, the track embodies that quiet intensity of moving through the city when everything is far away and everything seems blurred, half-seen.

Built on a minimal trap foundation, “Danny Phantom” excels in its simplicity. The production is intentionally loose, leaving room for the emotions to breathe rather than smother. It’s a beat that doesn’t beg for attention, it settles in, serving as an enveloping setting that mimics the song’s motifs of isolation, motion and presence. Every bit of sound seems deliberate, supporting the introspective mood rather than competing with it.

G3 the Plug doubles down on understatement. He chisels away rather than overexplain, allowing space to pass like streetlights out a car window. It has that drifting feeling, of being in a place while actually not being there at all, that gives the album its ghostly contours. The title seems right, G3 floats through the track like a ghost, invisible but powerfully present, in landscapes where silence is as telling as language.

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Xirux delivers a raw valentine’s confession with latest release “Street Love”

Xirux joins the Valentine’s Day conversation with the latest release “Street Love,” a Hip Hop/Rap record that swaps romance for something a lot more relatable and honest. This is not love bathed in roses and good lighting, this is love brought up on the streets, made manifest by life’s facts and toted with full embrace. A heartfelt tribute for the Valentine season, “Street Love” embodies the emotion of falling head over heels and deciding to give it all fully, even when love is not shiny or typical. Xirux leans into the notion that true love does not need to be glamorous to be mighty. Instead, it is all about loyalty and effort and emotional risk, values that resonate as well within the streets as outside them.

The song is based in hip-hop and rap, so it has a rough raw input that I got to talk about love without getting poetic. There’s a exposure here, and balance also, it is no coincidence that the chorus plays both as an address to oneself in the mirror and as bold declaration. It’s a type of song that would feel just as suitable playing late at night as it does soundtracking Valentine’s Day moments for listeners who relate to its premise.