Category: Music Review
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Sean Leon – The Quiet Architect of Toronto’s Creative Renaissance
I remember discovering Sean Leon years ago after coming across his project Narcissus, The Drowning of Ego online. To this day, I can’t remember exactly where I found it. Maybe it was a blog. Maybe it was a random recommendation. Maybe it was buried somewhere in one of those internet rabbit holes that seemed endless…
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Dariel Amant: A Fusion of R&B and Latin Influences
Every once in a while, doom scrolling actually pays off. Most nights it’s the same routine. A few reels, some music clips, sports highlights, random memes, and before you know it, an hour has disappeared. But every now and then, buried somewhere between all the noise, you come across something that makes you stop scrolling.…
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Pimmie – The Late-Night Voice You Didn’t See Coming
There’s something about late-night listening that just hits different. The kind of nights where you’re not even really looking for new music, but somehow it finds you anyway. For me, that moment came randomly scrolling through OVO’s Instagram. I saw her name pop up and didn’t think too much of it at first… but something…
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Viuta: A Soulful Sound from New Jersey
Happy New Year to everyone—and thank you all for continuing to follow along. I wish you nothing but peace, clarity, and success here in 2026. It’s been a little while since my last post, but that’s about to change. I’ve spent most of January deep in discovery mode, digging through new artists and letting the…
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Too Far Close: Discovering the Soul of Chase Shakur
Getting to know Chase Shakur through his music has been a one-of-one Godsend. I remember being deeply consumed in my AirPods during my corporate job — one I strongly disliked. My lunch hour was a 60-minute safe haven filled with noise-cancelled music and whatever cheap lunch my pockets could manage. One afternoon, sitting in my…
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Bas: From Dreamville’s Protégé to Cultural Powerhouse
I first discovered Bas back when J. Cole was starting to put him on the radar. I remember seeing his mixtape Quarter Water Raised Me Vol. 2 floating around online, and it clicked because Cole had just dropped “Cousins” on SoundCloud in 2013 — a track featuring Bas that also doubled as promotion for the…
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T H R O N E: The Native Hip-Hop Duo Redefining Sound and Identity
I stumbled across T H R O N E in the most 2025 way possible — on Threads. Their handle, @somerapcouple, instantly caught my attention. A Native American couple making hip-hop together? I had to check it out. What I found was far deeper than a gimmick. Their music carried soul, history, and purpose, wrapped…
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MERGES: A Genuine Discovery in the New Wave of R&B
Daniel Cantu | August 25, 2025 I first found MERGES as a mention on Soulection founder Joe Kay’s album as a featured artist on one of the songs. His album had been out for a little while, and I finally got around to listening. She crooned her soft, sweet vocals over the chorus line of…
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Westside Gunn: He’s More Than Rap — He’s Building a Cultural Movement
I first discovered Westside Gunn in the most 2020s way possible — through an Instagram story. A follower of mine had posted one of his songs, and my curiosity got the best of me. The moment I hit play, I was locked in. His vibe instantly gave me flashes of ’90s hip-hop — that grimy,…
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LOONY: A Voice as Soft as Silk, With Lyrics That Hit Home
Again from the Northern Vibes playlist on Apple Music, I stumbled onto a voice I couldn’t ignore — LOONY. My introduction came through her 2021 EP soft thing, and the first track I ever played was Faceless. From the moment it started, I was pulled in by her lush, airy vocals that seemed to float…