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Seen on stage at the Mercury Music Awards on stage when Skepta was accepting his prize, Don Silk's cheeky face pops up in more places than you would care to believe. Coops, the North London MC, is this month's one to watch. Young Thug affiliate Mechatok takes R&B to weird new places Coops is an MC, who unlike the majority of popular rappers in the UK right now, doesn't consider himself a grime artist. His music is pure hip-hop, which is particularly rare. Although not yet perhaps reaching the height of his career, Coops certainly isn't unknown. He's already Supported hip-hop legend Nas, won the Choice FM Breakthrough Award and been co-signed by US publication Vibe Magazine. Coops' music is raw with mellow and simplified beats featuring in the majority of his tracks. Creating a 90s-esque vibe, the production is boom-bap inspired, reminiscent of an early Gang Starr track with the production of legendary DJ Premier. These beats provide a fantastic platform for his lyrical prowess to take stage. Coops is talented lyrically, with self-analytical topics and metaphors prevalent throughout his music. it can only go up from here as Coops continues to grow as an artist. Mechatok makes music that sounds like it's from a cheap 90s computer game that never quite became cool or lucrative. Revealingly, it also sounds great, so apparently that's just the sound du jour. Perhaps containing faint echoes of the emphatically artificial sound of PC Music, it's well-produced, fairly minimal R&B, making no bones about its digital origins. This unique, distinct and sophisticated voice in electronic music released this track last year. Affiliated with Swedish rapper Yung Lean and Young Thug, he DJs a mix of trap and hip hop influenced electronic music and breakout South African dance music gqom. ONE TO WATCH: COOPS: A BREATH OF FRESH AIR TRACK OF THE MONTH: MECHATOK - NITE DEW ARTIST OF THE MONTH: 616 GOD - MILKAVELLI X SUMGII 38 ISSUE 93 / 2016 HIP HOP & RNB Letter To Future Doe Boy jump.i Kweku Collins Better Fetty Wap Famous Ray C & James Brown Don't Get 2 Fresh (feat. Short Dawg) BeatKing King Zoo Fetty Wap Cam'ron Voice (Remix) Uncle Murda Family Business Trademark Da Skydiver X Young Roddy Vision (feat. Joey Purp) Odd Couple Black Love (Remix (feat. Nathaniel)) Papoose & Remy Ma Zone 15 Rickie Jacobs Gimme Gimme Juicy J NEW RELEASES The man formerly known as The Monster Under the Bed or otherwise known as Oliver (as we're keenly notified on the track Rotton Milk) is soon to release 616 GOD, and many would say it has been a long time coming. Milkavelli's first solo release, produced in its entirety by one of London's most sought after beatsmiths, Problem Child/Cult Mountain production mastermind Sumgii, has Holloway's's finest exhibiting his intoxicated, mellow flows which draw a high contrast to the often loutish content, subtle references and nuanced meanings in his rhymes. 'Rotton Milk' has been on heavy rotation since I heard it. Sucking you into an atmosphere more sinister than a James Bond villain, Milk's bars slide over the ultra goony track succinctly. Generation 'X' captures your mood with lyrics describing events from his life that terminally shaded his perspective, all to a eerie, almost nauseating backdrop. Other tracks include 'Duck Tape Goose' which could have been a track straight from a Cult Mountain LP. Saying that, on 'Je t'adore' the Cult Mountain team and DVLGNG members are brought back together over a trademark Sumgii future-funk Piff Gang style beat, with Trellion and Lee Scott lacing the beat in familiar slo-mo style.