It wasn't Odd Future ransacking Fallon, but this week quietly marked another milestone first for another gifted rap crew, when Zilla Rocca and Curly Castro made their debut on Philly's NPR outlet, XPN. Re-working songs from 2009's "Slow Twilight" for the Key Studio Sessions, the pair brought live guitar, deft flourishes, and a pinpoint refinement to what they're awkwardly but accurately branding "noir-hop." Think Raymond Chandler rap slumped in the shadows, expensive bourbon, felt hats, and femme fatales crossed with the spiteful vengeance of South Philly.
Up from the Shadows: Bad Weather and Boxing
It wasn't Odd Future ransacking Fallon, but this week quietly marked another milestone first for another gifted rap crew, when Zilla Rocca and Curly Castro made their debut on Philly's NPR outlet, XPN. Re-working songs from 2009's "Slow Twilight" for the Key Studio Sessions, the pair brought live guitar, deft flourishes, and a pinpoint refinement to what they're awkwardly but accurately branding "noir-hop." Think Raymond Chandler rap slumped in the shadows, expensive bourbon, felt hats, and femme fatales crossed with the spiteful vengeance of South Philly.