When you think of chilled hip-hop with an electronic jazz tinge, you instantly think of Oslo, Norway right?
Ivan Avenue is a young man out of Scandinavia making some refreshing raps that go easy on the pretension. "Portals" is buttery electro goodness; Ivan raps very well over his own beat, and creates a track that's the equivalent of a sunset joint on a cool, breezy beach. Plus he asks for a 10-foot hater-free radius, and I think we can all say that is a pretty universal life goal.
What serves as the cherry on this rap sundae for me is that Ivan doesn't beat you over the head with the throwback stick. When cats like Joey Bada$$ and others make it a point to make you know they are "bringing back" the spirit of the old-school or whatever revivalist bullshit rhetoric they're selling themselves with, it is cool to see someone influenced by that golden age mythology just do their thing and keep it moving. I'm very curious to see where Ivan Ave takes it from here.
Shouts to the homie Mndsgn for hipping me to this cat; word on the tweets is they have some stuff brewing which should certainly be some marvelous shit.
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