Review by Azriel Bailey for AshleyOutrageous.com It’s not often you find an up and coming emcee brandishing the lyrical confidence of veteran, and if you’ve been following Quest’s progress for any amount of time you know he’s one of the exceptions. His fourteenth release, Fear Not Failure, was another chance for him to bend his entire sound around his lyrical potency. And as far as I ‘m concerned he hit the mark with nearly flawless precision. The album’s premise was found in his rejection of one of life’s most avoided phobias: the fear of failure. Specifically representing the position of...
A couple weeks ago, a friend of mine sent me an email about Yuna Zarai, and since then her latest album has been in daily rotation for me pretty much. Yuna is a 25 year old artist from Malaysia whose sound is absolutely amazing! Just this January her single “Live Your Life” was released on iTunes and produced by the infamous Pharrell Williams. Yes, Pharrell!!! That alone should give you an idea of what you will experience on her self-entitled album which is her US debut album too. She has also won several awards at Malaysian award events as well....