Joey Bada$$

With his vinyl scratches, jazz samples and densely syllabic rhymes, Brooklyn MC Joey Bada$$ is a throwback, following in a ’90s lineage of East Coast hip hop originating with Nas. His work boasts a smoother-than-most flow, plus a fine line in mellow beats and keys, which you can catch as he heads over to Shibuya's O-East in January.