Rawiri James
RāViewz: Music | June 2022
Here's what Rāwiri is jamming to this month... Buddy ft. T-Pain - Happy Hour Featuring one of the most prominent G Funk basslines in...
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Rawiri James
- Mar 22, 2022
- 4 min
RāViewz: Film & TV | March 2022
With a focus on addiction, superheroes and stories of colour, here's what Rāwiri is watching this month... Euphoria Season 2, 2022 (HBO)...
Rawiri James
- Dec 13, 2021
- 5 min
RāViewz: Film & TV | December 2021
With a focus on addiction, superheroes and stories of colour, here's what Rāwiri is watching this month... Venom: Let There Be Carnage...
Rawiri James
- Nov 30, 2021
- 2 min
Behind the Lyric: HELL.O.V.E.
I'm gonna start off by saying, if you think you're being clever by messing with the grammatical sequencing of your song titles -...
Rawiri James
- Nov 16, 2021
- 4 min
RāViewz: Film & TV | November 2021
With a focus on addiction, superheroes and stories of colour, here's what Rāwiri is watching this month... Eternals (2021), Marvel...
Rawiri James
- Sep 28, 2021
- 2 min
Behind the Lyric: Zero Gravity
Deep in my album Lost Boy sits a rap ballad that makes the teenage version of me smile. Part Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, part Eminem, this song...
Rawiri James
- Aug 24, 2021
- 2 min
Behind the Lyric: Girl With The Same Name
This was the first original beat that Freddy made for me. At that point, we'd recorded Zero Gravity and Trip the Alarm together, both of...
Rawiri James
- Jul 20, 2021
- 2 min
Behind the Lyric: Kill The Music!!
In 2006, one of the greatest street poets, the illlmatically talented Nas, declared that hip-hop was dead. Although I didn't want it to...
Rawiri James
- Jun 28, 2021
- 3 min
Behind the Lyric: #NeverGrowUp
I can't remember exactly which came first - the title of this song, or the title of the album. Regardless, the Peter Pan allegory that...
Rawiri James
- Jun 21, 2021
- 3 min
Sober, Shameless and the Seven Year Itch
A couple of months ago I started watching the HBO series of (US) Shameless, which tells the story of the Gallaghers - a poor family from...
Rawiri James
- May 25, 2021
- 2 min
Behind the Lyric: Hey, Kid
2010 was a big year. I'd decided on January 1st to move to London by the end of the year, and as a result, I tried to cram as much into...
Rawiri James
- May 11, 2021
- 4 min
RāViewz: Film & TV | May 2021
With a focus on addiction, superheroes and stories of colour, here's what Rāwiri is watching this month... Starstruck (2021), BBC Three,...
Rawiri James
- Apr 27, 2021
- 2 min
Behind the Lyric: Trust The One You Wit'
The first time I stepped into a proper recording studio, I was 19 years old. I was a student of NZ's Film & Television School and our...
Rawiri James
- Mar 23, 2021
- 2 min
Behind the Lyric: Voices...
I had selected the first 10 songs for Lost Boy and placed them in an order that I believed told a compelling story from start to finish....
Rawiri James
- Feb 23, 2021
- 2 min
Behind the Lyric: Trip The Alarm
Nobody was more surprised than I was to find themselves detoxing from alcohol and drugs at the ripe old age of 27. Nobody. I had a great...
Rawiri James
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
Mixed Feelings: My meet cute with Alcohol
When I reminisce about my 14-year relationship with Alcohol, I get nostalgic. I can recall our first proper meeting. I can still remember...
Rawiri James
- Feb 9, 2021
- 3 min
RāViewz: Film & TV | Feb 2021
With a focus on addiction, superheroes and R&B/hip-hop, here's what Rawiri is watching this month... Soul (2020), Disney+ Released...
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