Various Artists - Gangster Music Vol. 2 (Various Artists)Imagine if you could put together a dream line up of MCs and producers from all four corners of the rap world? That's what artist and illustrator Gangster Doodles set out to do with the first Gangster Music comp back in 2018. This second volume follows the first with an all star line up which features everyone from hotly tipped emerging Producers and MCs like Ovrkast, Shungu, Woodie Smalls, Big Baby Scumbag next to underground perennials like Teebs,

in which he starred with Sandra Dee - for the first couple of years he was called Jimmy Darren on his record labels

1 in 1953 with "I Let The Stars Get In My Eyes"

"Let's Kiss And Make Up"

they captivate listeners through their colorful

Miles Davis - Workin

Compiled by the venerated Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs of Saint Etienne

and became a fixture on bebop sessions through into the 1950s

The three-part cycle was unanimously praised by international reviews and received the International Classical Music Award 2017 as "Best Collection"

When he misses

with the Philharmonia Zürich

Mysteries will be solved

this did not prevent him from pursuing his own path