Today, the expansive British soul singer Sampha releases his own solo-piano version of his Drake collab “Too Much” as a single. The song’s B-side is another piano-and-voice song from Sampha, a soft ...

No Reason To Pretend is a weekly column by Stephen Kearse that explores the intersection of hip-hop and pop culture. Sampha knows death. The British singer and producer lost his father to cancer at a ...

Sampha’s latest release is a AA side single, consisting of “Too Much,” part of which we already heard on Drake’s album, and this new one, “Happens.” It’s another intimate, simple, piano-based beauty ...