MusicPlaylistDazed May 2014 PlaylistEssential summer jams, from Vic Mensa's party-starting new one to an essential Aaliyah refixShareLink copied ✔️May 8, 2014MusicPlaylistTextAimee CliffIllustrationNicolas Garner If anyone deserves to be featured in one Dazed Digital playlist twice, it’s Chicago rapper/R&B singer Tink, who is completely slaying 2014 on the back of her tearful Winter’s Diary 2 mixtape and her constant collaborations (including an upcoming project with the almighty Timbaland). It would take a pretty strong person, we think, to choose between the two smouldering odes to dangerous love that she shared this month, featuring Kelela and Jeremih. Add those bittersweet jams to Drake and Chance’s scattered melancholy, Vic Mensa’s curveball of a summer tune and bouncing-off-the-walls madness from the likes of LV, Mumdance, Bok Bok, Salva and Aussie newcomer Air Max ‘97, and you’ve got the tip of the iceberg of what an incredible month this is for new music. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREReykjavík’s Alaska1867: ‘You don’t hear rap from this perspective’ Colombian-born Sinego wants to become the Anthony Bourdain of music5 artists speak on the future of ‘Latin Club’Sam Gellaitry is your favourite producer’s favourite producerLux: 4 collaborators unpack Rosalía’s monumental new album‘Fookin’ sick la!’: EsDeeKid’s fans on what makes him so specialThis new photobook tells the definitive history of grimeOneohtrix Point Never is searching for soul in the slopAudrey Nuna is a real-life K-Pop Demon Hunter‘It’s spiritual warfare’: Bricknasty are fighting for Dublin’s precariatBABYMETAL: The ‘little girls’ who shaped a generation of metal musicThe only tracks you need to hear from October 2025