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 MOREZukovstheworld on the UK Ug scene: ‘It’s modern pop music’The only tracks you need to hear from December 2025Lenovo & IntelThe internet is Illumitati’s ‘slop kingdom'11 alt Christmas anthems for the miserable and brokenhearted Last Days: The opera exploring the myth of Kurt CobainHow hip-hop is shaping the fight for Taiwan’s futureNew York indie band Boyish: ‘Fuck the TERFs and fuck Elon Musk’The 5 best Travis Scott tracks... according to his mumTheodora answers the dA-Zed quizDHLSigrid’s guide to NorwayThe 30 best K-pop tracks of 2025‘UK Ug’: How Gen Z Brits reinvented rap in 2025