“The Brazilian born, Orlando-based, hip-hop artist NIKO IS doesn’t sound like his contemporaries. The handful of young rappers with tread, most notably Pittburgh’s Mac Miller or the recently album dropping, returned-from-exile prince of lyricism, Joey Bada$$, make music with pomp and bombast, as aggressive as it is catchy. But the kind of music NIKO IS makes hasn’t sounded contemporary since the mid-1990s, or around the time he was born.”