Smooth rap & b track from Totem featuring guest verses from Kinetic and One Love. Something to put on for your boo on a weekend night. We’ll take it. Listen after the break.
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Gucci Mane protégé, Young Thug, carries on the scorching mixtape run by his label founder Guwop. He gets a few assists from Quavo of Migos and production from Metro Boomin. Listen after the jump.
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Per Lee Jenkins at Sports Illustrated, 4-time league MVP and 2-time NBA champion has decided to return to his home state’s team, to the shock of countless fans, and the elation of Ohio fans everywhere. Check quotes from the story after the jump.
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Even Casey Veggies can’t ruin Hit-Boy production. Check out “The Boy” after the jump. It’s a grab for a popular sound that may or may not click with his indie earnest kid audience.
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Fluent is cooking up something special for his Supreme Victory release. This lil nugget features Action Bronson and lots of gold chain pendant love. Like it’s the 90s all over again, bruh.
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It’s on. The Total Slaughter,” a sponsored pay-per-view battle between Joe Budden and battle rap great Hollow Da Don is set for tomorrow night. The two storied lyricists have obvious strengths and weaknesses. Joey is a strip club addict with a weakness for spilling his life on social media, to good or bad effect. Hollow is a wannabe mainstream guy with all the skills, but also a substance abuse devil on his shoulder. They also happen to be two of the best modern battlers ever to grace the form. Watch their Breakfast Club interview after the jump.
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The 6ix Mafia don is at it again, remixing a Weezy/Drake special to good effect. After dropping one of the most popular and complete albums last year, Juicy J is poised to make another run at the title of Best Booty Cluh Rapper Of All Time. Couldn’t pick a more fitting candidate either. Click the jump to listen.
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Gates talking about thug love. His girl was ‘posed to be loyal and she wasn’t. She did everything to betray him. Good thing there’s music and great videos that came out of it. Check it after the jump.
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Lupe Fiasco is on a mission. His next album Mission, drawing on his unique ability to mold concepts into stories and then lyrics, will be a tribute to cancer survivors. Even more pithy: he’ll invoke testimonials from those survivors as a template for the songs. Heavy, deep stuff. The Chicago rapper has never shied from profound subjects. This project, however, represents the peak use of his skills both socially and artistically. Watch his interview with Katie Couric after the jump.
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Chi-town rapper Sulaiman released “Mogs” a mixtape full of gems, including his verse on this. Will be checking for his work. Listen to him rap nostalgic and wax poetic after the jump.
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Remember that Future song from a few posts back? The one called “Rock Star” where he’s robot singing a classic Kenny G riff? Here’s the Nicki Minaj version of it. It sounds a little better with her verse as the lead-off and him chiming in. This is a banger, regardless.
These trill-ionaires team up to bring you a street tale. Kevin Gates has a crazy dark verse that gives it life and demons all at once. From Trae’s “I Am King” mixtape. Watch after the jump.
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Future is releasing something new that will likely redefine rap as much as he first did with his alien style two years ago. He refuses to choose between singing and bleating or rapping and groaning and that refusal has brought him to new planes of robot rap existence. Here’s one version of his song “Rock Star.” Listen after the jump.
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He’s not a rapper; he’s a rock star. His career can’t be defined by a genre. These premises dominate Bobby Ray’s mixtape, a follow-up to the first one of the same name. But there are many conventional 16-16-16 songs on this project and thumping hip-hop drum kits. Lucky for you, he’s released it on datpiff for you to listen to it for Free 99. Listen after the jump.
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Son of Greg is a thoughtful story about the origins of Royce and his current concerns. But the video, amusingly, features interludes wherein Jalen Rose (Nickel Nine’s buddy?) talking to Joe Budden about his prep for the soon-to-be legendary battle with Hollow Da Don. Joe seems confident and ready with his Slaughterhouse friends backing him all the way.
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