Singles, Albums, EPs, Mixtapes, and Videos that get the HHD thumbs up.
Few people are as innovative as Zilla Rocca and Has-Lo. These guys just ooze creativity and not settling on the current standard as being good enough. That creativity is on display when it comes to their video, Shoot The Piano Player. It’s unique to see a video show three different scenes simultaneously. It’s something you may have to watch a couple of times which is a good thing.
If you like your hip hop stamped with skill and nuanced in innovation, check out Zillar Rocca’s No Vacation from Murder.
This new Bigrec and Diamond D album is serious business. Real serious. I listened to Doomsday this morning and was blown away. I was not really familiar with Bigrec up until this point but now consider him all over this radar! The production Diamond D cooked up for this album is quite literally impeccable and Bigrec is a top notch lyricist. He’s got an incredible flow as is demonstrated by this single, Unstoppable. The album is a must cop so I expect you to do right…
9th Prince links up with Left Coast icon, Ras Kass for his new single, California Dreaming. It’s a definite hip hop lyricist’s take on an old rock classic. The transition by producer BP was on point. It maintained enough of the original elements of the song while making the neck snaps with those drums. This is a single off of 9th Prince’s soon to be released album, Shaolin Prince.
Chox-Mak and Bullet Brak follow the dust horn samples of North Villah for this new single, Don’t Do It. I have been chasing down as much Chox-Mak music as I can lately ever since I heard his collaborative project with Bunty Beats, Life After Def. You should get on this bandwagon too before it’s too late. Dude is an ill rhyme writer.
Heaven Noise came through as promised with the new Goldini Bagwell single, Feeling Good. It’s music to sit back and chill too with laid back synthesized production. Shoot, I felt my burdened lightened after just one listen. Bagwell’s new album, Secondhand Smoke (The Extended Cut) is due out on June 24th which incidentally feels like a long time.
Here’s an artist that comes with then endorsement of Praverb, and if Praverb is going to pus his name behind somebody, I am generally going to listen. Jamal STEELE’s song, Decemeber RAIN, is chill yet also very contemplative. We all have those days where we don’ know where we are going to draw the energy from and think about folding. But we keep our heads up and keep striving forward.
So if you like introspective lyrics and music with a purpose (no pun intended) make sure you check out Jamal STEELE’s new album, Driving TOWARD our PURPOSE.
This song is for people who used to be down but have since abandoned ship because you were just too real. We all have had people in our lives like that and Kosan and SGT Over represent those thoughts over a very chill Cardiak. production. This cut can be found off of his forthcoming, American Ninja Mixtape.
A really interesting track right here. Muja Messiah, Brother Ali, and Boots Riley give hip hop fans something to wrap their heads around. So your existence is based upon trying accumulate a mass number of dead slave owners in your pocket? Yep. You heard it right, the dead presidents, were in fact owners of slaves, and now your objective is to own as many of their pictures as you can? There’s a lot of irony in that. It also gives context and perspective to a materialistic society but you have to put your thinking cap on here.
The track can be found on Muja Messiah’s album, God Kissed It The Devil Missed It.
