Singles, Albums, EPs, Mixtapes, and Videos that get the HHD thumbs up.
Cold Pasta Flannels is a fiya track from Chubs & Machacha’s new project, Plenty Pressure. I’ve listened to the entire project on a couple of occasions, and it’s definitely worth copping and running it back. And this joint, featuring Mickey Diamond, is the show stopper. Both Chubs and Diamond deliver strong verses over this Machacha banger.
Don’t sleep!
Really smooth single from the title track of their recently released album, Paid In Full. Macapella laces and incredibly smooth beat with a beautiful vocal sample for the longtime partners of Hus Kingpin and Smoovth to do what they have done for many years, drop a dope musical product. This is really nice.
New album, Paid In Full, out now.
What else can I speak on about this song? We featured the single last week and this week we get the video. It’s one of the dopest joints out from 2023, which makes the forthcoming album, Art Of Disrespect (due out July 7th) one of the most anticipated of the year. Between this cut, and their single Bad Rap, the Speaker Bullies are building a buzz that’s impossible to ignore. Again featuring an amazing verse from Skyzoo, Supastition and Praise are doing something remarkable.
New video single from Eff Yoo and Level 13’s new project, Blocktoberfest (out now). The song features bars from long time brethren, and ill lyricist in how own right, Spit Gemz. The two get transformed into Ken and Ryu for this song as they rock some tough verses over a dope Level 13 platter.
This joint is featured as an interlude on New Villain and Enkay’s new project, From The Villain With Love II. But this makes for a dope song and video.
I’ve purchased a few New Villain projects within the last year and the man has high ceiling as an artist. Nice flow, excellent wordplay, great mic presence, and seemingly works with some excellent beatsmiths. And Enkay delivers on the production portion here, lacing some heat.
Dope track.
DJ Premier produced single for Teflon from his forthcoming project 2 Sides To Every Story. And let me tell you, NOTHING gets your attention as a hip hop head as a classic Primo beat. And that’s what we have here. A classic primo beat. This joint is fire. And Teflon really sets a high standard for this album with this effort. He matches the production’s energy with some high octane bars. This song is hype!
The album should be dropping at some point this month and pre-orders are out now for physicals.
RIM just continues to make moves. He’s seemingly bringing his talents to a new joint every other week which is great because that talent definitely abounds. And it’s great people are recognizing that with all these features.
This joint is much more uptempo, fun, and that vibe. The horns by J. Beers give this track just a touch of funky. But you know what, RIM can handle and flip any production. We heard him flip on that new J. Hart song just a few days ago, and brings that elite skill to this track as well.
You can hear this joint on the new collaborative album, Verse Ability.
Don’t ever try to jump in my lane if you don’t have the drive
A really dope track from last year from Rah Scrilla and Profound79 featuring the always cheffin’ Daniel Son.
This is that ‘get money’ street narrative and one that’s executed to perfection. This string laced production is the vibe for the emcees and to speak on their prerogatives. And we all know that Daniel Son has NEVER brought a weak verse…ever.
This track can be found on the album, Smooth Sounds, which dropped earlier this year.
New single from the combination of Supastition and Praise as the Speaker Bullies, and this time the track features none other than Skyzoo.
Praise laces an uptempo and high energy banger for some of the most talented and accomplished emcees to ever do it. The talent level on this track is high and the duo plays really well together. There is a smoothness and effortless way that both Supa and Skyzoo flow. These artists have done things their way and on the merits of their own talent and persistence.
Can’t wait to hear the new album, The Art Of Disrespect, which drops on July 7th. You are going to need that!
Stu Bangas and Chino XL have something immaculately dope coming out on the 7th of July. It’s the long awaited, God’s Carpenter project. And to be fair, I am always in a perpetual stay of waiting for Chino XL to drop. I still remember waiting and thinking, Poison Pen would never see the light of the day. But the hour is upon us and Murder Rhyme Kill is the first offering from the project.
This track is straight sinister with an unnerving vibe that keeps the listener on edge. Vinnie Paz sets the tone with a first hard-hitting sixteen, and the Chino drops what seems like a 32 bar barrage that will make the strongest pen game jealous.
The preorder is in and if you love hip hop, yours should be in as well.
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