7evenThirty and Gensu Dean show off their mean streak with their lead single to their album, The Problem. The feel of the production has a southern appeal but there is a dark underdone that lies just beneath the drums and synth, letting you know that danger lurks.
The album drops on July 7th.
The 17th delivers a single from his forthcoming album, Inside Jokes With Complete Strangers. This song is based off of a real life incident that The 17th went through. The track is all about the struggle to stay alive and then taking that very struggle to learn to appreciate what you have.
The man stays on the cutting edge of making dope music, refraining from the conventional. Enjoy this…
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.
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.
This Friday has been comprised of a steady diet of dope shit and this single from First Division is no different. These guys are dropping that no-frills boom bap sound directly on eardrums. This time the guest list is comprised of Mr. Authentic himself, Supastition. The beat by BeatWyze can certainly be considered a banger as well.
First Division’s EP, The Critical Path Pt. 2 drops on May 27th. So mark that on your calendar.
I first came across Lawrence Arnell on a V-Zilla single I posted not that long ago. And lately you hear that name buzzing, and for good reason. The man is really competent with the verbals. On the track, Rage Against The Machine he teams up with a showstopper in his own right, Fel Sweetenberg. Sweetenberg not only lends his voice but his talent behind the boards as well. The production gives the feel that you are in a old school Nintendo game where the emcees are on the hunt. Just a thought…
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