Your Old Droog slides through real quick over a Madlib production called “Waves Crashing.” Why is it called that? Because even though Droog is rocking over a legend’s production, he can do the same thing to the sound of waves crashing. It’s only two minutes but it’s worth your time.
38 Spesh and Conway the Machine have been in the lab cooking up a collaborative album titled Speshal Machinery. Over production from Jimmy Dukes and 38 Spesh, the duo connect with Lloyd Banks to deliver the vicious “Latex Gloves.”
Streetwear and beat house Real Bad Man connect with Blu and the legendary C.L. Smooth for “The Golden Rule.” Who knew a streetwear brand could cook up heat like this as Blu and C.L. get busy on this joint.
KXNG Crooked puts his storytelling chops to work on the stellar “Teddy.” KXNG Crooked gets very descriptive about a man named Teddy dealing with drug addiction and battling to overcome those demons. Don’t let this one go unheard.
Brady Watt puts the bass to work and links up with Conway the Machine and Talib Kweli to drop the slapper known as “Without You.” This is a groovy summer jam to get you through the dog days of August.
Sound the alarms because Ghostface Killah is working on new music. There’s no title for the album just yet but there is a new song with Remy Ma titled “Yupp” to get your gears turning for what’s to come.
Noname is back with a new album titled Sundial. With 11 tracks featuring Common, Jimetta Rose, Ayoni and others, the Chicago emcee is back in a major way. One of the standouts on the album is her collaboration with Jay Electronica and Eryn Allen Kane titled “Balloons.”
Reason’s sophomore album Porches drops on August 11 and the emcee teams up with 9th Wonder for the third installment of his “The Soul” series. And what we learn is that we definitely could use some more Reason and 9th Wonder collaborations in the future.
The latest signing to Shady Records is known as EZ Mil releases “Realest” featuring Eminem. While EZ Mil certainly does his thing, one cannot help but pay attention to Eminem as he responds to Melle Mel’s constant barbs at him with a verse that chops down the Hip Hop legend to nothing more than a steroid user. Whew. This feud is far from over.
Ransom and Nicholas Craven continue their work delivering bangers as the duo recently dropped Deleted Scenes 2. Here’s “American Made” from that project and make sure you cop it now.