New York, stand up! Scar Lip gets verbally vicious on “The Is New York” and it’s certain to have everyone rocking their Timberlands to bed. There’s a new anthem for the city and Scar Lip wants to let you know the summer belongs to her.
The journey to healing for Ab-Soul is outlined beautifully in the video for “Herbert” from Soulo’s stellar album of the same name.
Chicago’s finest of today and yesterday connect as Saba and No I.D. link up for “Back In Office.” A video also accompanies the song but both the emcee and producer have promised that this isn’t the only offering that they have together.
Conway The Machine is preparing the follow-up to 2022’s God Don’t Make Mistakes with Won’t He Do It later this year. The Machine connects with Khrysis for “Quarters” and flips the back half of the video with the Daringer-produced “Brucifix” that features Westside Gunn.
Joey Bada$$ goes a different route with the song and video for “Fallin’.” Rather than flex his lyrical ability, Mr. A$$ goes the smooth route with his vocals carrying the production until he feels it’s time to cut loose some bars for a special someone.
38 Spesh keeps things moving for this “Gunsmoke” EP by dropping the video for the “Gunsmoke Intro” off the project. It’s just a teaser but the entire EP is on this level. Don’t sleep.
Royce 5’9″ drops the video for the “Signs” freestyle from his The Heaven Experience EP that just hit streaming services. The song offers some insight on the things that Nickel has had to overcome and it’s clear that he sees no signs of slowing down now.
DJ Premier tells the story behind the creation of The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Ten Crack Commandments.” Originally, the beat was meant for Angie Martinez’s show on Hot 97 with Jeru the Damaja rhyming over it. But then Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs intercepted the beat while visiting the radio station and told DJ Premier to call him on the air. Puffy asked for it to complete Biggie’s Life After Death album and things got interesting. Remember, Jeru and Biggie had beef at the time and, well, let Preemo tell it.
Ab-Soul’s Herbert may not be getting enough love because it’s an absolutely stellar piece of work from the TDE emcee. To send a reminder to those who slept, Soulo drops the video for the DJ Premier produced “Gotta Rap.”
The duo of Larry June and The Alchemist refuse to take their foot off the neck of Hip Hop and drop a video for “Palisades, CA” featuring Detroit’s Big Sean. From Larry June and Alchemist’s The Great Escape coming at you soon.