The late Earl Simmons has a posthumous album releasing on May 28th titled Exodus. It makes perfect sense for a DMX song featuring the Griselda collective of Conway the Machine, Westside Gunn and Benny the Butcher be the first single. Here’s “Hood Blues.”
On what would have been The Notorious B.I.G.’s 49th birthday, Skyzoo releases “St. James Liquors” from his forthcoming album All The Brilliant Things that drops on June 11th.
“With ‘St. James Liquors,’ it’s a story of what my neighborhood used to be like, and it uses 13 year old me as a catalyst of these two types of individuals that my friends and I were in awe of: the guys outside and the musicians who represented them,” Skyzoo says of the song. “As a young kid writing rhymes and growing up a block away from the late great Notorious BIG, inspiration was easy to get, as it was literally footsteps away. The tug of war of the guys on the block who were stars and the guys who represented them who were stars, and the irony of them going hand in hand, was something that had my head on a swivel as a teenager. This song breaks down the dichotomy of the two.”
Did somebody say they wanted bars from a pair of streetwise emcees? Lloyd Banks and Ransom team up to give you just that with “Gluttony.” No word on whether we’ll get more from these two but Lloyd Banks appears to have a new project on the way.
The artist formally known as Sense gets a remix from Damian Marley for his song “What Do You Say (Move It Baby)” featuring PJ from his A Beautiful Revolution (Pt. 1) album. Of course, the Marley flip is perfect for the Summer wherever you are partying safely.
It’s the return of Jermaine Cole. The North Carolina emcee announced that he’ll drop The Off Season on May 14 and warms up with “Interlude” to hold us down for the next few days.
Prior to MF DOOM’s passing, the enigmatic emcee teamed up with the trio of Inspectah Deck and 7L & Esoteric for the CZARFACE Meets Metal Face album. Although the metal-faced emcee is no longer with us, he’s left behind a follow-up project with CZARFACE titled Super What?
If, for some reason, you’re unsure of the album’s dopeness, check out the track “DOOM Unto Others” and then dive until the entire project.
Logic said he retired last year but if there’s any reason to come back to the rap game, it’s Madlib. And it appears that the duo are heading toward a collaborative album as “MadGic” (Magic). Logic gets things rolling with his flip of “Rappcats,” which was from Madlib’s Quasimoto project. Check out “Mars Only Pt. 3” and stay tuned.
Khrysis is one of the more slept on producers in Hip Hop and just dropped an album titled The Hour of Khrysis that should be on your radar. Featuring the likes of Geechi Suede, Evidence, Problem, Chi Ali and others, one of the standout tracks is “Negro Spiritual” which features Pharoahe Monch and Busta Rhymes. And it is incredible.
B-Real celebrated 4/20 the only way he knew how, by getting high and making music. The living legend released the appropriately titled “Triple OG” alongside Freeway. Perfect for puffing.
Conrad The Machine told y’all not to sleep on him and the Griselda member turns up with a whole new project with La Maquina. One of the standout tracks from the album is the Don Cannon produced “Scatter Brain” that features J.I.D. and a Ludacris sighting. And this joint bangs.