Your Old Droog decided to drop a new album on our heads this week with It Wasn’t Even Close. One of the standout cuts from the album features Roc Marciano serving up his verbal blessings on “Chasing Ghosts.”
As expected, Dizz flips a classic and KXNG Crooked lyrically torments it. “Party” finds Crook waxing poetic over a flip of Biggie’s “Party & Bullshit” in the 16th week of The Weeklys.
The unique tandem of DOOM, Your Old Droog and Mach-Hommy unite for “RST” and spit bars over this slow, brooding production.
15 weeks up and 15 weeks down. KXNG Crooked rocks over Dizz’s flip of “Still D.R.E.” for “Live 4 It.”
The Green Eyed Bandit will be dropping his Vernia album on April 19. To get you ready for what’s to come, Sermon teams up with Raekwon and Noreaga for “My Style.” It’s all about the godfathers of hip hop paving the way for the future.
As WrestleMania season wraps, Smoke DZA delivers another round of pro wrestling themed songs with Ringside 7. Flexing over theme songs from The Brood, Kane, Bret Hart and Bobby Roode, DZA hits you with this quick strike EP to hold you down.
Alchemist instrumentals are always required listening and the producer is back at it with Rapper’s Best Friend Pt. 5, which unleashes 12 tracks of instrumentals for you to vibe out or rhyme over. It’s your choice.
KXNG Crooked pays tribute to the late Nipsey Hussle on this installment of Hip Hop Weekly with “More Love.” Crook takes on life in the streets while saluting Neighborhood Nip.
Benny the Butcher has been tearing apart everything in sight. It’s only appropriate that the upstate NY rapper keeps things rolling alongside M.O.P. on the Planit Hank produced “What Happened to the Streets.”
It’s still hard to believe that Nipsey Hussle was taken from this world on March 31st when he was shot outside of his Marathon store in Crenshaw. It goes without saying how much Nipsey meant to the community and the 33-year-old made every effort to leave this world a better place. As a tribute to the late rapper, DJ Noize put together a mix of songs from Neighborhood Nip’s impressive catalog that clocks in at just over an hour.
It may be a difficult listen but it’s a reminder of how talented Nipsey Hussle was.
Rest in Power.