NLE Choppa, Yung Bleu and More – New Hip-Hop Projects

At April’s midway level, new music is bobbing up left and proper from a number of sides of the rap recreation. This week, a Memphis spitter on a present tear drops an album filled with sizzling singles, an Alabama-bred rap-crooner delivers a sequel to a well-liked challenge, an extremely proficient multihyphenate comes via with a brand new EP and extra.

NLE Choppa places out his first challenge of the yr within the type of Cottonwood 2. Considered his sophomore studio album, the 22-monitor LP serves because the sequel to 2019’s gold-licensed EP, Cottonwood, and features a bevy of beforehand launched singles which have discovered success all through the primary a part of 2023.

Cottonwood 2‘s lead single, “Do It Again” that includes 2Rare, a Jersey Club-style flip-up anthem that landed on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, has been tearing up dance flooring since its December launch. On the heels of that, NLE Choppa tapped Lil Wayne for an homage to the basic New Orleans bounce sound with the one “Ain’t Gunna Answer,” which has seen over 6 million streams on Spotify and a ton of radio spins all through the nation because it dropped final month.

Other singles on Cottonwood 2 embrace “Mo Up Front,” “Champions” and “Sl*t Me Out,” which regardless of some controversy for strolling Sukihana by her hair within the official music video for the remix, soared to the very prime of TikTok’s music chart upon its launch.

In promotion of his new album, NLE Choppa hit up Instagram earlier this week to shout out varied excessive colleges throughout the nation and supply an opportunity for one group of scholars to expertise a reside efficiency within the flesh. Choppa introduced that he would go to one of many excessive colleges he listed to placed on a present for the scholars who rack up probably the most pre-saves for Cottonwood 2.

Not even six months after the discharge of his newest album, Tantra, Yung Bleu returns with Love Scars 2, a brand new challenge billed because the comply with-as much as his 2020 EP, Love Scars: The 5 Stages of Emotions. Previewed by two singles in 2023, “Games Women Play” and “Kissing On Your Tattoos,” the Mobile, Ala. rapper-singer’s 15-monitor providing sees visitor appearances from two different hip-hop adjoining crooners, Chris Brown and Ty Dolla $ign.

In unveiling the monitor itemizing and cowl artwork for Love Scars 2 by way of Instagram, Yung Bleu encapsulated the challenge’s emotion-stuffed theme with one profound quote.

“What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose,” Yung Bleu wrote. “All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Love Scars.”

After a yr in 2022 that discovered Pi’erre Bourne not solely being named among the finest producers of the yr but additionally having his most up-to-date full-size album, Good Movie, talked about among the many yr’s greatest hip-hop tasks, the globally famend artist comes via this time together with his new EP, Grails.

With Pi’erre Bourne’s new 8-tune challenge, the outstanding multi-hyphenate repping each Queens and South Carolina delivers on his promise to followers by lastly releasing tracks he is been teasing for months similar to, “IG,” “Chicken and Waffles” and “Honeyberry 2,” the sequel to his widespread 2018 hit, “Honeyberry.”

Check out different new tasks this week from Logic and C Dot Castro, Black Thought, Prof and extra under.