DJ Khaled, JID, Autumn! and More – New Hip-Hop Projects

Summer nonetheless has some gasoline within the tank with regards to new music drops. This week, one of many greatest execs within the sport delivers a compilation album stacked with main names, a revered Atlanta lyricist drops his first LP in practically 4 years, a style-defying artist from Louisiana places out the second installment in a sequence of tasks and extra.

Following a masterful rollout over the previous few months, DJ Khaled comes by with God Did, an 18-observe compilation LP with a tracklist that reads like a who’s who of hip-hop’s greatest artists.

For his thirteenth studio album, Khaled used his A-listing trade standing to internet visitor appearances from solely the very best of the very best throughout a number of eras of the rap sport. Led by the beforehand launched single, “Staying Alive” that includes Drake and Lil Baby, God Did sees Eminem and Kanye West showing collectively on the identical observe for the primary time in a minute with “Use This Gospel (Remix),” which was produced by Dr. Dre and The ICU.

One of probably the most anticipated options main as much as the discharge of God Did is from Jay-Z, who rounds out the album’s title observe alongside Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, John Legend and Fridayy. Other heavy-hitters who’ve contributed to the massive-scale providing embrace Future, who rhymes with Lil Baby on “Big Time,” and Lil Durk, 21 Savage and Roddy Ricch, who every offered vocals on “Keep Going.” From there, artists like Juice WRLD, Travis Scott, City Girls, Kodak Black, Jadakiss and a lot extra all present out to make God Did one of the vital star-studded tasks of 2022.

In revealing the excessive-profile observe listing on Twitter earlier this week, DJ Khaled expressed his pleasure for the discharge of God Did, presenting the challenge as if it have been a present given to the rap sport by God himself.

“The Holy Scripture,” tweeted the We the Best exec. “This is a gift to the world. This is a gift to the fans. This is a gift for us. God did.”

With his first solo studio album since 2018’s DiCaprio 2, JID satiates his eagerly awaiting fan base with the discharge of The Forever Story. With a delicate announcement teasing that the LP was on its manner again originally of August, the Dreamville spitter hit up Instagram to let his 1.3 million followers know that The Forever Story is “the most important album [he’s] ever created.”

With two beforehand launched singles main the way in which, “Dance Now” with Kenny Mason and “Surround Sound” that includes 21 Savage and Baby Tate, JID unveiled the remainder of the 15-observe album’s songs in a singular manner that fully falls in keeping with his thought-frightening model.

Just just a few days previous to when the challenge was scheduled to drop, the Atlanta MC posted The Forever Story‘s remaining observe listing on Instagram however determined to carry again on revealing the remaining visitor appearances. However, inside just a few hours of the preliminary publish, JID let the options fly, highlighting contributions from artists like Lil Wayne, Yasiin Bey and Lil Durk.

While exhibiting like to the aforementioned artists and producers like DJ Scheme, Hollywood Cole and DJ Khalil, JID accompanied the observe itemizing with a heartfelt IG caption directed at everybody who introduced The Forever Story to fruition.

“The official features on The Forever Story,” wrote the “Stars” rapper. “Wanna say thank you to everyone who helped put these words and sounds together. This meant the world to me because none of this [was easy] and you gave your all to my vision.”

Autumn! continues on his regular path of constantly dropping new sounds with the discharge of Golden Child, Chapter 2. After hinting to followers that the second installment of his Golden Child sequence was en route again in July, Autumn! formally introduced the challenge’s official launch date on the tail finish of final week.

After having dropped his Antagonist! album in April and the ##B4GC2 ##B4GC2 EP on the finish of July, the observe-as much as 2021’s Golden Child, Chapter 1 serves because the Louisiana native’s third challenge to return out this 12 months.

The revered plugg rap artist’s newest challenge is comprised of fully new materials for followers to sink their tooth into, because it wasn’t led forward of time with any beforehand launched singles save for a teaser snippet from the tune “E36*.” The Iankon-produced observe incorporates a visitor look from 2022 XXL Freshman Cochise.

Golden Child, Chapter 2 comes as Autumn! has simply accomplished A Qwik Tour 2, a string of summer time performances that noticed him hit phases in cities like Miami, Washington, D.C. and San Diego, Calif.

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