Nas, Diddy, Rod Wave and More – New Hip-Hop Projects

The finish of one other week brings an entire slew of recent sounds to the rap recreation. This time round, a Queens icon drops the third installment of a revered mission sequence, a billionaire rap mogul delivers his first solo album in 17 years, a soulful Florida rap-crooner chronicles his life with a brand new LP and extra.

Nas Closes Comes Through With Magic 3 Album, His Final Joint Project With Hit-Boy

Just in time for his fiftieth birthday, Nas comes by together with his new Hit-Boy-produced album, Magic 3. Immediately following the latest installment within the sequence, Magic 2, which dropped in June, Nas shocked hip-hop heads together with his new LP because it was simply introduced seemingly out of nowhere earlier this week.

After a run that produced a complete of six broadly revered albums, together with each the Magic sequence and the three iterations of King’s Disease, Magic 3 serves as the ultimate joint mission from the now-legendary rapper-producer combo of Nas and Hit-Boy. Following the album’s announcement on Tuesday (Sept. 12), Hit-Boy hit up X, previously often called Twitter, to share a heat sentiment about collaborating with the masterful Queens MC over the previous few years.

“Nas is dropping his last Hit-Boy produced album on his 50th bday this Thursday,” Hit-Boy tweeted. “Magic 3. Those are tears of joy btw. thank you to any and everyone who has listened and supported the movement.”

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Diddy Returns With The Love Album: Off the Grid, His First Solo LP in 17 Years

Just days faraway from receiving the Global Icon Award on the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday (Sept. 12), Diddy resides as much as his alter-ego, Love, within the type of The Love Album: Off the Grid. Boasting the album as “a journey of retreating from the craziness of the world with a partner by shutting out all the distractions to just love on one another,” Diddy enlisted a wide selection of prime-notch artists for his first solo LP in 17 years.

The Love Album: Off the Grid finds Diddy linking up R&B crooners like The Weeknd, Mary J. Blige and Babyface with MCs like 21 Savage, Fabolous and Busta Rhymes, amongst many others. In promotion of the 23-observe romantic opus, Diddy launched a behind-the-scenes video trailer as a preview of what was to come back.

“I’m coming with something where you could listen to your heart, listen to the way you feel” Diddy explains within the video under. “My heart has been broken. I still got that question of like, ‘Am I gonna love again?’ We in the love era. That’s the frequency that I’m asking you to be a part of.”

Rod Wave Delivers New Nostalgia Album

Following 2022’s critically acclaimed album, Beautiful Mind, Rod Wave delivers Nostalgia. The emotion-pushed Florida rap-crooner previewed his new LP with 4 songs together with, “Fight the Feeling,” which has spent 18 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart since its April launch, in addition to “Come See Me,” “Call Your Friends” and “Boyz Don’t Cry.”

“YOU don’t know me you know who I use to be,” Rod Wave wrote on Instagram relating to the Nostalgia album together with a clip from his current interview on the Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast. “My fault I guess I keep the world out my business so much that y’all just assume every album is about the year journey I took in between projects or battles I faced!! 9/15/23 I’m dropping again.”

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