NBA YoungBoy, Sauce Walka, 2KBaby and More – New Hip-Hop Projects

As Santa gears as much as push the widebody sleigh from rooftop to rooftop, the rap sport stuffs our stockings with a contemporary crop of recent mission releases. This week, a Baton Rouge, La. rapper releases a particular album of unreleased tracks, a Houston rhymer drops off the third installment of a well-liked mixtape collection and a rap-crooner repping Louisville, Ky. drops a mixtape filled with acquainted beats.

Despite being a busy father and a quickly-to-be husband, YoungBoy Never Broke Again has been dropping albums like a foul behavior. In 2022, the prolific rhymer launched a number of initiatives together with, The Last Slimento, 3800 Degrees and Ma’ I Got a Family. On Friday (Dec. 23), simply in time for Christmas, NBA YoungBoy delivers a compilation album titled Lost Files. The 21-monitor assortment boasts songs which were out and some beforehand-unreleased tracks the Louisiana rhymer had stashed within the vault. This is a really good Christmas current for his followers. YB is certainly higher.

After just lately visiting an erupting volcano, Sauce Walka returns dripping with extra warmth to shut out the 12 months. The H-Town native releases his newest mission Sauce Ghetto Gospel 3. Putting out the primary two initiatives within the trilogy in 2018 and 2019, Sauce delivers the brand new 19-track launch that options visitor appearances from Babyface Ray, Jackboy and Sauce WoodWinnin. The boisterous Texas rapper previewed the mission by way of the one “Here I Am.” Sauce has loved a productive 12 months that features him releasing the albums Al Rage Walka and Sauce Beach Florida.

2KBaby places a bow on 2022 along with his new mixtape, Sorry 4 the Hate. In traditional mixtape vogue, the Louisville, Ky. rhymer provides up contemporary new vocals over 11 of the 12 months’s hottest beats. The melodic spitter glides seamlessly over instrumentals of songs comparable to Metro Boomin’s “Superhero,” Yeat’s “Kant Dië” and Jack Harlow’s “Churchill Downs,” the unique model of which options Drake and landed 2KBaby’s fellow Kentucky-bred artist a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Song.

According to 2KBaby himself, Lil Wayne’s epic mixtape run within the late 2000s and early 2010s is precisely what impressed Sorry 4 The Hate, its title and its cowl artwork, which are each instantly harking back to Tunechi’s 2011 mixtape, Sorry 4 The Wait. 

“[Lil Wayne] been inspiring [ninjas] for as long as I can remember and at the same time, paving the way for artists to do a lot of the shit we do today,” wrote 2KBaby by way of Instagram on Monday (Dec. 19) upon the mission’s launch. “Sorry 4 the Wait was the first remix tape I got put on to and Sorry 4 the Wait II was the last. So, I thought I’d try to make my own remix tape of the hottest 2022 songs on the chart right now.”

Check out extra of this week’s new initiatives beneath.