NBA Youngboy, Swizz Beatz and More – New Hip-Hop Projects

As the rap recreation sits within the aftermath of one other 4/20, there are many new sounds to maintain issues lit. This week, a Lousiana rhymer with a cult following drops his second album of the 12 months, probably the greatest producers ever to do it celebrates hip-hop’s fiftieth 12 months with a brand new EP, a New York wordsmith places out one other sequel to a punch line-packed sequence and extra.

YoungBoy Never Broke Again unleashes Don’t Try This At Home, an album that YB’s loyal fan base has been anticipating for months. Following the January launch of I Rest My Case, NBA YoungBoy’s newest drop serves as his sixth full-size studio LP and is amongst a complete of 9 tasks the Baton Rouge, La. spitter has put out previously 12 months.

The 33-monitor opus was previewed by two singles, “WTF,” YoungBoy’s third collab with Nicki Minaj, and “Rear View” that includes Mariah The Scientist, which simply dropped final week. Despite being unable to attend the album’s lavish launch celebration in Los Angeles on Thursday (April 20) as a consequence of the truth that he stays on home arrest in Utah, Don’t Try This At Home finds YB delivering upon a promise he made to his legion of followers again in February.

“I’ma talk crazy on there [Don’t Try This At Home],” NBA YoungBoy advised the Rap Radar podcast on Feb. 16. “I’ma show you Murda Man. I’ma talk crazy on there, but I’m letting you know though, don’t try this at home. It’s all entertainment, bruh. I’ma talk my s**t and everything I’m talking, letting you know, don’t try this at home.”

On the heels of Hip Hop 50: Vol. 1, which DJ Premier put out in July of final 12 months, Swizz Beatz comes by with Mass Appeal’s subsequent installment of their tribute sequence to the rap recreation’s fiftieth 12 months in existence, Hip Hop 50: Vol. 2. 

Swizz’s new EP pays homage to the worldwide phenomenon birthed by DJ Kool Herc in 1973 throughout seven model-new tracks that includes artists from all aspects of the sport. Hip Hop 50: Vol. 2 finds the revered beatmaker offering a brand new panorama for legendary lyricists resembling Lil Wayne, Nas and Jadakiss whereas on the identical time permitting rap’s present stars to do their factor with appearances from Lil Durk, Benny The Butcher and Fivio Foreign, amongst others.

Some up-and-comers are within the highlight on the brand new Swizz Beatz EP as nicely together with the likes of Bandmanrill and Bronx spitter Scar Lip. The most up-to-date version to Hip Hop 50: Vol. 2 is Jay Electronica, who Swizz introduced earlier this week because the MC who lays down vocals on the EP’s outro, “Khalas.”

The Punchline King from Queens is again as Lloyd Banks drops The Course of the Inevitable 3: Pieces Of My Pain, the third providing within the former G-Unit rhymer’s current sequence of LPs.

Prior to the discharge of his new album, Lloyd Banks put his elite lyricism on show as soon as once more within the type of two singles, “Movie Scenes” and “101 Razors” that includes Method Man, each of that are included on the venture.

Banks additionally faucets into the abilities of a slew of different famend MCs all through The Course of the Inevitable 3 with visitor appearances from Cormega, 38 Spesh, Dave East and Vado, who seems on two of the album’s 16 tracks.

Check out different new tasks this week from Ralo, Peezy and extra beneath.