New Hip-Hop, Rap Releases January 2023

With 2022 having been a wild 12 months stuffed with many ups and downs all through the rap recreation, a brand new 12 months brings in a clear slate to go together with a serious milestone. As hip-hop begins to have fun its fiftieth 12 months in existence, here is a have a look at the brand new music releases set for January 2023.

After pushing again the discharge of his subsequent studio LP and as an alternative utilizing December to have fun the 10-year anniversary of his very first album with the discharge of Finally Rich (Complete Edition), Chief Keef is slated to come back via on Jan. 20 with Almighty So 2. 

The Chicago drill icon’s fifth full-length album will function the sequel to 2013’s Almighty So, which was hosted by DJ Scream. Almighty So 2 has been previewed by two beforehand launched singles, “Racks Stuffed Inna Couch” and “Tony Montana Flow,” and follows Chief Keef’s final album, 4NEM, which dropped again in December of 2021. The 17-track album comes lower than a month after the whole version of 2012’s Finally Rich noticed Chief Keef add seven new joints to his already traditional debut together with “Kush With Them Beans,” “OB4L” and “Rider” that includes Wiz Khalifa.

French Montana appears to start out off the brand new 12 months with the identical momentum he carried all through 2022 with the discharge of Coke Boys 6: Money Heist Edition. The subsequent installment of the critically acclaimed Coke Boys mixtape sequence is about to drop on Jan. 6 and French definitely is not driving solo. In asserting the upcoming tape by way of Instagram again on Nov. 7, Montana unveiled CB6‘s official cowl artwork, which incorporates himself together with 9 of his closest associates, all of whom are prominently featured all through the challenge, together with Max B, the late Chinx and Stove God Cooks, amongst others.

“It’s lonely at the top if you don’t bring your folks with [you],” French Montana captioned the animated announcement video.

Led by the beforehand launched single, “Yes I Do,” Coke Boys 6: Money Heist Edition will come contemporary off the heels of Montega, the Morrocan-born, Bronx-bred spitter’s joint challenge with producer Harry Fraud that dropped in June of 2022 and marked French’s first independently launched album. Last 12 months, French Montana celebrated his first diamond-certified document within the type of “Unforgettable” that includes Swae Lee, which, as of August, offered over 10 million copies.

After closing out 2022 with two initiatives inside the previous few months of the 12 months, Bin Reaper 3: Old Testament and the shock mixtape, They Won’t Clear This, BabyTron will not be solely gearing as much as head out on his new Bin Reaper Tour however will accompany the 18-date run with the second installment of his newest album, Bin Reaper 3: New Testament. When Old Testament dropped again in October, the Shitty Boyz frontman instantly hit up Instagram to announce that the LP’s B-side was already on its means. BabyTron’s Bin Reaper 3: New Testament is about to be launched on Jan. 13, 2023.

Check out all of the January 2023 new hip-hop album releases together with drops from YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Declaime and Madlib and extra beneath.