HipHopDX is again with one other version of New Music Friday, a weekly spherical-up of one of the best recent albums from Hip Hop and R&B.
With Thanksgiving across the nook and the brand new 12 months inching nearer and nearer, this mid-November checklist options artists pumping out a bit extra warmth because the climate continues to chill. Kicking issues off this week is West Coast rapper Roddy Ricch with the third installment of his Feed Tha Streets sequence.
From there we head to Memphis the place Key Glock honors his late cousin Young Dolph with PRE5L a 12 months after his tragic passing. Also included on this checklist is BROCKHAMPTON’s The Family, their supposed last album, new Destroy Lonely, a Busta Rhymes EP and a lot extra.
Roddy Ricch – Feed Tha Streets 3
Roddy Ricch ascended to rap’s hierarchy with a blistering tempo. His Feed Tha Streets II helped propel him from a neighborhood affect in Compton to a real power to be reckoned with. But it was his verse on Nipsey Hussle’s “Racks in the Middle” and Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial which proved that Ricch was able to functioning on the highest degree in all of Hip Hop.
After a tepid reception to his 2021 venture LIVE LIFE FAST, Ricch vowed to make followers proper. His newest album, Feed Tha Streets 3, goals to do exactly that: recenter the “Ballin’” rapper as one of many sport’s most elite.
Key Glock – PRE5L
Key Glock and Young Dolph had been probably the most exuberant and thrilling duos in all of rap. Their pure chemistry oozed out of the music, revealing that the 2 rappers, additionally cousins, shared an intense bond. Following the horrific homicide of Dolph in 2021, Glock has made it a mission to maintain his legacy alive, ceaselessly dedicating new releases to him and talking his identify wherever potential.
PRE5L, the most recent drop from the PRE rapper, continues to uplift his misplaced companion in a manner he would know and recognize: onerous raps over trunk-rattling beats.
BROCKHAMPTON – The Family
BROCKHAMPTON, the boy-band/rap group which first took off via the three volumes of the SATURATION sequence, which contained songs like “BLEACH,” “FACE,” “BOOGIE” and “SWEET,” has tossed backwards and forwards the concept of retirement. While plainly frontman Kevin Abstract (and doubtlessly a number of the different members within the giant crew) will proceed releasing music in a solo capability, their newest album, The Family, will function the group’s final.
Spanning 17-tracks, The Family goals to finish the circle the identical manner it began: via bouncing, exuberant raps, fast hand-offs and playful melodies.
Destroy Lonely – NS+ (ULTRA)
When he first started to bubble-up from rap’s underground, many noticed Destroy Lonely as a Playboi Carti biter. Of course, the Atlanta rapper is signed to Carti’s Opium Records, so it’s solely pure that his sound is comparable. But regardless of their similarity, calling Destroy Lonely a clone is a crude discount of the rapper’s ethos.
Following the discharge of his newest album NO STYLIST, which featured breakout hits such because the album’s title monitor, “VETERAN” with Ken Carson and “VTMNTSCOAT,” Lonely is now again with the deluxe version titled NS+ (ULTRA).
Rod Wave – Jupiters Diary: 7 Day Theory
Rod Wave’s a rapper, however at occasions his booming melodic sound extra carefully resembles blues. All followers of the Florida MC know of the songs which first broke him via (“Heart On Ice” and later “Rags2Riches 2” with Lil Baby), however his discography runs far deeper than a couple of unfastened singles.
Through albums akin to PTSD and Ghetto Gospel from 2019, 2020’s Pray 4 Love and this 12 months’s Beautiful Mind, Wave has stood other than the group as one of many preeminent voices within the sport. Now he’s again with Jupiters Diary: 7 Day Theory, his second album of 2022 which is sweet and tight with eight tracks.
Fousheé – softCORE
38 Spesh & Harry Fraud – Beyond Belief
Rochester, New York-born rapper 38 Spesh is devoted to connecting his distinctive modern sound with the kinds of traditional increase-bap rap. His appreciation for Hip Hop’s canon could be clearly seen on previous tasks akin to Interstate 38, The Trust Tape and TimeServed, the place he rapped alongside MCs akin to French Montana, Chinx, Gucci Mane, Griselda’s Benny The Butcher and lots of extra.
On Beyond Belief, Spesh’s most up-to-date providing, the rapper has teamed up with pattern-heavy producer Harry Fraud for a tape which can please new followers and outdated heads alike.
Busta Rhymes – The Fuse Is Lit
Ahead of the discharge of Busta Rhyme’s newest drop, an EP titled The Fuse Is Lit, the 50-12 months-outdated New York legend dropped the lead single “Slap” alongside Griselda’s Conway the Machine and certainly one of rap’s most heralded godfathers, Big Daddy Kane.
The Fuse Is Lit, apart from final 12 months’s rerelease of The Coming on its twenty fifth anniversary, marks Busta’s first new physique of labor since 2020’s Extinction Level Event. Before that one must scroll again to 2009’s Back On My B.S. to search out recent tracks. Busta has been rapping and releasing music because the mid Nineteen Nineties and his new resurgence provides hope that he has no plans of stopping any time quickly.
Dave East & DJ Drama – Book of David
Dave East is the star of his newest album Book of David. He dealt with your entire 17-monitor venture with no function, backed utterly by manufacturing from Buda & Grandz and Mike Kuz. But the spotlight of the venture continues to be the inclusion of Gangsta Grillz Boss DJ Drama.
DJ Drama skilled a profession renaissance after his work on Tyler, The Creator’s masterful CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST. In the next years, Drama when on a prolific run, working with everybody from YoungBoy Never Broke Again and Dreamville to Jeezy and now New York’s Dave East.
Dougie B – Nobody Bigger
Don’t overlook to stream Kaash Paige’s S2ML and the deluxe version to More Black Superheroes by Westside Boogie.
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