Offset, DaBaby, Westside Gunn and More – New Hip-Hop Projects

Week in and week out, the rap sport by no means disappoints with regards to new music drops. This time round, a Georgia-bred rapper attracts inspiration from the King of Pop within the type of a brand new LP, a North Carolina rhymer is again with a brand new EP, a Buffalo MC unleashes what he touts as his last full-size providing and extra.

Offset Drops Second Solo Album, Set It Off

With cowl artwork that serves as an homage to his idol, Michael Jackson, Offset comes by means of along with his second solo effort, Set It Off. The former Migos member delivers a 21-observe LP that features visitor appearances from heavy hitters like Travis Scott, Future, Latto and in fact, his spouse, Cardi B.

Led by the Bardi-assisted “Jealousy,” Set It Off can be previewed by the one, “Fan,” which is accompanied by a “Thriller”-inspired music video. In talking on his inspiration for the album, Offset describes how he likens his profession to that of Michael Jackson’s.

“I’ve been working on this project for over two years now,” Offset says. “This season is personal for me. It marks a new chapter in my life. I feel like Michael Jackson coming from a successful group breaking records to superstardom on my own. This body of work is healing for me and a letter to my fans and supporters.”

Set It Off serves as Offset’s first studio challenge because the tragic passing of his late companion in rhymer, Takeoff, who was shot and killed in Houston on Nov. 1, 2022.

Read More: Offset Gives a Closer Look on the Michael Jackson Tattoo That Stares at Cardi B

DaBaby Delivers Let’s Do It Mixtape

DaBaby returns with a model new featureless mixtape referred to as Let’s Do It. The tape arrives after DaBaby dropped off the one “Trickin'” on Sept. 29. Dababy’s final full size album, Baby on Baby 2, dropped again on Sept. 23, 2022. The album debuted at No. 34 on the Billboard 200 chart, and spawned the one “Boogeyman,” which discovered the North Carolina rapper claiming he slept with Megan Thee Stallion a number of occasions.

DaBaby additionally dropped off his Call Da Fireman EP on May 5, which featured the tune “Shake Sumn.” Baby then remixed the observe with a visitor verse from Sexyy Red, and the pair carried out the tune collectively through the opening moments of the 2023 BET Hip Hop Awards on Tuesday (Oct. 10).

DaBaby has additionally been attempting exhausting to distance himself from the homophobic feedback that he made on the 2021 Rolling Loud Festival in Miami. In an interview with The Shop a day earlier than the discharge of his Call Da Fireman EP, Baby mentioned he is been attempting to maneuver on from the incident.

“Yeah, like my [character]…That’s somethin’ I can’t, like I’m unfaltering on that,” Baby mentioned. “Like, you know, like I say like, you almost gotta make it your business to not let that s**t get to you. Cause once it gets to you, it’s almost like, you know…It’s a nonstop game of figurin’ this s**t out. That’s what we have to do anyway, is to market ourselves, you know what I mean, to make ourselves worth somethin’.”

Read More: DaBaby Turns Down Salacious Offer From a Fan, She Responds

Westside Gunn Releases And Then You Pray for Me, Says It’s His Last Full-Length Album

Westside Gunn releases And Then You Pray for Me, a sequel to 2020’s Pray for Paris that the Griselda co-founder says is his final full-size providing. The 21-observe opus, which Gunn says is a “masterpiece” in its personal proper, options cowl artwork designed by the late Virgil Abloh, who impressed the route of the album’s content material as properly.

While ATYPFM definitely consists of growth-bap-model beats from frequent collaborators akin to Daringer, Conductor and RZA, Westside Gunn additionally tapped into the manufacturing expertise from the likes of Tay Keith and ForeverRolling, amongst many others. The challenge additionally finds WSG working with a big selection of rhymers from all corners of the sport together with JID, Rick Ross, Denzel Curry and, in fact, fellow Buffalo spitters Benny The Butcher and Conway The Machine.

While Westside Gunn has declared that And Then You Pray for Me is his last studio LP, he additionally guarantees that this won’t be the final the rap sport hears from the Buffalo MC.

“I’m not saying I won’t come with a five-song EP with Madlib or I won’t do a seven-song EP with Alchemist or I won’t rap,” Westside Gunn explains in an interview with Rolling Stone earlier this week. “I’ll do all of that, but making a studio album, I’m done with all that. It’s back to dumping until I don’t want to dump no more. I’m going to have fun now. It’s no more pressure.”

Check out different new initiatives this week from Kaliii, Ken Carson, Paul Wall and Termanology, and extra beneath.