T-Pain, EST Gee, Lil Keed and More – New Hip-Hop Projects

As everybody springs forward and adjusts to sunlight saving time, the rap sport nonetheless has loads of time to bust out recent sounds. For this spherical of new music releases, a rap-crooning pioneer drops an album stuffed with songs that maintain deep private that means, a Kentucky-bred rhymer follows up a stellar debut album with a brand new mission, a late Atlanta rapper’s property delivers a posthumous album and extra.

At this stage in his storied profession, T-Pain has earned the flexibility to take any artistic route he chooses, as is clear by the discharge of his new album, On Top of the Covers. Now that the Nappy Boy Entertainment exec is totally unbiased, he took the alternative to make use of his newest mission as a reminder to himself of the numerous methods he is fallen in love with music by means of the years.

“Each one of these songs means something to me and helped me fall in love with music at different points in my life,” tweeted T-Pain when sharing the album’s observe itemizing earlier this week. “I’m releasing this cover album from the view of what I hear when I listen to each song.”

The 7-observe LP finds T-Pain exhibiting off his unimaginable expertise by means of covers of traditional songs from varied genres and generations together with the “T-Sinatra” model of Frank Sinatra’s “That’s Life,” on which Pain options his personal artist, NandoSTL, Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” and even “War Pigs,” a traditional rock anthem initially made well-known by Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Sabbath.

Off the heels of his studio debut, I Never Felt Nun, which was thought of among the finest hip-hop tasks of 2022, EST Gee comes by means of with MAD, a 14-music mission that the Louisville, Ky. native says is “not for the industry.” The CMG/Warlike signee previewed MAD earlier this week with the discharge of the mission’s JohnGotit-produced single, “25min Freestyle.”

Guest options on the mission embrace choices from Boosie BadAzz and Young Scooter, and in the course of the promo run main as much as MAD‘s launch, EST Gee hit up Instagram with numerous properly-produced movies of the Kentucky spitter rocking large crowds and partaking together with his loyal fan base across the nation.

EST Gee accompanied MAD‘s drop on Friday (March 17), with the discharge of his new video for “Ball Like Me Too,” a braggadocious banger that incorporates a pattern of Kanye West’s 2005 smash, “Diamonds From Sierra Leone” that includes Jay-Z.

Ten months after his passing, Lil Keed’s property and former label, YSL, releases Keed Talk To ’Em 2. The Atlanta rhymer’s first posthumous mission serves because the sequel to his stand-out 2018 mixtape, Keed Talk To ’Em. 

Led by the only, “Long Way To Go,” the 20-observe opus in reminiscence of Lil Keed sees visitor appearances from YSL boss Young Thug, Trippie Redd, Cordae and Keed’s brother, Lil Gotit, amongst others. Keed Talk To ’Em 2 consists of beats from an array of the sport’s high producers together with London on da Track, Bankrollgotit and Wheezy Outta Here.

Just every week previous to the LP’s launch, Young Stoner Life dropped a visible for the album’s second single, “Self Employed,” which Lil Keed filmed earlier than he tragically handed away in May 2022 from pure causes related to eosinophilia.

Check out different new tasks this week from Lil Pump, DC The Don, Princess Nokia and extra beneath.