hip hop
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West Coast hip hop vet Del The Funky Homosapien–uh, a.k.a. Zartan Drednaught COBRA–recently dropped a new album on SoundCloud that’s about thirty minutes in length, and features some pretty progressive instrumentals. The overall presentation of the beats and rhymes here is a little more abstract
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NOT O.K. by KOOL A.D. Ex-Das Racist MC Kool A.D. drops his umpteenth project with Not O.K., which I’m finding a bit more enjoyable than his other recent releases. His delivery is still pretty absurd and laid back, but this project is sounding a bit
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Organized Konfusion MC Prince Po and West Coast producer Oh No have teamed up for the collaborative album Animal Serum, due out February 4 via Brooklyn’s Nature Sounds label. Check out the dirty cut “Bearz” above, featuring some hardhitting bars from Roc C. Check it!
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A brand new single from the Scottish experimental hip hop outfit Young Fathers. The group is getting set to drop a new full-length via Anticon on February 3rd. The title of this thing: DEAD. “WAR” isn’t one of Young Fathers’ most hard-hitting tracks, but it is one of their
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New York rapper YC the Cynic drops a b-side from his last full-length LP, GNK, which you can catch a review for below. A lot like many cuts from GNK, YC delivers smart rhymes over a moody beat with some sharp rhythms. Seeing that this guys “throwaways” are great gives
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While Because The Internet is much more likable and ambitious than Childish Gambino’s last commercial effort, Camp, this album is not without its hangups.
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Method Man teams up with the A$AP Mob’s A$AP Nast for a new single titled “Trillmatic,” which has a hard-hitting, vintage boom bap beat that nostalgic hip hop listeners will dig on. While I’m not too crazy about the “funky style” and “funky swag” oozing out
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New Jersey MC GDP and Philly electronic music producer Space Jesus have joined forces under the name #$ (Hash Money). The Smokers Cough signees already have new single and video out under their new handle, titled “Right Now.” Check out the bassy EDM-rap goodness above!
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Cali rapper Hopsin has a tight flow and rhymes that don’t mince words. While I like the more hard-hitting tracks on this new LP of his, there just aren’t enough of them to balance out the sickening melodrama that happens on a great deal of this new LP’
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Southern rap titans Three Six Mafia are back under a different name–and with a slight lineup change–but that hasn’t stopped them from pulling together one of the rawest, grimiest mixtapes to drop this year.
