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New Music Friday: June 19th, 2020 - HipHop

New Music Friday: June 19th, 2020

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 07:17 AM PDT

Albums

Pi'erre Bourne - The Life of Pi'erre 4 (Deluxe)

Teyana Taylor - The Album

Smokepurpp - Florida Jit

Tee Grizzley - The Smartest

A Boogie wit da Hoodie - Artist 2.0 (Deluxe)

Meyhem Lauren & Harry Fraud - Glass 2.0

Lady Leshurr - Quaranqueen

Ethereal - E2

Curren$y & Fuse - Spring Clean

GRM Daily - GRM 10

42 Dugg - Young & Turnt, Vol. 2 (Deluxe)

Ras G - Raw Fruit Vol. 5 & 6

Khary - This Is Weird

Chris Crack - Cute Boys (The Rise of Lil Delicious)

NSG - Roots

The Koreatown Oddity - Little Dominiques Nosebleed

Famous Dex- Where's Dexter?

Black Josh - MANNYFORNIA

Black Eyed Peas - Translation

Pollari - Loverboy

John Legend - Bigger Love

Kahlil Blu - DOG

Slayter - WORLD GOT ME FUCKED UP, Vol. 1

BandGang Lonnie Bands & BandGang Javar - The Scamily

Play, Neems & AARABMUZIK - Tones

Killah Priest - Rocket to Nebula

Rome Streetz - Noise Kandy 4

EPs

Wale - The Imperfect Storm

Marlon Craft- Work From Home

Skyzoo - Milestones

DJ Shadow & De La Soul - Rocket Fuel (Remixes)

Chris Rivers - Self Inflicted Bubble Boy

Tony Njoku - Justine

Astonish - Romance

Audio Push - No Rest... For the Blessed 2

Maez301 - Phase 3

Wrekonize - Pressure Point Meridian 2

Singles

J. Cole - Snow On Tha Bluff

Noname - Song 33

Anderson .Paak - Lockdown

RMR - RASCAL (Remix) [feat. Young Thug]

Trippie Redd - Dreamer

Drake - Stay Down (feat. Busta Rhymes) [LEAK]

AKTHESAVIOR - Master Roshi

NBA Youngboy - One Shot (feat. Lil Baby)

clipping. - Chapter 319

Shy Glizzy- Right or Wrong (feat. Lil Uzi Vert)

Swae Lee - Reality Check

A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie - Bleed / This Time

Joey Fatts - Havin My Way (feat. Vince Staples)

LaDonnis - Black Boy (feat. ER)

Ameer Vann - The Lake

T.F x Uce Lee - Westside Stupid (feat. ScHoolboy Q)

THEY. - Count Me In

Riff Raff & Yelawolf - WATER WHiPPiN WiZARD

NoCap - Count a Million (feat. Lil Uzi Vert)

Teejayx6 - Cigarette

Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire - AVA (Letter To My Unborn Child)

KYLE - Bouncin'

Saweetie - Tap In

6ix9ine & Nicki Minaj - TROLLZ (Alternate Version)

Calboy - Brand New (feat. King Von)

Gucci Mane - Still Remember (feat. Pooh Shiesty)

Fivio Foreign - Move Like a Boss (feat. Young M.A)

Ashnikko - Cry (feat. Grimes)

Public Enemy & DJ Premier - State of the Union [STFU]

Tyga - VACATION

H.E.R. - I Can't Breathe

Camoflauge Monk - Yasiin Bey (feat. Sauce Heist, HidjiWorld & Elcamino)

Gucci Mane - Still Remember (feat. Pooh Shiesty)

Lucki - Beans

J.I the Prince of N.Y & Lil Tjay - Hood Scars 2

3ohBlack - Hollup (feat. Moneybagg Yo & Tay Keith)

Lil Loaded - 6locc 6a6y (Remix) [feat. NLE Choppa]

Raury - Take Back the Power

E-40 - Give Me 6

Iron Wigs - Bally Animals & Rugbys (feat. Roc Marciano)

Khao - Scared of Us (feat. T.I, Joyner Lucas & J.Morris)

Kemba - 6 Million Ways

Pastor Troy - Burn (feat. Cyhi, David Banner, Ras Kass, Torae & Noochie)

Lorde Fredd33 - Jumper

Nef The Pharaoh - No Calls (West Coast Remix) [feat. Adrian Milanio, IamSu! & RJ Suave)

Lule & Smoke - Safe Sex (feat. Nef The Pharaoh)

Rec Riddles - Hand on the Clock (feat. Che Noir)

Lou CharLe$ & Paul Wall - Showin' Out

Zo-Ro & Paul Wall - Can You Feel It (feat. Mr. Lee713)

Farid Bang - Kaioken (feat. Tory Lanez)

6ellamy - Never Slippin' (feat. Johnny Cinco)

Mike Doke - Easy Listening (feat. Mike Ladd)

F L A C O - Liddle

FKA 059 - Tempi D'oro (feat. Chester Watson & o k h o)

Young Chris & Wale - Yellow Flag

HBK SCONNOR - Come N Go (feat. Polo G)

Guap Tarentino - Very Begin (feat. Future & Lil Wookie)

theMIND - A Spike Lee Jawn (feat. Krystal Metcalfe)

Steelz - I Like It (Remix) [feat. Vinny West, RJmrLA & YeloHill)

Dan Nicholson - Fame (feat. Elijah Blake)

Dijon - sweet thing

Shantel May - Until I Say So (feat. Westside Gunn)

Toro Y Moi - Ordinary Guy (feat. The Mattson 2)

Kamaiyah - Black Excellence

ALLBLACK, Rexx Life Raj & Guapdad 4000 - Cleat Check

Mereba - Heatwave (Acoustic) [feat. 6LACK]

6ixbuzz (Smiley & LB SPIFFY) - Name Brand

Micinic - Lotta Drugs (feat. Pi'erre Bourne)

80 Empire - Legacy (feat. Conway The Machine & Ballistic Man)

Ebenezer - Melanin

Amber Mark - The People

Cashus King - What You Sayin'?

G-Eazy - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime

Flume - The Differrence (John Hopkins Remix) [feat. Toro Y Moi]

B Karma & Fetty Wap - Broken

Jef Miles - Everybody Holla (feat. Twista & Craig Smart)

Usher - California (feat. Tyga)

Dax - Faster (feat. Tech N9ne)

Emis Killa - Ándale (feat. Westside Gunn)

Marcellus Juvann - Tha Gritz

L8LOOMER - Gemini

TYuS - More 2 Us /

Cash Kidd - Socks on Australia

LGP QUA - Straight for the Bag (feat. French Montana)

Mr. Swipy - Freka (feat. French Montana)

ArrtemTheKid - On Purpose (feat. G Herbo)

3D The Hook King - EXTRAZ (feat. Boldy James)

M.A. DA PILOT - Yes Lawd (feat. Magnolia Chop & Nef The Pharaoh)

DJ D.Porter - Still Standin' (feat. E-40)

Bounty Tank - Street Nigga (feat. King Chip)

Sherman's Showcase - Sing Me a Lullabye (feat. Vic Mensa & Phonte)

Hook - Street People

Blasé & Luxo - Currency Freestyle

LilChriizz - Came So Far (feat. Rylo Rodriguez)

Orsirs & Chynna - Let It Out

Bandcamp is donating its share of sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund for Juneteenth

Go buy stuff

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Daily Discussion Thread 06/19/2020

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:51 PM PDT

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XXXTentacion's Half Brother Sues Rapper's Mother for $11 Million After Claiming She Stole From X's Estate

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:35 AM PDT

[FRESH] Beyonce - BLACK PARADE

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:21 PM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] REASON - Field Nigga

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:03 PM PDT

Rapper Tray Savage, a member of Chief Keef's record label, is dead TMZ has learned.

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:35 PM PDT

Earl Sweatshirt Signs Producer Black Noi$e to His Label Tan Cressida

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 11:56 AM PDT

Earl's IG Post

Label Instagram Post

WE AT TAN CRESSIDA ARE BEYOND EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE OUR FIRST NON-SWEATSHIRT RELEASE EVER!!! BLACK NOI$E PRESENTS THE APTLY TITLED 'OBLIVION' TO A RESTLESS PEOPLE. FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW BLACK NOI$E THE PERSON: THINK GRIM FROM BILLY AND MANDY WITH A MEAN NOLLIE FLIP AND AN AFFINITY FOR LIFE IN ALL ITS FORMS . THESE POLARITIES ARE REFLECTED IN BLACK NOI$E THE MUSIC. SHADOWS AND SUNLIGHT. DETROIT ELECTRIC SOUL AND 8BIT GHOSTS AND WATERFALLS. BLACK NOI$E CONNECTS THE DOTS AND WE ARE THANKFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE THIS LIFE AND HIS MUSIC. - LOVE MANAGEMENT The Band ft. @_osun out now on all platforms. Link in bio

The Band feat. Liv.e Video

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[DISCUSSION] Country music fan here: Neither of our subcultures will ever admit it, but country music and rap music are more similar to each other than they will ever admit.

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 03:52 PM PDT

EDIT: Ah fuck, I messed up the title.

Alright, so now I've drawn you in with that clickbait title let me lay out my thesis.

First off, some background so that you know what I'm talking about: I'm from a fairly rural part of Canada, and grew up listening to country music, critically for the creation of this thesis, Western Canadian country artists like Corb Lund. Corb didn't come out of Nashville. This is important, I'll explain why in a second, but to make a long story short that means he sounds pretty different from a lot of the country you guys have in the States. In particular, I've always thought he's a great storyteller who covers unconventional subjects: see Student Visas, a song about the Contras. That whole album is fucking incredible, by the way. Maybe by the time I'm done I can convince some of you to give it a listen.

My brother is big into all kinds of music, and got me into hip-hop, though it took him a few tries. I liked Eminem but couldn't get into him much, and Nas was just a big-ass culture shock. It was actually Good Kid MAAD City by Kendrick Lamar, in particular the songs Compton, Backseat Freestyle and of course, M.A.A.D City itself. The beat, the lyricism, and the stories it told all struck a chord with me. I got big into Eminem, because I'm white, and shortly after took a second run at Nas and got into Wu-Tang. And for a while people mocked me for my eclectic tastes, but it never bothered me. Some part of me, even then, was working on this thesis, which finally crystalized today:

Country and rap are great for exactly the same reasons, are driven by similar concerns, and suffer from many of the same problems which have warped their images in the eyes of the public.

Now I could try and do some half-assed music theory here, but I'm no trained musician and I confused the shit out of my friends trying to explain it to them until I resorted to something else, which was directly comparing two songs, one classic hip-hop, one classic country. So let's do that.

Don't worry, I won't pull out a deep cut here. Let's go with Big Iron, by Marty Robbins, because it's a banger and I know at least some of you fellas played New Vegas. I won't even make you listen to the whole thing if you don't want, just the first ten seconds. You can go on Lyrics Genius for the rest if you're terrified for the safety of your virgin ears.

Okay, here it is.

Alright, did you hear it HHH? Did you hear that fucking guitar? It's pretty simple, and it doesn't get a whole lot more complex than that, but it immediately establishes the genre. You can't hear that and not immediately think of riding a horse across the Old West or some shit. Country music's general sound, especially instrumentation, is so core to its identity, and you can mess around with it a little or update it with more modern stuff, but once you get past electric guitar you're sort of pushing your luck. The instrumentation also establishes the mood. It's a very galloping, cowboy movie sort of tone, fitting for a song about two cowboys out to cap each other sung by an actual cowboy.

Now I know you all already know what it sounds like, but let's try CREAM.

Now, whoever was producing for Marty was no RZA, but listen to that opening with the piano keys, the jazzy sort of background. No wonder this blew my fucking mind the first time I really listened to it, but I digress. For me, this instrumental also immediately establishes the genre, it's very distinctively hip-hop, fuck, it literally redefined East Coast hip-hop sound, but it also establishes the setting along with the little intro ad-lib. It's a dark night in New York, on a corner where two guys are pushing drugs. Setting-wise it's about as far as you can get from Marty, but it also serves not just to identify the genre through its uniqueness, but also establish a general tone and atmosphere.

Now we listen to the first lines: on Marty's end, "To the town of Agua Fria came a stranger one fine day." Right away it sets up the protagonist, a story and a direction for it to go. Who is this guy? Why does he have a big fucking gun on his hip?

Then from Wu-Tang: "I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side, stayin' alive was no jive." Likewise, it immediately establishes the setting, a protagonist and a narrative. You guys know all this, of course, but I just figured a side-by-side comparison would help.

And the narrative is supported by how the lines are phrased: in Marty's case, the line isn't exactly setting off fireworks, but when we get further into the song we see its clear lyrical cues from classic cowboy and western poetry like "Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie" or "I Ride An Old Paint", just like you can see the slam-poetry lyrics of Raekwon drawing us in to his own origin story on the wrong side of the tracks, as it were.

A distinctive style of instrumental, setting the atmosphere for a narrative which draws us in with lyrical skill: take any of the greatest hip-hop songs of all time, no matter how simple, and you will find those core principles, and the exact same will be true for any great country song.

Now, maybe you're grudgingly nodding along to this right now, or maybe you're thinking "So what? Most songs tell a story, that doesn't make country special. And the fanbase and culture around it are completely different."

Let me just rip this band-aid off so I don't give any of you a heart attack: I'd really hate to break it to you but rap discourse and country discourse are the exact fucking same, my guy.

I can hear the collective sputtering of outrage from here, but let me back it up with some more comparisons. What's the worst possible thing for a rapper's brand? Aside from cannibalism or something like that. It's being inauthentic. Entire diss tracks have been built around comprehensively proving that a certain hip-hop artist is not as tough, well-connected, or even as black as they claim to be, because to be a great hip-hop artist you need to be a great storyteller, and in order to be great at storytelling you need to be able to tell those stories authentically. That's why guys like Watsky are fucked before they even start, because they have zero connection to the roots of the genre and the communities it sprang from, and so they can't discuss those issues and expect to be taken seriously at all. It's why I could never drop a hip-hop album, because it would be about thirty minutes of a nervous white man struggling to find something to say and a reason to say it.

Well, it's also a big issue in country music. I'm gonna make people hate me for reminding them of this, but remember Billy-Ray's verse on Old Town Road? He spends all that time talking about Maseratis and sports bras because he's making the point that in Nashville, the ostensible mecca of country music, a lot of stars these days are completely disconnected from the ordinary rural folks whose lives and troubles they're supposed to represent. You can't do fencing in a Maserati. There'd only be room for like, two posts and a bale of wire in there anyway.

This issue also exists in hip-hop. Stop me if you've heard this one before:

Hip-hop artists argue they're being exploited by culture vulture advertisers and record labels who have no experience or interest in black issues and are using them to make money

In service of this aim, they are promoting inauthentic rappers who aren't lyricists and lack interesting stories to tell, which they compensate for with soulless pop-music-esque instrumentals which the songs increasingly rely upon, since if you can't get get the audience engaged with story or good lyrics all you can really hope for is for them to shut up and drink their booze and dance, which in turn, is giving people erroneous ideas that rap is shallow and mainly consists of guys with pink hair and face tats mumbling about fucking your bitch and doing drugs, pausing occasionally to throw out recognizable designer names and sometimes shout out an OG to try and look like they haven't sold out.

Now, on the rural end of the spectrum: Fringe country artists argue that they're being exploited by city-slicker advertisers and Nashville record labels who have no experience or interest in rural issues and are using them to make money. In service of this aim, they are promoting inauthentic singers who aren't lyricists and lack interesting stories to tell, which they compensate for with soulless pop-music instrumentals which the songs increasingly rely upon, since if you can't get the audience engaged with story or good lyrics all you can really hope for is for them to shut up and drink their budweiser and dance, which in turn, is giving people erroneous ideas that country is shallow and mainly consists of guys with $5000 cowboy boots and the same beard, hair and accent crooning about marrying a nice girl and partying by the river with domestic beer, pausing occasionally to talk about their sweet new Ford™ truck and sometimes mention old-school country stars to try and look like they haven't sold out.

There's even been similar backlash in the form of various artists making a point of how they're bringing back Old Country or Real Country or whatever they want to call it, and it's got its roots in the same issues of commercialization and homogenization that are affecting current mainstream hip-hop. In hip-hop's case, it's defanged of the actual discussions of the problems of the black community, or such discussion is politely ignored to sell it to an uncaring audience, while the beating heart of country- its discussion of rural North American life and issues- is similarly ripped off to peddle to guys like me, who live in suburbs near enough to the rural areas to sell country to but far enough removed that we won't notice or care about the inauthentic nature of it all. And just like you, we've been complaining about it for years now.

Anyway, hopefully I've done at least something to convince all of you. It would be easier if I could explain it verbally, but whenever I sit in front of a keyboard the words don't come so good, so this is the best I can do. Hopefully that same love for storytelling and lyrical skill that drew me into hip-hop will also tempt you to check out the underground side of country music (Feel free to PM me if you want recommendations). If it does, I hope you like it, and if it doesn't, to each their own. Just know that whatever you think of it, you can't avoid this truth. It's inescapable. Like Alcatraz, or Fortnite.

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M.I.A. - Paper Planes

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:04 PM PDT

Hurricane Chris reportedly arrested for second-degree murder

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:54 AM PDT

88GLAM announce new mixtape "NEW MANIA" dropping June 26

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 04:02 PM PDT

[FRESH ALBUM] City Girls - City On Lock

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:20 PM PDT

DaBaby to host discussion on police reform, systemic racism in Charlotte

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:06 AM PDT

Noname - Diddy Bop (feat. Raury & Cam O'bi)

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 04:50 PM PDT

2 Chainz faces $10m legal showdown with Pablo Escobar's family

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 07:52 AM PDT

[FRESH] Benny The Butcher NPR Tiny Desk Concert (From Home)

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 02:04 AM PDT

Meek Mill other side of America Maga mix

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 07:56 PM PDT

Eric B & Rakim "Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em" 30th Anniversary stream goes live tonight at 8:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm PT. Guests announced: Ice T, LL Cool J, Chuck D, Cornel West, Mayor Ras Baraka, Fat Joe, Dapper Dan, Fab 5 Freddy, Jody Watley, Smack White, Eric Beasley, and more!

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 03:01 PM PDT

Wassup Bro! - Craig Xen

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:00 PM PDT

A Conversation with Lupe Fiasco: Lupe's in Album Mode

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 02:35 PM PDT

[FRESH] KOTA the friend- Kalief

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 10:08 AM PDT

[FRESH] Beyoncé - "Black Parade"

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:31 PM PDT

Immortal Technique Delivers POWERFUL Messages About BLM Protests, American History, Columbus & More (HipHopDX)

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:00 PM PDT
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