Every week, our editors present their five favorite new songs from within the hip-hop and R&B realm, putting together a widely comprehensive playlist for you all to enjoy. With so many different tastemakers on the team, we’ve each got a different niche so your favorite sub-genre is likely to be well represented.
This week, we’ve got lots of new posthumous music from DMX, a new posthumous record from Juice WRLD, new music from Polo G, OhGeesy, Migos, EARTHGANG, Russ, and many other artists. Check out everyone’s individual picks below and let us know if you’re rocking with anyone in particular.
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Alex Zidel (Editorial)
KILLY – PYRO Internet Money, Don Toliver, & Lil Uzi Vert – His & Hers (feat. Gunna) OhGeesy – Get Fly (feat. DaBaby) Latto – The Biggest Polo G – GANG GANG (feat. Lil Wayne)
Alex Cole (Editorial)
Juice WRLD – 734 KILLY – WHATEVER WE DO KILLY – PYRO 88GLAM – Five Stars 88GLAM – Wockstar
Madusa S. (Editorial)
88GLAM – Wockstar Symphani Soto – Just A Moment (feat. Eric Bellinger) Hotboii & Future – Nobody Special Latto – The Biggest Internet Money, Don Toliver, & Lil Uzi Vert – His & Hers (feat. Gunna)
Mitch Findlay (Editorial)
DMX – That’s My Dog (feat. The LOX & Swizz Beatz) Mach-Hommy – The 26th Letter Nate Husser – Water With The Candy DMX – Money Money Money (feat. MoneyBagg Yo) Mereba – My Moon
Cole Blake (Editorial)
Mach-Hommy – No Blood No Sweat DMX – Bath Salts (feat. JAY-Z & Nas) DMX – Hood Blues (feat. Westside Gunn, Benny The Butcher, & Conway The Machine) EARTHGANG – Options (Remix) [feat. Wale & Coi Leray] OhGeesy – Get Fly (feat. DaBaby)
Aron A. (Editorial)
Stay Flee Get Lizzy – Meant To Be (feat. Fredo & Central Cee) Blxst & Bino Rideaux – Movie DMX – Dogs Out (feat. Lil Wayne & Swizz Beatz) Skillibeng – Prolific
Erika Marie (Editorial)
Juice WRLD – 734 DMX – Take Control (feat. Snoop Dogg) Blxst & Bino Rideaux – Movie Russ – Private (feat. Rexx Life Raj) DMX – Bath Salts (feat. JAY-Z & Nas)
Joshua Robinson (Editorial)
Mustafa – Capo (feat. Sampha) Yang Kayo – bstroy socks Asiahn – OMW Migos – Straightenin DMX – Money Money Money (feat. MoneyBagg Yo)
Trippie Redd and Playboi Carti recently teamed up for the visual to their collaboration “Miss The Rage.” Filled with explosives and other delinquent-esque activities, it’s the first single by the Ohio native since the conclusion of the rollout of his third studio album Pegasus last year. Aside from music, it seems the Soundcloud era-heavyweight has been busy working on other ventures.
According to reports, Trippie has a new Snapchat docuseries arriving soon with some very special guests. Life’s A Tripp will discuss different socio-political issues in America, with therapper focusing on race, immigration reform, mental health, wrongful incarceration, and even more.
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As Hype Beast reports, the multi-platinum artist will focus on different topics surrounding race and policing through conversations with the LAPD, the homeless crisis through conversations with residents of LA’s Skid Row, wrongful incarceration, mental health, drug addiction, and food insecurity. Based in Los Angeles, the docuseries will additionally feature several other names in music as guests including Miguel, Machine Gun Kelly, and G-Eazy.
It will also highlight charitable organizations like Without Shelter, CA Innocence Project, and Ghetto Gastro. The trailer for the upcoming show pans through visuals of Black Lives Matter protests, wildfires, and Los Angeles residents before Trippie eventually chimes in.
“I’ve lived through wildfires and pandemics,” explains the “Excitement” singer. “I lost a friend to the opioid crisis and even more to gun violence. We can’t afford to look the other way anymore.”
He then reflects on each of the aforementioned social issues before adding, “I want to listen to understand what’s wrong with the world and become part of the solution.”
Check out the full trailer for the new series above. Produced by Trooper Entertainment, the eight-episode Snap Original series is set to premiere on June 5th. Following its premiere, a new episode will launch every other day.
Let us know if you’ll be tuning in to Life’s A Trip down in the comments.
Soulja Boy’s marketing campaign towards his forthcoming album, Draco is underway. He has the hottest song on TikTok with “She Make It Clap,” signed a partnership deal with Virgin Music, and is pretty much getting back into the mix the way he intended in 2018 when he was hitting the media circuit with viral moments.
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Soulja Boy has made a concerted effort this time around to remind everyone that he was among the first to do just about everything. However, this has inspired plenty of memes, and even a viral challenge. T-Pain is the latest to join in on this particular challenge but he took the opportunity to also troll his fellow peers in the world of R&B, namely Chris Brown, Ne-Yo and Trey Songz. First, he reminded everyone as his status as the first rapper-turnt-sanga. “IM THE FIRST SINGER TO BECOME THE FIRST RAPPER TO BECOME THE FIRST RAPPA TERNT SANGA!!!” He wrote.
“I’m the first singer to sing on a song!!! @chrisbrown used to sleep on my couch!! @NeYoCompound used to eat my left overs on Chrismas,” he wrote on Twitter. “@TreySongz used to practice the light skinned face in a mirror in my basement!!! Put some respect on Big Flake-O!!!”
Soulja Boy has yet to respond but it’s only a matter of time until he does. Check out T-Pain’s tweets below.
Seemingly gearing up to begin the rollout of her second full-length project since leaving RCA, she began teasing her upcoming fifth studio album last Friday (May 28). She shared a cryptic teaser for the project on her social media accounts with the caption “333,” which is speculated to be the title of the forthcoming effort. Following up the cryptic logo, she further teased the new era’s lead single on her respective socials on Tuesday.
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“Summers coming round the corner, and now I’m feeling like I don’t even know ya….” penned the songstress in the caption of the teaser. The 30-second clip features a slow-groove instrumental of what is believed to be the lead single from the project.
As the music plays, she dons a bathrobe and sunglasses as she lounges by a pool reading a figurative Pasadena Postnewspaper with the headline “Tinashe Teases New Music.” She sips on an iced drink as she does just that, giving the camera a wink as the trailer concludes.
Upon sharing the trailer, the 28-year-old multi-hyphenate began trending on social media as fans began buzzing about what could be in store for her next era. “Tinashe isn’t playing this era,” wrote one fan.
Another wrote, “Tinashe coming out with a new album and I haven’t finished emotionally processing Songs For You.” Check out more fan reactions to the exciting news.
In other Nashe news, she appeared on Jay-Z’s marijuana brand Monogram’s series High Tales where she opened up about what the flower means to her. “It’s been interesting to see how weed culture has changed over the past few years,” shares Tinashe in the video. “How we get our weed and talk about it has definitely evolved since it became legal, but at the end of the day, good weed still sets a special vibe.”
Let us know if you’re looking forward to 333 this summer down below.
During a recent interview with TMZ about the return of live shows in 2021, Lil Yachty revealed that despite counting himself as one of Nicki Minaj’s biggest fans, Mrs. Petty still has him blocked over supporting Cardi B (with whom he shares a connection through Quality Control Music) during the two female stars’ tiff in 2018 — and the measures to which he’s gone to try to rectify the situation.
When the TMZ hosts brought up the inciting interview with their former colleague Raquel Harper on her show Raq Rants, Yachty chuckled. “It’s the Barbz, man!” he declared. “They still killing me!”
Explaining the situation, he said, “I’ve got a lot of love for Cardi B and she’s damn near a family member, so through whatever I’m gonna ride. I’ve loved Nicki Minaj since I was a child. Yesterday, I went on Twitter retweeting my tweets from middle school praising Nicki and I went on Instagram Live letting the world know that Nicki has me blocked from that interview. I even hit Drake, like, ‘Tell Nicki I love her!’ I checked this morning — I’m still blocked… I think she’s standing strong, but my love for Nicki is forever.”
Yachty’s not the only one with whom Queen Barb and her fans have had issues online. Lil Nas X apparently received enough backlash from Barbz mad about his previous denial (an unforgivable sin, clearly) over mentioning his prior love for Nicki Minaj on his new song “Sun Goes Down” that he made a statement on Twitter that he’d no longer mention her in his music.
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Action Bronson may have lost 140 pounds since last year, but he’s still got that unmistakable Action grin. It comes paired with a “smiling eyes” brand of warmth that’ll make you feel like you’ve known the guy for years. His vibe has always been to live loud. Smoke what you want, eat what you want, do what you want, and give yourself over completely to life’s pleasures. It’s part of what makes his personality so infectious and why people flock to catch his show F*ck That’s Delicious, currently airing on YouTube, which is literally just about Action eating at the places he likes to eat (now with more kettlebell squats!).
But if you were worried that the new, healthier Action Bronson might live like a monk, fear not. He’s still the same dude with the same passion for food and life. He just felt like the fast life was catching up to him and he needed an adjustment.
“I put it out there for people to be free and fat and this and that, and eat what you like,” he says. “But unfortunately, some people have genetics like me where it just fucking sticks to your ass. I wanted to make amends… I realized that I was a fuckhead and I should stop doing these things and change shit up.”
That realization came while the multi-hyphenate was working on his new self-help book, Fuck It I’ll Start Tomorrow, which Action admits began as an attempt to get a check before morphing into a genuine journey of self-examination. We linked up last week over Zoom to talk about writing the book, getting fit, eating plant-based, and how it will all affect Fuck That’s Delicious going forward.
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Let’s talk a bit about your new book Fuck It I’ll Start Tomorrow. It’s positioned as a self-help book — what kind of lessons do you teach people in the book?
Deceit, lying, lying to yourself, coming to the realization that you’ve lied to yourself and you’ve lied to everybody else… you know all kinds of things. It’s experience-based, a lot of people can relate to some of the things I’m saying, but I wrote it with deceit in my mind. When I wrote the book I had no intention of putting my all into it, which is unfortunate because I only do things that I put my all into. This I did strictly because it was a check and a way to get to another cookbook, which I really wanted to do. I didn’t want to do a fucking self-help book because “I don’t fucking give a shit,” that was my attitude.
The bottom line is, this book was written with bad intentions but somehow it turned a mirror on me and I realized that I was a fuckhead and I should stop doing these things and change shit up. Never do anything that you don’t put your all into and this book taught me a lesson.
The book ended at the pandemic, it was a prequel to all the change that’s happened now, but it was a catalyst. The book was a catalyst unknowingly, I hated every second of it, you could ask Rachel Wharton the woman who wrote the book with me, James Beard award winner, two times New York best-selling author. She went through hell with me to do this shit, I feel terrible. At one point I called them up and was like “Yo, I’ll give you the money back I’m not fucking doing this.” It was a shit show, but I’m just glad everything worked out.
In the book, you could feel my pain and my joy.
This year has been a definite journey, you’ve totally changed your life and changed the way you eat. What has impacted you the most about transforming, not just the way you look physically, but your diet, which was originally built around excess?
I’ve always been able to eat right, I actually went to school and got a 100 in nutrition, I know what we’re supposed to eat. I know what we need to eat to be healthy, I know what not to eat, I know not to eat 10 desserts at one time, but I’m an addict.
You have to break through that addiction, but the mind is stronger than anything and I feel like my mind is ironclad. 140 pounds bro. That’s not easy, I was disgusted I had 140 to lose, I still got to lose another 20 to 30, it’s unreal. At least I’m at a normal weight now, before I was so abnormal, it was disgusting.
I caught some of the new episodes of Fuck That’s Delicious, and I noticed just because you’ve gotten healthy, you haven’t gotten soft, you’re rocking the kettle ball to the pizza joint, you’re still as passionate about food as you’ve always been. That’s particularly inspiring because you’ve changed your whole life around but you haven’t given up the joy, and I think that’s an important message to share with people. What was your thinking going into the new season?
My thinking going into it was pretty much trying to mix my new lifestyle with the show. Every time we do Fuck That’s Delicious, all this shit was made up because this is my life. It was chronicling my life with the homies, and that was it, we never put any stage shit on, it’s all just one take, put a camera on and we just lived. So I just put the camera on and lived again, and this is just the way I’m living now so we’re capturing this.
For so long, it’s been just “blast yourself with 45 meals a day and desserts. It’s okay, just laugh, drink your face off, and smoke your life away.” Yeah, cool. There comes a point where it catches up and it caught up heavy to me. I had to chill out but the love of food is always going to be there. It doesn’t mean you have to stop eating, it just means you have to stop being an animal.
You gotta know when to hold them and you gotta know when to fold them. I learned when to fold them. Before, I didn’t know how to fold them.
Right now you’ve got a partnership happening with Field Roast and their show Make Taste Happen, what should we expect out of that partnership?
Big things man, it’s exciting, I love doing things where it’s something I use organically and it’s not just some bullshit. I was once a little bit intimidated by food that was mimicking real food but is made with plants, but these things, they’ve made in an approachable way. I understand sausage, I understand the way it is, I understand what’s going on in the world now.
It’s innovative and delicious and healthy. It’s this canvas that allows you to make unbelievable things, not just from a taste angle alone. It allows you to imagine and take the mind places you’ve been in the past — some real nostalgia stuff.
What makes Field Roast different? Why partner with them?
Just in my own opinion, I’ve tried plant-based sausage and plant-based burgers, and the texture usually isn’t there. It’s grainy or the flavor is off. There are only a couple of brands that seem like they’re doing the right thing, and in my estimation, Field Roast has been the best product I’ve tried so far. It’s very versatile, it browns up the way it should, it tastes amazing, it’s a vehicle for all kinds of flavors.
If you just have a couple of items in your pantry it’s really all you need — you can create masterpieces.
What are some of your favorite things to prepare? You sent me a photo of you doing apple sausage, broccoli, onions — what are we cooking here?
See that’s a classic Italian dish, I believe it’s a Roman dish, when you do the sausage with the orecchiette, the little ear pasta, with the broccoli. I decided that I’m going to mimic a dish that I have and I love and make it ethnic as well and take you around the world and give you flavors that go “mmm.”
I made this unbelieved pistachio pesto [full recipe here] to top it with, you could eat it every day. Use a little bit of Sambal. People submitted some items that I should be using and they tried to trick me on some Chopped stuff but I just created a masterpiece.
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What’s your secret to a plant-based meal?
Not treating it as if it’s something different. You don’t put white gloves on like “ooh its plant-based” you just hit it with hard flavor like you normally would. It’s all about flavor, good olive oil, good products, it’s still all about the products. Make sure you keep it nice and fresh and creative.
Coachella is officially happening — next year. The juggernaut festival will occur from April 15 to 17 and April 22 to 24, 2022, according to an announcement from its promoter, Goldenvoice.
“Our desert homecoming is officially set for April 2022,” said the release. “Our advance sale begins this Friday, June 4th at 10 am PT. More time to plan and more time to pay for your passes over time with our flexible payment plan options. Information about flexible payment plans and more at coachella.com.”
Coachella’s sister festival, the country-themed Stagecoach, also announced that it will take place next year, from April 29 to May 1. “Stagecoach is back in the saddle!” said the announcement. “Be the first to find out about the advance sale right around the corner at stagecoachfestival.com.”
Artists playing at the festivals won’t be revealed until the beginning of the new year, per Variety. Coachella’s 2020 headliners included Travis Scott, Rage Against The Machine, Frank Ocean, Lana Del Rey, and Megan Thee Stallion. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 program was rescheduled several times before getting cancelled altogether.
Variety noted that YouTube will partner with Goldenvoice to live stream the festival for the 10th year. “We’re back and thrilled to be partnering with Goldenvoice,” YouTube said in a statement. “As the world’s biggest virtual stage, we are more excited than ever to celebrate live music and to bring two weekends of extraordinary performances to music fans around the world.”
See the announcement below.
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Actor, wrestler, and America’s sweetheart Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is back and continuing to impress fans with his work ethic and health. In preparation of the new DC movie Black Adam, where Johnson is set to star as the DC comic book villain, the actor is back in the gym, seemingly with a new approach to fitness.
Johnson looks as fit as ever, showing off robust gains and insane, boulder-like thighs, fitting for his new character. It’s hard to believe that such a physical feat is possible, especially for someone who’s spent decades in Hollywood, in the wrestling ring, and on football fields. Still, if his size and strength haven’t impressed you yet, this Instagram reveal, chock full of pulsing veins and sculpted arms is sure to set the record straight.
With the help of personal trainer Dave Rienzi, Johnson has embraced a more vigorous approach to his already-strenuous workout routine: “Been working extremely hard dieting, training and conditioning unlike any other role of my entire career.” The actor describes the process as highly-personalized, offering that Rienzi is “constantly fine tuning our strategy daily.”
Johnson certainly has every right to be proud of his hard work, though the “work” may speak for itself. While he’s still grateful and motivated at the gym, he admits in his caption that it hasn’t been easy: “Manipulating water, sodium, cardio but also having to push and pull real iron to have dense, dry, detailed muscle. It’s a real science that takes months and months to dial it all in.”
Will you be refreshing his Instagram page for updates or will you be in theaters next year to see how the regimen turns out? Let us know.
Hip-hop Twitter has been debating all week about whose face should be added to RapCaviar’s official 2010s Mount Rushmore list. The ultra-popular Spotify playlist’s curators presented a list of some of the most influential rap artists of the last decade, adding Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and J. Cole to the mock-up of Mount Rushmore. Asking hip-hop enthusiasts to help determine who should be the fourth face on the monument, RapCaviar received responses from just about everybody. Even LeBron James chimed in, claiming that Future should be given the final spot.
After LeBron vouched for Future, a defining artist of the decade slid into his replies and reminded him of her existence, tossing up an alley-oop and stating that there is only one correct response, and that’s Nicki Minaj. After the Barbz got started on the fan-determined poll established by RapCaviar, Nicki ended up being officially named the fourth face on Mount Rushmore.
“End of discussion @NICKIMINAJ,” wrote the heads of the playlist on Tuesday afternoon. The results of the poll show that out of over 170,000 votes, nearly 40% of people believed that Nicki should be added to the list. Kanye West received 33% of the vote and Future followed with 17%. Finally, Lil Wayne earned 9% of the vote.
Do you agree that Nicki Minaj deserved a spot at the table? It’s pretty difficult to argue otherwise so if you’ve got an argument, you better come correct.
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