Month: August 2024

Powers Pleasant And Joey Badass Sound Triumphant On “Rumble” Single

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Powers Pleasant and Joey Badass have a stellar track record. “Purified” and “Pull Up” were radically different songs that proved the rappers could pull off any style with, well style. “Rumble” sounds very different from their previous releases, and they once again crush it. “Purified” was a gritty banger and “Pull Up” was a chilled out posse cut. “Rumble,” on the other hand, is a horn-accented anthem that sounds like it could soundtrack a U.S. Olympics montage. Powers Pleasant knows it too. “This that Olympic gold metal sh*t,” he raps at one point.

The beat is so good that it would make even a mediocre rapper sound good. Fortunately, Powers Pleasant and Joey Badass bring their A-bars. The former busts out a speedy flow that aligns perfectly with the tight horn samples. He gets a little hard to understand at points, but it all sounds so good that it’s easy to forgive. Joey Badass handles the first verse on “Rumble,” and is predictably excellent. He has a more lyrical verse than his partner, with lines about shot clocks melting the booth down. “You are not my friend and I am not the Daila Lama,” he raps. “I keep a couple of choppas. They call me Joey Montana fo we have problems b*tch.” “It’s”Rumble” is a short song, but it leaves a tremendous impact.

Let us know what you think of this brand-new track, in the comments section down below. Additionally, stay tuned to HNHH for the latest news and updates from around the music world. We will continue to keep you informed on all of your favorite artists and their upcoming projects.

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Powers Pleasant And Joey Badass Change Up Their Styles

Quotable Lyrics:

They see me on TV so they know that
I’m with the drama
We ain’t got nothing in common
You kill ’em with kindness, I kill ’em with commas

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Benny The Butcher Gives Fans A Gritty Summer With “Summertime Butch”

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Benny the Butcher turned heads when he announced title of his new album. Summertime Butch seemed tailor made for mockery. The rapper was either going to put a unique spin on his tried and true sound, or flop attempting a glossy, shiny suit detour. Thankfully, Benny went with the former. The album has more of a summer vibe than, say, the Tana Talk series, but the whole point of those is to make the listener feel like they’re experiencing a chilly NYC winter. Summertime Butch is a cool change of pace in this regard. It’s the sound Benny the Butcher waxing poetic in a white linen shirt.

“One Verse Butch” is vintage Mafioso rap. Benny the Butcher drops Pacino references over a wicked piano loop, and true to form, he knocks out his stellar verse in one extended run. The production is the biggest change on Summertime Butch, and the best songs on the album know to keep it simple. Benny the Butcher’s flow is so captivating that he doesn’t need a lot of musical flourishes to make a compelling track. “Knightfall” and “Summer ’24” are perfect examples of this formula. The latter is a candidate for best on the album thanks to the pocket Benny finds on the second verse. “The Blue Building” is a close second, thanks to Amber Simone’s soaring chorus. Bottom line: Benny the Butcher did it again.

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Benny The Butcher Sounds Sharp As Ever On New Album

Summertime Butch tracklist:

  1. One Verse Butch
  2. The Most (featuring Ray Moon)
  3. Sundress & Sandle Season (Interlude)
  4. Knightfall
  5. Summer ’24 (Ed Lover Mix) [featuring Ed Lover]
  6. Kitchen Table (featuring Black Soprano Family & Harry Fraud)
  7. Peachtree (Interlude)
  8. The Blue Building (featuring Amber Simone)
  9. The Warehouse 3 (featuring ElCamino, Fuego Base & Rick Hyde)
  10. Higher (featuring Lindsay Niccs)

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Fans Think Taylor Swift Trolled Kanye West By Dropping New Album Versions

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It’s a confusing time to be a Kanye West fan. The last week has been filled with highs and lows the likes of which few fanbases have experienced. West dropped VULTURES 2 after months of delay. Then, the rapper made tweaks. Lots and lots of tweaks. So many tweaks, in fact that VULTURES 2 barely looks or sounds like the project that originally dropped. Kanye West resorted to dropping four different versions of the album on his personal website, Yeezy.com. Then, within hours of doing so, Taylor Swift decided to release four versions of her latest album. Coincidence? The fans don’t think so.

To be fair, few things are coincidental when it comes to Taylor Swift. She has a reputation for being one of the most calculated (and oftentimes, vindictive) artists in the world. Swift and West have had beef for over a decade, and the narrative has really turned in Swift’s favor since the rapper interrupted her at the VMAs. She’s become the biggest artist on the planet in the 2020s. West, meanwhile, has become a pop culture pariah. It’s very conceivable that Taylor Swift would drop four different versions of her album the same exact time West is doing so as a means of overshadowing him.

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Taylor Swift Dropped Her Versions The Same Day As West

August 8, the day all this happened, was a particularly hectic one for West. The rapper uploaded new songs that were taken down from streaming platforms within hours. Then, he tweeted out that Atlantic Records are trying to stifle his creativity and threatening to take both VULTURES albums down as well. It’s a mess of a situation, and one that’s developing faster than people are even able to cover it. By the time I finish writing this, there will likely be new changes to VULTURES 2. Did we mention that West took down the different versions of the album on his website? It’s impossible to tell whether Taylor Swift’s drop was partially to blame, but wilder things have happened. Especially with these two artists.

It hasn’t been all smooth sailing for Taylor Swift, however. The album that now has multiple versions for sale, The Tortured Poets Department, was her worst received yet. Fans felt like the singer rehashed what made her notable in the first place. The singer also decided to cancel multiple tour dates in Europe after two ticket buyers were arrested. According to Newsweek, the ticket buyers in question were planning to launch a terrorist attack in Vienna, where Swift was slated to perform.

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Chlöe’s Questioning ‘Want Me’ Is The Long-Awaited Reunion With Her Sister Halle

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There’s Trouble In Paradise, but Chloe X Halle fans are probably more than happy to hear it, as the new album from Chlöe, the older half of the sister act, finally reunites with her younger sibling Halle on the standout track, “Want Me.” A wistful track that finds the duo pondering one of life’s most relatable phenomena (“why is it the ones we don’t want that want us?”) over a downtempo beat composed of a simple guitar loop complimented by finger snaps.

“Want Me” represents the first time the sisters have released a record together since 2020, when they released their breakout sophomore album, Ungodly Hour, which launched them into the upper echelons of stardom. Since then, they’ve both embarked on successful, but disparate solo careers, with Chlöe delving into more grown-up material with her debut solo single, “Have Mercy,” in 2021, and eventually releasing her first solo album, In Pieces, last year.

Halle, meanwhile, took a seemingly more wholesome route after securing the lead role in Disney’s The Little Mermaid remake, then landing a vital role in the musical Color Purple film. Halle kicked off 2024 with the announcement of the birth of her baby Halo, and while she’s released a solo track of her own, she also decided to take a break from being in the public eye to regroup after admitting to having “severe” postpartum depression.

You can listen to “Want Me” above.

Trouble In Paradise is out now via Parkwood. You can find more info here.

LL Cool J And Saweetie Reveal Their Shared ‘Proclivities’ In The Latest Single From ‘The FORCE’

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LL Cool J wanders a rap bordello in the video for his newest single, “Proclivities,” which features Saweetie and is produced by Q-Tip. Over a ’80s New Wave-ish sample, LL raps about various kinks and fetishes — y’know, his usual, raunchy material — while Saweetie croons on the hook and references past LL hits like “Jingling Baby.” Naturally, there are plenty of scantily clad women scattered throughout the video, so maybe don’t watch on your work computer. If anyone was worried about LL’s previous proclamation that he had to “teach myself to rap again,” have no fear — his pen game sounds as sharp as ever (if anything, he sounds a lot like Nas, another Queens native).

“Proclivities” is set to appear on LL’s upcoming album, The FORCE (Frequencies Of Real Creative Energy), the rap pioneer’s first official studio album in over eleven years and first under Def Jam since 2008’s Exit 13. The album will be LL’s fourteenth studio album overall, and was executive-produced by fellow Queens native Q-Tip. He’s been working on the album for over a year, and in that time, he revealed that he actually shelved another album produced with 50 Cent. Prior to “Proclivities,” he also dropped the single “Passion.”

Watch LL Cool J’s video for “Proclivities” featuring Saweetie above.

The FORCE (Frequencies Of Real Creative Energy) is due on 9/6 via Def Jam Recordings / Virgin Music Group. You can find more info here.

Latto And Megan Thee Stallion Reunite As One Heck Of A Tag Team On ‘Squeeze’

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Latto and Megan Thee Stallion have so far made for one heck of a tag team. The two Southern rappers first paired up on “Budget” from Megan Thee Stallion’s second album Traumazine, while Latto invited the Houston Hottie to join her on the remix of her own hit single, “Sunday Service,” alongside Flo Milli. They reunite on Latto’s new album, Sugar Honey Iced Tea, on the song “Squeeze,” making Meg the only artist to appear twice on the album and one of the five non-Atlanta artists to appear.

Their team-up is unsurprising; they’re both from the South, they’ve both got reputations for being girls’ girls within hip-hop, they pride themselves on their lyrical skills, and they rank pretty high on the list of Nicki Minaj’s least-favorite people (right under Cardi B, who is, presumably, a lot of the reason she doesn’t like them after both collaborated with her mortal enemy, a high crime in her mind). They’ve also both got a fondness for twerking at their shows and challenged each other to a friendly twerk-off during Megan’s recent tour. Meg and Latto expressed plenty of excitement about their latest collab on Twitter (never calling it “X”), with Meg also revealing her video for “Mamushi” is on the way.

You can listen to “Squeeze” above.

Sugar Honey Iced Tea is out now via RCA Records. You can find more info here.

Polo G Drops Heartfelt “Hood Poet” Album After A Three Year Absence

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Polo G has been through it. The rapper’s music has always had a contemplative feel to it, but the events of the last few years had doubled it. Polo G has opened up about his decision to step out of the spotlight and get sober, which has resulted in Hood Poet being delayed multiple times. Well, we finally have it. The anticipated fourth album by Polo G is here, and we’re happy to say it was worth the wait. It not only lays any claims to rest that the rapper has lost it, it might just be his most focused release yet. Hood Poet evokes previously untapped depth, and the album lives up to its weighty title.

There’s not a lot of joy on here, but Polo G does an exemplary job of exploring darker spaces. “Detox” breaks down his dire struggle to get sober, while “Darkside” gives the rapper ample room to wax poetic about his past. Thankfully, the guest features buy into the album’s themes. Lil Durk sounds impassioned as ever on the standout single “We Uh Shoot.” 42 Dugg, meanwhile, delivers a particularly gritty verse on “Only Gang.” Polo G really gets in his bag on the album’s solo songs, though. “Thorns” and “Distraction” are driven by the tension between slow tempos and Polo G’s propulsive flow. The best example of this is the single “Angels In the Sky.” It not only boasts one of the best beats, but one of the rapper’s catchiest hooks to date. We’re glad Polo G took his time with this one.

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Hood Poet tracklist:

  1. God’s Favorite
  2. No Recruits (featuring G Herbo)
  3. Barely Holdin’ On
  4. Only Gang (featuring 42 Dugg)
  5. Same Me (featuring Fridayy)
  6. Detox
  7. Thorns
  8. G63 (featuring Offset)
  9. We Uh Shoot (featuring Lil Durk)
  10. Rain Fallin’ (featuring The Kid Laroi)
  11. Distraction
  12. No Turning Back (featuring Hunxho)
  13. Angels In the Sky
  14. Darkside
  15. Bad Kids (featuring GloRilla)
  16. Survival of the Fittest (featuring Future)
  17. Father’s Day
  18. From the Heart

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Latto Gives Fans What They Want On “Sugar Honey Iced Tea” Album

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Latto knows what works. She’s at her best when making brash pop-rap. It’s what led to her break out with “Big Energy” in 2021, and shot her back up the charts in 2023 with “Put It on da Floor Again.” it’s a formula that works, and the rapper wisely decided not to tinker when it came to her brand new album. Sugar Honey Ice Tea is every bit the smooth musical ride fans want. Latto is talking trash to her haters, and flexing her skills over sugary instrumentals. It’s a little long in terms of runtime, but taken as songs, there’s a lot of good material on here. The singles sound especially good in the context of the album.

The aforementioned “Put It on da Floor Again” and “Sunday Service (Remix)” still ring off thanks to standout guest features. It’s the other collabs, though, that make the album such a pleasant surprise. Latto and Megan Thee Stallion flash killer chemistry on the song “Squeeze,” which is about exactly what you think it is. Mariah the Scientist and Ciara allow the rapper to showcase different sides and sounds, and they mostly go over well. The Ciara track, “Good 2 You,” feels like a conscious throwback to Ciara’s debut album, which Latto has cited as a musical influence. Young Nudy is a bit out of place on the song “Shrimps & Grits,” but Latto’s performance and the wavy beat help to keep it together. To Latto’s credit, she also does a solid job of holding down solo songs like “Brokey.” A successful project in our book.

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Sugar Honey Iced Tea tracklist:

  1. Georgia Peach
  2. Big Mama
  3. Blick Sum
  4. Settle Down
  5. Shrimps & Grits (featuring Young Nudy)
  6. There She Go
  7. Brokey
  8. Mimi (Interlude)
  9. H&M
  10. Copper Love (featuring Hunxho)
  11. Ear Candy (featuring Coco Jones)
  12. Liquor
  13. Squeeze (featuring Megan Thee Stallion)
  14. Good to You (featuring Ciara)
  15. Look What You Did (featuring Mariah the Scientist)
  16. Prized Possession (featuring Teezo Touchdown)
  17. S/O to Me
  18. Put It on da Floor
  19. Put It on da Floor Again (featuring Cardi B)
  20. Sunday Service
  21. Sunday Service (Remix) [featuring Megan Thee Stallion & FloMilli]

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Amber Rose Dismisses Fans Who Turned Their Back On Drake’s Music

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Amber Rose has spent most of 2024 as a defender. She turned lots of heads when she declared that she supported Donald Trump. She even spoke on Trump’s behalf during the Republican National Convention. Now, it seems the model is turning her attention towards Drake. Amber Rose hopped on social media on August 8 to show that she was playing the rapper’s classic single “Controlla.” She also took the time out to denigrate fans who claim to have jumped off the Drake wagon after a decade and a half. As far as she is concerned, the stance is disingenuous.

Amber Rose made it clear that she still rocks with the Toronto rapper, and anybody who claims not to is kidding themselves. “So we’re all gonna act like Drake’s music isn’t the soundtrack of our lives… ok,” she wrote on Instagram. Rose and Drake have had a complicated relationship over the years. The former was sampled by Drake on the Views song “Faithful,” and the two were seen spending time together in Miami in 2016. Page Six reported that the two celebs were spotted dining “in the wine room at Prime 112.”

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Drake Has Shouted Out Amber Rose On Record

Drake would also reference Amber Rose on the 2018 song “Sandra’s Rose.” The rapper even shouted out Rose’s “Slut Walk” charity. “My mother had a flower shop, but I was Sandra’s rose,” he spit. “Two girls that I rope like Indiana Jones. I make them h*es walk together like I’m Amber Rose.” It hasn’t been all love from Rose, however. In 2015, the model used Drake as an example of double standards in the music scene. She criticized outlets for being openly critical of her links to men, while the rapper was said to a bachelor. While Amber Rose gets labeled a “slut,” she lamented that Drake’s escapades are considered part of his “love life.”

Amber Rose and Drake are also linked through Kanye West. Both celebrities were once close with the Chicago rapper, only to have highly publicized falling outs. Rose talked about her time dating West on the Forbidden Fruits podcast. She admitted that it was overwhelming to be with such a polarizing celebrity. “I was the first,” she noted. “I was the girlfriend and then all of the sudden I was by myself walking around.” Drake viewed Kanye West as a mentor during the first leg of the 2010s, only to beef with the rapper for the next decade. West was one of the many rappers who dissed Drake earlier this year. At least he has Amber Rose is his corner.

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