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Today In Hip Hop History: Das EFX’s Debut Album ‘Dead Serious’ Turns 30 Years Old!

April 7, 2022 by newhiphopnews

A couple of dreadheaded backpackers made stuttering rhymes chic when Krayz Drayz and Skoob came together and dropped their Dead Serious album April 7, 1992.

Released on the East/West imprint and recorded in both the famed Firehouse Studios in Brooklyn and North Shore Soundworks in Long Island, Dead Serious became a platinum selling album in just two years, revering it as one of the most influential LPs of the “Golden Era”.

The hit singles “They Want Efx” and “Mic Checka” were both forces to be reckoned with on the Billboard charts, while the virtually production of Chris Charity and Derek Lynch aka “Solid Scheme” ensured the consistent output of quality music for Das EFX until Charity’s untimely passing in 2000.

The Brooklyn, NY/Teaneck, NJ duo met in college at Virginia State University and became a part of EPMD‘s “Hit Squad” collective in just two years after their initial meeting with EPMD and never looked back. Salute to Drayz, Skoob, and the entire former Hit Squad family for bringing us such an historic classic.

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Latto’s “Big Energy” Reaches No. 3 On Billboard’s Hot 100

April 7, 2022 by newhiphopnews

Latto’s “Big Energy” continues to climb up the Billboard charts as the track now sits at No.3 on the Billboards.

This is Latto’s first Hot 100 top 10, as “Big Energy” climbed eight spots from 11-3. She took it to Twitter to express enormous gratitude for the success of her record.

“Big Energy” dropped in 2021 and debuted at No.15 on the Billboards, but on Mar. 27, when she dropped the remix with Mariah Carey and Dj Khaled, the energy got bigger for the Clayton County native.

The song also jumped 5-2 on Digital Song Sales (12,900, up 146%) and 7-6 on Radio Songs (52.7 million, up 8%) and debuts at No. 14 on Streaming Songs (9.5 million, up 36%), as it triples up with the Hot 100’s top Airplay, Sales and Streaming Gainer awards.

This success of Latto’s “Big Energy” is currently on a historic pace. It’s the first song to sweep all three honors in a single week since Adele’s “Easy on Me,” following its first full week of tracking, atop the Oct. 30, 2021, chart.) It’s also the first female rap song to enter the Billboard top 5 since “Up” by Cardi B.

The Georgia female hot spitter was elated and tweeted with”Big Energy.”

This accomplishment is just a milestone for Latto. She’s happy with being at No.3, but she’s far from satisfied. As celebratory as she was, she didn’t lose sight of the bigger picture, and she urged her fan base to keep supporting her as she pushed for No.1.

“Big Energy” is the lead single from the release of her second LP, 777. The project dropped on Mar. 25 and features 21 Savage, Lil Durk, Nardo Wick, Kodak Black, Lil Wayne, and Childish Gambino.

Wayne and Gambino are featured on Latto’s “Sunshine,” also charted on Billboard’s Bubbling Under chart at No. 25.

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Post Malone, Playboi Carti, Gunna & Young Thug to Headline Summer Smash Festival in Chicago

April 7, 2022 by newhiphopnews

Summer Smash Festival has announced the full music lineup for this year’s three-day music festival, which will take place in Chicago, Illinois, from Friday, June 17 to Sunday, June 19. Headliners for this year’s edition include Post Malone, Young Thug, Gunna, and Playboi Carti.

Summer Smash Festival, founded by two Chicago-based music powerhouses – concert promoter SPKRBX and next-gen media business Lyrical Lemonade – has evolved into one of the country’s largest independent music events, with 90,000 attendance last summer. Summer Smash will shortly return to its regular dates in mid-June, bringing the festival’s most stacked lineup to date, packed to the brim with today’s biggest hip-hop names.

The festivities will begin on Friday with a headlining performance by Grammy Award-winning rap pioneer Young Thug, who will be joined by fellow YSL Records labelmate Gunna for the Atlanta-based rap duo’s first-ever full-set collaborative performance; and will conclude on Saturday night with a performance by singer/songwriter Post Malone, who is one of the highest-selling music artists of the past quarter-century and is preparing to release his next album later this year. Following his recent “Album of the Year” nomination at the 2022 Grammy Awards in recognition of his efforts to Kanye West’s critically praised project Donda, enigmatic emcee Playboi Carti will help finish out the three-day festival on Sunday night.

Additional weekend performances include cloud rap, southern hip-hop, trap, drill, West Coast, and more, with first-time Summer Smash appearances from Wiz Khalifa, Polo G, Rico Nasty, Oliver Tree, 2 Chainz, and Ohgeesy, as well as the Chicago debut of emerging rap artist Yeat. Other notable artists include Trippie Redd, Ski Mask The Slump God, Lil Tecca, and $not, among many others, who are helping to complete the 2022 schedule.

“Today marks an exciting milestone for Summer Smash as we unveil our biggest music lineup to date. It’s been incredible to witness our fest grow into one of the largest annual music events in the country in only four short years”, said Summer Smash Festival Director and SPKRBX Founder Berto Solorio. “Our team is always striving to improve and elevate the festival experience, so we can’t wait to show our fans what we have in store this summer including bigger music acts performing on bigger stages, plus more food trucks, improved amenities, and more art installations than ever before. We’ve leveled up the entire experience.”

Tickets for the three-day GA and VIP events will go on sale this Friday, April 8, at 10:00 a.m. CST at www.TheSummerSmash.com.

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