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J Cole Shows Why He’s A Master Of Storytelling & Introspection On “Keep Heaven Dancing”

December 22, 2024 by newhiphopnews

It’s clear that a lot of J Cole fans preach that the 2014 Forest Hills Drive era is the MC’s best ever. Additionally, a lot of folk’s label the project the best of his career too. Well, if there were any remaining doubters out there that needed some convincing the 10th Anniversary Edition of the tape should sway them that way. After initially rolling out two vinyl variants, a CD, and then a digital release for it, Cole decided to give everyone a chance by putting it on DSPs. All eight bonus tracks have arrived and there a lot of amazing throwaways, which just proves how much heat Cole had in the vault.

It’s a shame a song like “Keep Heaven Dancing” missed the final cut, but at least it’s here now. Cole’s storytelling and introspection on it is truly the stuff of legend. On it, he raps with a wide scope lens about his past growing up in North Carolina and everything he witnessed. Whether it was a love, violence, friends not making it out of the hood, he excellently sums up what shaped him today. It’s riddled with elite penmanship, stank face-inducing flows, and clever double entendres. It’s truly got it all and we highly recommend you give “Keep Heaven Dancing” a careful listen.

“Keep Heaven Dancing” – J Cole

Quotable Lyrics:

I miss Aiesha, had the caramel features and a lot of hair
Sometimes, I wonder where she at now
Imaginin’ the way she look and how she act now
Did the hood get her? Have a baby by a hood n****
Give ya two good guesses where he at now
But, you never know maybe she overcame

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J Cole May Bring You To Tears With “2014 Forest Hills Drive” Bonus Track “Die Together”

December 7, 2024 by newhiphopnews

The year didn’t get off to the strongest of starts for J Cole this year. However, the backend is a completely different story. Over these past couple of weeks, he’s been giving his fans some incredible stories through his Inevitable audio platform. They have very detailed accounts of the first few years of his career and the projects he dropped within that span. But what’s more is that he’s officially shared some music and mixtapes that have been coveted for so long. His first three mixtapes are out now on streaming, and so are some leftovers from the 2014 Forest Hills Drive era.

It’s all to commemorate the album’s 10-year anniversary, which will be on December 9. They were available on two exclusive (and now sold out) physical variants of the album which each had 2,014 units available. There are eight in total and four of them are finding their way onto YouTube thanks to customers receiving the blue alternate cover. “Home Soon,” “Die Together,” “Judgment Day,” and “Winter Wonderland” are in the first batch. The second is sticking out to fans and us the most thanks to its possible connection to 4 Your Eyez Only. He appears to rapping from the perspective of his late friend who refers to as James McMillian, Jr. It’s an amazing storytelling piece, and one that most likely inspired that project. Fair warning: this one may make you cry a little.

“Die Together” – J Cole

Quotable Lyrics:

A quarter pounder get a n**** blown to smithereens (F*** you say, n****?)
My mama askеd me, “What that drama ’bout?”, and I don’t lie
I said, “A little bit of monеy and a lotta pride”
I swear to God, I cry when I look in my daughter eye
I’m thinkin’ if I die tonight, I never taught her how to ride a bike
And how to fight if n****s clownin’ on her

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Benny The Butcher & 38 Spesh Officially Release Their “Sway’s Universe” Freestyle To Streaming

November 27, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Two New York MCs still maintaining the street grittiness in the modern era listened to the people. Benny The Butcher and 38 Spesh popped out for a Sway’s Universe appearance about a month ago and laid down a show-stopping freestyle. Fans were in awe of their bars, especially The Butcher’s. “Only way I can protect my peace is if my piece protect me… It’s so hot I can’t talk, it’s like the one chip challenge.” It’s got almost 400,000 since it hit YouTube, so they decided to officially release it as the “SS2 Freestyle” on streaming. Whoever selected the beat for these two prolific MCs was smart because the methodical, dark, and grand beat is right in their wheelhouse.

It sounds like something from any one of their records, including their most recent. Last month, Butch and Spesh dropped off their second entry in the STABBED & SHOT series. Special guests included V Don, Harry Fraud, Busta Rhymes, Dave East, Daringer, Ransom, among others. For Benny, it’s his third record of 2024, as it follows up on his Black Soprano Family release, Summertime Butch, and his Def Jam Recordings debut, Everybody Can’t Go. For Spesh, he’s also been on a tear. He’s up to five on the year, with Mother & Gun, God’s Timing, In God We Trust, and Checks & Balances being his roster of LPs. Overall, it’s just been another year of major moves and excellent projects for these two close friends. Their dedication to the craft and willingness to release new material so consistently makes them two of the underground’s generational titans. “SS2 Freestyle” is more proof of that and we can’t wait to see where they go from here.

“SS2 Freestyle” – Benny The Butcher & 38 Spesh

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PartyNextDoor Finally Releases Much Anticipated Loosie “Dreamin”

November 4, 2024 by newhiphopnews

PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake have fans on the edge of their seats as the wait on their collaboration project. Overall, there’s a strong belief it will drop by the end of the year and it will apparently contain 15 cuts, according to the OVO signee. “The one we doing right now, all 15 we doing right now,” he said in response to someone who asked him what his favorite track was. Hopefully, a release date/cover art reveal comes within the next couple of weeks. But for now, PARTYNEXTDOOR is surprising his loyal fanbase once more in 2024 by dropping off “Dreamin.” This is a prized loosie within his community, and one that made headway in March 2015.

“Dreamin” is known as a potential throwaway from the first PARTYNEXTDOOR era. Additionally, it’s supposedly a part of stretch in 2015 that saw multiple unreleased songs circle the internet. Regardless of how long this song has been in limbo, fans sure seem ecstatic that it’s getting an official widespread release. “He really released this officially, what a W,” one Reddit user says. “Dope. He’s one of those artists that has a huge amount of leaks, some of which is up there as his best stuff,” another adds. We agree with the praise and can see what the chatter has been about. PARTY sounds right at home over this spacey and rumbling contemporary production. Overall, it’s not one of his most riveting lyrical performances, but the vibes sure are, and this track shows how he’s built his respected reputation over the years.

“Dreamin” – PartyNextDoor

Quotable Lyrics:

Ride around, gettin’ it
Blowin’ money on my main b****
Bumpin’ 2 Chainz, bumpin’ 2 Chainz
In the Range Rove’, in the damn thing
Ain’t a fluke, baby, ain’t a fluke, baby
Cause the hook game got me out the loot, baby

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Travis Scott Finally Releases Highly Sought After Playboi Carti Collab “Houdini”

August 30, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Travis Scott is pulling off another impressive feat with his 2014 mixtape, DAYS BEFORE RODEO. La Flame is looking like he’s going to move around 217,000 copies of his 10-year-old project, outselling brand-new efforts from other artists. Just like in 2018 with ASTROWORLD, he’s trying to outpace another massive female artist in sales by dropping off tons of bundles. Last night, the Houston, Texas powerhouse dropped off five new editions. Three of them included two new “Vault” tracks apiece, with the other two being “Chopped N’ Screwed” and “Live From Atlanta” renditions.

“Vault 2” saw Travis Scott include “Hold On” with Quavo and Young Thug and “Respected”. For number three, fans were treated to “Naughty” and “Too Many Options with another Thugger appearance. Finally, “Vault 4” will probably go down as the most treasured of these three because it contains “Quintana Pt. 2 (Mike Dean Outro)” and “Houdini (WHOUDINI)” with Playboi Carti, according to NFR Podcast. If you want to get your hand on either one, especially the latter, you unfortunately cannot.

Fans Have Been Waiting For Travis Scott To Drop “Houdini”

They were available last night only for $4.99 each. However, “Houdini” is a track that’s been floating around the internet for years. A lot of Travis die-hards either have it on their Soundcloud or have a local file of some sort. Additionally, a fan account by the name of Sullyy is sharing the “Vault” tracks on his YouTube, which you can find above. When Scott announced the initial deluxe last week, he said the bonus cuts would be from the DBR era. However, these new bonus songs seem to be pulling from all over his career. “Houdini” was originally a hopeful inclusion for ASTROWORLD, making it a 2017-2018 recording. However, it never made the cut. Now, though, its officially out and fans are ecstatic.

Fan Reactions

What are your thoughts on Travis Scott finally releasing “Houdini” featuring Playboi Carti? Is this the most prized unreleased La Flame track in your eyes? Is this revitalization of DAYS BEFORE RODEO and its era one of the smartest things he’s ever done? Have you copped anything from the drop over the last week? Finally, should he drop any more tracks? We would like to hear what you have to say, so leave your thoughts in the comments. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the latest news surrounding Travis Scott and Playboi Carti. Furthermore, stay with us for everything else going on in the music world.

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Drake & Lil Yachty Get Approval To Drop “Supersoak,” But There’s A Catch

August 5, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Drake and Lil Yachty’s leaked and Kai Cenat-premiered collaboration ” S.O.D. (Supersoak)” might just see the light of day… under one condition. The social media creator behind the sample used for the track, Mr. Hotspot, recently spoke on the sample clearance issues that Yachty revealed during a Flagrant podcast appearance, which is what led the Atlanta rapper and pop-psych-rock creative to leak the song in the first place. During a TikTok livestream, Hotspot revealed that he would be down to clear the sample if the duo made a clean and kid-friendly version of the track, as his religious views are what apparently made him refrain from clearing the sample originally.

“It’ll be good for both of their brands,” Mr. Hotspot said of this ultimatum for Lil Yachty and Drake’s latest team-up track, “Supersoak.” “I’m blessed to work with children so we just gotta make it clean for them. We don’t need no children getting whooped cause they said this or that, you understand? It’s the children who really running these views up. So if we make sure both verses clean everybody coming clean, everybody gonna benefit.”

Mr. Hotspot Will Clear Drake & Lil Yachty’s Collab Under One Condition

Mr Hotspot breaks his silence and says he now told Lil Yachty and Drake to create a clean version of ‘Supersoak’ / ‘Goodness Gracious,’ since he works with kids, thats the way he’ll clear the sample, seems like its happening

“hopefully they re-record the clean reference and we… https://t.co/jNy4Zx8NYK pic.twitter.com/pHvq4GdgNi

— SOUND (@itsavibe) August 4, 2024

“I sent a song to Kai to leak,” Lil Yachty had told Andrew Schulz and company on the Flagrant podcast concerning this Drake collab. “We couldn’t get the sample cleared, so I just let Kai play it.” “But it’s everywhere,” he added when speaking of how they might never be able to release it officially. Of course, this new condition opens that avenue up, but considering that Mr. Hotspot only recently sent them a clean version of the sample, it would most likely take a while to come out. “He went down, like, a Christian path,” Yachty said of Hotspot. “I don’t even think we got into money. He was just like, ‘No.’ It was crazy.”

Meanwhile, someone else with some issues with “Supersoak” is Soulja Boy, who thinks he caught some strays on the leaked version. “Drake, you up here talking about some S.O.D. super soak,” he ranted on social media. “Boy, stop playing wit me, boy. That better be a f***ing shout out, n***a. You better keep that s**t light, my boy. This your first and only warning.”

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James Fauntleroy & No ID (The 80s) Revive “The Pursuit” 13 Years Later

June 22, 2024 by newhiphopnews

James Fauntleroy and legendary producer No ID are giving fans what they want this summer. They are combining their talents on an EP, but not in the way that you think. This is not a brand-new release by any means. In fact, this tape that is out now is about 13 years old. It is called The Pursuit, and it is a production of the duo’s group known as The 80s or The Cocaine 80s. If you have not heard of this collective before, let us give you a little history lesson for some background.

James and No ID are just two of the artists responsible for bringing this idea to fruition back in the early 2010s. Chicago rap genius Common, as well as Los Angeles-bred singer Jhené Aiko, joined along for the ride. This quartet is known for the smooth and stunning R&B cuts with an alternative flare. What you are seeing in front of you is the first of four EPs, as The Pursuit began the string of EPs from 2011 to 2013. The last of them was The Flower Of Life and since then, we have not received any new music from this talented act. Hopefully, with The 80s bringing The Pursuit to streaming this weekend, maybe they will revive the other subsequent EPs. You can check out the long-awaited fan-favorite tape with the links below and relive the magic that was created all those years ago.

Listen To The Pursuit By The 80s, James Fauntleroy, & No ID

The Pursuit Tracklist:

Nameless
Summer Madness with Common
To Tell You The Truth
Get You Some
Not No More
Nothing
Anywhere But Here
Like A Fool (Birdsong)
Blue with Snoh Aalegra

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Kali Uchis Officially Releases The Long-Awaited Fan-Favorite “Never Be Yours”

June 22, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Colombian American singer Kali Uchis fed fans good already, but she is back to show she is not done yet, dropping “Never Be Yours” earlier today. It feels like an eternity since she put out ORQUIDEAS back in January, so maybe that is why she is feeling extra generous this weekend. This song is big deal for her “Kuchis”, as “Never Be Yours” was a track on a 2012 project, Drunken Babble. Unfortunately, the song and album are not on any streaming services. However, that could all change very soon, at least that is the hope that is being held out from listeners.

While we will just have to wait on that, how does this track sound after 12 years? Well, if you take a listen to the separate versions below you will notice quite the difference. You can tell that the 2012 offering is rougher around the edges and not nearly as well produced as the 2024 take. It makes sense, though, as it was originally a demo. The structure of the song is very simple, as the verse is repeated twice, and the chorus is extremely catchy. It was a smart move on Kali’s part to give the fans this track, as it blew up back in the day (24 million views on YouTube). She was excited to get this one out, writing on her IG, “entering ︎ season feeling yummy & reclaiming some of my life’s work! NBY out now! ”

Listen To “Never Be Yours” By Kali Uchis

Quotable Lyrics:

Bring me down, tear me up
Take my very last buck
Go to class, kiss my a**
It’ll bring you good luck
Brighten up, lighten up
What is it they’re fighting for?

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