HipHopDX is again with one other version of New Music Friday, a weekly round-up of one of the best recent albums from Hip Hop and R&B.
With Thanksgiving across the nook and the brand new yr inching nearer and nearer, this mid-November listing options artists pumping out a bit extra warmth because the climate continues to chill. Kicking issues off this week is West Coast rapper Roddy Ricch with the third installment of his Feed Tha Streets collection.
From there we head to Memphis the place Key Glock honors his late cousin Younger Dolph with PRE5L a yr after his tragic passing. Additionally included on this listing is BROCKHAMPTON’s The Household, their supposed ultimate album, new Destroy Lonely, a Busta Rhymes EP and a lot extra.
Roddy Ricch – Feed Tha Streets 3
Roddy Ricch ascended to rap’s hierarchy with a blistering tempo. His Feed Tha Streets II helped propel him from an area affect in Compton to a real power to be reckoned with. However it was his verse on Nipsey Hussle’s “Racks within the Center” and Please Excuse Me for Being Delinquent which proved that Ricch was able to functioning on the highest stage in all of Hip Hop.
After a tepid reception to his 2021 undertaking LIVE LIFE FAST, Ricch vowed to make followers proper. His newest album, Feed Tha Streets 3, goals to do exactly that: recenter the “Ballin’” rapper as one of many sport’s most elite.
Key Glock – PRE5L
Key Glock and Younger Dolph had been one of the exuberant and thrilling duos in all of rap. Their pure chemistry oozed out of the music, revealing that the 2 rappers, additionally cousins, shared an intense bond. Following the horrific homicide of Dolph in 2021, Glock has made it a mission to maintain his legacy alive, continuously dedicating new releases to him and talking his title wherever attainable.
PRE5L, the newest drop from the PRE rapper, continues to uplift his misplaced accomplice in a method he would know and respect: arduous raps over trunk-rattling beats.
BROCKHAMPTON – The Household
BROCKHAMPTON, the boy-band/rap group which first took off by way of the three volumes of the SATURATION collection, which contained songs like “BLEACH,” “FACE,” “BOOGIE” and “SWEET,” has tossed backwards and forwards the concept of retirement. Whereas plainly frontman Kevin Summary (and doubtlessly a few of the different members within the massive crew) will proceed releasing music in a solo capability, their newest album, The Household, will function the group’s final.
Spanning 17-tracks, The Household goals to finish the circle the identical method it began: by way of bouncing, exuberant raps, fast hand-offs and playful melodies.
Destroy Lonely – NS+ (ULTRA)
When he first started to bubble-up from rap’s underground, many noticed Destroy Lonely as a Playboi Carti biter. In fact, the Atlanta rapper is signed to Carti’s Opium Data, so it’s solely pure that his sound is analogous. However regardless of their similarity, calling Destroy Lonely a clone is a crude discount of the rapper’s ethos.
Following the discharge of his newest album NO STYLIST, which featured breakout hits such because the album’s title observe, “VETERAN” with Ken Carson and “VTMNTSCOAT,” Lonely is now again with the deluxe version titled NS+ (ULTRA).
Rod Wave – Jupiters Diary: 7 Day Idea
Rod Wave’s a rapper, however at instances his booming melodic sound extra intently resembles blues. All followers of the Florida MC know of the songs which first broke him by way of (“Coronary heart On Ice” and later “Rags2Riches 2” with Lil Child), however his discography runs far deeper than just a few unfastened singles.
Via albums comparable to PTSD and Ghetto Gospel from 2019, 2020’s Pray 4 Love and this yr’s Lovely Thoughts, Wave has stood other than the gang as one of many preeminent voices within the sport. Now he’s again with Jupiters Diary: 7 Day Idea, his second album of 2022 which is sweet and tight with eight tracks.
Fousheé – softCORE
38 Spesh & Harry Fraud – Past Perception
Rochester, New York-born rapper 38 Spesh is devoted to connecting his distinctive up to date sound with the types of traditional boom-bap rap. His appreciation for Hip Hop’s canon may be clearly seen on previous initiatives comparable to Interstate 38, The Belief Tape and TimeServed, the place he rapped alongside MCs comparable to French Montana, Chinx, Gucci Mane, Griselda’s Benny The Butcher and lots of extra.
On Past Perception, Spesh’s most up-to-date providing, the rapper has teamed up with sample-heavy producer Harry Fraud for a tape which is able to please new followers and outdated heads alike.
Busta Rhymes – The Fuse Is Lit
Forward of the discharge of Busta Rhyme’s newest drop, an EP titled The Fuse Is Lit, the 50-year-old New York legend dropped the lead single “Slap” alongside Griselda’s Conway the Machine and certainly one of rap’s most heralded godfathers, Large Daddy Kane.
The Fuse Is Lit, other than final yr’s rerelease of The Coming on its twenty fifth anniversary, marks Busta’s first new physique of labor since 2020’s Extinction Stage Occasion. Earlier than that one must scroll again to 2009’s Again On My B.S. to seek out recent tracks. Busta has been rapping and releasing music because the mid Nineties and his new resurgence provides hope that he has no plans of stopping any time quickly.
Dave East & DJ Drama – Ebook of David
Dave East is the star of his newest album Ebook of David. He dealt with your entire 17-track undertaking with no function, backed utterly by manufacturing from Buda & Grandz and Mike Kuz. However the spotlight of the undertaking continues to be the inclusion of Gangsta Grillz Boss DJ Drama.
DJ Drama skilled a profession renaissance after his work on Tyler, The Creator’s masterful CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST. Within the following years, Drama when on a prolific run, working with everybody from YoungBoy By no means Broke Once more and Dreamville to Jeezy and now New York’s Dave East.
Dougie B – No one Greater
Don’t overlook to stream Kaash Paige’s S2ML and the deluxe version to Extra Black Superheroes by Westside Boogie.
