NLE Choppa, Yung Bleu and Extra – New Hip-Hop Tasks

At April’s midway level, new music is bobbing up left and proper from a number of aspects of the rap sport. This week, a Memphis spitter on a present tear drops an album filled with sizzling singles, an Alabama-bred rap-crooner delivers a sequel to a preferred mission, an extremely proficient multihyphenate comes by with a brand new EP and extra.

NLE Choppa places out his first mission of the 12 months within the type of Cottonwood 2. Thought-about his sophomore studio album, the 22-track LP serves because the sequel to 2019’s gold-certified EP, Cottonwood, and features a bevy of beforehand launched singles which have discovered success all through the primary a part of 2023.

Cottonwood 2‘s lead single, “Do It Once more” that includes 2Rare, a Jersey Membership-style turn-up anthem that landed on the Billboard Sizzling 100 singles chart, has been tearing up dance flooring since its December launch. On the heels of that, NLE Choppa tapped Lil Wayne for an homage to the traditional New Orleans bounce sound with the one “Ain’t Gunna Reply,” which has seen over 6 million streams on Spotify and a ton of radio spins all through the nation because it dropped final month.

Different singles on Cottonwood 2 embody “Mo Up Entrance,” “Champions” and “Sl*t Me Out,” which regardless of some controversy for strolling Sukihana by her hair within the official music video for the remix, soared to the very prime of TikTok’s music chart upon its launch.

In promotion of his new album, NLE Choppa hit up Instagram earlier this week to shout out numerous excessive colleges throughout the nation and provide an opportunity for one group of scholars to expertise a dwell efficiency within the flesh. Choppa introduced that he would go to one of many excessive colleges he listed to placed on a present for the scholars who rack up probably the most pre-saves for Cottonwood 2.

Not even six months after the discharge of his newest album, Tantra, Yung Bleu returns with Love Scars 2, a brand new mission billed because the follow-up to his 2020 EP, Love Scars: The 5 Phases of Feelings. Previewed by two singles in 2023, “Video games Girls Play” and “Kissing On Your Tattoos,” the Cellular, Ala. rapper-singer’s 15-track providing sees visitor appearances from two different hip-hop adjoining crooners, Chris Brown and Ty Dolla $ign.

In unveiling the observe itemizing and canopy artwork for Love Scars 2 by way of Instagram, Yung Bleu encapsulated the mission’s emotion-filled theme with one profound quote.

“What we’ve got as soon as loved, we are able to by no means lose,” Yung Bleu wrote. “All that we love deeply turns into part of us. Love Scars.”

After a 12 months in 2022 that discovered Pi’erre Bourne not solely being named among the best producers of the 12 months but additionally having his most up-to-date full-length album, Good Film, talked about among the many 12 months’s finest hip-hop initiatives, the globally famend artist comes by this time along with his new EP, Grails.

With Pi’erre Bourne’s new 8-song mission, the outstanding multi-hyphenate repping each Queens and South Carolina delivers on his promise to followers by lastly releasing tracks he is been teasing for months reminiscent of, “IG,” “Hen and Waffles” and “Honeyberry 2,” the sequel to his well-liked 2018 hit, “Honeyberry.”

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