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The Hit List Week 41: (Jan 31 - Feb 6)
Yo Gotti ft. Kodak Black - Ima Show You: Yo Gotti released the final installment of his CM mixtape/album series this week, “CM 10: Free Game” Side A & B. 20+ songs, all slappers. One of my favorites was “Ima Show You” with Kodak Black. It has a chill vibe, the beat has an acoustic guitar thread and the guys spit bars for their shawtys. They talk about how the streets affected them (good & bad) but they gon show them how to geek in the coupe. Check out the “CM 10: Free Game” Side A & B. My favorite from Side B is “No Matter What”.
Nicki Minaj ft. Lil Baby - Do We Have a Problem: The Queen Back! Nicki Minaj made her long awaited return to music after getting married, having a baby and just cold chilling for some time. She hit us with one of her classic mixtapes “Beam Me Up Scotty” last year on streaming services with 3 new songs including “Seeing Green” with her Cash Money brothers Drizzy & Weezy, but this track seems like the first single of a new album. Featuring Lil Baby and an epic beat, she pulls up on an opp and melodically asks Do We Have a Problem? Witty bars and punchy punchlines, and an excellent verse from LB who admits to getting his advice from billionaire owner of the Philadelphia 76ers Mike Rubin (Harden to the Sixers?). Dope track and they bout to run it back with a 2nd track and even dropped the preview at the end of this vid.
2 Chainz ft. Swae Lee - Caymans: After dropping multiple tracks as singles 2 Chainz released “Dope Don’t Sell Itself” this week, a new project. I loved the previously released tracks and the album cuts. There’s a dope feature with NBA Youngboy and another with Lil Baby. I was really vibing out to this one with Swae Lee. 2 Chainz smokes a lot for the pain and he also has a lot of paper. He also questions how one could be broke and famous (that don’t go together). Swae Lee talks to a brokenhearted chick who is pretty caked up (his ex maybe). He likes to buss it down in the Caymans, and he sips to kill the pain.
Saba ft. 6lack and Smino - Still: Saba released a new album this week called “Few Good Things” and it’s already getting AOTY whispers. The album is fire, top tier lyricism, intricate word play, multi-layered beats and a range of features from G Herbo to Krayzie Bone. On this one, he enlists 6lack and Smino to reminisce and proclaim that even though times and circumstances have changed he’s still blowing trees, still trying to find a beat to kill, still loving the bops and still can’t believe all this is real.
Central Cee - Cold Shoulder: New Artist Alert! I had not heard of Central Cee before pressing play on this one. The strings came in then the drill high hats and the British accent and I was sold. The young UK rappers have embraced the NY Drill sound and they do it very very well. CC spits real shit about his real life. Getting bad news on the telly, homies forgetting where they came from, breaking bread with the youngins, bitties getting piped and acting brand new, diss tracks that he’s too wavy to respond to, a lot of realness packed into one track. Check this one out fa sho.
YN Jay ft. Louie Ray & Mozzy - Tip Off: Bro, I love Detroit. I’m planning a trip back there but crazy shit is that flights to Puerto Rico is the same as flights to Detroit and it’s been awhile since I showed love to the mamitas juu know!? Anyway YN Jay, fresh off his Coochie Scout collab with Lil Uzi to make this track with Cali superstar Mozzy & fellow Detroiter Louie Ray. Jay sticks to his signature flow, sometimes off beat, sometimes not finishing bars (like a freestyle), it’s definitely an acquired taste but this shit is Art to me bro. The beat is A1, keys and drums and the guys go in about good coochie, sippin lean, gun violence, and getting ready for the game, the Tip Off.
Koffee - Pull Up: Jamaican sensation Koffee linked with one of my favorite producers JAE5 and cooked up this track. Island vibes, afrobeat notes (thanks JAE5) perfect summer time track, knocks on the Bose speakers in the whip, or when you wanna tell that special someone to pull up.
King Von ft. 21 Savage - Don’t Play That: Posthumous release for the gone-too-soon Chitown spitter King Von. Featuring a catchy bridge and a bouncy beat, this one will play on the radio A LOT (shout to 21). KV also shouts out his most famous opp (which is now frowned on in some hip-hop circles **Jordan Shrug**). 21 kills his verse (on God) on a beat that is perfect for him (he always seems to find those). Tough Tune.
Dr. Dre ft. Nipsey Hussle & Ty Dolla $ign - Diamond Mind: Dr. Dre a whole legend man. Came out the divorce, big bags intact. Running round wit pretty young tings left and right, and now this nigga’s in a video game? And not just any video game, one of the highest selling, most popular video games of all time GTA V. For the uninitiated that shit is about to come out for its 3rd generation of systems, shit been out over a decade still dropping new content, one being “The Contract” starring Dre and I think Anderson .Paak. and the cherry on top is the 6 tracks Dre released to be featured in the game. One of those features other Cali heavyweights Nipsey and Ty Dolla. I’ve said enough already, go check it out and the rest of the tracks which feature Busta, Snoop, Anderson .Paak, Eminem and more.
YG ft. J. Cole & Moneybagg Yo - Scared Money: YG might be prepping for a project. He got Cole and Moneybagg Yo (whose albums were 1-2 in sales last year before Ye & Drake dropped) on this track with a Cali beat and with YG using the “Pussy” line from DontCallMeWhiteGirl’s viral “Why you being weird to me” video. J Cole was gonna do the crate challenge but instead decided to stack cake. He got 3 cribs in the same hood (that’s wealth) and he took a page out of Drake’s book by getting his own plane. He warns us to “stay tuned” and with these few features he’s done in the past 2 weeks he could be lining up something (I don’t wanna put my theory out there). Moneybagg Yo ballin hard like when Zion busted out the shoe (that’s hard! Pause, unpause) Dollas, followers and ratchet hoes, he has a lot of those. Scared money don’t make no money, PUSSY! They ballin on you fuckin dummies (wait me too?)
Conway the Machine ft. Benny the Butcher & Westside Gunn - John Woo Flick: Griselda doing Griselda things. I mean if you a fan, you’re gonna love it, it’s them in they bag. Boom bap, steet bars and Conway doing Gunn ad libs (say what!?). Conway supposed to be dropping his Shady debut “God Don’t Make Mistakes” soon. If this is an indication of what to expect, we in for a mf treat woop.
John Legend & Nas - Tomorrow: Apparently Pablo Picasso’s great grandson Florian had a hand in this one (maybe the artwork) Nas also drops a Picasso bar and John Legend handles this hook on this unexpectedly good track. John croons about his bae, she’s the new wave forming, that new hot shit, he says hello to tomorrow as he’s eager for the future. Nas praises God for making it to a new day, over this old-skool/new-skool fusion beat with orchestra strings. He ties up the loose strings and stops whatever ain’t progressive. He’s all about the good vibrations. He lets go of the bad energy and heads to Hawaii, on a yacht, everything top tier.
03 Greedo & BlueBucksClan - Pourin: If you been following me, you’ll know I’m a sucker for a sample. 03 and BBC (bro it’s an abbreviation chill) flipped Mike Jones’ “Flossin” and the subject is Pourin Drank. Appropriate considering Mike Jones hails from H-Town Texas the place where sippin sizzurp/chopped & screwed music is most associated with. Also ironic, 03 is locked up in Texas (as of this writing) and he had to have recorded this before he went in a few years ago. Free 03.
LAYA ft. Fivio Foreign - Brag: A surefire way to get spins on your record is a feature with one of the hottest artists out. LAYA was smart in having Fivio, who had an ascendant year in 2021 including but not limited to his lauded appearance on “Donda”. I pressed play and the beat pulled me in then LAYA was harmonizing but she was spitting a bit too. A catchy hook and Fivio killing this beat lead to this track being one of my favorite drops of the week. Radio DJs need to have this in rotation. I sure as hell do!
B Lovee - Don’t Change: NY Drill rapper B Lovee got a certified smash hit with “My Everything” which was a flip of an old Soul song. G Herbo and A Boogie hopped on two different remixes of that banger. Now he’s back with this new fire. Apparently, this is a flip of a Jeremih song (I ain’t know that) but this is more in the drill bag and not the love bag like his first hit although he does have a one night stand in the song and apparently likes to receive fellatio after spinning the block (I totally understand).
Other Tracks/Projects to Drop This Week
BIG30 - Protest
Queen Naija ft. Big Sean - Hate Our Love
$NOT ft. A$AP Rocky - Doja
E-40 ft. Sada Baby - It’s Hard Not To
Juice World - Fighting Demons: The Complete Edition (Deluxe Album)
Nicki Minaj ft. Lil Baby - Do We Have a Problem: The Queen Back! Nicki Minaj made her long awaited return to music after getting married, having a baby and just cold chilling for some time. She hit us with one of her classic mixtapes “Beam Me Up Scotty” last year on streaming services with 3 new songs including “Seeing Green” with her Cash Money brothers Drizzy & Weezy, but this track seems like the first single of a new album. Featuring Lil Baby and an epic beat, she pulls up on an opp and melodically asks Do We Have a Problem? Witty bars and punchy punchlines, and an excellent verse from LB who admits to getting his advice from billionaire owner of the Philadelphia 76ers Mike Rubin (Harden to the Sixers?). Dope track and they bout to run it back with a 2nd track and even dropped the preview at the end of this vid.
2 Chainz ft. Swae Lee - Caymans: After dropping multiple tracks as singles 2 Chainz released “Dope Don’t Sell Itself” this week, a new project. I loved the previously released tracks and the album cuts. There’s a dope feature with NBA Youngboy and another with Lil Baby. I was really vibing out to this one with Swae Lee. 2 Chainz smokes a lot for the pain and he also has a lot of paper. He also questions how one could be broke and famous (that don’t go together). Swae Lee talks to a brokenhearted chick who is pretty caked up (his ex maybe). He likes to buss it down in the Caymans, and he sips to kill the pain.
Saba ft. 6lack and Smino - Still: Saba released a new album this week called “Few Good Things” and it’s already getting AOTY whispers. The album is fire, top tier lyricism, intricate word play, multi-layered beats and a range of features from G Herbo to Krayzie Bone. On this one, he enlists 6lack and Smino to reminisce and proclaim that even though times and circumstances have changed he’s still blowing trees, still trying to find a beat to kill, still loving the bops and still can’t believe all this is real.
Central Cee - Cold Shoulder: New Artist Alert! I had not heard of Central Cee before pressing play on this one. The strings came in then the drill high hats and the British accent and I was sold. The young UK rappers have embraced the NY Drill sound and they do it very very well. CC spits real shit about his real life. Getting bad news on the telly, homies forgetting where they came from, breaking bread with the youngins, bitties getting piped and acting brand new, diss tracks that he’s too wavy to respond to, a lot of realness packed into one track. Check this one out fa sho.
YN Jay ft. Louie Ray & Mozzy - Tip Off: Bro, I love Detroit. I’m planning a trip back there but crazy shit is that flights to Puerto Rico is the same as flights to Detroit and it’s been awhile since I showed love to the mamitas juu know!? Anyway YN Jay, fresh off his Coochie Scout collab with Lil Uzi to make this track with Cali superstar Mozzy & fellow Detroiter Louie Ray. Jay sticks to his signature flow, sometimes off beat, sometimes not finishing bars (like a freestyle), it’s definitely an acquired taste but this shit is Art to me bro. The beat is A1, keys and drums and the guys go in about good coochie, sippin lean, gun violence, and getting ready for the game, the Tip Off.
Koffee - Pull Up: Jamaican sensation Koffee linked with one of my favorite producers JAE5 and cooked up this track. Island vibes, afrobeat notes (thanks JAE5) perfect summer time track, knocks on the Bose speakers in the whip, or when you wanna tell that special someone to pull up.
King Von ft. 21 Savage - Don’t Play That: Posthumous release for the gone-too-soon Chitown spitter King Von. Featuring a catchy bridge and a bouncy beat, this one will play on the radio A LOT (shout to 21). KV also shouts out his most famous opp (which is now frowned on in some hip-hop circles **Jordan Shrug**). 21 kills his verse (on God) on a beat that is perfect for him (he always seems to find those). Tough Tune.
Dr. Dre ft. Nipsey Hussle & Ty Dolla $ign - Diamond Mind: Dr. Dre a whole legend man. Came out the divorce, big bags intact. Running round wit pretty young tings left and right, and now this nigga’s in a video game? And not just any video game, one of the highest selling, most popular video games of all time GTA V. For the uninitiated that shit is about to come out for its 3rd generation of systems, shit been out over a decade still dropping new content, one being “The Contract” starring Dre and I think Anderson .Paak. and the cherry on top is the 6 tracks Dre released to be featured in the game. One of those features other Cali heavyweights Nipsey and Ty Dolla. I’ve said enough already, go check it out and the rest of the tracks which feature Busta, Snoop, Anderson .Paak, Eminem and more.
YG ft. J. Cole & Moneybagg Yo - Scared Money: YG might be prepping for a project. He got Cole and Moneybagg Yo (whose albums were 1-2 in sales last year before Ye & Drake dropped) on this track with a Cali beat and with YG using the “Pussy” line from DontCallMeWhiteGirl’s viral “Why you being weird to me” video. J Cole was gonna do the crate challenge but instead decided to stack cake. He got 3 cribs in the same hood (that’s wealth) and he took a page out of Drake’s book by getting his own plane. He warns us to “stay tuned” and with these few features he’s done in the past 2 weeks he could be lining up something (I don’t wanna put my theory out there). Moneybagg Yo ballin hard like when Zion busted out the shoe (that’s hard! Pause, unpause) Dollas, followers and ratchet hoes, he has a lot of those. Scared money don’t make no money, PUSSY! They ballin on you fuckin dummies (wait me too?)
Conway the Machine ft. Benny the Butcher & Westside Gunn - John Woo Flick: Griselda doing Griselda things. I mean if you a fan, you’re gonna love it, it’s them in they bag. Boom bap, steet bars and Conway doing Gunn ad libs (say what!?). Conway supposed to be dropping his Shady debut “God Don’t Make Mistakes” soon. If this is an indication of what to expect, we in for a mf treat woop.
John Legend & Nas - Tomorrow: Apparently Pablo Picasso’s great grandson Florian had a hand in this one (maybe the artwork) Nas also drops a Picasso bar and John Legend handles this hook on this unexpectedly good track. John croons about his bae, she’s the new wave forming, that new hot shit, he says hello to tomorrow as he’s eager for the future. Nas praises God for making it to a new day, over this old-skool/new-skool fusion beat with orchestra strings. He ties up the loose strings and stops whatever ain’t progressive. He’s all about the good vibrations. He lets go of the bad energy and heads to Hawaii, on a yacht, everything top tier.
03 Greedo & BlueBucksClan - Pourin: If you been following me, you’ll know I’m a sucker for a sample. 03 and BBC (bro it’s an abbreviation chill) flipped Mike Jones’ “Flossin” and the subject is Pourin Drank. Appropriate considering Mike Jones hails from H-Town Texas the place where sippin sizzurp/chopped & screwed music is most associated with. Also ironic, 03 is locked up in Texas (as of this writing) and he had to have recorded this before he went in a few years ago. Free 03.
LAYA ft. Fivio Foreign - Brag: A surefire way to get spins on your record is a feature with one of the hottest artists out. LAYA was smart in having Fivio, who had an ascendant year in 2021 including but not limited to his lauded appearance on “Donda”. I pressed play and the beat pulled me in then LAYA was harmonizing but she was spitting a bit too. A catchy hook and Fivio killing this beat lead to this track being one of my favorite drops of the week. Radio DJs need to have this in rotation. I sure as hell do!
B Lovee - Don’t Change: NY Drill rapper B Lovee got a certified smash hit with “My Everything” which was a flip of an old Soul song. G Herbo and A Boogie hopped on two different remixes of that banger. Now he’s back with this new fire. Apparently, this is a flip of a Jeremih song (I ain’t know that) but this is more in the drill bag and not the love bag like his first hit although he does have a one night stand in the song and apparently likes to receive fellatio after spinning the block (I totally understand).
Other Tracks/Projects to Drop This Week
BIG30 - Protest
Queen Naija ft. Big Sean - Hate Our Love
$NOT ft. A$AP Rocky - Doja
E-40 ft. Sada Baby - It’s Hard Not To
Juice World - Fighting Demons: The Complete Edition (Deluxe Album)
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