Pusha T might be a bit hit and miss. But when he hits, he hits like a bouncing lowrider. Here’s his latest video for Numbers On The Boards – it made me remember why I love that first Clipse album so much:
Numbers On The Boards is produced by Kanye West and Don Cannon – and is taken from his forthcoming album, My Name Is My Name, which is released on the 16th July on G.O.O.D. Music.
Chicago rhymer, Chance The Rapper has just released his second mixtape, Acid Rap. In just over 4 days the album has been downloaded over 32,000 times, and it’s easy to see why he’s being talked about as one of the most exciting up and coming rappers around.
19 year old, Chance hails from Chicago’s South Side. In his senior year at college, rumour has it he was suspended after getting caught smoking weed, and spent the ‘free time’ working on his debut mixtape 10 Day.
And that’s where it all started. 10 Day, came out to great acclaim last year, got well over 25,000 downloads on Dat Piff and started arousing the interest of major labels.
His new Acid Rap mixtape lays his credentials firmly down and should send him stellar. One look at the guest list on the tape certainly vouches for this – Childish Gambino, Action Bronson, Ab-Soul and Twista all collaborate with Chance – so he’s got some pretty influential friends.
Style wise there’s a real melting pot of influences from the dirty psych-soul of Andre 3000′s Outkast offerings on The Love Below, through to the squeaky voiced sing-rap style of Lil’ Wayne‘s better work – there’s also a real sense of fun akin to the golden days of Native Tongue hip-hop. It’s niiiice.
Best of all it’s free to download – get a copy here – and enjoy.
Killer Mike‘s, El-P produced, R.A.P. Music was my favourite hip-hop albums of last year. It was equal to the sum of its parts – and that’s saying something.
So, the news that the two hip-hop behemoths are joining forces yet again, this time as Run The Jewels, is a top bit of news. Even better is the fact that they’ll be releasing a free to download album this June via Fools Gold.
Here’s the first taster. Get It is a top quality head nodder of a tune (you’ll have an aching neck in the morning after this one) – check it out below (and download it for free too!):
Smoke Again is taken from Chance The Rapper‘s new Acid Rap mixtape which is available as a free download tomorrow.
Hot on the heels of A$AP Rocky, here comes fellow A$AP Mob member, the delightfully sinister, A$AP Ferg – check out his new video for latest tune, ‘Persian Wine‘ below:
BOY GOT TEETH!!
