Don’t know much about this one and truth be told I forget how I came across it as it’s been sitting in my soundcloud feed for posting for over a week now. It’s a good one though. 500,000 plus plays there already suggest you probably have already heard this if you do most of your msuic discovery via soundcloud and/or blogs. If not, this is RIYL: Quadron, Jessie Ware etc.
Click play on the player above. Tracklisting below:
01. Lil Wayne – Gotti feat. The Lox
02. Eminem, Royce Da 5’9″, Big Sean, Danny Brown, Dej Loaf, Trick Trick – Detroit Vs. Everybody
03. Meek Mill – FYM feat. Boosie BadAzz
04. Ace Hood – We Don’t
05. Vince Staples – 65 Hunnid
06. Sleigh Bells – That Did It feat. Tink
07. Nicki Minaj – Only feat. Drake & Lil Wayne
08. Dej Loaf – Try Me
09. Theophilus London – Can’t Stop feat. Kanye West
10. Blaze – House Masters: Blaze Mixtape
11. Jessie Ware – Sweetest Song
12. Theophilus London – Water Me feat. Leon Ware
13. Logic – Driving Ms. Daisy feat. Childish Gmabino
14. Jay Rock – Pay for It feat. Kendrick Lamar & Chantal
15. Stalley – Navajo Rugs feat. De La Soul
16. Rich Gang – Take Kare feat. Lil Wayne
17. Lupe Fiasco – Pu$$y feat. Billy Blue
18. Tiga – Bugatti feat. Pusha T
19. The Chemical Brothers – This Is Not A Game (From The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1)
20. Kendrick Lamar – i
21. A$AP Ferg – Doe-Active
Radio rip from Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex, but I had to do it: FIYA! CDQ will be swapped in when it surfaces.
For those of you out there who like to create a binary between ‘real’ hip-hop by people like The Lox, Clipse, KRS-One, Nas, M.O.P. etc. and ‘fake’ hip-hop by Wayne, 2 Chainz, Waka Flocka, Gucci Mane etc. this track by The Lox and Lil Wayne, presumably from the forthcoming, highly-anticpated Tha Carter V album, must be melting your brains right now, huh? Epic track, beat is IMMENSE!
Was a huge fan of Sleigh Bells when they first came out and their secret show at Tattoo during NXNE this summer was incredible. That being said, this new track is cool but I miss the massive drums and abrasive, epic wall of guitar noise that was the hallmark of their production sound before. This feels toned down and at times verges on a Top 40 pop radio feel. Maybe they’ll pick up a ton of new fans as a result of their new ‘mass appeal’ sound but they may lose a few of their original ones like me in the process.