[MP3 + Music Video] Young M.A – OOOUUU

I’ll admit: I’m crazy late on this like I’m Funkmaster Flex getting roasted by Drake but I didn’t really find out what this record was until I saw this Fader FB post. I was gonna be snarky and say I’d never heard this record once when I was in Bed-Stuy for two weeks a short while back but when I played it, a light bulb went off! This was the track I’d heard on Gates Ave. but was never able to find out what it was. It’s a banger, no doubt and her social politics are great: she got the streets rockin’ to an LGBTQ anthem!

[MP3] 21 Savage – No Heart / X Feat. Future

More new school hip-hop. Two tracks from Savage Mode, the recently released new album from ATL’s 21 Savage including one with the street’s (and club’s) current favorite, Future. Ya dig?

[MP3] Fashawn – Mother Amerikkka

Is Mass Appeal Records the new home for socially conscious hip-hop with commercial appeal? Between this and that amazing Nas x Erykah Badu track, “This Bitter Land” from The Land soundtrack, it certainly seems so.

[MP3] Lil Uzi Vert – Do What I Want (Produced By Maaly Raw + Don Cannon)

A little late on this one. Truth be told, the blog’s been in slow motion while a new generation of rappers (cf. Desiigner, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Yachty, 21 Savage, Rae Sremmurd etc.) have risen to prominence. Y’all digging the new school?

[MP3] De La Soul – Drawn Feat. Little Dragon

Latest single by Long Island Golden Era legends, De La Soul with indie alternative darlings, Little Dragon. Brilliant. Looking forward to hearing their new The Anonymous Nobody album dropping August 26 that it comes from. It’ll be De La’s first album since Grind Date to be released for digital and streaming. Only thing sadder than the fact that the core catalog one of the greatest groups in all, not just hip-hop, music is inaccessible is knowing that the release of this new album means summer is really drawing to a close already!

Previously on The Kitchen:

– [MP3] Listen to a Rare Unreleased 1991 Track by De La Soul – Sho Nuff