[MP3] Listen to Two New Tracks From Belly – Holy Water

Canadian rapper, Belly is back with two solid new tracks.

[MP3] Keita Juma – Come Over Feat. Brendan Philip

Latest track from #DK11 compilation album alum, Keita Juma featuring yet another #DK11 alum, Brendan Philip. I like the throwback hip-house vibe.

[MP3] Two More Tracks from Drake: 6 God / Heat of the Moment

We posted a Drake leak (“How About Now”) last week. Well two more tracks dropped around the same time both produced by Boi-1da/Syk Sense and 40 respectively. Are you impressed?

[MP3 + Instagram Video] Listen to Three Tracks From Tory Lanez’s Lost Cause Mixtape

@torylanez getting turntup at #thedrakeunderground at @thedrakehotel. #hiphop #tdothiphop #tdot #the6ix #the6 #concerts #swavenation #swavey

A video posted by Ian Steaman (@iansteaman) on Oct 10, 2014 at 8:06pm PDT

I won’t lie: I kind of missed the recent ascent of local, Tdot rapper, Tory Lanez (update correction: no, I didn’t) but I caught him at his North American tour final homecoming date at The Drake Underground this past Sunday and quickly got up to speed with his Lost Cause mixtape, which the tour was for, in advance of that.

NOW mag may not have been a tad underwhelmed by the show but I, on the other hand, was pretty impressed (or at least I was with the last 4-5 songs I managed to catch). It’s hard to dismiss a show where an artist has as much control over the audience as I saw Lanez command. As I said on twitter, Lanez seems to have taken Drizzy’s creative template and actually might out-Drake Drake with it.

The tracks above come from Lost Cause. Dig them? Check out the entire Lost Cause mixtape on the Kitchen Facebook page HERE. Between this and the Sean Leon show I caught at The Hoxton, I feel pretty good about the odds of Toronto at keeping a post-Drake stranglehold on hip-hop dominance for the next while. #the6ix

Hit the jump for two more Instagram video clips from Tory’s show Sunday at The Drake Underground including one of him crowd surfing!

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[MP3] Drake – How About Now

Leak track from Drake‘s forthcoming next album, Views From the 6? (Although I’m pretty sure that is some fan artwork above, not official??) I’d love to meet the woman that inspired this song though. Every time the internets finds these women Drake talks about I am singularly unimpressed and I remember why I don’t really connect with his music the way most of his vast number of fans do. I identify with so little of what he talks about in his life. Then again, I guess this one went to law school so maybe this time will be different? Decent enough song though, word to Jodeci…