Well, after decades of waiting, the album from Nas and DJ Premier is finally coming this year. No details yet, but they’ve dropped an absolute banger to kick things off. Of course, this is also nicely times for today’s 30th anniversary of Illmatic.
Month: April 2024
XP The Marxman & Icerocks – ‘Nomads: The Amsterdam EP’ (stream) + ‘Atlan Khan’ (video)
Long-time collaborators XP The Marxman and IceRocks return with another solid set of tracks.
Gangrene – ‘Heads I Win, Tails You Lose’ (stream) + ‘Magic Dust’ & ‘Watch Out’ (videos)
Alchemist and Oh No never miss on their own, and never miss as Gangrene, and this new album is business as usual. Listen below, and also watch the video for the latest, Evidence featured single.
Update: There’s also now a new video for “Watch Out“:
Hus Kingpin – ‘In A State of Nirvana’
Continuing his series of projects paying tribute to classic music outside of hip-hop, Hus Kingpin drops new music that references the influence of the late Kurt Cobain, and his group Nirvana.
Asun Eastwood – ‘GLOW XL’ feat. Bub Styles & Wizdome Bunitall (video)
New shit from Asun Eastwood, with back-up from Bub Styles, from the Let Me Talk My Sh*t Too album, coming soon.
Stove God Cooks & Stoupe – ‘We Ballin Again’
Another rugged and raw track from Stove God Cooks, with production by Stoupe.
Skyzoo – ‘Blue & Orange Everything’ (video)
The person writing this sentence isn’t much of a sports fan, so the story of this track is lost on me, but new Skyzoo is new Skyzoo.
Dell-P – ‘Heat Em Up’
Great new headnodder from Dell-P, produced by DJ Flash.
Antlive – ‘Kane’ feat. Ras Kass (video)
Visuals with guest raps from Ras Kass, for a track off of last year’s Antlive album, Noah’s Art.
Planet Asia – ‘Incognito’ (video)
Planet Asia adds a video for this cut from his new, Local Astronauts produced album, No Retirement.