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New Wu-Tang from Chamber Music which drops June 30th. This song is just as good as the rest of the songs from the album and the beat had me bugging out. The piano loop with the high note chords was simple but brilliant and I also like the loop it switched to for the chorus. Wu shows everyone else that you can have very musical beats and still make them sound grimy as hell. Chamber Music should be one of the big highlights for the summer of the Wu and don’t forget to go get U-God’s Dopium which is out now.

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Bun B shows how in tune with good new music he is by appearing with Daytona on this song from his new mixtape Come Fly With Me. 6th Sense gives them a smooth beat to spit to and they are both real chill with their flows to match it. I am angry I didn’t get a chance to go to the listening session yesterday but I am in the process of moving so I had to get some stuff done that I had put off too long. I’m sure it was a good time and I can’t wait to hear the album myself but we will all just have to wait til the 30th now. In the meantime, let this track marinate until it drops.

Download: The Kid Daytona ft. Bun B – “Air Born” (Prod. 6th Sense)

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I am a little late on this but got to show some love especially since I feel like I haven’t posted something of Donny’s in a minute. Donny has an album coming out soon and this is the first single off of it, the original track is from Minute After Midnight and both are produced by Statik Selektah. Here is what Donny had to say about it:

This record has been a long time coming. It’s one of my favorite tracks and I wanted to give it new life so I decided to add some dope artists to the mix. This is the first song I’m releasing from new album titled “The Breakfast Club” which drops May 19th

Be on the lookout for that album!

Download: Donny Goines ft. Rain, Termanology, Reks, Big Lou – What U Expected (Remix)

I normally try to stay away from the album artwork posts unless they are 1) a huge artist or 2) some cool ass artwork and thankfully this one fills both those criterion. That isn’t even mentioning the fact that this is easily the most anticipated album of the year. Regardless of what you think of his first single on the album, you have to admit this cover is dope, it reminds me of one of those pictures from the 90’s where if you stare at it long enough a picture pops out at you haha. It would’ve been nice to have gotten a tracklist with this but judging by how close to the vest they played the first single I wasn’t really expecting it. The album drops May 19th.

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Rapid Ric gets a gang of H-town rappers for this leaked song off of his upcoming album Whut It Dew. I heard this isn’t even the final version of the song but so far the song seems hot. Rapid Ric provides a smooth, guitar based loop with lots of live instrumentation that not shockingly reminds me of tracks that Devin and Bobby Ray would normally jump on themselves. Chalie Boy sings the soulful singing on the chorus and Cory Mo has always been an underground favorite from Houston and props to Ric for getting all these talented artists together from the H and teaming them up with another talented Southern rapper in Bobby Ray. Check back to B&B for the real version if it ever hit the web.

Download: Rapid Ric ft. Bobby Ray (B.o.B), Devin the Dude, Chalie Boy & Cory Mo – “Gettin High”

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There is no two ways around it, this album is great. I have been listening to Diamond District the most recently out of any other album/mixtape and I don’t have to skip any tracks. After posting the first two singles by the DMV trio, “I Mean Business” and “Who I Be”, and letting the lyrics of Oddisee, X.O. and Y.U. sink in I was fiending for more and knew this album had the potential to be great. I was trying to describe the album to a friend as “mid-nineties New York rap but modern day in the DMV” but I think Oddisee says it much better himself in the intro when he says “we formed this group to bring that raw East Coast boom bap hip-hop to the DMV” (and after looking at their site it also says something similar). Click the break for more on the album, tracklist and download link.

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The first single from Outasight’s album From Here to Eternity is finally here and it is a quality track. A shortened version of the song was featured on his mixtape album prequel From There to Here but this version is the official full length album version. The album prequel is one of my recent favorite mixtapes and I tell you all about it here. The dude can rap and sing and his songs always have me bobbing my head at the end even when if I was skeptical at first. This album might just have to go up on the most anticipated list.

Download: Outasight – People, Places, Things