Nas, Hit-Boy, GloRilla, Yung Bleu and More – New Hip-Hop Projects

Hip-hop followers have an insatiable urge for food for brand spanking new music releases. Fortunately, the rap sport by no means fails to feed the necessity. This week, a New York icon and a wildly gifted producer repping California solidify their place as a duo that does not miss, a fast-rising spitter recent out of Memphis drops her debut EP, an Alabama-born rap-crooner places out a star-studded album and extra.

Linking up for his or her fourth full-length launch in two years, the plain one-two punch of Nas and Hit-Boy returns with their extremely anticipated album, King’s Illness III. Whereas particulars concerning the third installment of the revered King’s Illness sequence have been sparse main as much as its launch, the hype round KD3 has more and more ramped up in latest weeks given the success of the duo’s final three tasks.

Ever since they put out the primary King’s Illness again in 2020, Nas and Hit-Boy have grow to be considered by many because the premier rapper-producer mixture in all the rap sport, giving off heavy Gang Starr vibes within the course of. In actual fact, one of many songs on the 17-track LP, “Michael & Quincy,” makes direct reference to one of many biggest artist-producer combos of all time, Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones.

In asserting the official launch date of the album again on Oct. 18, Nas unveiled KD3‘s cowl artwork, which merely options three gold bars, seemingly serving as an emblem for what the elite lyricist brings to the desk on the newest providing.

Previous to the discharge of their fourth joint album, KD1 earned Nasty Nas his first-ever Grammy Award, taking dwelling Greatest Rap Album in 2021 and laying the groundwork for the success of its sequel, King’s Illness II, which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart that very same yr. Additionally in 2021, Nas and Hit-Boy dropped the shock album, Magic, the challenge on which Nas first introduced that King’s Illness III was within the works.

After taking hip-hop by storm in 2022, changing into one of many fastest-rising rappers in latest reminiscence, GloRilla unleashes her debut EP, In any case, Life’s Nice… Gloria Hallelujah’s first official challenge comes on the heels of two massively profitable singles, each of that are included on the 9-track EP.

“F.N.F. (Let’s Go),” the Memphis rapper’s HitKidd-produced breakthrough smash, has raked in over 48 million views on YouTube since its launch again in April and peaked at No. 42 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 singles chart. In the meantime, “Tomorrow 2,” which encompasses a extensively acclaimed verse from Cardi B, reached a peak place of No. 9 on Billboard Sizzling 100 and has already been licensed gold by the RIAA since its launch in September.

GloRilla accompanied the unveiling of the official cowl artwork for In any case, Life’s Nice… this previous Tuesday (Nov. 8) by dropping the challenge’s third single, “Nut Fast,” which was produced by Araonthetrack. Apart from Cardi B, the one different visitor look on In any case, Life’s Nice… is from Niki Pooh, an up-and-coming spitter who GloRilla was positive to name-drop in a latest interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe forward of the EP’s launch.

“They going to get that uncooked, you recognize what I am saying, that uncooked shit,” mentioned GloRilla when requested what followers can count on from her debut challenge. “I acquired my lady. They ain’t tuned in but, Niki Pooh. She on there. It is only a entire lot of uncooked shit. They going to really feel it.”

Bleu comes by this week with Tantra, the Cellular, Ala. rap-crooner’s sophomore studio LP following his critically and commercially acclaimed 2021 debut album, Moon Boy. Boasting his new album as a flexible full-length album that takes listeners on a journey by his evolution as an artist, producer and songwriter, Tantra additionally sees Bleu laying down collabs with a few of the rap sport’s greatest and brightest.

Yung Bleu’s strong 17-song observe itemizing contains three beforehand launched singles, “Love In The Approach” that includes Nicki Minaj, “Life Price Residing,” which options French Montana and manufacturing from Bleu himself, and “Soul Little one” that includes Lil Wayne, which simply dropped earlier this week. Different visitor appearances on Tantra embody the likes of Fivio Overseas, Ty Dolla $ign and Ne-Yo, amongst others.

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