The Game, NLE Choppa, Maino and More – New Hip-Hop Projects

The brand new years is right here, which additionally means new initiatives are arriving from artists who’re able to make the fist mark on 2024. This week, a Compton, Calif. rapper locks in with the daddy of a Grammy-winning beat maker, a Memphis rhymer groups up along with his DJ on a brand new mission and extra.

The Recreation Launch Paisley Goals With Large Hit

The Recreation coincided the ball dropping with the discharge of his new mission Paisley Goals, which is a joint mission with Hit-Boy’s father Large Hit. Launched on Monday (Jan. 1), the providing got here collectively virtually accidentally, in accordance with the Compton, Calif. rapper.  “I pulled on @hitboy & @bighit 3 days in the past to do 1 track… stayed a couple of hours & ended up doing a 9 track tape that night time,” Recreation just lately shared on Instagram. “I’m not right here to ask you to stream it or obtain it. I’m only a man, telling his followers a narrative about final night time & the night time earlier than.” The svelte launch, which is govt produced by Hit-Boy, accommodates 9 songs that includes Hit-Boy, Dome Kennedy and TeeFlii, and serves as Recreation’s first launch since Drillmatic: Coronary heart vs. Thoughts, which dropped in August of 2022.

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NLE Choppa and DJ Booker Join on The Chosen Ones Album

In April 2023, NLE Choppa dropped Cottonwood 2, the sequel to his 2019 gold-certified EP, Cottonwood. Now, in 2024, Choppa is again with one other mission, this time in help of his touring companion, DJ Booker. The duo’s The Chosen Ones EP options the Memphis rhymer rapping over beats curated by DJ Booker.

The set’s first single is the Pluto Beats and Yokarza-blessed head-nodder “Purge on Em.” On the abrasive observe, Choppa spits bullet-riddled rhymes at his opps who wish to do hurt to him.

“Thug to bone, been this fashion for the reason that cradle/I’ma tote it to the grave and it is somethin’ that I stand on/F**ok a opp b***h screamin’ Crip with my flag on/I’ma get your mans killed, have his n***a makin’ unhappy songs,” he warns on the track.

On a a lot lighter notice, Choppa grabbed a few of his members of the family to carry out with him in his new music video for “Auntie Residing Room,” which appeared on his Cottonwood 2: Deluxe 2.0 mission. Within the visible under, the younger rhymer is in the lounge recording his verse when his actual life aunt, Tracy Denise Smith, gives to help with the hook, singing, “Kids are crying, individuals are dying.”

The video segues into Choppa performing his track whereas hanging out within the hood along with his mates as he reveals off his stacks of money and luxurious Rolls Royce car. The 21-year-old rapper even will get a contemporary reduce by the native barber whereas capturing his music video.

NLE Choppa is a person of the individuals in his Memphis hometown.

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Maino Delivers Ok.O.B. 4 (Deluxe) For the New 12 months

Maino is kicking off 2024 on a music excessive notice. The Brooklyn rhymer drops the Ok.O.B. 4 (Deluxe) mission in the course of the first week of the New 12 months.

The gathering boasts 17 tracks that includes visitor appearances from Jim Jones, Fabolous, Dave East and U.Ok.’s grime rapper Giggs (“We Made It”). Money Cash Information rapper B.G., who was launched from jail in September of 2023, joins Maino on “For My Metropolis” (New Orleans remix).

Within the track’s accompanying video, which you’ll watch under, B.G. salutes his N.O. hometown whereas Maino honors his Brooklyn neighborhood in addition to the late BK icon The Infamous B.I.G.

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