Metal Lungies

Did The Ecstatic need a remix? Not in the slightest. But new music from Preservation is welcome. Outside of his work with Mos Def, he produced two tracks on $amhill’s fantastic The Preface EP which remains one of my favorite releases of the year.

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Just when you thought you were tired of hi-hats and 808s, Zomby drops this slinking banger to tease his new album With Love which comes out next month. As Cam’ron once said, it’s gonna be a hot summer.

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Consider me a Future convert. The seemingly generic Atlanta rapper pulls gold out of a spectrum of Auto-Tune, melancholy, and cloud 9 stripper anthems. In hindsight, “Tony Montana” might have even been kind of cool too. No, I’m not kidding and yes, I’m playing “Blow Them Bands” when my first child is born.

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The Weeknd is back with a new single off of a new project in the works titled the same. Listen below:

Here is Coultrain’s strange, heartfelt, fluorescent, playful, forlorn, exotic, thumping, serene, garish spectacle of an album.

German Producer Shuko went and got Blu and Queens rapper Kidaf to rap on some instrumentals from his Sleepless album for a classy boom bap outing that’s sure to get stuck in your head.

Being signed to Meek Mill is like getting a scholarship to a community college. But I know some dope motherfuckers who went to community college. “Tonight” appears on Lil Snupe’s RNIC mixtape.

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Rich Kidd lists his insecurities over an airy DJ Dahi beat.

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Check out this remix of James Blake’s Voyeur by UK based Bear // Face. Somehow he managed to out-ethereal the ethereal master himself.