Joey Bada$$’s oft-delayed and much fawned for B4.DA.$$ LP is out today. To mark the major label debut’s release Joey B. lets go a Statik Selektah-produced loose track from the B4.DA.$$ sessions “Born Day (AquariUS)”.
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Joey Bada$$’s oft-delayed and much fawned for B4.DA.$$ LP is out today. To mark the major label debut’s release Joey B. lets go a Statik Selektah-produced loose track from the B4.DA.$$ sessions “Born Day (AquariUS)”.
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Favorite rapper Freddie Gibbs is joined by great guitar Hanni El Khatib for the trippy inspired by sneakers sound of “Satin Black”.
Hanni El Khatib 
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Freddie Gibbs 
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Finally Famous affiliate Earlly Mac gets a vocal assist from fellow Detroit native JMSN on the velvety smooth two step of “Naturally”.
Earlly Mac 
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We’ve been B.Lewis backers for about as long as B3SCI has been around. Here, the San Jose-based producer laces world-beater K.Flay (the owner of a Billboard Rap Albums Top 20 and a successful stint on the Warped Tour) with his signature synth-heavy vibed-down tones and layered easy feeling beats. K.Flay’s Life Is A Dog LP is out now.
“Stevie Wonder” is the new Chicago-centric collaboration between FKA Twigs affiliate Lucki Eck$, Chance The Rapper, and producer Young Chop (Chief Keef’s “I Don’t Like”, etc). “Stevie Wonder” ebbs on a soporific wave of hazy production, whisper tracks and overall weightlessness of atmosphere that is rather powerful.
Lucki Eck$ 
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Rating 8.3
Tip and Thugman’s ubiquitous hip hop radio staple is wrought through the Kaytranada remix machine and boosted up by the Canadian producer’s choices of a tight snare, jazzy guitar, and (!)vibraphone.
Kaytranada
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Rating: 8.7
Bada$$ guy announces tracklist of official debut B4.DA.$$ with new Statik Selektah-produced “No. 99”. Statik Selektah’s instrumental which does borrow heavily from ATCQ’s “Scenario” is sets just the right propulsive push for Joey B.’s energized rhymes.
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Rating 8.5
The 40-esque minimalist beat pop of “Amnesia” is the third and final track from London newcomers R I T U A L’s “The Fall” EP. “Amnesia”, which features a verse from American rapper Chester Watson, exists in a spacious piano stab-soundtrack nexus between Nothing Was The Same-vintage Drake and UK R&B-derived indie like Bondax.
R I T U A L 
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GXNXVS, who recently released the stunning track “Benjamins” with co-producer CVIRO, remixes Theophilius London’s banger drum-inspired dance track “Tribe” from the Kanye-produced “Vibes” EP into a strikingly effervescent cool-as-rain R&B jam. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
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We loved earlier this year Stwo’s Drake-directed beat “With You”. Here, Bristol UK emcee Luui speaks through a set of cadence-perfect bars creating a stunning intersection of narrative and instrumental.
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