NLE Choppa, Yung Bleu and Extra – New Hip-Hop Tasks

At April’s midway level, new music is arising left and proper from a number of aspects of the rap sport. This week, a Memphis spitter on a present tear drops an album filled with sizzling singles, an Alabama-bred rap-crooner delivers a sequel to a preferred undertaking, an extremely gifted multihyphenate comes via with a brand new EP and extra.

NLE Choppa places out his first undertaking of the yr within the type of Cottonwood 2. Thought-about his sophomore studio album, the 22-track LP serves because the sequel to 2019’s gold-certified EP, Cottonwood, and features a bevy of beforehand launched singles which have discovered success all through the primary a part of 2023.

Cottonwood 2‘s lead single, “Do It Once more” that includes 2Rare, a Jersey Membership-style turn-up anthem that landed on the Billboard Scorching 100 singles chart, has been tearing up dance flooring since its December launch. On the heels of that, NLE Choppa tapped Lil Wayne for an homage to the basic New Orleans bounce sound with the only “Ain’t Gunna Reply,” which has seen over 6 million streams on Spotify and a ton of radio spins all through the nation because it dropped final month.

Different singles on Cottonwood 2 embody “Mo Up Entrance,” “Champions” and “Sl*t Me Out,” which regardless of some controversy for strolling Sukihana by her hair within the official music video for the remix, soared to the very high of TikTok’s music chart upon its launch.

In promotion of his new album, NLE Choppa hit up Instagram earlier this week to shout out varied excessive colleges throughout the nation and provide an opportunity for one group of scholars to expertise a stay efficiency within the flesh. Choppa introduced that he would go to one of many excessive colleges he listed to placed on a present for the scholars who rack up probably the most pre-saves for Cottonwood 2.

Not even six months after the discharge of his newest album, Tantra, Yung Bleu returns with Love Scars 2, a brand new undertaking billed because the follow-up to his 2020 EP, Love Scars: The 5 Phases of Feelings. Previewed by two singles in 2023, “Video games Girls Play” and “Kissing On Your Tattoos,” the Cellular, Ala. rapper-singer’s 15-track providing sees visitor appearances from two different hip-hop adjoining crooners, Chris Brown and Ty Dolla $ign.

In unveiling the monitor itemizing and canopy artwork for Love Scars 2 through Instagram, Yung Bleu encapsulated the undertaking’s emotion-filled theme with one profound quote.

“What now we have as soon as loved, we will by no means lose,” Yung Bleu wrote. “All that we love deeply turns into part of us. Love Scars.”

After a yr in 2022 that discovered Pi’erre Bourne not solely being named top-of-the-line producers of the yr but in addition having his most up-to-date full-length album, Good Film, talked about among the many yr’s finest hip-hop tasks, the globally famend artist comes via this time together with his new EP, Grails.

With Pi’erre Bourne’s new 8-song undertaking, the outstanding multi-hyphenate repping each Queens and South Carolina delivers on his promise to followers by lastly releasing tracks he is been teasing for months corresponding to, “IG,” “Rooster and Waffles” and “Honeyberry 2,” the sequel to his fashionable 2018 hit, “Honeyberry.”

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