Drake, Kevin Gates, Logic and More – New Hip-Hop Projects This Week

Week after week, hip-hop by no means disappoints when it is time for brand new music to drop. This week, the most important rapper on the planet returns with a shock new LP, a spitter from Baton Rouge, La. will get loads off his chest with a brand new album and a once-retired MC places out a mission simply in time for his huge summer season tour and extra.

Out of nowhere, Drake simply confirmed up for the summer season. On Thursday (June 16), the OVO head honcho introduced his new solo album, Honestly, Nevermind. The most recent LP from Champagne Papi comes after hypothesis popped off final week that he was dropping a brand new mixtape. There was credence to the chatter, with Drizzy releasing album No. 7, lower than a yr after placing out his tenth Billboard 200 chart-topping mission, Certified Lover Boy.

Dropping with out a main single, the brand new providing is govt produced by his longtime collaborator Noah “40” Shebib and includes a visitor look from 21 Savage.

The brand new album comes a couple of months after it was reported that Drake signed a new recording contract worth upward of $400 million. The brand new album will presumably be adopted by an enormous summer season tour for the “Approach 2 Attractive” rapper.

Kevin Gates lastly unveils his third album, Khaza, after a heavy rollout that has gone on for months. The Louisiana native has promoted the album each which means together with dropping a line of recent merch and spitting a freestyle called “Super General” over Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin,” which raised eyebrows all over as a result of its sexually specific content material that name-drops Beyonce, Rubi Rose and others.

With Gates addressing various very private matters all through the course of the 19-track LP, the previous XXL Freshman exhibits off how a lot his bars have advanced whereas on the similar time, staying true to the sound he is turn out to be recognized for.

Led by three beforehand launched songs, “Huge Lyfe,” “Dangerous for Me” and “Intro,” Khaza‘s solely visitor function is from Juicy J, who seems on the monitor “Considering With My Dick.” That exact track initially dropped in 2013, however was included on the album as a result of its latest success on TikTok.

In help of Khaza, Gates is gearing as much as head out on a prolonged tour that can run from August by way of October.

Logic comes along with his new album, Vinyl Days, simply as he is about to embark on a 28-date co-headlining tour with Wiz Khalifa, which kicks off in July. The 30-track album is filled with visitor appearances from heavy-hitting artists like Action Bronson, Royce 5’9”, The Game, RZA and lots extra.

Previous to the discharge of Vinyl Days, Logic really unleashed a complete of six songs which might be all featured on the album together with “Many years,” “Tetris,” “Remedy Music” that includes Russ, “Orville” that includes Blu and Exile, “Bleed It,” “Breath Management” that includes Wiz Khalifa and the album’s title monitor, “Vinyl Days” that includes DJ Premier. The aforementioned title monitor really stirred up some controversy earlier this week. It was speculated that Logic took some photographs at Top Dawg Entertainment rapper Reason on the monitor. The “1-800-273-8255” rhymer dispelled the rumor by hitting up Twitter to deal with the scenario and likewise recommend the 2 MCs hyperlink up sooner or later for a candy summer season snack.

“Hey, bro, @reasonTDE, my boy @thisisrory mentioned you thought I dissed you on my track, ‘Vinyl Days,'” wrote Logic. “If I used to be going to diss you, I might diss you. I really like you, you are my brother. Let’s get ice cream collectively a while.”

On the exact same day he was introduced as a member of the 2022 XXL Freshman Class, SoFaygo dropped off his new B4PINK EP to satiate all his followers who’ve been ready for brand new music for a minute. Whereas the five-track mission does not include any visitor appearances, manufacturing credit embody Bakkwoods, Bryce, Y2 and ColdXsummer.

In selling the brand new mission on social media, SoFaygo was positive to let his Instagram followers know that true to its title, B4PINK serves as somewhat teaser for his extremely anticipated full-length album Pink Heartz, which the newly anointed XXL Freshman guarantees to launch quickly.

“Dropping this EP to present y’all music whereas y’all await the album,” wrote Faygo. “I really like y’all and I promise the album coming actual actual quickly.”

Take a look at all the brand new initiatives this week under, together with different new releases from Gucci Mane‘s 1017 label, Lakeyah, Duke Deuce, Erica Banks, Snoop Dogg and extra.