Songs of the Week: June 2nd
Welcome to “Songs of the Week” a weekly segment where I highlight three of the best new songs released the week prior along with one throwback song of the week. To stay up to date on all new music, follow my Spotify playlist “What I’m Feeling” which is updated weekly to always include the freshest new music. Always 30 songs, hottest always at the top. Stream it here:
New songs of the week:
“Crime Pays” by Freddie Gibbs and Madlib
On the third single for their forthcoming collab album Bandana, Freddie Gibbs spits his classic cocaine bars over a soulful Madlib beat that tastefully samples “Free Spirits” a 1979 song by Walt Barr. It is impossible to listen to this track and not be catapulted back to 2014 when the duo released their fantastic album Piñata. With a number of smart callbacks by Gibbs, the song seems to exist in its own world that we are allowed to visit for just over three minutes. Freddie ending the song with an A$AP Rocky and Jeezy diss is really the cherry on top of an excellent song.
“Crime pays, nigga, crime pays
Choppin’ up this change with cocaine in my microwave
Diamonds in my chain, yeah, I slang but I’m still a slave
Twisted in the system, just a number listed on the page”
“ZUU” by Denzel Curry
On his new project, ZUU, Denzel Curry starts things off right with a near perfect album intro. The title track “ZUU” is shocking, in-your-face, and absolutely addicting. The track shows us how this album will deviate from TA13OO in such a grand and dramatic fashion that it makes it near impossible to not run the whole tape upon hearing the menacing intro. Denzel only has one verse on this song but he uses his time well by bouncing from one flow to the next while always repping Southern Florida harder than anyone since a young Rick Ross. This song is a must listen.
“M’s all on my belt, I’m feelin’ like I’m Majin Buu
Pocket full of ivy and you know the faces blue
Shoe game sick as fuck, it’s like I’m walkin’ on the flu
Carol City, nigga, boy, I’m comin’ out the Zuu”
“Under Enemy Arms” by Trippie Redd
This week Trippie Redd premiered his new single with its accompanying video. Before Trippie even comes in you will be whisked away into a world of fluttering synths and epic horns. Trippie defaults to his patented flow on this track and it works quite well, but Hammad Beats for sure steals the show with his layered instrumental. Different subsection in the instrumental keeps you deeply engaged in this song even where Trippie’s lyrics leave something to be desired.
“Foreign lil’ whip and I’m whippin’ this car
I might just park in the yard
Catch the opps lackin’, I rip ‘em apart
Fuck it, I got no heart”
“Gasoline Dreams” by OutKast
The second track off of OutKast’s 2000 album Stankonia is as abbrassive as it gets. From Andre 3000’s distorted vocals on the hook screaming in your ear “Don’t everybody love the smell of gasoline” to Big Boi’s slightly off beat rapping that the group trademarked for the south, everything about this track is provocative, wrenching, and oh so good. Today is a great day to press play on any record in OutKast’s polished discography.
“All of my heroes did dope
Every nigga ‘round me playing married, or paying child support
I can’t cope, never made no sense to me one day I hope it will
And that’s that, sport, sport”
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