Gucci Mane is back with “First Day Out Tha Feds!” Gucci’s recording career starts up again after a two year hiatus with “First Day Out Tha Feds,” which is produced by none other than Mike WiLL Made It. Fun fact is Gucci actually gave Mike WiLL Made It his producer name. On the track, Gucci gets personal and reflective on the track talking about his family and past mistakes, and even claims that his own mom turned on him. The new song premiered on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club at 9:30 a.m on May 27th.
Drake dropped an updated version of “Hype” featuring longtime collaborator Lil Wayne during Saturday’s episode of OVOSOUND Radio. Drake recently also performed the song for the first time on “SNL,” and the track is produced by Boi-1da and Nineteen85.
Additionally, Drake’s Views is staying strong on the Billboard 200 chart, as the album spends a third week at number 1. Views is the first album to spend three consecutive weeks at number one since January, when Adele’s 25 spent 7 weeks at the top of the charts.
In anticipation of Customized Greatly Vol. 4 dropping tomorrow, Casey Veggies has blessed us with a new music video titled “Choose Up.” Customized Greatly Vol. 4 is the fourth installment of the CG series, the last of which dropped in 2012.
In this new video, Casey Veggies turns up with lots of women in either a Vegas or Miami hotel room. The video was also shot and edited by Hi-Def, and the track was produced by Danny Wolf.
Fetty Wap and Monty aka The Remy Boyz are starting summer off the right way by blessing us with a new jam called “Victor Cruz,” paying homage to the all-star wide receiver for the New York Giants. Cruz is also from the Remy Boyz’ hometown of Paterson, New Jersey.
The Remy Boyz have collaborated several times this year, including March’s “Instant Friend,” and last month, they were both featured on T-Wayne’s “Tell Me What You Want.”
Juicy J and Wiz Khalifa released the first single off their forthcoming collaborative album TGOD Mafia Presents: Rude Awakening titled“All Night.” The LP will be released on June 3rd via Empire and is produced by TM88.
Originally, when TM88 first released the 14 song tracklist, the project was known as ‘TGODMAFIA’ but now it looks like Rude Awakenings will be the title. Additionally, Wiz recently released Khalifa back in February, while Juicy J released several mixtapes in 2015.
TGOD Mafia Presents: Rude Awakening was supposed to be released this week, but it will now arrive in June!
On Thursday, Chance The Rapper released his third mixtape titled Coloring Book, which is the long-awaited follow-up to 2013’s Acid Rap. The 14-track mixtape features a myriad of talent across all genres including Kanye West, Young Thug, Jay Electronica, and Justin Bieber.
In an interview with Complex, Chance said that a lot of his stuff is about his ideal world, and how he want things to function,” and Coloring Book feels like we’re just happy visitors in Chance’s merry world. Kanye West also called Coloring Book a masterpiece, and thanked Chance for the opportunity to work on the mixtape. Lastly, Ye appears on the first track “All We Got,” along with the Chicago Children’s Choir on Coloring Book.
Tory Lanez released two new song this past Friday staying up with his Fargo Friday series. The first song is titled “For Real,” and is produced by Tory himself along with Droc and Play Picasso. The second song titled “Unforgetful,” is produced by London On Da Track that samples Kehlani and Chance The Rapper’s “That Way.”
Check out the songs below & cop tickets for his Level Up Tour with A$AP Ferg below at Stubb’s & Neon Desert Music Festival.
Today, producer Burberry Perry uploaded a new single to his SoundCloud titled “Beautiful Day” featuring Lil Yachty, Justine Skye, Jenner and Jordyn Woods from his six-track self-titled EP. This new track has taken the internet by storm as it features Kylie Jenner talk-rapping on the theme song of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
Burberry Perry is currently on tour with Young Thug and Lil Yachty, who is also featured on the “Beautiful Day” track. On the track, Kylie Jenner mentions that she’s “never been on a song before,” and the song pulls its hook from the theme song for the classic children’s television show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.”
Nipsey Hussle recently dropped “Thug Life” last Monday featuring Young Thug, and he’s blessing us again with another track titled “Ocean Views.” Nipsey is definitely keeping his Marathon Mondays series going strong by dropping “Ocean Views.”
The new track is produced by Mike & Keys and DJ Khalil, and according to the BoomBox, Nipsey on the song “plays his signature role of soulful gangsta over live drumming, a moody bass groove and atmospheric keys.”
Nipsey’s official debut album The Victory Lap is also supposedly to be released later this year. Listen to the audio below!
Straight out of Baton Rouge, Kevin Gates first started rapping in 2005 when he met fellow Louisiana natives Webbie and Lil Boosie. Gates would then make his debut in 2007 with his mixtape Pick of da Litter, and release other projects titled All In and I Don’t Know What to Call It, Vol. 1 over the next few years. Gates then received national attention in 2008 when he was on a song titled “Get in the Way” with Lil Boosie. Soon after the song was released, Gates and Boosie would both be incarcerated in separate cases.
In a personal interview with Hot 97’s Peter Rosenberg, Gates said, “I received my Masters in Psychology in prison. I got my ACT in prison. I did all of that in jail.” As for how much time he actually spent locked up, he says, “That’s a lot of years, I been in and out since a child. This is the culture of Louisiana. They have more people locked up in the state of Louisiana than any other country in the world. It’s very poverty-stricken. So being in and out jail is a way of life for most poverty-stricken individuals. I don’t wanna say young black males, so I’ll just say young males. But the majority is like 99% black, overcrowded prison systems.”
After his release in 2011, Gates spent many years on the mixtape circuit. In 2013, everything changed quickly when Gates dropped the popular The Luca Brasi Story mixtape. Even though, the success of Gates’ music had been slowly gaining traction, and he was already a cult phenomenon in Louisiana, the release of Luca Brasi Story would turn him into a hip-hop critical darling. In 2013, Gates signed a major label deal with Atlantic Records.
Gates would now move on to completing his contract with the indie imprint Breadwinners Association by also releasing Stranger Than Fiction in 2013. The album debuted at number 37 on the Billboard 200 chart with features from stars like Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J, and Starlito. He followed up a successful year by releasing a project in 2014 titled By Any Means, a free album that debuted at number 17 on the Billboard 200.
In 2015 Gates released a song titled “Kno One,” which was included on Gates’ debut studio album, Islah, later released January 29 this year. The album was inspired by his daughter, whose name is Islah, a word that mean “to make better.”
Listen to some of Kevin Gates’ material below before you head out to see him shut down JMBLYA 2016. Get your tickets here.