Don’t Sleep On These New Hip Hop Releases
Insomniac Magazine shatters the underground soundwaves with another explosive edition of the Weekly Hip Hop Top Ten! Amp yourself up for action & check out the list below!
1) THE UMBRELLA(JOSIAH THE GIFT, PRO DILLINGER, SNOTTY, WHATAMESS & MICKEY DIAMOND)leave lyrical lacerations all over supreme production provided by OL MAN 80ZZ on a praise-worthy sonic gem called “History!” The colossal collective of underground heavy hitters spit like their lives depended on it. Hungry is too weak a word to describe their approach on the mic. These MCs have an appetite so voracious that after this track ended they probably crashed every studio session in town & pistol-whipped all your favorite rappers so they could take over the booth & rip rhymes through the night! If you were one of the artists to get beatdown accept it as a blessing. You’ve been anointed by Hip Hop royalty. Flaunt your eye jammy & wear it proud.
2) OBNOXIOUS has been making a steady rise in the underground but the ALPHA_BETIC & SHADOW MAGNETIC powered “Dope MAN” might be the banger needed to push him over the top! The microphone savage thrashes the rugged sonic terrain with a full force of lyrical fury & clever wordplay. He wrestles the untamed beat & makes it beg for mercy until it succumbs to his lethal flow!
3) There are many great lyricists but “at the end of the day” FLY ANAKIN x ANKHLEJOHN will always be the most compelling! On the ALL CEVEN laced heat blast “Buffy,” the power spitters “slay” females in the bedroom while murdering the hypnotically melodic track. If you love Hip Hop you’ll keep this new gem by Ankh Nasty & the Mutant Academy mastermind on heavy rotation. It’s light-hearted fun from two heavy hitters on the mic. Turn up the volume & respect the skills!
4) V DON snatches the soul from our mortal vessel & pulls us into a web of corruption & despair on the sonic masterwork “Since 16!” 38 SPESH x ELCAMINO ride the “Black Mass” banger into the night and invade our imagination with detailed descriptions of the drug game. The mood is set. The heat is on. Watch your back before the darkness overtakes you.
5) GARY RUE enlists RECOGNIZE ALI, NAPOLEON DA LEGEND & RONALD TWO FEATHERS HODGES on a new BANK NOTES laced mega-heater! The bar game is HEAVY on this one! The lyricists bring supreme flows and hard-hitting content to the table & believe us, you’ll be feasting off this joint a long, long time! This is one track where it truly pays to listen to the lyrics. If you won’t do it for us, do it “For All Mankind!”
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6) D.R.E. COLOMBIAN RAW has been making his presence known in the past few weeks & now the spotlight on the lyricist will become even more intense as he teams up with CA$ABLANCA on “A Body 4 A Body!” This track is one of those joints that’ll make your head nod until your neck snaps! Verses on the cut are so venomous that we were rushed to the E.R. immediately after listening! If you want safe pop s**t go elsewhere. This is Hip Hop & we like it RAW!!!
7) TONY TONE x NEPHEW HESH joined forces with PRO ZAY to put “Pressure” on all rivals who come their way! The “OBE” audio heater got the entire staff open with its Old West styled soundscape and unrestrained lyrical onslaught! When you want to experience uncut heat PRESS PLAY on this joint. There’s a shootout at sundown & our money’s on this crew to be the last men standing.
8) ROYCE DA 5’9″ showcases his timeless flow & execution on the mic with his latest self-produced heater “I Don’t Age.” Nickel Nine blesses us with the holy bars we’ve been waiting for each & every time. He can run off a wide range of topics in 2 minutes flat but WE’RE the ones who are left out of breath! It ain’t about age. It’s all about evolution. The bar slayer’s in the building. If you can find a better lyricist out there we invite you to try.
9) When discussing a body of work from CERTAIN.ONES you have to dive in expecting the entire opus to be phenomenal. Those kind of expectations(which are miraculously met every time)are exactly what makes it difficult to select a track for the countdown. In this particular instance, we racked our brains over the collective’s stellar new project “Iron Sharpens Iron” & decided(after numerous death threats & intense inter-office staredowns)that NETO x GUTTAMOUF’s “Bars Of Iron” would be the gem to make the cut. The audio addicts are in peak form on this banger as they drop rhymes conjured from the deepest recesses of their imagination. Let’s face it, if Hip Hop were a mountain Certain.Ones would be at the summit. Now sit back, hit PLAY & check out two of the best to ever dunnit!
10) There were a stack of contenders for this week’s countdown…but even after one selection from the “OBE” project we knew we had to come back for more! TONY TONE x NEPHEW HESH already had us at “Pressure” but then they added OKIR to the mix and fists started flying in the boardroom! Ultimately the evil within took over & like a dark priest compelled by the power of the underground we chose “Feed Tha Demon” for our final winning slot. The ominous, spooky soundscape reeled us in and the sharp, on-point lyricism kept the party hopping inside the Gates of Hell!
Well that’s it for this week. Catch ya next time and…Don’t Sleep!
– Kevin Keith
