I’m not sure what the percentage is of readers that still check for new hip-hop/rap, but there has to be at least 8 of you. When people ask me if I still listen to hip-hop, I say yes, but there is a lot of garbage I wade through to find quality music. Hence the seven months in between these Nark mixtapes. Luckily, there are some new acts in the genre like Remi, Kid Ink and Joey Bada$$, that to continue make it worth wading through hundreds of NahRight, 2dopeboyz and Fader posts. TDE already had a huge 2012/2013 with the greatest hope in hip-hop, Kendrick Lamar, and the rising enigma that is Schoolboy Q. 2014 might be just as big for the label with the arrival of Isaiah Rashad. Like Kendrick, Rashad has a penchant for story-telling that mixes nostalgic love for ’90′s hip-hop (see Master P’s “Weed & Money) that is undeniable. Aside from the newcomers, Drake released a helluva album left over in “Trophies”, the underrated AZ returns with the help of Statik Selektah, and Lil Wayne somehow lets Chance The Rapper steal the show on “You Song”. Also, can someone please tell Eminem to make an entire album of boom-bap era rap like the Buckshot-produced “Don’t Front”? That track is filled with line after line of clever wordplay and better than anything he put on the massively disappointing The Marshall Mathers LP 2.
Let me know your favorites in the comments.
Nark of Wall Street – STREAM (8tracks)
- Drake – Trophies
- Eminem – Don’t Front ft Buckshot
- Remi – Sangria
- Busta Rhymes – Thank You ft Q-Tip, Lil Wayne & Kanye West
- Cam’ron & A-Trak – Humphrey
- AZ – We Movin’ (produced by Statik Selektah)
- Isaiah Rashad – RIP Kevin Miller
- Schoolboy Q – Man Of The Year
- DJ Khaled – Hells Kitchen ft J. Cole & Bas
- The Procussions – Fall To Fly
- Grynch – Treadin’
- Chiddy Bang – Breathe
- Kid Ink – Hello World
- Childish Gambino – 3005
- Berner – El Chapo ft Wiz Khalifa
- Bishop Nehru – You Stressin’ (produced by Disclosure)
- Ty Dollar $ign – Paranoid (remix) ft Trey Songz, French Montana (produced by DJ Mustard)
- DJ Bay Bay – Cash In A Rubberband ft Juicy J, Wiz Khalifa & Project Pat
- The Guys – Flee
- Joey Bada$$ – Word Is Bond (produced by Statik Selektah)
- Black Milk – Cold Day
- Mobb Deep – Taking You Off Here
- Common – War
- Slaughterhouse – Slaughter Session
- The Cool Kids – Chop
- Lil’ Wayne – You Song ft Chance The Rapper
- Doley Bernays – Till We Fall
- Isaiah Rashad – Shot You Down remix ft Jay Rock & Schoolboy Q
- Rick Ross – The Devil Is A Lie ft Jay-Z
