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CERTIFIED FRESH: Atlanta Duo 2 Player Talks ‘Retro South’ LP & Evolving Through Rap
Source: 2 Player / Out Da Trunk Productions Big Sant and Redcoat Da Poet, of the Atlanta-based rap duo 2 Player, are well aware of the fact that there’s nothing new under the sun. One recent afternoon in a North Atlanta studio, Coat explained the concept behind 2 Player’s latest project, Retro South, released through the independent imprint Out Da Trunk Productions. His stance is: if the East Coast can currently enjoy drill via artists like Fivio Foreign as well as that classic boom-bap from the increasingly ubiquitous Griselda family, then the South could have their subgenres co-exist as well in 2021. And why not? There was Southern rap before the trap. It isn’t that rappers Down South aren’t still out here doing what feels right, either. If Sant’s name sounds especially familiar, it’s li...
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Hip-Hop Wired Presents: CRT FRSH 2.26.21 [Playlist]
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs / Getty We at Hip-Hop Wired pride ourselves on being fully immersed in the music of the culture we rep proudly. Part of our duty as a publication and crew is to school the masses on who is doing what musically and there’s no better way to do that beyond our CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) bi-weekly playlist. This week’s CRT FRSH playlist opens with “AP” from the soundtrack to Eddie Huang’s directorial debut, Boogie, which focuses on the hoop dreams of an Asian-American basketball star in NYC. Keeping with the soundtrack theme, we’ve got another joint from the Judas & The Black Messiah-inspired soundtrack with Nas rocking with Hit-Boy on the triumphant “EPMD.” More soundtrack heat comes from YG and Big Sean, who link up on the joint “Go Big” from the soundtrack to Eddi...
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Hip-Hop Wired Presents: CRT FRSH Playlist 2.12.21 [Listen]
Source: JuiceBros / Getty We at Hip-Hop Wired pride ourselves on being fully immersed in the music of the culture we rep proudly. Part of our duty as a publication and crew is to school the masses on who is doing what musically and there’s no better way to do that beyond our CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) bi-weekly playlist. This week’s CRT FRSH playlist opens with “What It Feels Like” featuring the late, great Nipsey Hussle and JAY-Z for the Judas & The Black Messiah soundtrack. Over some beautiful production from the production collective 1500 Or Nothin’, Neighborhood Nip and Hov sound amazing together, and their themes of Black empowerment sound even harder with the backdrop of the film along with the legacy of slain Black Panther Party leader, Fred Hampton, Sr. The soundtrack wave is u...
Hip-Hop Wired Presents: CRT FRSH Playlist 1.29.21
Source: Brothers91 / Getty Peace, party people. We’re back with the latest edition of our CRT FRSH playlist, which spans the ENTIRE culture and not just what some might expect. As usual, these are songs we’re legitimately enjoying and there’s no one style or sound featured. This week, we open out the CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) playlist with Madlib’s “Dirtknock” from his incredibly ill Sound Ancestors album, arranged by the great Four Tet. We also got joints from DMV giant Wale, Nyck Caution alongside his Pro Era bro Joey BadA$$ (Salute the 47), Russ and Lil Baby, Lil Durk and the late, great King Von, and more. We also made sure the ladies got some shine with Flo Milli’s “Roaring 20s” banging in our ear right now, and the title couldn’t be more appropriate given the stock market gold rush ...
CERTIFIED FRESH: Australian-American Rap Duo GUMBO Music Talk Debut EP, Expat Life & BLM
Source: Kai Godeck / GUMBO Nate Wade and Kev Hannibal of the Hip-Hop duo GUMBO Music were raised in North Carolina and New York City, respectively, but didn’t even end up meeting until they were both on the other side of the world. Now based in Australia, the two men have forged a friendship rooted in fatherhood, expatriate experiences and Hip-Hop. This ‘rap duo’ idea just happened to work out just as COVID-19 peaked worldwide and global shutdowns were already underway. “With most ex-pats, you just sort of gravitate towards those you assimilate with,” Nate shares. “So it becomes a group of African Americans, a very small group, there aren’t a lot of us, but we’ve known each other for so long, just being homies. The music thing didn’t start for us until six months ago.” Before t...
Hip-Hop Wired Presents: CRT FRSH Playlist – 9.18.20
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Peace to the Hip-Hop Wired nation! We’re back with our latest update to CRT FRSH, the playlist where we do our best to highlight the veterans, up and comers, and those on the cusp across the entire Hip-Hop music ecosystem. With our (sometimes) bi-weekly schedule thrown off, we’ve decided to beef up today’s playlist to 30 instead of our usual 25 tracks. This week, we have new heat from Chief Keef, Mike WiLL Made-It, Planet Asia, The Lox, Fivio Foreign, Conway The Machine, Big Sean, Fly Anakin, Lil Tecca, Smoke DZA and so many more. The purpose of the playlist is to give the mainstream and underground equal shine, and we hope that at the very least that’s documented below. Enjoy the 9.18.20 update to CRT FRSH and be sure to subscribe so you can be in the know nex...
