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Hip-Hop Wired Presents: CRT FRSH [Certified Fresh] Playlist 5.28.21

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: blackCAT / 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. Keeping up with our bi-weekly schedule, this week’s CRT FRSH playlist is another one of those joints that goes all across the map, literally and otherwise. We believe that Hip-Hop is too vast of a music genre to be boxed in by a particular sound or topic matter. There will be artists from both coasts, the midwest, down south, and we’ve even got our neighbors to the north in Canada on this week’s list. We open up the list with the late, great DMX a...

PureGym Analyzes Workout and Gym Playlists to Identify Top 50 Workout Tracks

New research from the UK-based company PureGym has aggregated Spotify playlist data and determined the most popular songs to soundtrack a workout.  The company analyzed 142,000 unique tracks populating playlists with either “gym” or “workout” included in the title and published a list of the top 50 recurring tracks.  It’s no secret that listening to music while working out leads to a happier, and more productive gym experience. “Music is like a legal drug for athletes,” says Costas Karageorghis, a Ph.D. from London’s Brunel University School of Sport and Education. “It can reduce the perception of effort significantly and increase endurance by as much as 15 percent.” Perhaps it’s the heart-pumping cadence of house music that has ...

Honoring The Funky Legacy Of Gregory “Shock G” Jacobs [Playlist]

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Leon Bennett / Getty The year has been especially brutal for Hip-Hop fans, and definitely those of us that are of a certain age. The news of Gregory “Shock G” Jacobs passing at the age of 57 has rocked fans worldwide, and Hip-Hop Wired has compiled a playlist of Shock G’s music to honor his life and legacy. Gregory Jacobs was born August 25, 1963, in Brooklyn, N.Y., bouncing around the coast until settling in Tampa, Fla. While in college in Florida, Jacobs studied music theory and connected with the late Kenneth “Kenny K” Waters and later formed the Digital Underground collective in the late 1980s along with James “Chopmaster J” Dright. As a producer, Jacobs didn’t shy away from the common practice of sampling older records but he was also a self-taught p...

Hip-Hop Wired Presents: CRT FRSH 4.23.21 [Playlist]

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: blackCAT / Getty Hip-Hop fans young and old are still reeling from the recent passing of New York giants Earl “DMX” Simmons and Robert “Black Rob” Ross within just a week of each other. Their energy and spirit are with us today as we also just lost Gregory “Shock G” Jacobs, so we opened this week’s CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) playlist by adding some of their work. We open the playlist with the late Tupac “2Pac” Shakur’s “I Get Around” single featuring production and a verse from Shock G alongside his Digital Underground brethren. Most know that 2Pac’s appearance on Digital Underground’s “Same Song” was the first time most got to know him. We follow that up with the title track from Black Rob’s Genuine Article mixtape from 2015, proving that he still had th...

Celebrate 4/20 With EDM.com’s Cannabis-Inspired Playlist

While today’s date marks several significant and historical events throughout the decades, nothing commemorates the day quite like the music community’s celebration of Mary Jane. Artists and music producers around the world have paid tribute to ganja through their own source of musical creativity, playing smoking anthems and curating chill, melodic tracks to set the mood. From GRiZ, ZHU, Boogie T, ILLENIUM, CharlestheFirst and more, you’ll find our playlist has the perfect mix of funky smoking beats and downtempo, atmospheric rhythms to help ring in your annual green holiday. Check out the playlist below.

Like WHOA: Honoring The Life & Legacy Of Black Rob [Playlist]

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News Archive / Getty The city of New York has lost two of its grittiest and grimiest spitters, first DMX and now the great Black Rob. The East Harlem native passed away Saturday (April 17) and we’ve tried our best to feature a bevy of songs from the former Bad Boy Records star. Born Robert Ross on July 12, 1969, Black Rob began his career in his early 20s after dabbling with the art form since grade school. His official debut album Life Story was released on Bad Boy Records in 2000, spawning the massive hit “Whoa!” and the single “Espacio” alongside Lil’ Kim. Like fellow street soldier DMX, Black Rob relied on his vocal instrument to communicate his pain and strife as he navigated an industry that wasn’t kind to an artist that was groomed i...

Hip-Hop Wired Presents: CRT FRSH 4.09.21 [Playlist]

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: AleksandarGeorgiev / 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. In a moment of transparency, the passing of Earl “DMX” Simmons really rocked us emotionally and we’ve been focusing all our energy towards promoting and uplifting Dark Man X as we expect he would want his fans to do in this tough time. With “Get At Me Dog” blaring in the headphones right now from our playlist devoted to DMX, let’s get to the business of CRT FRSH. We open up this edition of the playlist with the talented Tierra Whack and ...

#RIPDMX: In Honor Of The Legendary Dark Man X AKA DMX [Playlist]

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Star Tribune via Getty Images / Getty DMX was a beloved Hip-Hop giant that found fame in the 1990s and despite his tribulations, maintained the respect and adoration of fans and musical colleagues around the world. In honor of the unfortunate passing of the artist born Earl Simmons, Hip-Hop Wired has compiled a 25-song playlist of some of DMX’s best hits, features, and little-heard gems. We open up the playlist with “Get At Me Dog” featuring Sheek Louch of The LOX, his first major-label debut single that still rings off heavily to this day.  We followed it up with “X Gon’ Give It To You” and then “Slippin’,” which displays the strength of DMX’s pen and his uncanny ability to bear his soul and stirring thoughts. However vulnerable X appeared at t...

Hip-Hop Wired Presents: CRT FRSH [Certified Fresh] Playlist 3.26.21

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Five / 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 opens with Buffalo’s Benny The Butcher alongside 2 Chainz chopping it up over some Harry Fraud production on “Plug Talk” from Benny’s The Plugs I Met 2 project. We follow up that joint with something fresh and innovative from FlySiifu, the dynamic duo of the wise nomad Pink Siifu and Richmond, Va.’s Fly Anakin. The pair dance like jazz soloists on the track “Rick James” and display styles infinite. Don’t sleep on them or their res...

Hip-Hop Wired Presents: CRT FRSH 3.12.21 [Playlist]

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: martin-dm / 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 playlist opens with the track “Lemon Pepper Freestyle” from Drake featuring Coming 2 America film set host, and certifiably rich rapper, Rick Ross. While Rozay does his thing on the joint, Drizzy went into a new gear on his verse and displayed that cocky ferocity he’s become known for. Following is Benny The Butcher’s atop Harry Fraud’s production for “Thanksgiving,” the first single from next week’s Plugs I Met 2 which features the B...

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...

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...