Chicago’s ANXT has been carving out a pretty impressive resume of tracks. He returns to SOTBMusic with a four-track EP. Ain’t Shit Changed, But The Lingo is, sonically, a mix of sounds that creates both dance-ready bars and realness, all with the astuteness to rap on sounds that feel culturally different. Thus, we’re given a project […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @PresidentHarris Demands Respect on New Collaborative Track
I got this one in my inbox courtesy of Julie of FlowsForDays. Prez Harris is a college-aged rapper who has a plethora of bars to match the Paul Cabbin-produced beat. And he brings some friends in the forms of fellow Chicago natives Brittney Carter and Vandell Harris. This track, according to the PR, marks an […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @_anxt Is Coming to America
ANXT may’ve “came off the [slave] boat [and] still can’t stay afloat.” But, that’s not stopping him from trying to uplift his people in this new track. Backed by traditional sounds, the Chicago native effortlessly speaks on his people’s past, their hand in creating our society, and how he plans to help us all reach […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: @Fairplay_2333 Watches out for FEDS in New EP
Hats off to Julie Stevens of FlowsforDays.com for sending this one to my inbox. The thing that got me into this one was the sample of Alessia Cara‘s “Here” producer LawBeatz flipped. He took that track and turned it into this menacing flip where Fairplay bears his soul in some ways while keeping his edge in […]
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