Mixtape Monday: Quelle Chris, AG x Cuns, MED x Guilty Simpson + More
Quelle Chris, AG x Cuns and MED x Guilty Simpson kick things off with new music this Mixtape Monday.
Quelle Chris drops the highly-anticipated Guns album, AG and Cuns team on Bronck’s Kill and MED joins forces with Guilty Simpson for Child Of The Jungle. Foul Mouth follows with a batch of loosies for Middle Finger Music, Knowledge The Pirate drops Black Cesar and Scottie Spitten serves up the self-titled project S.C.O.T.T.I.E.
Singer Hunnah follows with Show You, K, Le Maestro and Riian Raquel drop the syn EP, TDE’s Zacari makes a splash with Run Wild, Run Free and Lean Low and DJ Dubplates drop Pay It No Mind 2. Choosey and Exile follow with Black Beans and Lord Byron closes with ALL.
Quelle Chris - Guns
Quelle Chris questions just about everything across the masterful, thirteen-track album Guns.
Every time a shooting makes the news talking heads pop up in small boxes and make loud arguments about how we shouldn’t rush to politicize what just happened. After all, the heads argue, guns don’t kill people. People kill people. But how true is that? Are the tools we use simply tools, innocuous until we give them meaning? Or are the things we surround ourselves with –– the things in our arsenal –– begging to be weaponized, for good or for evil? Guns, the new album from the critically acclaimed rapper and producer Quelle Chris, is a careful study of all these questions, an urgent record for urgent times.
AG & Cuns - Bronck's Kill
Rap veteran and D.I.T.C. representative AG teams with Roman producer Cuns on the six-track Bronck’s Kill EP.
MED & Guilty Simpson - Child Of The Jungle
Cali and Detroit connect on the Child Of The Jungle album from MED & Guilty Simpson. The project boasts production from Madlib, Nottz, Black Milk, MNDSGN, Karriem Riggins, Apollo Brown and more.
Foul Mouth - Middle Finger Music Loosies Vol. 1
Foul Mouth is back behind the boards for the Loosies Vol. 1 compilation from Middle Finger Music.
Knowledge The Pirate - Black Cesar
Knowledge The Pirate follows Flintlock with the thirteen-track Black Cesar tape featuring Roc Marciano.
Hunnah - Show You
Canadian singer Hunnah pays tribute to her mother with the debut of her five-track Show You EP inspired, in part, by 90s r&b.
Zacari - Run Wild, Run Free
TDE signee Zacari makes waves on his soulful, seven-track debut extended play titled Run Wild, Run Free.
Choosey & Exile - Black Beans
Choosey tackles everything from family to police brutality and gentrification over beats from Exile on Black Beans.
Lord Byron - ALL
Prolific DTX spitter Lord Byron follows 33 and Behold It’s Us with the evocative, seven-track ALL EP.
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Karas Lamb writes and digs for tunes you haven’t heard yet. She actually wants to listen to your mixtape. Follow her on Twitter @karaslamb.