Welcome to our seventh Rap Weekly. Articles where we are bringing you sum up of the all-important news in the world of rap, announcements and events that you cannot miss. Family of MF DOOM is trying to get back their books of rhymes that were stolen. Westside Gunn achieved his life dream and Black Soprano Family released their second mixtape. What albums and video clips has been released last week? That and much more is just a one scroll away.
News of the week
At the end of the last month Talib Kweli called out Eothen Alapatt AKA Egon, founder and president of the Now-Again Records, on his Instagram. Egon has been a parasitising on rap culture for some time now, sabotaged the release of No Fear of Time by Black Star (Mos Def & Talib Kweli) when he asked for more then half million dollars. At the end of the day album has been released exclusively on Luminary.
But that is not all, Talib Kweli and Jasmine Dumile (widow after the deceased MF DOOM) said that Egon stole MF DOOM’s books full of rhymes roughly 20 years ago. In her interview for Complex Jasmin said: “We can confirm Eothen ‘Egon’ Alapatt is illegally in possession of rhyme books owned by MF DOOM. There have been many unsuccessful attempts to get these back prior to DOOM’s passing. We had hoped after DOOM transitioned Egon would do the right thing and return the books to the family but he has continued to ignore these requests. Unfortunately, Egon is not the only former associate abusing the likeness, art and life’s work of DOOM, more will be said at the appropriate time. “
The only thing we can do now is to hope that DOOM’s family will be able to recover his books and rats like Egon will be outcasted.
News
Westside Gunn achieved his life dream
We are pretty sure that you are fully aware of the fact how big fan of a wrestling Westside Gunn is if you heard more then one of his albums. Wrestling TV channel AEW Dynamite stoped in Buffalo (rappers’ hometown) of course that WSG could not miss it and prepared a prefect entrance to the ring for the wrestler Daniel Garcia. WSG performed his song Da Birds from WWCD alongside his amazing show.
Larry June in COLORS show
You are probably aware of the COLORSxSTUDIOS show, original estetical musical platform presenting unique talents from all around the world. This time around COLORSxSTUDIOS presented rapper Larry June and his tracks Corte Madera, CA/Another Day pt.2. from his album Spaceships on the Blade.
Best releases
Black Soprano Family – Long Live DJ Shay
Independent label from Buffalo Black Soprano Family with Benny the Butcher in its chare released their second mixtape. Long Live DJ Shay gives respect to DJ Shay which was the one of the main characters in a lives of labels BSF and Griselda. Album features names likes Rick Hyde, Heem, LoveBoat Luciano, Boldy James, Chase Fetti, Stove God Cook$ or Conway the Machine. Chemistry between the rappers feels just right, production got significantly better from the first project, and you should not miss it.
SonnyJim & The Purist – White Girl Wasted
SonnyJim is not just one of the best British producers but also one of theirs best rappers. On his last project Sonny joint his forces with producer The Purist who produced for the names like Danny Brown, Roc Marciano or Westside Gunn. This album was in works for more then four years but trust us when we say, waiting was definitely worth it. Album is mostly about the paranoia connected to the selling & using drugs. Some of the guests are MF DOOM, Jay Electronica, DJ Premier, Madlib, Milkavelli or Lee Scott. Short twenty minutes length is full to the brim. Unfortunately release of the album was not accompanied by any clip so let’s listen to 24 Karat from album Mud In My Malbec.
Estee Nack & al.divino – Triple Black Diamonds 2
Two most significant artists from Massacusetts have uncountable number of joint projects already. Triple Black Diamonds 2 is a follow up on an album with a same name from 2016 and again brings big portion of experimental beats, uncompromising lyrics and a lot of aggressive rap. Absolute necessity for everybody!
38 Spesh – 7 Shots
Rapper was gaining experiences ever since he started on a scene at the beginning of new millenium and you can hear every single one of them in each track. 7 Shots is follow-up on albums 6 Shots and 5 Shots and brings one of the rappers best works to date. 38 Spesh brings (same as Benny the Butcher or Ransom) tough street rap full of stories from drug underground which are intertwined into the lyrics without any glorification
Vel Nine & Zoomo – Freakjet
Producer Zoomo released album with rapper YL called In Memory Of earlier this year and month ago released his solo project Cloyd. Now he joints his forces with rapper Vel Nine aka Vel The Wonder to release album Freakjet. Vel is rapper from LA and started releasing her first project around a year 2012. Except the amazing productions and great rap, you can expect some singed passages that Val managed without a flaw. Album is featured by YL, Starker and Koncept Jack$on.
Another dope releases:
Asun Eastwood & Lex Talionis – Don’t Reach
Obijuan & Giallo Point – Mystery Merxhant
Obijuan & Poi$un 陽 – Methuselah
Raz Fresco – Magnetic
Cappadonna & Stu Bangas – 3rd Chamber Grail Bars
Mickey Diamond & Machacha – Bulletproof Bathrobes
Chuuwee – 32 Summers
unruly – Black Graffiti
Kure – Tomorrow Never Comes
Best music videos
Jadasea is talented rapper from UK that concerted with rappers Sideshow and MIKE this year in Europe. Now releases a clip for his amazing July album called LOOKALIVE!.
Rapper RLX and producer MichaelAngelo brings atmospheric clip to their track In My Mind from album RealLifeXperience and let us tell you, we do not see clips from churches this impressive very often
Pink Siifu & Real Bad Man will release their joint project Real Bad Flights next week and you can shorten the wait with clip for the track Pour the Wine Ft. Peso Gordon & Chuck Strangers.
We cannot even count the clips released for the You Take the Credit, We’ll Take the Check from duo Jay Worthy & Harry Fraud but artists did not hesitate and gave us another one.
Album Wolves Don’t Eat With Shepard from Knowledge The Pirate and producer Big Ghost Ltd. is one of the best albums released so far this year. Album brings itself to the conversation again, this time with clip for the track Young N Dumb.
Another dope videos:
Vic Spencer – Strollin’ & Bowlin’ (produced by August Fanon)
The 6th Letter – Hands Clean Ft. Daniel Son
Body Bag Ben & J Scienide – Stepping Stone
The Musalini & Khrysis – Off the Nest
Raz Fresco & Mike Shabb – Bad Decisions
Cappadonna & Stu Bangas (feat. Planet Asia) – Continuous Threat
Bloo Azul & Spanish Ran – Fronto
xp the marxman – paint pictures prod by jrocc
Pro Dillinger & Finn – Hunting Grounds
The Bad Seed & Team Demo – El Diablo Feat. Boopee
Rahiem Supreme – Splash bandicoot
And that’s it all the important news on the scene from the last week. What caught your eye this week? Let us know on Instagram or Twitter. You can expect another one next Sunday and on Wednesday you can expect new Album of the week. It’s going to be really interesting, so don’t miss it.
Source: Complex
Translated from Czech by Rado.
