July has been a busy month for Hip Hop and it’s not slowing down for the latest New Music Friday. This week’s lineup is highlighted by Logic’s retirement album and the return of Lupe Fiasco.
Australia is represented with The Kid LAROI delivering his major label debut following an appearance on Juice Wrld’s Legends Never Die LP. Also, Curren$y has teamed up with Harry Fraud once again for a new collaborative project. And to top it off, Gunna fans get a bonus via a deluxe edition of his Wunna project.
Check out all of this week’s notable Hip Hop streams below.
Logic – No Pressure
Logic is saying goodbye to the rap game with the release of his sixth studio album No Pressure. Although Hip Hop retirements rarely stick, the Def Jam MC claims he’s leaving to focus on being a dad while earning money via Twitch.
Lupe Fiasco & Kaelin Ellis – HOUSE
Lupe Fiasco discovered producer Kaelin Ellis’ beats on Twitter and ended up making an entire EP with him. “He’s like, ‘I got this idea, trust me,'” Ellis told HipHopDX. “That eventually turns into HOUSE with all my beats fully arranged into songs. I was floored!”
Gunna – Wunna (Deluxe)
Two months after releasing the Wunna LP, Gunna revisits the album for a deluxe edition. The expanded version of the project adds eight new songs, including collaborations with Future and Lil Uzi Vert.
Logic Parlays Rap Retirement Into 7-Figure Twitch Deal
Curren$y & Harry Fraud – The OutRunners
Curren$y has reconnected with producer Harry Fraud for a new project titled The OutRunners. The duo’s latest collaboration features contributions from Conway The Machine, Rick Ross, Wiz Khalifa and Jim Jones.
The Kid LAROI – Fuck Love
Following a guest appearance on Juice Wrld’s posthumous album Legends Never Die, teen rapper The Kid LAROI drops his Fuck Love project on Columbia Records. The 15-track release contains guest appearances by Lil Mosey, Corbin (formerly known as Spooky Black) and the aforementioned Juice Wrld.
Flo Milli — Ho, Why Is You Here?
Alabama hot girl Flo Milli is wasting no time letting her direct competition her stance with song titles like “Like That Bitch” and “Eat It Up.” The more defiantly titled Ho, Why Is You Here? serves as her debut major-label project and could be the origins of a global superstar.
“This project is introducing a revamped newer me,” the 20-year-old says of the project. “A newer version of myself that I’m still discovering. This phase of me comes with an ego and an attitude. This is setting the tone for what I have to come in the future, I want everyone to feel the energy I’m coming with.”
Beautiful album from Lupe Fiasco!
Dope album by Logic
a muslim making it in popular music. where are the others not in another fucking million years.
Logic who? Lupe dropped new music and so did Spitta. No corniness from those two.
Lupes album was mehhh and I love Lupe. That dinosaur song was silly
That dinosaur song is better than anything Logic ever did.
No Pressure better than what Lupe and Spitta dropped combined. Not saying they bad, they good mc’s but you probably didn’t even listen to No Pressure. Its 100x better
Logic best album since Under Pressure!!!!
I forgot how dope LUpe can be……
lupe fiasco killed his career after dissing a tribe called quest and pete rock.
Stfu he never dissed any of them.it was different in opinion with Pete Rock and he messed up performing ATQ song…your just mad lupe is better than your favorite rapper
$pitta blessed us with another classic…
Lupe with another masterpiece
Dinosaurs is the dumbest song…. ever
Not feeling those Lupe beats. I never dig those Chicago/New York style beats over pianos. Or the ones that sound like a soundtrack to a 70s crime drama. It’s the problem I’ve had with the past two Royce albums too.
Lupe is elite though.
Lupe dropped an EP not an album, he has 4 albums ready, one being the legendary skulls which I think is a follow up to the cool, the other an Amy Winehouse project and 2 unknowns, atleast 1 of the unknowns is something so powerful lyrically and musically both daylyt and mickey facts heard it and described it as an atomic bomb and they claim no one will be able to top this album, I think royce and stephen curry heard it as well….so sleep on Lupe if you want, this EP was honestly just a piece of candy, this mystery album that’s coming soon is supposed to be Godly level better than what even black thought can do apparently, the video is on YouTube somewhere were they discuss it.
Very eager to hear that godly shit now
Lupes shit was trash!!!! He needs a budger
Super hot album from Logic. I’m not a huge fan of how his main topic is that he’s the greatest and most lyrical rapper ever, but this album sounded real good on first 2 listens. That’s rare for me to find these days.
Any recommendations for quality albums out this year that aren’t like lil baby type stuff (aka quality hip hop)?
No Pressure AOFTY for me, but I can reccomend The Allegory by Royce da 59, Black Habits by D Smoke, BETTER EP by Deante Hitchcock, and UNLOCKED EP by Denzel Curry