widontplay Weekly: Hip-Hop Releases CW 23
June 5, 2026 · This Week in Hip-Hop CW 23 delivers. Conway the Machine dropped a free tape with DJ Whoo Kid on June 3. Freddie Gibbs quietly put out …
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June 5, 2026 · This Week in Hip-Hop CW 23 delivers. Conway the Machine dropped a free tape with DJ Whoo Kid on June 3. Freddie Gibbs quietly put out …
Copper Soul is an 86 BPM instrumental built around a soulful trumpet sample sitting over heavy boom bap drums. The trumpet carries the whole emotion…
Not every collab needs a long setup. Sometimes two people just fit — and this is one of those cases. Jennaske is a Queens-born rapper and entertain…
This one crosses an ocean without making a big deal out of it. "How It All Started" is a track off the EP Foreign Exchange — and the tit…
It's 1999. Again. Almost. The New York Knicks are facing the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals — a rematch of the title round from 27 years …
Rome Streetz doesn't slow down. While most MCs are still working on their next move, he's already put out another one. "Cocaine Coltrane…
May 29, 2026 · This Week in Hip-Hop Some weeks come up empty. CW 22 is one of them. The two visible rap names dropping today are Pouya with Forever…
Ronin is an 80 BPM instrumental built around two alternating melodic elements — a shamisen and a whistle — trading off every few bars over heavy boom…
Jay Worthy is on a different level right now. Once Upon A Time: The Soundtrack is a 16-track project released as the second part of a double album…
May 22, 2026 · This Week in Hip-Hop CW 21 was quiet on the Boom Bap side. Nothing from the Griselda orbit, nothing from the Alchemist camp, nothing …
May 14, 2026 · This Week in Hip-Hop The week of May 11 did not need to announce itself. The releases that matter here all landed on May 8 and kept ge…
Benny The Butcher and Fuego Base are still moving through the Ashes In The Safe run, and “The Fighting Irish” keeps the whole thing in that cold BS…
Cookin Soul and Estee Nack have dropped AL-ANDALUS, a full-length collaboration that feels less like a random producer-rapper link-up and more like…
I had to skip last week due to illness, so this one picks things back up. The good part is that this week did not come with an overload of essentia…
Cypress Hill do not need to prove anything anymore. That part has been settled for decades. Still, “Campeones” feels like a statement. The new tr…
This week’s stack is less about chasing every release that landed on Friday and more about pulling out the ones that actually stayed with me. Some o…
eLceo builds this one around a smooth meeting point between hip hop, jazz, and something more earthy. You can hear the boom bap foundation, but the…
A lot of rap reaches for pressure as a theme. “Rollercoaster Pt. 2” sounds like pressure that has already left its mark. M-Dot and Confidence come …
Coffee Table Beats is a new instrumental mixtape built from six previously released beats. I brought these tracks together because they share a sim…
Platform Smoke is an 80 BPM instrumental built around a piano lead and sporadic sax licks . The piano stays in front as the main motif, while th…
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