Tez Banga – Rixh

Orlando/St. Louis Transplant Tez Banga dropped a track over on DGB that caught my ear today. The self-produced “Rixh” is simple, catchy and influenced by the Atlantan auto-tuned musings of artists like Future and Johnny Cinco. Nothing ground-breaking here, but that’s not always the point. Tez has a mixtape with DJ Rell coming out soon.

Gucci Mane – The Return Of Mr. Perfect (Album Stream)


Gucci Mane, Sean Paine and co release Gucci’s latest album, The Return Of Mr. Perfect for free (at least for now.) Unlike previous releases, the project has beats from a variety of producers as opposed to one or two. Features and beats from Strap Da Fool (watch for him), Chill Will, Wyclef Jean, Detail, Mike Will, 808 Mafia, Dun Deal, Sonny Digital, Drumma Boy and CNOTE.

HNIC – The HNYC (ReMix Tape)



Maryland-based producer the HNIC dropped this re-mix tape about a month ago. Unfortunately it hasn’t gotten much buzz since then. I only came across the tape because its on the first page of Google when you search “Solbiato” the name he gave for his Roc Marciano remix. Great track names, Dirty drums and and eerie samples back 17 tracks from New York rappers both old and new. HNIC channels a little bit of old RZA, Pete Rock, dusty tapes and something clearly his own on this great project.

Chris Brown And Drake End Beef


MTV reports;

“We’re young, so it’s not like [we had] a pow wow over tea or nothing. It didn’t need to be explained. It wasn’t no problem. [Drake’s] camp actually called me to do the skit. Especially after getting out of jail, I didn’t have any animosity towards anybody. I wanted to be able to bring light to the situation and just grow up. I’m 25 and I’m not getting younger. You can’t walk around holding grudges, looking over your shoulder and being negative all the time. I’m tired of being looked at as the aggressor, so I just wanted to show my maturity.

Working on music is something we’re gonna continuously try to do and make happen. I know it’ll be a big thing for the fans if they hear a song –- but it has to be the right song, for both of us, at the end of the day. When we were in the studio [Drake] was like, ‘Oh, man, I need to have my studio like this. My vibe is a little different — I like to have a party. It’s like the club in my studio with 15 or 20 girls, a couple of my homies, drinks and everybody’s having fun. I just get the vibe off the energy from them.”