Trouble feat. Skippa Da Flippa – Brick [Audio]

With exception to tracks like “Who You Kiddin” & “Dig,” Atlanta rapper Trouble has been relatively quiet since he dropped off his Skoobzilla mixtape last year. However, the reason for that is partially due to the fact that the ATL rapper has been super busy working on his forthcoming album, which will be produced by Mike Will Made It & feature a collab from hip-hop heavyweight Drake. The video for that song is in post-production. To hold us over in the meantime, Trouble decides to drop off a new Skippa Da Flippa-featured banger called “Brick,” produced by Cassius Jay, take a listen to the hard-hittin’ street banger and let us know what you think!

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Raekwon feat. Ghostface Killah – This Is What It Comes Too (Remix) [Audio]

Raekwon recruits fellow Wu-Tang member Ghostface Killah for the remix to “This Is What It Comes Too”. Rae’s new LP “The Wild” drops this Friday. “Ghost is my brother and we’ve been on this blessed journey for a while now,” Raekwon said in a statement to Billboard. “Me and Ghost are an institution and I know the fans were calling for a remix, so this is what it comes to: Ironman Lunch Mix.” Pre-order the album here and stream “This Is What It Comes Too (Remix)” below.

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Snoh Aalegra – Time [Audio]

Snoh Aalegra unveils her new single “Time”. The song will appear on Aalegra’s upcoming album “Feels” and was inspired by the loss of her father. “I lost my dad in 2009,” she said. “It’s about all different feels. I’m touching on all subjects in my life when it comes to love, life and everything, and that was something I wanted to write about.” Press play on “Time” below.

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Watch Sampha’s Tiny Desk Concert [Video]

“There’s nothing new under the sun / It’s never what you do, but how it’s done,” Nas rapped on “No Idea’s Original.” Such is the case with the South London singer, songwriter and producer Sampha. His originality lies in delivery and tone, which is why he’s been summoned by some of hip-hop and R&B’s biggest names years before the release of his first album. (Kanye’s “Saint Pablo” and Drake’s “Too Much,” for example, could have lacked emotional value without Sampha’s contributions.) Sampha’s music is more feel everything than feel good, which is why his fans hold him so close to their hearts. The vulnerability on his debut, Process, isn’t hard to dissect, but can be downright agonizing to digest; his immediate family has been riddled with disease and ailments, with both his parents succumbing to cancer. Process finds Sampha interpreting this complicated emotional prism — and confronting his own mortality through it. Sampha stopped by the NPR offices to perform 3 tracks from Process. The result is a Tiny Desk Concert as intimate as it gets (and that’s saying something). It’s just him, a piano and these heart-wrenching songs that we reckon double as coping mechanisms.

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