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420 Playlist

This playlist is Q’rated to take you through four stages of smoking a blunt ~ EUPHORIA, AMUSED, CREATIVE & HUNGRY and for every stage you will be ushered by a KiD CuDi song, so basically after the forth CuDi song go & enjoy your munchies|| HAPPY 420 FAMILY

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LUPE FIASCO - DRILL MUSIC IN ZION review by @ODdZmagenge

Following the release of DROGAS WAVE – dropped in 2018, I wasn’t quite ready for a new Lupe Fiasco album. That album was nothing but phenomenal. It took months to get to fully understand the finer detail in a lot of the stories told. Fortunately for most Lupe fans, 2022 is exactly what they’ve been waiting for. New music, Drill Music In Zion.

I wasn’t too pleased with the album name, when I heard that he had given the fans a release date. As a matter a fact, I wasn’t looking forward to this album because of the naming. However, being a Lupe fan I had had to take into inconsideration the amount of work that was in Tetsuo & Youth, as well as what he had given us on DROGAS WAVE. Need I add, this man has been different ever since he left Atlantic records. It almost feels like he’s exactly where he wants to be right now.

Someone that alot of fans might have been missing on recent drops from Lupe has been Ayesha Jaco, she can never be forgotten for the “intro” of Food & Liquor, as well as on “Baba Says Cool for Thought”. Ayesha returns with another intro for this album. This is where I knew, we might have something special here.

“Drill music, pop that pill music, kill music

Desecrating the temples in the ghetto

Funeral processionals increase their frequency

Because we can't break the spell of Geppetto”

The first song of the album ‘The Lion’s Deen’ is a obviously a play on words for entering a rough place. Deen is also purposefully misspelled here but this is for rapgenius folk. Ayesha dives into this intro with so much vigour, passion, heart & compassion. She details the gang violence related to music in Chicago, the broken families, the trauma & the endless murders which are all mostly all results to what sounds a lot like a result of drill music.

GHOTI, you finally meet the man – a calm soothing production, sounding like exactly as it should. Its Gameboy Lupe, rapping about Assassin’s Creed -  “Neuralink is now pirating all your fantasies”. Here we see a glimpse of what Lupe might be alluding too. How one of Elon Musk’s companies could be on the verge of stealing ideas from your thoughts. This would be on people with a chip in their brain - everyone that got vaccinated. AUTOBOTO is basically the Carrera Lu, mashed with a newer version of him. Better rapping, amazing rhymes schemes, unmatched wordplay & sick lyricism. Definitely what I signed up for. I wanna detail more about the Carrera part but figuring you should know this.

PRECIOUS THINGS has a feature from Nayirah, this song solidifies the theme of the album. Very mellow. Lupe writes a beautiful analogy about hands. Hopefully I’m not downplaying this, undoubtable the best song of the album but idea is to make you go listen & get your own perspective.

Ms MURAL is the sixth track on this album, this is a follow on from MURAL Jr. from  DROGAS WAVE that followed the first time we were introduced to MURAL on Tetsuo & Youth. Ms Mural is the final song of the Mural Trilogy. Lupe takes the brush again & paints pictures of his musical journey, his experiences with record label visuals on this particular song.

ON FAUX NEM, a masterpiece in its own right.

“Rappers die too much

That's it, that's the verse”

Lupe gives us, probably the shortest verse ever written. Arguably the best 1 bar verse ever put on a song. He further utters these raps on the second verse.

“silent reflection was the first verse's mission

I ain't want to water it down with a whole bunch of conditions

Just give it to you raw how a nigga really feelin”

The rapper wants the murders on black men in & outside Hip Hop to be acknowledged, the many black people incarcerated. People should no longer ignore what is happening in the world. On this song, Lupe goes as far as giving us a forth verse to make up for the first – the rappers words.

Overall, Drill Music In Zion is an amazing album.

Entirely produced by Soundtrakk. Theres a few other songs that I did not write about, they deserve special mention as they form part of this great project, KIOSK, NAOMI, SEATTLE & the title track. A solid listen & very honest piece of work.

WORDS BY: ODdZmagenge

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Snow Fight Edition

Here are some nice sixteen coke rap songs for ya head tops enjoy.

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Future Beats Edition

An ode to the Southern Africa pioneers of FUTURE BEATS playlist from SoundCloud days to getting a nod from Joe Kay to producing for your faves ~ ENJOY >>

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q'rated vibes_07

This playlist is all about celebrating world music and ease into this new week. We have brought in expert music connoisseur and taste maker, N. (@susie_knuckles ) to get your vibes started

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Q'rated Vibes_04

We’re kicking off the month of August, giving recognition to phenomenal women who are doing amazing things. Q’rating our first women’s month playlist is Gemini’s finest, model extraordinaire, Ruth kgosana with a shoutout to AfroLove Altér check her out!

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