Coi Leray, Blac Youngsta and More – New Hip-Hop Projects

As the vacation weekend hits, hip-hop supplies new releases to function the soundtrack whereas we relax and benefit from the fruits of our labor. This time, a Boston native who additionally reps New Jersey will get emotional on her second undertaking of the 12 months, a hard-nosed Memphis rapper delivers one other album for the streets, a pair of Los Angeles rap-crooners drop the subsequent installment in a well-liked mixtape collection and extra.

Coi Leray Drops Her Second Undertaking in Two Months With Blue Moon EP

Coi Leray returns with one other batch of contemporary sounds for 2023 within the type of her new EP, Blue Moon. The 5-track undertaking arrives simply two months after the Boston-bred rhymer dropped her sophomore album, COI, which spawned one in every of hip-hop’s largest hits of the 12 months, “Gamers.” Whereas COI is full of recognizable samples and social gathering anthems, Blue Moon is an entire departure from that model and finds Coi Leray getting way more private.

“This EP, I get deep, I get susceptible,” Coi Leray wrote in regards to the Blue Moon undertaking on Instagram earlier this week. “I for uninterested in ‘attempting’ new issues and wished to only do what I do BEST. I’ve a tough time with telling my story as a result of I get wrapped up within the media narratives nonetheless Music is one of the simplest ways for me to inform it. It is my life story so why not let me inform it?”

Learn Extra: Followers Suppose Coi Leray Disses Latto on New Music Preview Following Their Beef

Blac Youngsta Releases Third Undertaking of 2023 with Blac Sheep 2

Blac Youngsta is carrying on with a productive 12 months with the discharge of Blac Sheep 2, his undertaking to drop right here in 2023. Following February’s Financial institution Appointment mixtape and April’s Blac Sheep, the sequel to the latter is led by the Tay Keith-produced single, “Mosh Pit.” Blac Sheep 2 finds the Memphis spitter driving solo throughout 15 new tracks with no visitor appearances.

To coincide with the undertaking’s launch on Tuesday (Aug. 29), Blac Youngsta additionally dropped the official music video for the Blac Sheep 2 minimize, “No Purpose,” on which he questions the violent nature of a youthful technology. Black Youngsta’s newest launch comes lower than two weeks after he publicly mourned the latest lack of his brother who was reportedly shot and killed in Memphis, Tenn. on Aug. 18.

Learn Extra: Blac Youngsta Reacts to the Homicide of His Brother

Blxst and Bino Rideaux Unleash Sixtape 3

A lot to the pleasure of their loyal fan base, Blxst and Bino Rideaux unleash Sixtape 3, the third installment of the Sixtape collection made common by the 2 Los Angeles rap-crooners. After saying the undertaking on Twitter again on Aug. 15, Blxst shared a video of him and Bino Rideaux celebrating the third anniversary of the primary Sixtape by popping bottles below a Sixtape 3 promotional billboard.

Blxst hit up Instagram on Aug. 25 to mirror on how far he and Bino have come on account of their famend mixtape collection.

“I keep in mind again in 2019 [Bino Rideaux] had 2 offered out dates in La and let me open up and rock out,” Blxst wrote. “This again earlier than I even had my very own movement .. y’all knew the music earlier than the face however the SIXTAPE is the inspiration to all of it … a soundtrack to La that traveled past the town we made historical past and nonetheless going shoutout to those that made it potential.”

In honor of the undertaking’s launch, Blxst and Bino Rideaux might be performing all three iterations of the Sixtape collection in a string of 4 West Coast exhibits that every have already been offered out.

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