Jim Jones and Hitmaka, Blxst and More – New Hip-Hop Projects

As March marches on, the rap recreation mounts up on one other week full of latest releases. This time round, a Harlem legend hyperlinks up with a famend producer from Chicago for a brand new LP, a West Coast rap-crooner follows up a critically acclaimed album with a contemporary EP, one other Los Angeles native drops a mission hosted by a mixtape icon and extra.

After teasing the mission for properly over a 12 months, Jim Jones comes via with Again in My Prime, a full-length album comprised of beats completely produced by Hitmaka. Though the official launch date and canopy artwork have been solely simply unveiled earlier this week, the Diplomats spitter and the Grammy-winning producer first introduced their collab all the best way again on the finish of 2021 and have since unleashed a bevy of singles featured on the brand new mission.

Again in My Prime‘s lead single, “I Am” options Stefflon Don and provides up summer season day social gathering vibes throughout an in any other case chilly time of 12 months full with a visible that finds Capo dipping backwards and forwards between Miami and his hometown of Harlem, N.Y.

In a Worldstar Hip-Hop unique video, “Seen The Cash,” Jim Jones provides a glimpse into his lavish life-style whereas Hitmaka laces the monitor with a outstanding pattern of Alicia Keys’ 2003 smash, “You Do not Know My Identify.” The mission’s newest single, “Keep” additionally options components of a preferred monitor from the early 2000s, Lumidee’s “By no means Go away You,” the identical track that Nicki Minaj just lately flipped for her new track, “Purple Ruby Da Sleeze.”

In selling the discharge of Again in My Prime, Jim Jones hit up Instagram along with his ideas on working with Hitmaka, who’s at present one of the crucial revered producers in hip-hop.

“Totally produced by Yung Berg a.ok.a. Hitmaka, you heard?” stated Jimmy in a video clip throughout a current photoshoot. “One of many prime producers within the recreation. He be ringing off with primary hits and all that Grammy kind of s**t. N***a’s hearth, you heard? I obtained an entire album with all that fireplace. You are going to need to cope with it.”

Blxst returns with a brand new EP Only for Readability 2, the sequel to his 2021 mission of the identical title. The 2021 XXL Freshman began teasing the mission final Monday (March 6) on his Instagram account. The California rap&B singer shared a video the place he manually articulated “Only for Readability 2” along with his fingers.

Blxst additionally posted a photograph of himself within the studio with fellow producers Mustard and Terrace Martin engaged on a monitor for his JFC 2 mission. The 30-year-old artist additionally shared photographs of himself and good pal Roddy Ricch giving their younger sons blinged-out “E”(vgle) and “RR” chains, respectively.

On Thursday (March 9), Blxst jumped on his IG account and posted a video of himself in his selfmade studio along with his track “Passionate,” that includes Roddy, enjoying within the background. The clip additionally incorporates a tracklist for Simply For Readability 2. It seems the EP will solely have 4 songs with visitor appearances from Roddy, Terrance, Mustard and Larry June, who seems on his first single, “Maintain Calling,” which you’ll watch beneath.

Rapper G Perico groups up with DJ Drama for a Gangsta Grillz mixtape referred to as Sizzling Shot. The mission follows Perico’s final studio album South Central, launched in December 2022. In the meantime, DJ Drama continues his Gangsta Grillz run after dropping a bunch of albums final 12 months, together with Coke Boys 6: Cash Heist Version with French Montana, Rollin’ Stone with J. Stone and most just lately, Again On Dexter with Kash Doll.

For Sizzling Shot, the Los Angeles rapper and Grammy Award-winning producer began selling the mission again in February with the set’s first single, “Motion.” Earlier this week, the dynamic duo premiered a Sizzling Shot: Gangsta Grillz Documentary on YouTube, which options Perico and Drama detailing the recording course of behind their joint mixtape.

For those who like what G Perico is placing down, catch him on his Sizzling Shot Tour, which kicks off in Brooklyn, N.Y. on March 30 and wraps up June 4 in San Diego, Calif. Peep the tour dates beneath.

Try different new initiatives this week from Talib Kweli and Madlib, Iayze, Conway The Machine and extra beneath.