rolling hanging mic song wars 2025

this is the rolling 2025 hip-hop thread

rio da young og - "wydt"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-piVv_VFRio

cortisa star - "fun"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myKH6qlTekk

karrahbooo - "bossy booo"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXbqJlvEZbE

el snappo - "chicken"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0exwgzxC2k

fat trel ft. kp skywalka - "hit the brakes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v59fLdYX6gY

and the year's first viral rap hit, "tweaker" by liangelo ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2MdybKPqfE

digging this from houston's deebaby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnLtVWNV6TY

haha good thread title

was thinking "rolling on/from/in the radar/block/booth 2025" but wasn't sure how the slashes would affect searching

yeah plus "rolling attack of the white clones 2025" might have been too negative of a start

jorjiana ft 1900 rugrat - turn you up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEmBWqg4gfA

(i actually like rugrat a lot, jorjiana otoh...)

i file both under "florida is another planet"

i kinda like the jorjiana song with loe shimmy lol, tho her ad-lib is nails on a chalkboard to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy4cxG4o17U

ot7quanny & bossman dlow - "bout my money"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS3oJMC1hPU

in which dlow repays my assertion that he's atlanta's e-40 by doing a "yup/nope" bar

*florida, not atlanta, duh

that cortisa star tune is terrific!!

liked wtm scoob and coffeeblack's album from last year, and they're back. they live somewhere in between valee and los & nutty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3SciFHX4II

also been running this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RokSYfF9rY

nino paid album is out and it is goooood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO5FlX5LlHw

this is the first solo track i've heard by frequent 454 collaborator pig the gemini. occupies the same sped-up sonic universe, but more contemplative and emotional than 454's stuff. she's less of a rappin' ass rapper than 454, but reminds me of some of his more laid back songs like "ice age"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPkcJFVdOVI

quickly becoming addicted to bloody!'s new mixtape so wavy luciano. style reminiscent of critical favorite xaviersobased, but with a more traditionally quotable kind of rap charisma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQKAasbYGXg

new mixtape from young dro & zaytoven. dro still has massive charisma and maybe fewer jaw-dropping bars than his prime, but they're still in there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC1cvCdW6mg

That Bloody! tape is a fun vibe.

yea, it's low stakes but has proven to be addictive

last night before kendrick's performance, apple music used a song by the underground rapper (and acerbic twitter presence) ghais guevara for the "apple music halftime show" introduction, from his album goyard ibn said. i haven't listened to the new one yet, but this song is great. it kind of strikes me as a earl sweatshirt-ified (or zeelooperz-ified) version of lucki?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpvFIxd6lWA

I through on that ghais guevara album the other day (pre-superbowl, I just thought it looked neat) and it didn't fully grab me. But I do plan on giving it less of a commuter listen so clearly I see something there.

getting into the rio da yung og deluxe, this is dope ("coincidence")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tkQcWWYT1s

this too ("we need a pilot")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGjCHlrnTzw

loving this new mixtape by thirteendegrees. he's def a son of thug but most rappers who mimic him these days don't evoke the 1017 thug era, which is sorely missed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOI9biC1oUY

enjoying rappers doing rio da yung OG karaoke songs and rolling out the red carpet for him to rap for the first minute plus. neither can hold a candle to him doing this but the beats are great and overall i find these fun in spirit

vonoff1700 ft rio - turnt in real life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtdWTxTGDRg

ytb fatt ft rio - ghetto fox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSSB_-xFrDc

my fav rap music right now is rroxket -- super fried post-baby voice playboi carti rap but i find him really compelling, love his beat selection and he has some memorable lines, there's fun imagery when you dig into what he's actually saying

"backwards" off his tape from last year is def one that pushes it to the limit but i think the concept really works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMvq9XgZY4A

"kim" is a recent one i really like, fun bouncy song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd2iHiKscXU

and his songs about drugs are unsurprisingly very good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mEnmek3-1Y

"trainwreck" was one of my fav songs of 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pjAZrf2Omc

so funny how rio refuses to rap over anything but those flint beats. i remember a big moochie grape song from last year that just cut and pasted a rio flint song in the middle of moochie's memphis-style song

yeah i dug what i heard from rroxket last year, especially that red ranger tape. "scary" was a favorite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4bhPsNrg6o

pig the gemini's ep is out, it's nice to spend 15 mins in her world
https://soundcloud.com/therealpig/sets/lover-girl

surprised by how much i like this new lil tecca song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjIWsrh2BUQ

nice neptunes vibe

had missed this until recently. great beat, love the shakers. incredible veeze verse but all three sound really good

est gee ft rylo & veeze - "my love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQUtHDaGXwE

that's one of my fav est gee verses in a while

liking the new tape by uk rapper feng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9V9X0_AsVs

lol i love the thread title

shaudy kash x top$side mixtape is so good
https://soundcloud.com/topsideproductions/new-york-freestyle-on-the

*top$ide

new daboii album is #good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucuh2lOy8ak

the 808 cowbell is one of the greatest sounds in music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhDfcVMk-bY

i like the new myaap single ‘fairy’

yeah, i love myaap.

digging this collab between lelo and babyface ray. both from detroit. ray mostly likes glittering, luxurious soundscapes, while lelo plays in the murk. this beat does a good job of inhabiting both worlds. two great verses too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esGpza1UcpM

i like the new myaap single ‘fairy’

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def don't want to blow past this one. the beat is incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlC-gJQzfAs

idk what to say really, to me this shit is beyond incredible but idk what you'll all think

https://dismissyourself.bandcamp.com/album/cult-subterranea

open to that kind of thing in theory, but i really disliked the instrumentals, to be very honest. the album artwork is also aggressively ugly

imago, you might dig infinity knives & brian ennals, who have a new album out. there was something grating about the style of rapping that put me off the last album (it just felt a touch too...nerdy?), but the beats were noisy and ambitious, and i was close to seeing the vision. i am planning on checking out the new one (linked below).
https://infinityknives666.bandcamp.com/album/a-city-drowned-in-gods-black-tears

really loving the new album by niontay. it's nearly impossible to understand anything he is saying on first listen, but the way he says it makes you want to listen enough to eventually get it lol.

beats are pretty great too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7942T8bTs4

skino & kp skywalka - "doors n wheels"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdhhuJOj4Pk

seiji oda finally coming out with an album this month. "mobby miyazaki" is one of my fav songs of the year so far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HESrstWMTw

nice, love seiji

you guys like vayda?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7LyjNpIC9Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hsFu1ukkEE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kETs7-VsFjU

this beat is insane

ebk jayboo - f*ck everybody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clWqcCjxtPA

yeah vayda is dope. similar vibes on the new album by spook (vayda shows up on "eat!" great song.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1vw4JK-5Gs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A9MoM9Xxjw

those are nice, thank you!

new song by mavi and niontay is so good. i am going crazy trying to figure out where they got this flow from. maybe a ludacris song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68TvjPsW5wU

finally going through the alphonse list people were dragging and really enjoying this one

4thawinn - "vangundy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCMLgYwNkvI

catching up on the anycia x dj drama mixtape. she's tapping into that same trendy mid-00s atl sound, including this one that has a straight sample of "and then what"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9oczUx9h7Y

i preferred dallas rapper montana 700's take on that song from last fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6cy0v3Mncc

the real highlight of the tape is glorilla's verse on "never need"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Tl2m7Oiy8

“i started rapping with no effort, i think that i started a trend” is a great lyric lol

one of my favorite new rappers is detroit's lelo. i really like spending time in his world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnAF5LexDuI

another fav new rapper, the insanely charismatic mel v chapo. i think she's from texas? she sounds like a cross between rico nasty and denzel curry, with some of the new school rage rap and mixtape waka flocka mixed in.

"jimmy choose"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1g73nUGEbQ

"alien friends"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn_7isN_JHQ

"google me tf"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvMeW4dcwV0

don't care about the song, but this thread is called hanging mic and this is an instant classic of the genre lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmXnuUWQU6c

That’s a crazy looking video

Billy Woods + Gabe Nandez + Preservation production, catnip for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk0aQybnmoo

has ilx ever talked about the fact that there's an LA rap duo called 'OTM'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcWs0JJ7vSI

ha yes i am pretty sure i brought them up a couple years ago when they first emerged

used to be a guy named otm frenchyy too, not sure what happened to him

listening to that woods song above…incredible production, sheesh. one of preservation’s best ever

babyface ray album is very good, as usual. particularly like his two collabs with samuel shabazz

"sine aire"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvjwyHe2zSQ

"1 on 1 talk w/ god"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5orAbbupAqE

fuck me the new Earl Sweatshirt is wild good

Gave a proper listen to Bandana yesterday and was yawning (was a fan of Piñata when it came out). Today I'm listening to Alfredo 2 and am surprised to be enjoying it. Putting the two sequels side to side, the collab works better than with Madlib dare I say. I actually haven't listened to the first Alfredo, will play catch up.

ya new earl is one of his best ever

i like freddie’s collabs with madlib a more than with alchemist cause freddie has a tendency to get a little too smooth, to the point that it just goes in one ear and out the other, and madlib’s idiosyncratic rhythms fight against that tendency

mavi has quietly become a top tier guest verse killer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iCpVJ7G_F8

this beat is insane lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1Wk9ERL9g

new thirteendegrees album, sounding pretty great. good substitute for a disappointing young thug effort

"rooftopz"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7xfQ9MNYDQ

"chiraq child" w/ lil2posh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg1MxK2BRKc

i really like the best on the new rroxket song ‘massage’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_53PVnxM8Bk

I just posted to a group chat that I think the thirteendegrees album makes up for the young thug album haha

yeah he has enough chicago bop in him to not be a full stylistic clone, and he has a lot of the playful energy that thug has lost over the years

really love the new kp skywalka album. this one ("still bangin") features paco panama and shares a sample with "you're nobody til somebody kills you"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRicYiVIT8Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUZyn_w6Y1Q

I like I think it’s YKNiece saying “take me through dere” on this Metro Boomin track that gets a lot of airplay on my local dc commercial hiphop & r& b station

i need to listen to the metro album again. haven't listened since giving it a cursory spin when it came out but all the songs have popped when i've heard them out in the wild

Also have heard "take through dere" several times on a Sirius Xm hiphop station. I like it better than some of the other songs getting repeat play on such stations

new monaleo tape (who did the body) is a well-crafted product of the modern retro trap thing that's going on in texas and atlanta. she has a huge personality. i've been interested in her since "beating down the block" and it seems like she's fully put it together

"putting ya dine"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgPj14GtKJc

one of the producers on "putting ya dine" also did this new lil karrahbooo freestyle track that i love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47DOIXkWixE

she's legit one of my fav rappers but whenever i tell people this they think i'm joking haha

i love her too, hope she's working on a comeback. she was the best of the concrete "boys"

like Monaleo but this Lizzo guest verse is just horrible lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U354-i6AqsY

yea it is pretty bad. rest of the album is much better.

"we do it til the room stank like Fritos" jfc

after danny brown said "stank pussy smellin like cool ranch doritos" i'm not sure any rapper can come up w/ a food related stench comparison that will gross me out anymore

yeah listening to chow lee and flint raps and dmv crank have completely overwhelmed my sensitivity to that sort of thing

interesting that they both landed on such a similar comparison. makes you think

Karrahboo said yachty is preventing her from releasing music since their beef...

Yeah Frito breath. Your breath smells like fritos.

new mike shabb tape is pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p8Wf7ayW_c

love the new ep by mexikodro, just head down working-class trap music. he's also a genius producer, which is a bonus.

"aware" is my fav new song on the tape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M9tK9q-Xm0

"no date" evolved into a decent-sized hit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xqpkNN2iI

"no date" is one of my fav rap traxx of the year

just for the record, i don't think he produces a single beat on this tape.

really? that’s interesting, i mostly knew him as the guy behind all the plugg beats so i assumed he did his own stuff

it's mostly produced by bapebrazy and ziggymadeit

so much interesting stuff this year. feel like loe shimmy has the best album, but i might change my mind as i revisit stuff

yeah i like him a lot. feel like the album was kind of a data dump, but it was pretty strong on a song-to-song level

oh and pink siifu. but that's on a different planet. really disappointed it doesn't get more love.

i respect him but have never actually enjoyed his music ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

same. but BLACK'!ANTIQUE got to me. i feel he has the least oldhead, or just most southern, taste of all the "abstract" artists.