rolling 6 7 all-star streamathon 2026

this is the 2026 rap thread

some good and/or interesting stuff from the past few weeks

rio da yung og - "rip drakeo the ruler"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yqco9oBTWs

chief keef - "harry potter"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOcVSCICTLU

loe shimmy - "hills have eyes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7_rgouY3es

pooh shiesty - "fdo"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPuK06zUIhc

seventhirtyatmorning - "miami too much" (sadly not a tribute to key! still like it though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z75uyf8Ej9I

raq baby - "charlie sheen"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1zulu4KINk

screwly g - "rap like this"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiiDvdBUCTQ

shadstackzz x broadday - "crazy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W408_Uo9gF8

miami xo - "bazooka"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCcT7EkYnoE

really digging LaRussel lately, classic Yay Area vibes are alway welcome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMiZSrNh4oI

Vic Spencer and August Fanon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8R0CIULa2w

the larussell and p-lo tape from 2024 was very good

South African Hip Hop with dancehall vibes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps_HUB-QE-0
Meijar Probeats - Sdudla Somdantso feat. April Yung, Gaffi, Emiky RSA, Shela Weh Mngani

2 sinister sounding chords and a sick beat. i like s.

new rocky album is pretty bland overall. i like sauce walka's verse on "stop snitching" tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzaIHY4Edys

The production on the new Xaviersobased is pretty incredible. If they'd released it as an instrumental, it would been hyped by the electronica crowd.

I am listening to it, it's pretty wonderful yeah

I mean, this is a pretty incredible piece of music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myOfVAe0hnk

All the filtering and swooshing and the stuttering and then the moment around 1:09 where a rhythm is there for two bars.

rip michael “5000” watts of swishahouse

you produce “still tippin,” you are immortal

“michael watts he made me hot”

rip, one of my favourite songs of all time

listening to the xavier now. i am often guilty of the “clearer production = level up” fallacy, but i am def connecting more to this new album than any of his past work.

“packs gone,” what an incredible song

Oh yeah, that's me too. I only get new subgenres once the 'major statements' roll in, with increased clarity in the productions, less chaotic overload, and the same idea ten times in a row, which is when all the perceptive ones are on to the next new thing, lol. But hey, this 'nu-jerk' thing is a pretty great kind of music?

been hearing the name pz' (pronounced peezy) a lot recently, so i've been checking out his stuff. def a disciple of carti and uzi but he's found his own lane within the style. his southern drawl is more pronounced than carti's, he gets slippery melodies from uzi, and he actually raps on top of rage beats instead of doing the syllabic free association that a lot of his "underground" peers do. he's already released these three songs this year

"all of me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHX8rZ5oD6E

"fantastic 5"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zxAX6fBrns

"havana"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxDwjD-0JFc

new zukenee ep (zuminati) gets the job done

"rich n****"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfSA5mPOYo4?

"atl"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4k4AeQOdJ4

i like zuke but i really like the beats he raps on

yeah, he has a great ear for beats. and he slides on all of them. if this were 2015, he'd be one of the world's biggest stars

roc marciano is so fucking good lol

"childish things"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIkO2kba7v0

"spanish fly's out of canada dry with spare time on the panerai
you can tell by my tan lines that I wear a watch
rock the yacht-master on the yacht
cracked the master lock, nobody hatch the plot not even matlock, huh?"

"melo"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBIR9fTckTw

"ace of spadеs her ways, gotta call a spade a spade
it's a shame you got champagne taste but kool-aid for brains
margiela tabbies
i done fucked all the baddies like carmelo anthony
cut off so many freaks that fancy me, you might randomly meet an amputee"

this new Roc is just incredible

ain't none of this happened haphazardly
from the hat to the feet
elite haberdashery

lots of moments where i just shake my head in amazement

i liked the song he had on the conway album too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zweGUsOa7gQ

yeah, made him sing like teddy riley in blackstreet, no diggity
n****s copyin' my steez, want my shine, but it's no biggie to me

catching up with the ep that detroit's los released before the new year. it's unsurprisingly great. the below track is particularly smooth.

"money goin money coming"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nrRfN73ehM

took me a couple spins to warm up to it, but xavier starting to sound like a masterpiece

rip lil poppa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iabpc8AzG44

Saw a couple of online profiles of Redveil, a PG County Md near DC rapper who recently moved to Los Angeles and just put out an album called Sankofa. On 1st listen I find this to sound like ok throwback rap

More on Lil Poppa

https://thesource.com/2026/02/19/lil-poppa-dead-fulton-county-officials-confirm/

really like this song by bak jay and nino paid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOl6gxjS9kI

love the new sideshow album. been a fan of his for a few years now and this new album totally lives up to the hype. best thing he's done yet. does it need to be 32 songs? maybe he could've removed like 3-4 of the interludes, but there isn't a bad song on there. current favorites are

"invader jim"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJC_SKIed4

"martyr most high"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ5HtxfgLt8

"my chemical romance" ft. kelow latesha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GV6xqhTbC4

just getting around to it recently but the don toliver album is awesome

maybe i should be posting this in the r&b thread bcuz it’s kinda clicked for me that he’s gen z’s answer to jeremih, just coming at things a bit more like a rapper and a bit less like an r&b singer. but the way jeremih can make what is essentially a rap song but contour it around melody in a way that feels like it came from an r&b writer, i.e. “pass dat,” is reminiscent to me of don at his best and you get a lot of that on this record

“ATM” is a great example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUFlb4YYYKo

“tiramisu” also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlhuSz0HbcE

my fav is prob “rosary” which uses travis scott very similarly to sza on SOS. this is basically a monogamous strip club song, great wheezy beat

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

the capper is “sweet home” which flips the kid rock version of “sweet home alabama” in a frankly completely brilliant way, it’s really a diabolical song

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

missed this post but i’ve been impressed by the commercial staying power of that album. i really liked him around the “after party” era but have lost track of him over the last few albums. i’ll give the new one another chance

missed this post but i’ve been impressed by the commercial staying power of that album. i really liked him around the “after party” era but have lost track of him over the last few albums. i’ll give the new one another chance

anyway i came here to post this incredible rio verse from the babyfxce e album, which is wild even by his high standards. “i’m off painkillers, drank, black & milds, and antibiotics”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Drru-5oiZU

fxce album is very solid overall. "real flex" is still my favorite, i forget if i posted it in last year's thread or not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXH_f6sY7Fc

4thewinn is quickly becoming my new fav cali rapper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AMHoqUDjbE

hi people who aren't out of touch, does it Mean Something that t.i. and juvenile have both been able to come back semi-unexpectedly with hits recently? the t.i. one i actually heard several times thinking it was a random old track by him that i didn't know before realizing it was actually a new/current hit. is the 'mainstream' for rap so dry now that the elders get to enjoy nostalgia-tour revival eras?

not shocked that t.i. got another hit. 00s atl nostalgia has been a prevailing trend for over a year now and he was the king of that sound

listened to the new 41 album (‘area 41’) yesterday. it had a few good songs, but overall seems like a failed opportunity? they were on fire a couple years ago with bent and so many other tunes, if they’d released a tight album of that level of bangers i feel like they would be exploded, but it kind of feels like they fumbled it killed the momentum. album is frontloaded with a bunch of ballad/loverboy tracks for some reason. i still love their flows, such a unique style. and i’ll listen again. curious to hear the voodoo chili take

haven’t checked that one yet. i’ve liked some of their gentler stuff in the past, but agree that it isn’t their strongest mode. i’ll report back

speaking of failed opportunity, after one listen i am pretty underwhelmed by the earl sweatshirt/mike double album. felt like the earl half was much stronger, and he is clearly just a much better rapper qua rapper. mike’s bit isn’t as freewheeling and experimental as the stuff I like best from him. not enough of the surf gang heavy hitters are involved either. evilgiane’s beat for “minty” really pops in context

I've only made it through the MIKE half and I enjoyed it ok but it did feel a little slight and samey. It does sound like he's imitating Earl at his smoked out drawliest. Production was fine but nothing super grabbed me.

yep, I couldn't get through it. it's just boring.

wow and if it's too boring for you... ;)

loooooooool no shit

brb listening to boldy james' 27th album from last year

checking the 41 album. flopson, i agree that the first 5-6 songs are pretty somnolent. i like "mvp" ft. key glock, but it, and the g herbo collab, feel like perfunctory radio plays. the rest of the album is alright, with the typical "debut album" bloat (the tracklist includes multiple singles that are at least 2 years old). i like the album better when they start implementing jersey and sexy drill sounds. kyle richh's rasp in particular sounds great over those breezier beats. "addicted" ft. fivio is pretty great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A64Ad_XCuLY

the cash cobain song that immediately follows it is very a much skip, tho lol

definitely time to sell some sexxy red stock. hard to imagine her career blowing up the way it did without his beats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIccjRf4mDY

damn taykeith made this mf i been waiting for one of these for so long

pooh shiesth otm

nino paid - nun but drums (feat. vonoff1700)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOshH9f9l90

^love this one

jorjiana - woke up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpL8NVo4R_k

bitch a extra in a tubi movie
can't get prime for none
coochie juicy, water round my neck
broke hoes? I drown 'em out
he a goofy, no backbone with jewelry
so they slimed him out
ho act bad? i time him out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_-aF0Ryl7U

traiqo & bby kell - what happ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC96mNFLYck

bby kell - prove sum

pz' "first date" is great. he put out an EP yesterday, B4NTB, that all sounded pretty good (though his young thug-ness got harder to ignore the more I listened, not nec a bad thing but ymmv)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbtO2dE7A7k

"tamagotchi"

really loving the new album by realyungphil, especially the closing track "phila," with its bossa nova guitars. i love how it reprises at double speed, gives a whole new color to the song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIjoansTgIk

rolling boring street rap pick:

Mondo Slade - Colt 45
really dig this beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Cfa1APy5M

speaking of beats "phila" is gorgeous wow

Brian Ennals (who you might remember from the Infinity Knives records) has a new one with Blockhead as the producer, this is some gooooood ass backpacker shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN3ziuO516U

new Rome Streetz is good on the boring street rap tip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7n6Q3SVYFk

i've found brian ennals & infinity knives weirdly didactic. lyrics kinda too on the nose for me. but i'm willing to give him another shot with a different producer

you know I can definitely see that, I think I like it for the same reasons, kind of a modern throwback to a certain strain of late 80s/early 90s post Public Enemy hip hop that has pretty much become extinct if that makes sense

yea i get that, but i don't think he has the voice for it

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/arts/music/young-world-festival-mike.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xlA.qKdu.bLPO1xgK86NL&smid=nytcore-ios-share&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGn0XMAykvEL_uJ7cHAQaVHNI_G5gifD6AQU4h2iNhIHdajB00-C6x0DRnQ-DU_aem_WHbQ_B0t0Df1sRBJslaE9w

rapper Mike's Young World Fest in Bed Stuy Brooklyn makes the NY Times

https://pitchfork.com/story/10-best-under-the-radar-rap-mixtapes-of-2026-so-far/

2026 Rap mixtape list so far

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

nothing groundbreaking, but the AZ record is good, and this track rules

AZ is so consistent one of the best straight up rhymers to ever do it

I think Little Dominique's Nosebleed is a real masterpiece, but the follow up was a little muddled and weird I thought...anyway Koreatown Oddity is back and this is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB5BFFtvFX4

new judah weston + isokeys record is a lot of fun. i feel like i would have been fucking with it heavy if it came out when i was half my age haha. judah is still developing as a rapper, but he has a raw charm and very nyc sense of humor that complements the adventurous stuff isokeys (his older brother) is doing with the beats. i could do without the country and reggae genre exercises, but the electro-influenced songs are keepers

"toe on the gas"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWrP4VJXCh8

"family feud"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkXnf7mZxHg

overdue for a post of my fav songs of recent days

p-lo - "huh alright" ft. 1 umbrella & sob x rbe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ohOJxxgfU

dylvinci - "fytb" ft. realyungphil & boofpaxkmooky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTneK4kimp8

cletus strap - "on the run"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqKico3kaBo

nino paid - "whenever you cm"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXTYAVFjXPQ

nino paid - "step with me" (bonus nino paid song because this one is basically go-go)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruumMC2sI68

hariroc - "greed" ft. b6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ZkwilQwXE

fox bd - "free jr. foxx"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBxF7jPjSsI

surf7 - "7am in ny"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEjro_gmpRo

evilgiane & rico nasty - "what?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F2vVsQ-KJQ

new shiesty album is so good. he is a genius

enjoying the new thirteendegrees very much. 1017 thug meets chicago bop. the beats positively sparkle.

"a gloomy morning"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkEcMxY0DVQ

"jeune og"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ByXvUuXOlo

bringing it back to current thread. i have been meaning to check out new mike eagle. he is not usually my style, but this one seems to be a bit more focused and less, well, nerdy than his usual thing.

Big E the Biggest, nice female version of "bitch i'm from Texas" rap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u52K5RjfnkM

new Steel Tipped Dove and Defcee is great

https://defcee.bandcamp.com/album/we-will-be-brief

production on the nino paid album is very cool. kind of a slowcore(?) indie rock sound on a lot of the tracks. album is a bit too gentle and slow-paced for me to listen to all the way through, 'nun but drums' (which i posted upthread) still my favourite track on it. the whole thing is interesting though, and he's a talented writer, will continue listening to it

yea it's a very good album. the guitar-driven ones were a little disappointing because he has such great taste in production and those tracks all felt very slow and staid.

i like the way detroit's luhh dyl approaches acoustic beats. maybe because he's a bit lighter on his feet and off-kilter than nino? idk, but songs like this from his recent album are great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWhef9IDfuc

new mike shabb mixtape is amazing, shades of native tongues, especially on this highlight

"flowers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkWNzkr89KU

cover art obv a reference to kmd's black bastards

spotify turned me on to this because I listen to Boldy James. I don't really know anything about the others on this track but its cool and holy hell is this beat great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgC5O3NRykQ

DC bouncebeat go-go band TOB do a nice adaptation of BabyChiefDoit’s “Ghetto Love Story (Baby, I just want to dance)”

Admittedly it was Threads, bit I read someone who sincerely seemed to think BabyChiefDoit’s “Ghetto Love Story (Baby, I just want to dance)” was the song of the summer. I do love how TOB do it

this Mike Shabb album is so good

like my favorite hip hop album in a long while

Andre Gee liked Canadian Shabb in his Pitchfork review - It takes a certain gumbo of technique, knowledge, and skill to venerate the past without coming off like a tribute band. Leave it to a sound architect like Shabb to give up the goods on Sewaside IV, the latest entry in his album series reexploring one of hip-hop’s golden eras by expanding the conversation to East Montreal.

x-post - D-40 and Voodoo C have mentioned BabyChiefDoit in past years

seiji oda trunk boiz ep is nice. much more "what i want from a seiji project" than his album from last year

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

https://pitchfork.com/story/don-toliver-is-everywhere-but-why/

i still love octane, kind of surprised alphonse is a hater tbh

new dragnutz (dmv crank) ep is insaaane. a head-spinner. 5 songs and like 4 beat switches in just 8 minutes.

"stripes" (bass here is fucking mind-blowing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuD3t8vvcZE

haha that is wild

new koreatown oddity is great after a disappointing last album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31UbXYU8WzY

509 bmg ft. keeptweakin - haitian k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I40vJHExs0k

bxbyface e ft. 42 dugg - pineapple red

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAxEObD59uM

^incredible 42 dugg verse

I'm tryna turn a tropic Sprite purple, a A&W brown
I found a page of Tunechi and sent it up in Mound
I know them bitches lost, I know them bitches found
I bought a thousand beans, sent my cousin on the 'Hound
Touchdown, Buffs on, get the fuck on
Nigga, you ain't turnt, you a custo'
I still'll send a truckload, I rarely even trust hoes

shady nate ft. lil blood - rated x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N9-RKBq8rk

doggystyleeee - welcome to the west side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG5a130yGmM

jayy v vondon ft. french montana & max b - don in my city pt. 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4o3ZQyH7iM

^constitutionally incapable of resisting max b rapping over a loop of the horn sample from 'hips dont lie'

Big fan of that Doggystyleeee single. Very Kokane-core.

Much prefer the original Don In My City, personally. Alas, Max's voice and flow are generally unlistenable to me now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCQ11h1s52A

Nobody has posted the last 2 Ezale singles in this thread, so here they are

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

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

not familiar with Ezale but enjoying the Quik vibe

ezale is the greatest.

been enjoying the gleefully unhinged music of florida's 730turk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nopNCZksAe4

Don in my City is great

I can't explain why Bby Kell is the only rap I'm listening to this year, but this is up there with "2019":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQif6rFdZtI

"Baby K"

agreed the original "Don in My City" is way better, Max has sucked since he came back out. French i never really gave a shit about. NYC really kills itself with this, anything that gets hot you have to have some fuckin remix with Fat Joe or some other past it dude

'89 the Brainchild will have you saying "that sounds dusted" again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74hqKSgW0Cc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74hqKSgW0Cc

max's new stuff isn't great but the man made "where do i go" and "sexy love" so he can do what he wants

Dolly Babe’s “Pink Blush” getting lots of commercial rap/r& b radio play in dc

digging this one by maryland rapper joony.

"thanos"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcbxmyHEndo