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These are the highlights of this past week in music! Hopefully you can bump these tracks on your way to work to brighten up your Monday mornings, and to stay up-to-date on today’s music.
This week we have a track from Chance The Rapper and The Social Experiment’s new free album Surf, a new song from singer Mike Posner, a ‘Commas’ remix with Big Sean and Rick Ross, and a Jhene Aiko/Hudson Mohawke collaboration.
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Despite Drake’s jab at Chance The Rapper in his 2014 track ‘Draft Day’, the two were friendly last night as they hung out backstage at the United Center in Chicago. Minutes ago, Chance’s brother (Taylor Bennett) posted a photo with Drake, which he tagged his big bro Chance for the camera credits.
“If I’d leave this shit to chance, I’da picked a name like Chance the Rapper,” rapped Drake in ‘Draft Day’. To be fair though, Drake stressed in the next bars that there was no offense as he “doesn’t know that n*gga.” Well… he knows him now, and let’s just hope that this meeting leads to an eventual collaboration. A Chance verse on Views From The 6 perhaps?
Check out Taylor’s photo with Drizzy below (took by Chance himself).
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Hudson Mohawke’s forthcoming album, Lantern, officially releases in a couple weeks (June 16) and we have one of its top tracks, which features the beautiful and talented Jhene Aiko. The collaboration, titled ‘Resistance’, is just one of many great collabs on the LP, which also features appearances from Miguel, Irfane, Antony, and more!
Stream ‘Resistance’ below and pre-order Lantern now on iTunes.
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Lion Babe (Jillian Hervey and Lucas Goodman) has been hitting the ground running ever since the release of their ‘Jump Hi’ with Childish Gambino. Next up though is the New York duo’s music video for their self-titled EP’s track, ‘Don’t Break My Heart’. Jillian dances seductively in this Lucas McGowan-directed video, so you definitely will want to check it out!
Watch the official video for ‘Don’t Break My Heart’ below.
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Chance The Rapper shared the release of his new album Surf (with The Social Experiment) last night, but that didn’t stop him from giving back to his community less than a day later. Today Chance paid a visit to students and faculty at Chicago’s John Fiske School and Scammon Elementary School to present awards for the “Get Schooled, Get Connected” challenge. The challenge, designed to help Chicago Public School (CPS) students stay motivated to finish the school year strong, ended last Friday and Chance did his part to help reward the students’ hard work.
Check our more photos, from our photographer Jesus Montero, below.
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The wait is finally over as Chance The Rapper and The Social Experiment have released the highly anticipated album, Surf, for free on iTunes. The Donnie Trumpet led project comes in at 16-tracks and has an all-star cast (no exaggeration). As expected, Chance The Rapper is featured on most of the album’s tracks, however Surf also has appearances from Big Sean, J. Cole, Raury, B.O.B., BJ The Chicago Kid, Busta Rhymes, Janelle Monae, Noname Gypsy, Jeremih, Quavo (Migos), Kyle, King Louie, Saba, Erykah Badu, Jesse Boykins III, Saba, D.R.A.M. and Joey Purp. Wow!
Download Surf now on iTunes.
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What sets Bonnaroo aside from other elite music festivals, is its Superjam. For those who don’t know, the Superjam is just that, a huge jam session with some of music’s top artists from many different genres. And this year’s Superjam lineup is stacked! Joining the jam this year, Saturday June 13th at 1:30 AM, is Chance the Rapper, Pretty Lights, Run DMC’s Darryl McDaniels, Metallica’s Rob Trujillo, Reggie Watts, Jamie Lidell, Jack Antonoff (Bleachers, fun.), Eric Krasno, John Medeski, Cherub, and many more! Definitely don’t miss out on The Farm this year.
Watch a video from last year’s Superjam below.
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From their forthcoming Currents album, Tame Impala has released another official music video for their track ‘Cause I’m a Man’. While this is the second official music video for the record, this one is definitely our favorite, as it stars puppets. Currents comes out on July 17th, and you can definitely expect to hear more from Tame Impala until then.
Watch Tame Impala’s ‘Cause I’m a Man’ video below.
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The Truth, a new four-track EP from singer Mike Posner, is described by the man himself as “four songs selected from my upcoming album. They are best listened to the way they were written: at night, and alone. I hope you enjoy.” Well it is 12:45 AM in Chicago, and I’m laying in bed with just my laptop, while the four records play on repeat. And that’s the truth. Taking Mike’s advice, and even if you don’t, The Truth, is an amazing introduction to Mike Posner’s sophomore album, a sophomore album that fans have been waiting for (and for many years). And if this is your first introduction to Posner, or if you want a reminder, Mike Posner is a singer from Detroit, whose solid fan base (which he built from rap-influence pop mixtapes, made during his time at Duke University) help launch his first big hit, ‘Cooler Than Me’, the summer anthem of 2010. After a long solo hiatus, producing hits for artists like Justin Bieber, scraping a number of sophomore album attempts, and his first number one record (with Maroon 5’s ‘Sugar’), we now are finally on the verge of “the new Mike Posner” with The Truth.
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Listen as Chicago’s Kembe X recruits Detroit’s Danny Brown for his new track, ‘Hereditary (2 Bitches)’. The record is in anticipated of Kembe X’s forthcoming Talk Back mixtape and is produced by OPI Tayler. Danny Brown definitely delivers with his guest verse, so don’t sleep on this one.
Stream ‘Hereditary (2 Bitches)’ below.
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The Early Registration 