Exodus, the first posthumous album by DMX, shows the late rapper’s penchant for collaboration, featuring a bluesy cut from Westside Gunn, Benny the Butcher, and Conway the Machine of Griselda Records alongside appearances by The Lox, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, and Alicia Keys. One of the older tracks on the album, ‘Bath Salts’ finds Jay-Z and Nas luxuriating in a life of abundance, with alarum production coming courtesy of Swizz Beatz.
Skee Mask mixes up dub, breakbeat, and techno on his latest long-playing version of an infinity pool. Jorja Chalmers uses the siren wail of the saxophone to lure listeners along for the journey on her sophomore album Midnight Train. Mustafa struggles to bury a taste for vengeance on his debut When Smoke Rises, Mereba rides the warzone and floats through kush clouds as she rolls out her latest project AZEB, and Zombie-Chang breaks out the crochet hook for the interlocking textures of ‘Granny Square’.
Sleepy Hallow flips ‘The Chicken Wing Song’ and winds up with some extra crispy baloney. Deem Spencer and Okay Kaya take a trip through life and wonder whether to eat some wedding cake or pass the sick bucket. Sara Bug heads back to her adopted home of Nashville, Medhane can’t wait for the rain to come on Amethyst of Morning, and Melina Duterte of Jay Som and Ellen Kempner of Palehoud band together, sip tea, and share in some of the toxicity of fandom on the opener from Doomin’ Sun.
Danish duo Vanessa Amara linger lightly over tape loops and acoustic feedback. Half Waif breaks through the buildup of salt and nicotine on the latest song from Mythopoetics. Squirrel Flower makes a constellation of cobblestone streets on the fiery ‘Flames and Flat Tires’. Oh Baby take on the uptempo disco icon Patrick Cowley. And music by Gabe ‘Nandez, EarthGang, Karol G and Camilo adds some extra upswing to the tracks of the week.
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DMX – ‘Bath Salts’ (feat. Jay-Z & Nas)
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deem spencer – ‘wife wife’ (feat. Okay Kaya)
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Sleepy Hallow – ‘Chicken/Mi No Sabe’
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Mereba – ‘Rider’
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KAROL G – ‘CONTIGO VOY A MUERTE’ (feat. Camilo)
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Mustafa – ‘The Hearse’
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Jorja Chalmers – ‘I’ll Be Waiting’
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ZOMBIE-CHANG – ‘GRANNY SQUARE’
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Sara Bug – ‘Back in Nashville’
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Squirrel Flower – ‘Flames and Flat Tires’
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Medhane – ‘Who Made The Rain?’
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EARTHGANG – ‘Aretha’
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Portico Quartet – ‘Terrain: II’
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Oh Baby – ‘I Need Somebody To Love Tonight’
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Half Waif – ‘Sodium & Cigarettes’
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