It’s a Thursday night, and someone’s spinning QuincyTellem Make Wave Great Again in a car park after hours. Someone else’s loading clips of Treez0 into a Discord thread. There’s a comment underneath: “This ain’t even music. This is memory.”

The file name on his laptop says “Explain_v7_FINALmaybe.” That is closer to the truth than any tagline. tendai trims until only the necessary remains. Words sit squarely on the beat. Silence reads like punctuation. The melody climbs by a clean interval, then stops before it spills. No flourish. No mist.

A close listen to The BLK LT$ on Honey. Disciplined drums, airtight mixes, and lived in reworks that meet Wu lineage eye to eye. Out October 22.

'Divine' is direct. The writing places self respect at the start and lets everything else arrange around it. Mountain wrote during recovery from surgery, a stretch of quiet that sharpened how she hears time. The images are small and clear. A window cracked for air. Sun across a table after days of grey. A message typed, erased, and left for later. The lyric keeps its shape because it avoids big gestures and lands on detail. The hook states the point, then gets out of its own

The title fits the moment we are living in. 'Never Meant To Hurt You' reads like the 1 a.m. message you type and do not send, blurred labels, soft exits, doors left on the latch. We keep things that should have ended. We stay when the fit is off. We accept less and call it attachment.

The project traces to a recording camp Charisse organised in October 2024 at Baltic Studios, East London. No recycled stems, no trend-chasing bundles. Artists she’s supported on radio and in clubs in the same room, writing from zero. Supported by Nando’s, yes, but the result plays like fieldwork, not a brand exercise: direct takes, parts that earn their place, arrangements that respect what dance floors can actually handle.

FREE marks Nasty C’s cleanest pivot yet. Self-run, sharp, and unhurried, with Blxckie, Usimamane, and a focus cut in Head Up that speaks plain and sticks.

What makes it land is discipline. The voice doesn’t waver. She doesn’t decorate it with excess or lean on stacked ad-libs. The phrasing stays clipped, venom intact, every bar shaped like a dismissal. That restraint is what makes the track bite. You don’t hear an artist venting. You hear someone channeling the critic until their words become her weapon.

Stacy NKR and oakland’s smooth fm EP cuts through with raw lyricism and atmospheric production a 6-track dive into love, loss, and the tension of modern relationships.

Sometimes, the best way to introduce music is to just press play. That's exactly how JusHarry's "Stealth" made its impact. Mid-scroll, with emails open and music in the background, a simple "What's this called?" from someone nearby signaled that this track was something special.

Tommy Saints 'kalila' is the second drop in what feels like a new, softer chapter for him. The first was 'control' back in June. That one already hinted at this shift toward stripped-back R&B. But 'kalila' leans even further in minimal, acoustic-led, a little swing to it but not trying to be smooth. There’s space between the layers. Nothing’s crammed in. It’s not rushed.

The production feels like it was built to hold memory. Jazz, in this case, isn’t decoration it gives the track room to stretch out. Nothing is trying to hit a peak. There’s no build, no drop. Just a consistent, quiet loop that lets you sit with what’s being said. It’s music that doesn’t pull focus from the story. The story is the focus.

Fave's new single, "Intentions," hits hard. Her recent COLORS performance is a masterclass in understated power, with her quiet confidence filling the minimalist stage. It’s a song that speaks volumes in its restraint, capturing that feeling when your words linger in someone’s mind long after they’re spoken. This isn't just music; it's a moment.

Odeal continues his consistent run with the release of The Summer That Saved Me, his second EP of the year. Known for pairing personal storytelling with genre-blending production, this latest project offers a snapshot of a pivotal moment in his life.

Opening the album with his ‘Brief’ Jim explains in two minutes how he dealt with grief just after what most would deem as a high. Coming out of homelessness, producing sprinter to then dealing with the death of his sister, his mother having two strokes and a brother going through psychosis, he still sounds tired. Mentioning he put the energy into this album as his way of coping can be heard in the sombre introduction, before the beat transitions into ‘Stick’.

“Boffum” doesn’t introduce a new sound so much as reinforce a method. Saweetie uses repetition, regional slang, and stripped-back production to explore a recurring theme in her work: holding multiple roles without dilution. The song doesn’t ask for validation—it states its position and moves on. No climax, no resolution. Just a loop built to stay in motion.

I love when an artist just drops music without a big build-up, tons of marketing or slow-drip teasers. Just surprises us. One, who doesn’t love a surprise release? And two, it always feels like the artist is in control. Like they’re doing exactly what they want, on their own terms. Because sometimes music drops and it doesn’t quite feel right. It doesn’t make sense. And you start wondering was this really what you wanted to do? Were there other voices in the room? Did you hav

Sometimes, a song is reborn, revealing a depth you never knew it possessed. That's precisely the magic of Miller Blue's "Us (Orchestral Version)." While the original track garnered over 11 million Spotify streams and landed him a COLORS session, this new orchestral rendition feels like a profound dialogue with the past.

Tracks like "Crash" with Royce da 5'9 offer mature, unvarnished conversations, while "Everywhere I Go" is less about legacy and more about present impact. The standout collaboration "Leave Me Alone" with Dr. Dre and Ty Dolla $ign is a measured anthem about peace and boundaries, mirroring the rooted feel of "For The Love" featuring Ice Cube.

On July 9th, bLAck pARty unveils The Last Dance, the highly anticipated conclusion to his introspective trilogy. This isn't just another album drop; it's the final chapter in a musical journey exploring the complete cycle of love—finding it, living it, and losing it.