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HipHopWired Featured Video Source: miniseries / Getty We at Hip-Hop Wired pride ourselves on being fully immersed in the music of the culture we rep proudly. Part of our duty as a publication and crew is to school the masses on who is doing what musically and there’s no better way to do that beyond our CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) bi-weekly playlist. This week’s playlist opens up with a new joint from BIA, which is a remix of her 2020 London Jae-produced joint “Whole Lotta Money” featuring the Queen from Queens, Nicki Minaj. Keeping in the Q borough, Bas returns with his first single of 2021 in “The Jackie” and joined by Dreamville Records honcho J. Cole and young hitmaker Lil TJay. North Side Long Beach superstar Vince Staples dropped his self-titled fourth studio album and the opening trac...

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: RgStudio / Getty We at Hip-Hop Wired pride ourselves on being fully immersed in the music of the culture we rep proudly. Part of our duty as a publication and crew is to school the masses on who is doing what musically and there’s no better way to do that beyond our CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) bi-weekly playlist. With the news that Blackalicious MC Gift of Gab has passed away, we thought it was only right to open up with a pair of songs that display some of Gab’s incredible lyrical ability and breath control. If you were lucky enough to see Gift of Gab live in action, you witnessed a pure master at work and one of the most humble human beings you’ll ever meet. Rest powerfully in peace, Gift of Gab. We continue on with “Lumberjack” from Tyler, The Creator, ...

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Antonio Ovejero / EyeEm / Getty We at Hip-Hop Wired pride ourselves on being fully immersed in the music of the culture we rep proudly. Part of our duty as a publication and crew is to school the masses on who is doing what musically and there’s no better way to do that beyond our CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) bi-weekly playlist. We open up this week’s playlist with the Migos marking their return with Culture III, and the Drake-assisted “Having Our Way” track, which caught some ears for reasons that have already been documented time and again. We follow that with the return of Tina Snow aka Megan Thee Stallion and her high-powered summer anthem “Thot Sh*t” and we added Kodak’s “Feelin’ Peachy” from his Happy Birthday Kodak project. We then take it to Memphis...

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: blackCAT / Getty We at Hip-Hop Wired pride ourselves on being fully immersed in the music of the culture we rep proudly. Part of our duty as a publication and crew is to school the masses on who is doing what musically and there’s no better way to do that beyond our CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) bi-weekly playlist. Keeping up with our bi-weekly schedule, this week’s CRT FRSH playlist is another one of those joints that goes all across the map, literally and otherwise. We believe that Hip-Hop is too vast of a music genre to be boxed in by a particular sound or topic matter. There will be artists from both coasts, the midwest, down south, and we’ve even got our neighbors to the north in Canada on this week’s list. We open up the list with the late, great DMX a...

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Five / Getty We at Hip-Hop Wired pride ourselves on being fully immersed in the music of the culture we rep proudly. Part of our duty as a publication and crew is to school the masses on who is doing what musically and there’s no better way to do that beyond our CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) bi-weekly playlist. This week’s CRT FRSH opens with Buffalo’s Benny The Butcher alongside 2 Chainz chopping it up over some Harry Fraud production on “Plug Talk” from Benny’s The Plugs I Met 2 project. We follow up that joint with something fresh and innovative from FlySiifu, the dynamic duo of the wise nomad Pink Siifu and Richmond, Va.’s Fly Anakin. The pair dance like jazz soloists on the track “Rick James” and display styles infinite. Don’t sleep on them or their res...

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: martin-dm / Getty We at Hip-Hop Wired pride ourselves on being fully immersed in the music of the culture we rep proudly. Part of our duty as a publication and crew is to school the masses on who is doing what musically and there’s no better way to do that beyond our CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) bi-weekly playlist. This week’s playlist opens with the track “Lemon Pepper Freestyle” from Drake featuring Coming 2 America film set host, and certifiably rich rapper, Rick Ross. While Rozay does his thing on the joint, Drizzy went into a new gear on his verse and displayed that cocky ferocity he’s become known for. Following is Benny The Butcher’s atop Harry Fraud’s production for “Thanksgiving,” the first single from next week’s Plugs I Met 2 which features the B...

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs / Getty We at Hip-Hop Wired pride ourselves on being fully immersed in the music of the culture we rep proudly. Part of our duty as a publication and crew is to school the masses on who is doing what musically and there’s no better way to do that beyond our CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) bi-weekly playlist. This week’s CRT FRSH playlist opens with “AP” from the soundtrack to Eddie Huang’s directorial debut, Boogie, which focuses on the hoop dreams of an Asian-American basketball star in NYC. Keeping with the soundtrack theme, we’ve got another joint from the Judas & The Black Messiah-inspired soundtrack with Nas rocking with Hit-Boy on the triumphant “EPMD.” More soundtrack heat comes from YG and Big Sean, who link up on the joint “Go Big” from the soundtrack to Eddi...

Source: JuiceBros / Getty We at Hip-Hop Wired pride ourselves on being fully immersed in the music of the culture we rep proudly. Part of our duty as a publication and crew is to school the masses on who is doing what musically and there’s no better way to do that beyond our CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) bi-weekly playlist. This week’s CRT FRSH playlist opens with “What It Feels Like” featuring the late, great Nipsey Hussle and JAY-Z for the Judas & The Black Messiah soundtrack. Over some beautiful production from the production collective 1500 Or Nothin’, Neighborhood Nip and Hov sound amazing together, and their themes of Black empowerment sound even harder with the backdrop of the film along with the legacy of slain Black Panther Party leader, Fred Hampton, Sr. The soundtrack wave is u...

Source: Brothers91 / Getty Peace, party people. We’re back with the latest edition of our CRT FRSH playlist, which spans the ENTIRE culture and not just what some might expect. As usual, these are songs we’re legitimately enjoying and there’s no one style or sound featured. This week, we open out the CRT FRSH (Certified Fresh) playlist with Madlib’s “Dirtknock” from his incredibly ill Sound Ancestors album, arranged by the great Four Tet. We also got joints from DMV giant Wale, Nyck Caution alongside his Pro Era bro Joey BadA$$ (Salute the 47), Russ and Lil Baby, Lil Durk and the late, great King Von, and more. We also made sure the ladies got some shine with Flo Milli’s “Roaring 20s” banging in our ear right now, and the title couldn’t be more appropriate given the stock market gold rush ...