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HHW Premiere: Your Old Droog — “Purple Rain (Game, Blouses)” [Stream]

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Your Old Droog / YOD Your Old Droog made his official debut back in 2014 with a pair of eponymously-named projects that displayed the early promise and masterful abilities of the talented yet mystifying lyricist. The Ukrainian-American rapper confidently emerges once more with the track “Purple Rain (Game, Blouses),” giving credence to YOD’s continued rise in notoriety and prominence in under a decade at that. Having himself a busy 2021, Your Old Droog released the reflective TIME album, and that project was followed by the high concept themes heard across the Space Bar album. Along with those releases, YOD locked in with the prolific Tha God Fahim for a pair of collaborative projects, The Wolf on Wall St. and the cleverly-titled Tha YOD Fahim respec...

HHW Premiere: IceBeatChillz Ft. Terri – ” Bad And Naughty”

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: IceBeatChillz / IBC The year so far has been good to Nigerian music artist and producer IceBeatChillz, including a buzzing single featuring Dancehall Reggae king Beenie Man with the track “Area.” Today (April 22), Hip-Hop Wired is proud to premiere Ice’s latest video “Bad and Naughty” featuring Terri. The video, directed by Jay Affluent with post-production by Sebastian Sdaigui, features Ice in various warm-weather locales exhibiting his effortless cool, fly fashion sense, and eye for fine detail when it comes to the models that appear alongside him in the clip. Given that Nigeria has been a hotbed of talent for years, Ice’s perspective as an artist connects well with the legacy laid before him by other genre-bending artists from the African nation. Self-...

HHW Premiere: Five Steez & Mordecai – A.B.S. [Video]

Source: Five Steez / Five Steez Jamaica is, without doubt, one of the richest cultural hubs in the world and by way of DJ Kool Herc‘s birthright and influence, responsible for the global impact of Hip-Hop music and culture. Kingston’s own Five Steez and Mordecai are adding to their ongoing legacy as leading voices via their take on traditional boom-bap with “A.B.S.” from their latest EP. With Five Steez commanding the microphone duties with confidence, Mordecai’s head-nodding production serves as the foundation of the Jamaican duo’s signature sound, present across their latest set, HeatRockz 2.0. The EP follows the duo’s 2019 full-length Love N Art and is a direct sequel of the pair’s hard-hitting HeatRockz project from 2016. Five doesn’t rely on the expected patois-tinged deejay hybrid st...