June 17, 2022 - Remixd Magazine

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Best new songs to listen to this weekend

The summer is really starting to unfold with a new set of gems included in this week’s New Music Friday! A ton of fresh tracks dropped earlier this week, as well as some surprise releases from various artists. From Drake to Flo Milli to Wizkid, the list of artists with new music out now is endless. Let’s get right into the best songs to tap into this Juneteenth weekend.

Massive by Drake

Drake sent timelines into a frenzy last night with his announcement of his newest project Honestly, Nevermind dropping at midnight. Even for the Toronto megastar, its house-heavy influences and melodic driven songwriting makes it one of his most polarizing projects to date. Still, the project is home to a lot of summer jams, including the climatic track “Massive”. Easily, this song is one of the moments where Drake’s voice textures fit perfectly with the adrenaline-filled instrumental.

Just Say That by Duke Deuce ft. Glorilla

Duke Deuce tells everybody to keep it real on his new petty slapper “Just Say That”. The Memphis rapper is ready to bring the energy again with his new album, CRUNKSTAR. Like the rest of the album, “Just Say That” is a heater that blends Duke’s animated rap persona with the signature Tennessee trunk-rattling sound. Rising female rapper Glorilla comes in and makes herself at home on the hard-hitting instrumental to deliver a verse of her own.

“Strapped up, sacked up, I done got my racks up,

Back up, act tough, make my gangsters act up“

Conceited by Flo Milli

At long last, Flo Milli marks her return with new flashy single “Conceited”. The new track is her first solo release of the year and she doesn’t disappoint. Once the beat warms up, it’s not long before her pretty-girl-bop flow takes it away and puts the listener’s attention in a chokehold. Flo Milli is “Conceited” and with bangers like these, she has every reason to be.

Call Me Every Day by Chris Brown ft. Wizkid

Chris Brown links up with Wizkid for the highly-anticipated collab “Call Me Every Day”. If one thing’s for certain, both artists have a track record for releasing summer anthems and they don’t miss on this one. The slow-whining instrumental is sets the mood for the pair to turn it into a nocturnal groove. The vibes on here are infectious and makes you want to put your hips into it while you get lost into the early summer jam.

Surprise by Chloe

Chloe brings the heat with her latest steamy single “Surprise”. For the last week, the pop singer has been teasing the song and now, fans are blessed with its latest release. Chloe definitely delivers with the sexy track, as she teases her lover with lustful thoughts that hit like invisible ink photos. The song is a strong offering from the “Have Mercy” superstar as she continues dive deeper into the grown-and-sexy side of her sound.

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Babyface and Ella Mai team up on new single “Keeps On Fallin”

Babyface & Ella Mai collaborate together for the very first time on the timeless new single “Keeps On Fallin.’” With her silky, soulful vocals, Ella Mai extols a longtime lover who can still give her butterflies. Babyface weighs in, reminding her that she’s the inspiration for this lasting love. The dreamy jam interpolates “Can We Talk,” Tevin Campbell’s 1993 hit, which Babyface wrote and produced with Daryl Simmons. Download / stream “Keeps On Fallin’” HERE. View the accompanying visualizer HERE.

“When I first heard Ella’s voice, I thought, ‘what an incredible and distinctive voice, I have to get in the studio with her!’” Babyface recalls. “Well, I did…and it was everything I imagined and more!”

“Working with Babyface was an absolute dream come true for me,” says Ella Mai. “To be welcomed and praised by someone so talented and acclaimed, I couldn’t have asked for our ‘Keeps On Fallin’ sessions to be any better. We sang, we wrote, we laughed and we talked. Babyface is so humble and a pleasure to work with, I hope this record is the start of many more.”

“Keeps On Fallin’” – which marks Babyface’s first release since signing to Capitol Records – is from his forthcoming project. He produced the track with D’Mile (H.E.R., Silk Sonic, Ty Dolla $ign).

Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds is one of the most celebrated creative forces in music. He has contributed to over 800 million records sold and over a billion records streams. Babyface has produced and written 125 Top 10 hits, 42 No. 1 R&B hits and 16 No. 1 pop hits. As a recording artist, songwriter and producer, he has won a total of 12 GRAMMY^® Awards and ranks as the only individual in GRAMMY history to be honored as “Producer of the Year” four times. He has also won five Soul Train Awards, five NAACP Image Awards, four American Music Awards and numerous other honors. In addition, Babyface produced and co-wrote the Oscar-winning song “When You Believe,” sung by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, and co-founded the legendary record label LaFace.

In 2018, Ella Mai’s first single, “Boo’d Up,” broke the record for the most weeks at No. 1 of any song by a woman on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart. It is now RIAA-certified 7x Platinum. Her follow-up single, the 5x Platinum “Trip,” peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, and her debut album, Ella Mai, has almost six billion streams and is 2x Platinum. In addition to her chart-topping domination and success, Ella Mai has won a number of awards, including her first GRAMMY for Best R&B Song, three Billboard Music Awards including the coveted Top R&B Artist, three iHeartRadio awards including R&B Artist of the Year, three Soul Train Awards, an NAACP Image Award and a BET Viewers’ Choice Award. After a busy four years that included touring the world and the release of RIAA-certified Gold track “Not Another Love Song” to bridge projects, Ella kicked off her sophomore season with her single “DFMU (Don’t F**k Me Up).” If the adage is true and history always repeats itself, get ready for Ella Mai to dominate the music and cultural zeitgeist once again with her new album, Heart On My Sleeve.

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Westside Boogie drops reflective sophomore album ‘More Black Superheroes’

Today, Compton rapper Westside Boogie releases More Black Superheroes, a reflective new album laced with dexterous rhyming, supple melodies, and soul-baring introspection. Listen HERE. Deliberate yet free-wheeling, tense but occasionally playful, the new set reaffirms Boogie’s knack for rendering humanity in all of its complexity, exploring varied soundscapes and vocal approaches in the process of doing so.

Raw and unfailingly sincere, More Black Superheroesis about the cathartic power Black men can draw from their own feelings — ones the world had long told them to suppress. To explore that message, Boogie flexes his considerable storytelling gifts as he sorts through the weight of community ties (“Stuck”), romantic uncertainty (“Nonchalant” featuring Mamii) and more. His transparent writing, limber flows, and half-sung melodies evoke his own inner conflicts.

Teaming up with Shelley FKA Dram for “Aight,” Boogie unloads block details that evoke the chilling mundanity of neighborhood tragedy. Meanwhile, on “Stuck,” Boogie bounces across a forlorn beat as he strikes the heart of his own inner turmoil: “You know I done been through hell, huh?/I’m goin’ through it, I can’t hide it, you could tell, huh?” Speakingon More Black Superheroes, Boogie argues that feelings aren’t something to escape from.

“This album is about embracing our powers,” Boogie wrote in an Instagram post sharing the LP’s cover. “This album is for you because you survived all your trials, for the Black fathers that go out in the world and feel like they have to hide all our true feelings because it seems weak to express how you’re hurt but [know] that’s one of your biggest strengths. For the people that feel boxed by the world and have to hide [their] many sides, I love you, let’s heal together.”

Blessed with self-awareness and the writerly instincts of a born storyteller, Boogie has made a career of exploring his feelings. He first broke out with his debut mixtape, Thirst 48, in 2014. After garnering critical acclaim throughout the mid-2010s, Boogie consummated his rise by signing to Shady Records / Interscope in 2018, and in 2019, he crystallized his come up by releasing the critically acclaimed album, Everything’s for Sale. Now, with the arrival of More Black Superheroes, he’s set to continue increasing his own considerable superpowers.

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Watch MCM Raymond stay flossy on his latest “Jimmy Choo Freestyle” visual

As fans anticipate Inglewood rap raconteur MCM Raymond’s Many Can’t Maintain LP, MCM has shared his latest audio + visual, “Jimmy Choo”.

On “Jimmy Choo”, MCM floats on the silky instrumental produced by Onii Made This. Infusing his nasal voice and lean-filled performance, MCM gloats about his love for finer things throughout the record living up to the weighty title of the track.

From professing his infatuation with five-star dinners, having a tie with a woman in the likeness of Travis Scott & Kylie Jenner, to teasing he can fly his lady to Florence, Italy, MCM has never been coy about his cockiness and attitude.

Bagged with tones of showmanship persona, aspirational bars, surfy flows, MCM is giving fans late night summer’s music through his nit-picked soft sound that sits on the fence of street grunge and sexually therapeutic.

For the music video, MCM recruits some of LA’s more renown architects behind the lens, JR The AR for direction, while Milshotz adds his experience as the D.O.P & editor. The complementary optics capture the moody vibe of the song with neon atmospheric colors all through.

MCM and his posse star in the music video as he records music, catches a vibe in the studio, brings out the foreign whips, and mannequins his expensive designer wear from Supreme to you now what…MCM luggage.

Listen to the infectious song and watch the music video through the links below.

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Best new songs to listen to this weekend

“Strapped up, sacked up, I done got my racks up,

Back up, act tough, make my gangsters act up“

Babyface and Ella Mai team up on new single “Keeps On Fallin”

Westside Boogie drops reflective sophomore album ‘More Black Superheroes’

Watch MCM Raymond stay flossy on his latest “Jimmy Choo Freestyle” visual