What we have here is a proper heater. “Compton” is without doubt one of the best hip hop tracks of the year. Rap game, start taking notes. good kid m.A.A.d city, October 22nd.
Kendrick Lamar – Compton (Feat. Dr. Dre) (Prod. Just Blaze)Kendrick Lamar 
(Facebook)
Rating 9.3
Big Boi lets loose the goods tonight on Funkmaster Flex’s Hot 97 radio show. Bouncy new single “Mama Told Me” glides into b3sci Int’l with a full complement of 80’s bass and groove. Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors is due Nov. 13.
Big Boi – Mama Told Me (Feat. Kelly Rowland)Big Boi 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
“Lie4” from Danny Brown’s XXX mixtape from last year gets an eastern-tinged remix by Montreal producer Kaytradamus. That income tax swag.
Danny Brown – Lie4 (Kaytradamus Remix)Kaytradamus 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Aussie rap impressario Iggy Azalea delivers perhaps her best track to date with “Bac 2 Tha Future (My Time)”. Excerpted here from her upcoming TRAPGOLD mixtape (due October), “Bac 2 Tha Future” wins on a breakneck all-go beat that ably picks up and transports Azalea’s flow to high level quality.
IGGY AZALEA – Bac 2 Tha Future (My Time)Iggy Azalea 
(Twitter)
Rating 8.3
The 83rd spins a gem marrying Angel Haze’s “New York” track with Jamie & the late Gil’s “NY is Killing Me”.
Angel Haze x Jamie xx & Gil Scott-Heron – New York (The 83rd Mashup)Rating 8.3
I have only the fondest memories of “Throw Some D’s”. The 2006 track by world’s largest forehead/rapper Rich Boy is one of those perfect rap tracks. Lined from pillar to post with top shelf hooks, flows & quotables, I remember a string of about three or four months that fall when “Throw Some D’s” was pretty much the only track I played (that and “Shoulder Lean”). Here, Charlotte producer Simon SMTHNG respins the track to a more melancholic soul palette. Utilizing a sweet as sugar minor-keyed soul/reggae? (Props to anybody who can pick out where this sample is from.) vocal line, Simon SMTHNG transforms one of the best rap songs of the last decade into one of the best remixes of the year. Check it out.
Rich Boy – Throw Some D’s (Simon SMTHNG Remix)Simon SMTHNG 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.4
Philly rapper Lyn Charles puts his girl on that soulful path with his latest, the buttery “NY Girl”. Look out for Charles’ “Golden Louis” EP.
Lyn Charles – NY GirlLyn Charles 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.1
President Gibbs’ Baby Face Killa mixtape gets its release tomorrow and on that eve new vibers-only track “Tell a Friend” w/ an assist from Spitta emerges. Tell a friend to a tell a friend.
Freddie Gibbs – Tell a Friend (Feat. Curren$y)Freddie Gibbs 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.4
Here’s a new slow burner from Wiz and The Weeknd. From the forthcoming O.N.I.F.C. Get into it!
Wiz Khalifa – Remember You ft. The Weeknd [Audio]Wiz Khalifa (Official)
Rating 8.1
Philly rapper dials up an after hours jazz-inflected feel for latest track “Like Dat”.
Tayyib Ali – Like DatTayyib Ali (Facebook)”>Facebook)
Rating 8.1
Seattle’s Thaddeus David goes in with something galactic on “NASA”. Here’s a look at the second release from the S.O.T.A. crewman’s forthcoming Trapital Trill solo album (10/5).
Thaddeus David 
(Bandcamp)
Rating 8.117
Miami rapper QuESt goes expertly in on a Netsky instrumental. These “produced by” sort of electronic hip hop tracks can often fall flat but “One Way” stands out from its more mediocre peers with its great hook/chorus and QuESt’s tasteful use of the instrumental track (he doesn’t get all AGGRO or let the track get in his way).
QuESt – One Way (Prod. Mt. Eden)QuESt 
(Twitter)
Rating 8.3
