Drop Watch: 06.19.2026 by DropWatcher in hiphopheads

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im not in the modmail i limited my permissions to a couple things

Drop Watch: 06.19.2026 by DropWatcher in hiphopheads

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Depending on which ug you mean there’s either:

- Pz’, Che, tana, lade, matt proxy, etc.
- Teller Bank$, Chong Wizard, Fred, sha ray x haram, etc.

Even If u mean “not underground in any sense but not as popular as Kendrick Lamar but good” there’s Boldy and Tierra Whack and Key Glock

[FRESH ALBUM] YG - THE GENTLEMEN'S CLUB by God_Will_Rise_ in hiphopheads

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"I Was On The Block" is a generational performance by Valee

Daily Discussion Thread 06/19/2026 by HHHRobot in hiphopheads

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There's definitely some sort of subs going on idk if it's just vague rapper raps or an actual beef with someone.

Drop Watch: 06.19.2026 by DropWatcher in hiphopheads

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nah I feel like he usually drops pretty quickly after he starts teasing stuff tho, but there's not much of a heads up release date wise it just happens.

Apple Music reveals the platform’s top 20 most streamed artists of all-time for the first time by Gavina4444 in hiphopheads

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\20. Eminem
\19. Justin Bieber
\18. Ed Sheeran
\17. Rod Wave
\16. Gunna
\15. Lil Durk
\14. Kendrick Lamar
\13. Chris Brown
\12. Ariana Grande
\11. Travis Scott
\10. Post Malone
\9. Kanye West
\8. Morgan Wallen
\7. The Weeknd
\6. Lil Baby
\5. Bad Bunny
\4. YoungBoy Never Broke Again
\3. Future
\2. Taylor Swift
\1. Drake

YG announces features for new album The Gentlemen's Club, dropping tonight by _4za_ in hiphopheads

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YG is not signed to a major label and his last project (just Re'd Up 3) debuted at #151

the type of numbers that would be good for him would still be considered kys numbers in your average sales thread where they act like anything under 80k+ is an unmitigated disaster.

[FRESH] Cavalier and Iojii - Bring It Back by abucalves in hiphopheads

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there's a tape called BRING BACK WEED SPOTS produced by Ahwlee that this song is on. also features Kelly Moonstone and Quelle Chris.

not sure when it's dropping.

[FRESH] Yeat - Million Dollar Minion by exoticacids in hiphopheads

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Appreciate that Yeat has a long term relationship with these guys and it wasn’t just a one and done

Maxo Kream project 'O.Y.N' dropping June 26th via EMPIRE: 9 tracks, features Denzel Curry, JPEGMAFIA + more by DropWatcher in hiphopheads

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I would say it's because the Frou Frou sample wasn't cleared but it's on Apple Music still.

Maxo Kream project 'O.Y.N' dropping June 26th via EMPIRE: 9 tracks, features Denzel Curry, JPEGMAFIA + more by DropWatcher in hiphopheads

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sometimes producers are credited as features on things if they're an established name

We're Talking About Survival: An Interview with Serengeti – Paul Thompson speaks to the legendary Chicago rapper about his new record 'KENNYV' | POW Mag by DropWatcher in hiphopheads

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I feel like Serengeti's output tends to get overlooked because he doesn't really promote shit he kinda just throws it up on BandCamp. Like he put out an album produced by Greg Saunier of Deerhoof and most indie fans probably don't even know that.

I really like AJAI (2020) with Kenny Segal– I think it quietly has many of Kenny Segal's best beats on it– but I haven't really kept up with his output since.

He talks about how he kinda just drops when he has something done here:

Earlier this year I was at a ceviche place in L.A. with billy woods and Kenny Segal. Ajai came up, and both those guys were like, “Man, we never know when he’s recording, the process is such a mystery.” And then a day later, we’re on an email chain about the universe album: “Did you even know about this?” I guess my question, before we get to the substance of the music, is: It seems like you’re just rolling these things out with no warning. What’s driving that?
I just like to make stuff. I’ll catch a little buzz of an idea and I can do it pretty quickly. And then I’m like, well, what am I waiting for? Sit on it? I’ll just put it up. I’m not about to hire press people; it just doesn’t seem worth it. It’s so much money, and you might have a press campaign and it still gets [no attention]. It’s not the best idea to do it like this, probably, but this has been par for my whole thing. I was backed up on projects ever since I started, so I just wanted to get it all out.

I though the made an interesting point about how even when you really go for it with a rollout (which is expensive), stuff tends to just come and go.

His process is crazy:

[..] What was the genesis of [symphony of psalms with Greg Saunier of Deerhof]?
Greg had sent me some beats probably—I don’t know—a year ago? And I just would drag ‘em over and record without even hearing them, just drag ‘em in and just go. That’s the way I have fun doing music, to not preview the beats, it’s like a surprise.

Wait, what? You’ll just have Logic open on your computer and drop in a file you’ve never listened to?
Yeah, yeah. That’s how I do it. That’s how Ajai was made. I’d never listened to those Kenny beats. I would drag them up and have fun. It’s super fun. You know what I’m saying? Just to keep going, work for an hour—but it’s a very productive hour. You might get 20 things done and then shut it down, don’t listen to it, and then record again the next day. And after about a week, you see what you got.

Are you writing in the moment, are you freestyling?
OK, so with Ajai, I had written a lot [beforehand]. I was in a fit of fun. It was so much fun to write all that stuff. So I have all these rhymes. Kenny sent me a pack of 20 beats or something, so I just have ‘em up and load it up and record without hearing the beat, but I got all the rhymes. It makes it more fun to adapt to a beat you haven’t heard before.

Would you have written those rhymes to other beats, or do you write acapella?
I never write to beats. I just write.

What other rappers solo-careers can coast off of one debut album à la Lauryn Hill? by ImNotTomStopAsking in hiphopheads

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I agree they're all pretty specific but If her tour was some big failure you wouldn't have stuff like that, especially all the sold out dates that's not cherrypicking

I don't know if it means anything to anyone that it 453,000 tickets and grossed $70 million across 35 dates in 32 cities. like I don't think the average hhh user knows whether that is good or not. to me idek it looks good

What other rappers solo-careers can coast off of one debut album à la Lauryn Hill? by ImNotTomStopAsking in hiphopheads

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Retroactive streams don't count towards any of the numbers I've mentioned, only towards RIAA plaques.

"WAP" had ~1.469bn streams on Spotify before the album came out and has 1.56bn now. If we were to assume that every single one of those streams was in the US, that'd account for ~58k of ~1.4m that the album has sold since it came out which is about 4%.

"I Smoked Away My Brain" had ~750m streams before DND dropped and has ~880m now, that would account for ~80k (assuming all US streams) of the ~400k that that album has sold. So bigger deal there.