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CRT FRSH (Licensed Recent) Playlist 5.23.25


One young man listening to music on headphones and checking a smart phone in the city by a river at twilight

CRT FRSH, Hip-Hop Wired’s playlist the place we showcase music that we consider is “Licensed Recent,” is again with the novelty! With our newest replace this week, we’re gonna deal with Joey BadA$$ and his feud with what looks as if the whole West Coast earlier than sharing new warmth.

I wish to clarify how I strategy curating the CRT FRSH playlist. Most significantly, I don’t segregate my Hip-Hop. Each type of music from the principle cultural tree deserves a hear and a glance. Once I assemble the playlist, I wish to embrace all areas throughout the States and, when relevant, throughout the globe. I additionally wish to entertain each fan of Hip-Hop, not simply those that take pleasure in one section of it. Now that we’ve bought that out of the best way, let’s get to it.

The CRT FRSH playlist is a labor of affection. We don’t take funds, nor can we do favors. We solely add joints to our playlist that match the theme and imaginative and prescient we’re going for and don’t search to waste the listener’s time. Additional, we don’t stick to 1 lane of Hip-Hop. We consider that every one features of the music ought to get some mild, whether or not it’s younger lions within the trenches or these hoping for that one shot to blow as much as grizzled veterans puffing out their chests with tons extra to say. — D.L. Chandler, Lead Curator, CRT FRSH

Like I mentioned, I’m opening up this week’s replace with all of the joints I might discover from Joey BadA$$, Ray Vaughn, Daylyt, and anybody else who hopped within the ring, together with a few of Badmon’s Professional Period crew like CJ Fly. Not each track is on DSPs, so what we’ve amassed right here is all we bought except of us can clear samples and manufacturing to get it up on streamers.

I’m not selecting any sides within the battle. I’m simply having fun with good rapping, and that it’s all being stored to recordings and never spilling into nonsense in actual life. If rapping is a sport, then battling is among the methods to indicate and show one’s mettle. One tremendous spectacular factor is that within the forwards and backwards between coasts, of us are working rapidly and addressing bars head-on as an alternative of ducking from any smoke.

If I missed a joint you’re feeling like ought to’ve been added, let me know and I’ll alter. This playlist is dwell for 2 weeks, so we’ll most likely have loads of time to replace this. And, from what I’m listening to on-line, there are over 90 songs recorded by a number of artists since Joey took the primary swipe on the West Coast on his Conductor Williams-produced monitor, “The Ruler’s Again.”

I’m not going to interrupt down each joint. As an alternative, try the gathering of songs we did discover, get hold of the remainder on-line, and simply benefit from the assortment of latest warmth I tacked on on the finish of the disses.

Salute to Joey BadA$$, Daylyt, Ray Vaughn, AZ Chike, REASON, CJ Fly, Kai Ca$h, Hitta J3, YG, Shoreline Mafia, IDK, Joey Valence, Brae, DRAM, Ellis Quinn, Likelihood The Rapper, Erick The Architect, Joyce Wrice, Smoke DZA, Dave East, Mike & Keys, Niontay, Sideshow, MAVI, Troy Ave, Boldy James, Your Boy Posca, Mike Shabb, CRIMEAPPLE, DJ Skizz, Estee Nack, ETO, Grafh, Benny The Butcher, NYC Rap Star, Ransom, Jay Electronica, Numbz, Larrin, Defcee, Paralell Thought, Lukah, Statik Selektah, Larry June, Cardo Bought Wings.

We’ll be again with an replace in two extra weeks. Try the CRT FRSH replace under.

Photograph: Peter Carruthers / Getty

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