Tech N9ne Returns With New Album “Planet”

Tech N9ne is back on the solo tip. After focusing on his Collabos series in 2017, the head honcho of Strange Music has released a new solo album titled Planet.

The LP is another jam-packed project from Tech, containing 19 tracks featuring production by the likes of Mr. Porter, Michael “Seven” Summers and Joseph Bishara. Guests appearing on the album include Machine Gun Kelly, Snow Tha Product, Krizz Kaliko and Darrein Safron.

View the stream, cover art and tracklist for Planet below.

(The original version of this article was published on January 21, 2018 and can be found below.)

Tech N9ne’s grind never stops. The Strange Music boss has unveiled the cover art and tracklist for his next solo album, Planet, which is scheduled to drop on March 2.

The project will be Tech’s first solo release since 2016’s The Storm. Last year, he kept busy by releasing two albums in his Collabos series: Dominion and Strange Reign.

Ahead of Planet’s release, the independent rap stalwart has dropped a video for the lead single “Tech N9ne (Don’t Nobody Want None).” Tech also shared dates for his upcoming tour in support of the album.

Check out the cover art and tracklist for Planet below.

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1. Habanero f. Mackenzie Nicole
2. Fresh Out! f. Swisher Sleep
3. Kick It With Myself
4. Drink Up
5. Tech N9ne (Don’t Nobody Want None)
6. Bad JuJu f. King Iso
7. Comfortable
8. No Reason (The Mosh Pit Song) f. Machine Gun Kelly Y2
9. Brightfall Confession
10. Brightfall
11. Red Byers (Say Som’n Do Som’n) f. Krizz Kaliko
12. Never Stray f. Navé Monjo
13. Sho Nuff
14. How I’m Feelin f. Snow Tha Product Navé Monjo
15. Not a Damn Thing
16. My Fault f. Navé Monjo
17. Tappin’ In f. Darrein Safron Joey Cool
18. Levitation f. Navé Monjo
19. We Won’t Go Quietly f. Jordan Omley

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Apathy Delivers “The Widow’s Son” Featuring DJ Premier, Pete Rock & Pharoahe Monch

Demigodz rapper Apathy has devoted his life to Hip Hop and now, he’s back with his sixth solo studio album, The Widow’s Son. 

Featuring Pharoahe Monch, Pete Rock, Nottz, DJ Premier, M.O.P., Celph Titled, and Buckwild, among others, the project marks his follow-up to 2016’s Handshakes With Snakes —  one of HipHopDX’s Most Slept-On Albums of 2016.

Ahead of the release, the Connecticut-bred MC released the Pharoahe Monch-assisted, Pete Rock-produced “I Keep On” and the Nottz-produced “Alien Weaponry.” He teased a third single, “The Order” earlier this month featuring production from DJ Premier.

Check out The Widow’s Son album stream, cover art and tracklist below.

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1. The Spellbook
2. CHAOS
3. Never Fall Off f. A.G. DJ Mekalek
4. The Widow’s Son f. Ryu
5. The Order
6. Alien Weaponry
7. Hypnosis f. Brevi
8. I Keep On f. Pharoahe Monch
9. A View of Hell f. DJ Eloheem
10. Fist of the North Star f. Diabolic DJ Eloheem
11. STOMP RAPPERS f. M.O.P., Celph Titled Chumzilla
12. Legend Of The 3rd Degree f. Tone Spliff
13. Rise and Shine f. Locksmith DJ Mekalek
14. Obi Wan

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Donald Glover Dubs “Atlanta” The “Curb Your Enthusiasm” For Rappers

The second season of Donald Glover’s hit FX show Atlanta premieres Thursday (March 1), which means the show’s creator is making the press rounds to get the word out.

Glover, formerly known as Childish Gambino, stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Wednesday (February 28) to chat about growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness, his music career and, of course, Atlanta. 

When Colbert asked him if Paper Boi’s experiences as a rapper are inspired by Gambino’s own career, he explained, “Some of them are me. Some of them are my brother. Some are just the writer’s experiences. A lot of people picked up that this is Twin Peaks for rappers but it’s really Curb Your Enthusiasm for rappers.”

“Being a rapper is super awkward,” he added. “You’re in a video and you got like champagne and butts close to your face … and then you have to go to Whole Foods, and the person is like, ‘Hey you’re that dude’ and you’re like, ‘Please I really want to buy this ice cream,’ but they’re like, ‘Yo you gotta be you right now, so let’s take this picture.’ You’re like, ‘Ok.’ You have to be that wrestler face but in the real world all the time.”

Glover also talked about why he decided to play the role of Paper Boi’s manager instead of a rapper himself.

“Playing a rapper … that would have been wack to me,” he said. “That would have been so wack to me. That just feels wack. It just didn’t feel cool to me to actually make music and then make a show. I don’t think anybody wants to see a show about making it.”

His parents, who are strict Jehovah’s Witnesses, raised him according to their religious practices.

“I was taught the world was a bad place,” he said. “I wasn’t really allowed to watch T.V. I didn’t have birthdays. That’s a religion thing but I think with a bunch of kids, my mom was like that’s a lot of money to save.

“Magic’s not allowed. Card tricks, nothing like that. No Magic The Gathering. No Magic Johnson. No Magic Kingdom. None of it. All the little things a lot of people would get when they were younger were really fascinating to me as I got older.”

Initially, his parents didn’t understand what he was doing when he started his career working on TV shows like 30 Rock and Community. It didn’t coincide with their religious beliefs. In fact, it still doesn’t.

“When it first started, they just didn’t know what I was doing,” he said. “I think about it and it must have been so weird for them to come out to my plays like, ‘I’m doing this play and there’s this musician and this Klan member comes out.’ But they’re like, ‘Alright, we love you.’”

At the end of his appearance, Colbert brought out 6-year-old Girl Scout Charity Joy, who had remixed Gambino’s “Redbone” with her father to sell her Girl Scout cookies. Glover wound up buying 113 boxes of cookies on the show, helping Joy reach her sales goal.

“Childish Gambino is for the kids,” he said.

Atlanta: Robbin’ Season airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET on FX.

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A Tribe Called Quest Teases “Major Announcement”

A Tribe Called Quest —Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Consequence and Jarobi White — is evidently cooking up something special. On Thursday (March 1), the group’s collective Instagram account shared a vintage photo of Tip, Ali and the late Phife Dawg.

The caption read, “Major @atcq Announcement on Monday. Stay Tuned… #TheQuestIsOn #RIPPhifeDawg #WeLoveYouTRIBE.”

HipHopDX reached out to Jarobi who said, “No spoilers like Black Panther. You know how good we are about keeping [our] secrets. It’s ill though!”

Major @atcq Announcement on Monday. Stay Tuned… #TheQuestIsOn #RIPPhifeDawg #WeLoveYouTRIBE

A post shared by ATCQ (@atcq) on Mar 1, 2018 at 8:09am PST

Some of Reddit’s die-hard Tribe fans are theorizing the announcement will involve the long-awaited Phife Dawg solo album, while others are anticipating a new Tribe lineup that could possibly include longtime affiliate Busta Rhymes. Others joked it could be a Outkast and ATCQ dream project.

Last year, Tribe announced the Thank You For Your Service Tour was to be its last. The weight of Phife’s 2015 passing was too much to bare, which the Hip Hop legends explained in a statement to the L.A. Times after pulling a no-show at San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival.

Tribe played its final show at the Bestival 2017 in England last July.

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Rae Sremmurd Unleash Trio Of Joint & Solo Songs

A release date for Rae Sremmurd’s upcoming album SR3MM has yet to be revealed, but the Atlanta duo — Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi — has offered another sample of what can be expected on the project.

On Thursday (March 1), the duo released three new tracks. Up first is “Powerglide,” which features Three 6 Mafia’s Juicy J and follows SR3MM‘s lead single, “T’d Up,” which dropped in February.

Those hoping to get their Rae Sremmurd fix on a more individual level are also in luck. Both Swae and Slim have solo albums to accompany the release of SR3MM (a triple LP). And they’ve released their own solo singles to coincide with the release of “Powerglide.”

Swae’s solo track is “Hurt To Look,” which appears on Swae’s solo album, Swaecation, while Slim released his Jxmtroduction joint “Brxnks Truck.”

Rae Sremmurd’s latest studio album, SremmLife 2, was released in 2016.

Listen to “Hurt To Look” and “Brxnks Truck” below.

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