🗣️ threee songs that show rap's getting fun again

“father” by Jim Legxacy
Released Feb 2025—Spotify

UK underground is cooooooking. The beat and little “father” chopped sample are reminiscent of “Oh Boy.”

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“FLIPS” by WHATMORE
Released Feb 2025—Bandcamp

My fav comment on this: “Thank you NY public school system".

WHATMORE is an emerging rap group from NY rapping about the J train and Broadway-Myrtle over samples from your favorite indie darlings. For all my millennials, these guys are channeling primetime blog era mixtapes (Mac Miller, Wiz Khalifa, Chiddy Bang, etc).

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“Maybe in Nirvana” by Smino
Released Dec 2024—Spotify

Yeah Smino has been around for a minute, but his last album went under the radar despite having this incredibly fun, banger of a title track.