Lucki, Babyfxce E, Tierra Whack, Pi’erre Bourne, King Dagger, 1kay, Joony

This is Friday to Friday, our weekly rap wrap-up going through our favorite releases in rap and hip-hop from Friday, October 16th to Friday, October 23rd. My name is Jacob. I'm a mixing mastering engineer from California and your host for today. I have with me artist producer and DJ hailing from the Twin Cities, Minnesota, Terry V. >> Yo, what's up, y'all? >> As well as producer hailing from Detroit, Michigan, Gav aka prod by Lunar G. >> What's good? >> Before we get into our picks for this week, here's the full list of artists that dropped projects. 1K, Babyface E, Brother Tom Sos, Casey Veggies, Ecstasy, Fredo Bangs, Gucci Mane, Ja Rule, Junie, King Dagger, King Crooked, Lil Sheik, Lucky, N 4T, OMB Peezy, Pablo Skywalking, Pierre Bourne, Rashid Isaiah, which was confusing to me cuz I thought that was Isaiah Rashad at first, but it's Rashid Isaiah. Russ Millions, Skip Waiters, Tella-X, Tierra Whack, Utility, Young Chris, and Zero. >> And others. [laughter] >> I think that's everything on the playlist. Did I miss something? >> Lil Speedy, I don't know if you said that. Maybe Smoove dropped a project. >> Yeah, there was just I think you captured a couple I missed though, so nice. Okay. Well, the main picks for this week were actually both mixtapes, but pretty damn good mixtapes. We can kick it off right off the bat with Lucki with Last Laugh Archive Tape. This was specifically old Lucki tracks that finally released on streaming and it sounds like they remixed and mastered them to me, too, because they all sound like they're very cohesive. But yeah, this was a pretty damn good for a tape. >> Dude, this thing was crazy and it was fire, too, for like the fans cuz this was comprised of a bunch of like snippets and teasers and stuff that he's been doing since It looks like they were recorded mainly between like 2018 and 2022. He called them like the his grails. I mean, Overseas was one of like the best unreleased songs that Lucky had. Another like 60 mg, 60 mgs. I was so happy to see this drop. I love Lucky and to see that this popped off and that like you said it sounded like it was remastered too. >> It sounded really good. This is a very justified release for Lucky because he has a fan base that's like actually been dying for these songs. Yeah, I was impressed with it. >> I mean, it it it dropped and it charted number one on Apple Music hip hop and hit number two for all genres on Apple Music. So, like it did numbers too. >> Damn. Okay. That's crazy. So, was this the album that the fans were waiting on? >> This was A lot of people were like not thrilled with Drugs Are Bad. Not like hated on it, but just they were like, "Damn, that's not really what we were hoping for." And so, this is kind of like a "Let me make up for it." type [ __ ] >> Return to form. >> Makes me think of ADEL with Yeat. How his fans didn't like that. But for me, I love Drugs Are Bad cuz that's like a really developed sound for Lucky. Whereas this, Last Laugh, is like a core like Lucky like what you expect from him, what he came up doing. Very different. I like both, but for me actually, I think Drugs Are Bad is better than than Last Laugh, but it's cool. I still like it. >> And speaking of Yeat, real quick little side tangent, he's dropping Holy Grail tonight, which is all eras of like his unreleased [ __ ] Like it's it's going to be songs from all the Yeat eras, like every album. Oh, wait, really? So, it actually is like Yeat's version of the same type thing? Swear to god, yeah. Yeah, you can already like order vinyl and [ __ ] for it, but yeah, I'm I'm super geeked about that cuz there are so many cuts from every album era that like fans have been frothing over. So, this will be fire to hear. >> We'll talk about that next week then. >> Hell yeah. >> I haven't been a Lucky fan long enough to know these songs as snippets [music]. So, for me I'm I'm hearing them for the first time and I'm just vibing through the whole album, but the songs that were standouts for me were uh Replicas and Cappers >> Yes. >> and uh Total [music]. I like Total a lot, too. Yeah, I'd rather just put the whole thing on when I'm in the mood to listen to it. >> No, and it's not like outrageously long, either, but >> Mhm. >> it just went on like a run like 60 mgs, Overseas, Replicas and Cappers, Psychotruck. Okay, Copy was fire. Like the whole thing I [ __ ] with, but yeah, it's same thing. I'm like I found myself I'd probably end up just throwing the whole thing in a playlist. And I feel like that's fair like just being a fan of Lucky's and like listening to him for a long time and like getting to see him in Chicago and [ __ ] was so dope. And so, it's like hearing all these snippets and stuff finally flushed out and like released, >> Mhm. >> I love it. Then I thought the album art was sick as [ __ ] too, cuz it's every single album he's done like the aesthetic that he had like whether it was the outfit or just like the vibe of it. And he's paid homage to so many different artists like like a lot of the mixtapes, especially like the Free Wave series, he imitated Prince for one of them. I think he did Nirvana's In Utero. So, like all these different albums like he's got a really deep bank of inspiration, I guess I should say, like not just rap. So, I thought that was dope, too, to just see that like highlighted on this. >> More musical knowledge, that's cool. >> Yeah. Yeah, this [music] whole tape was so fire, dude. And I know like his fan base is going crazy for this right now, too. So, it's just it's sick that we're getting a couple of these like mixtapes that feel more like albums. >> Yeah, definitely. Yeah, super cool project. That was Lucky with the Last Laugh Archive Tape. The other tape we're going to talk about is Babyface E with the X Tape 2. Man, this was the same thing for me where like this didn't even sound like a mixtape at all. This sounded like an album. It was really good. I playlisted eight songs off of it. His songwriting is super consistent. So many good songs on it for a tape. >> This doesn't feel like a tape at all. I mean, this is a [ __ ] album. Think Pineapple Red was probably one of my favorites. And then Never Ending Road went crazy, too. >> Kicked off right off the bat with Buzz. >> Yes. >> And I've had that hook stuck in my head a bunch this week. >> Dude, his flow on this is crazy. >> Yeah, so I I got a chance to listen to this when I was riding with one of my my clients. And some of these bars that he was saying in his song had us laughing. I I should have wrote down, but I couldn't when I was driving. But there's a line there's a line where he's he's talking about if she with me, can't rub Jamaican pull lotion on her body, I'm leaving her. [laughter] He got another line where he was talking about I slapped him, boy. I thought he had a mosquito on him. Like [laughter] So, this was this was a cool it was a cool vibe, man, to play. And then I also played it, you know, while I was playing 2K and stuff. Like good background music. Um good driving music, too. Not something I probably listen to day-to-day, but like if I'm going outside or kicking back and cooling, like it's a good vibe to play. And like again, some of this stuff is funny. I love I like how he don't take himself too serious. He has those lines that hit and make you laugh. Kind of reminds me of Oh, what's that boy we was talking about 2 weeks ago or 3 weeks ago? >> Rio? >> Rio. Yeah. >> A little bit like that. He's not as wild out there as Rio, but he got some >> He's like somewhere in between Rio and Sada Baby where like he doesn't take himself too seriously, but he's more serious than Rio. Like Rio is like way more orange. [laughter] >> Yeah. That That actually was um Ghetto PPP. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Ghetto PPP. Yeah, that's the one. >> Yeah. >> No, he's he's Flint, too. So like he and Rio are from the same hood. >> Man, that Flint sound is so [ __ ] good. >> So he he rocks with like RMC What, Mike, Coi Leray, Rio, Louie Ray, like all the Flint dudes. But he's kind of he's like the younger generation. So they were all kind of like doing their [ __ ] the Ghetto Boys. And then Babyface E is kind of like associated with them. He's not like part of the Ghetto Boys click, but he's got co-signs from them all. They all [ __ ] with him. And then 4 2 Dugg is from Detroit, so that pineapple red is kind of sick you got Flint and Detroit on the same track. >> Dope. Dope. Dope. It's those lines that you listening to and you just vibe and then he just says something like, "Wait, what did he say?" [laughter] I I love that about this project. [laughter] Yeah, man. This this >> Only 2 Gs on me but I ain't Gucci rocking. Yeah, that was a good one. >> This was a fun listen. This was a fun listen. >> Yeah. There's also a good feature from Chucky on Striker. >> That [ __ ] yeah. >> Baby Drill on the song Wilt. >> I thought that beat goes crazy. The way that bass comes in right off the bat. >> Yes. Plaque a 10. Oh, bag slash first class. It's some really trippy production kind of reminiscent of early Odd Future production. >> Yeah. No, and it is. And then you get that like beat switch a little bit. >> The beat switch was crazy. I mean, I like the bag beat but then when that first [clears throat] class come on it just switched to another gear and it just like picked up and it was like, "Yo, this is fire." >> But it's his delivery, too. The one-liners but it's like he's not like highlighting the funny. It's more just like that's just how he writes type [ __ ] And so it's like it's cool to just hear it kind of cohesively throughout the song. >> Yeah. >> His delivery, man, is flow. >> His delivery is great. His voice just comes across really well on the mic. >> Which is why you could listen to it and be like vibing to what he's saying. And then when he says that off-the-cuff thing it's just all like it it takes you for surprise because you don't you're not prepared for it to hit. And then when it hits it's all like, "Okay." >> Right. Whereas Rio is like a barrage of just like you expect it every bar to just be more ridiculous than the last. >> He just overwhelms you with it and it's all like, "What is this guy going to say next?" And this one is just all like surprise out of nowhere. >> Yeah. It's just vibing and then he says some funny [ __ ] out of nowhere. >> Yeah, we just be in the car we and then and then when he says it we're like, "Wait. Wait. wait, wait, pause it. [laughter] Read it back. >> You know, he snaps on this whole project, dude. Never-ending run. That beat, too, is crazy. It's like reminds me of like a Baby Tron kind of beat. >> Is it a Danny G beat? >> I don't >> It sounds like it would be, but it doesn't look like it is. >> Uh let me check the credits cuz he's got he's got the same producer on a lot of this [ __ ] Stupid Dog Beats. >> Stupid Dog Beats. >> at the beginning. Let me find it real fast where it says >> That's a fire beat. Stupid Dog Beats, shout out. >> Yeah, no, he's crazy, dude. >> That thing's crazy. >> He killed it, man. That buzz like with that weird synth pluck kind of like arpeggio. That one's Poo, I'm pretty sure. Poo Beats. Yeah, it's Poo Beats. >> Okay, nice. These are new names for me, so I'm liking that. This The production, by the way, cuz we've been talking a lot about the the rapping, but the production was also really good. Like I liked a lot of the beats. >> Yeah, definitely check out Poo Beats. >> Nice. Well, that is Baby Face E with the X Tape 2. Couple super impressive tapes this week. We also got some kind of a bunch of honorable mentions for you guys this week because there was so much good stuff that like we couldn't cover all this, but we're going to do a highlight reel of some some good honorable mentions. I'll kick it off the bat with Tierra Whack with the Wax Museum Deluxe. There was like there was seven or eight new songs on there. >> Like half of them were Conductor. >> Yeah, a bunch more Conductor, which you know, he was heavily featured on the original, so brought him back for the deluxe. That's definitely worth shouting out. >> I was super, super pleased with this one. That was another another one I think I playlisted all but but one or two out of them. >> I think I playlisted three out of here: Recognition, Liar Liar, and Strawberry. Not that I didn't feel the other records. I kind of see why they didn't make it. It didn't quite fit the aesthetic of the original one, like with Payday and Scarecrow. >> Right. >> That's the thing about Tierra Whack, like she's so talented like as an artist, but I didn't think it fit the overall feeling of the album that we got. And so it was it was dope to hear these extra records from her because even with the features that she's been doing, like she's been she's been busy, she's been consistent, and she's been killing it. But, for me, like those are the three that I was just like, all right, these are amazing. Other ones were good. I didn't think that they were bad, but I'm like, okay, I can see why she probably waited to toss those on there cuz Wax Museum was was fire. >> Yes, I 100%agree. I like Scarecrow. But, yeah, I agree also that it doesn't fit the original, so it's perfect for a deluxe. Yeah, it makes sense and it's cool to see the process of what she eliminated down from. >> I've still been going back to Wax Museum and playing it. >> Hell yeah. >> I may I don't know if it's album of the year, but it's it's a contender, but we've listened to it so much. >> Yeah. >> Contender. >> For sure. >> Yeah, I don't know if they were all cuts that didn't make it in the vault kind of thing, like potentials for the album, cuz I've noticed a lot of artists, like when they have kind of a theme whether it's like a concept album or not, but just like a a vibe throughout the whole thing they'll try and sprinkle in like a couple random or like kind of different tracks. So, I do kind of feel like any of these could have been something that got like thrown into the album that just might have got beaten out by something else. >> I listened to the deluxe [music] with just the new addition songs, so I didn't listen to them in conjunction with the original album. I just listened to like the new ones, so and maybe that's playing into it, but like I said, it's it's always dope to get new Tierra Whack. She's talented and you know, we'll see what she has what she has coming up next. >> Hell yeah. That's Tierra Whack with the Wax Museum deluxe. That was definitely more like a full review than a honorable mention, but hey, that's okay. >> [ __ ] it, she deserved it. >> Yeah, she deserved it, for sure. Gav, you want to do an honorable mention next? >> Yeah, I'll shout out Pi'erre Bourne. This one will be kind of quick cuz as much as I love Pi'erre's flow and like his lyrics, they pale in comparison to his his production ability. And that's just what grabbed my attention immediately. I was like, holy [ __ ] dude, this is the kind of Pi'erre that I love. Like, when he does solo projects, man, they are so hard. The beats go so crazy. He's one of the guys that I think [music] really reserves like some of his best [ __ ] for himself. I [ __ ] with myself like in everything that was on this. Like, More Than Likely starts off so so nice. And it's all cohesive, too. Like, each one of them blends into the next. I thought that [ __ ] was so fire. But, More Than Likely, um Set 4, What's the Latest is a crazy beat. Crazy beat. >> What's the name of the project? >> It's uh Made in Paris. >> That's another deluxe. Okay, cool. >> Yes, sir. >> Terry, do you have a an honorable mention you want to do? >> Yeah. King Dagger's Living Proof. And he's a gospel rapper. So, I'm like, okay, cool. This was a dope project. If you get time to check it out, I suggest checking it out. Lyrics are there. He has bars. He has the um record with Westside Boogie, Run It Again, and Westside Boogie went crazy [music]. Just the vibes on this project, the confirmation, and just like the um encouragement that he was rapping about. For artists who are living a regular life and then still pursuing their dreams. It was really dope to hear something like that. Kind of give you that extra push to keep going. Run It Again, Who Can Debate, and Written in the Stars are my favorite. But, for this five-record EP, there was really no skips for me. So, King Dagger with Living Proof, you should check it out. >> Hell, yeah. >> I agree. I enjoyed that one, also. He has a strong voice, good diction in his voice, and versatile between different styles of beats. You can see he's showing he's a family man. He's got his young kids on the album cover. That was cool. So, yeah. >> That's really dope to see, yeah. >> That's King Dagger with Living Proof. For my next honorable mention, I want to mention 1K with Hood Trophy. >> Mhm. >> It's 1K spelled 1 K A Y. It's a dope project in that new West Coast sound. Got a Peewee Longway feature on here. My favorite tracks were those first three. So, Presidential, Assumptions, and then God Damn with Peewee Longway. If you want to check out some like banger new West Coast type stuff, check out the first few songs off Hood Trophy by 1K. You want to do another one, Gav? >> Yeah, um I'll shout out Juni. I thought this was really, really strong. It was a little more R&B focused. There was like a good blend of R&B and like just classic rap, like trap [ __ ] But he's he kind of he he describes himself as like soulful pop rap. So it's got kind of like a broad appeal in my opinion. And he's from Maryland. But man, this tape was so nice. I this was another one that I found myself liking pretty much every song. I think some of my favorites were Beam Me Up, Three Summers, SVJ, FTD. Like man, there are just so many good ones on here. The production on this [ __ ] was fire, too. Like just really fun beats. Some of them were a little more like emotional. Beam Me Up, I got to say for one of those like kind of more laid-back, that was probably one of my favorite tracks on here. But yeah, if you guys haven't checked out Juni, check out Still Here. It's 15 songs, like 35 minutes. >> Nice. You have another one, Terry? >> I'll do a single, Sylvan LaCue's Mankind's Plot Against [music] Humanity. Yeah, it's melodic. I like the content and the the theme and the hook where he says, you know, summarizing, we're a product of our choices. Like our life is we're at where we're at today because of our choices. And that's so important cuz I was just having this conversation with my cousin the other day. Not to get into deep into it, but yeah, that's that's the ploy of it, man. Like what you've done in the past is, you know, brings results for where [music] you are today. I think this song is is dope and it's very um helpful for us people who may be going through that. So Sylvan LaCue, if that's going on an album, if this is a single and he has an album, I'm excited to hear what the rest of the album's going to sound like. It was a nice taste. It was a nice little sample, like a little finger foods. Some chips and now I like like let's where's the four course meal? I want the four course meal now. >> And we've already gotten two projects from him this year. Like he's he stays busy. >> I really like his music a lot. I know we kind of we gassed him up when he uh he put that project out. >> Yeah, man. Yeah, definitely a big fan of his. >> Singles were strong this week, I got to say. We had Statik Selektah who went on to claim that Freddie Gibbs might have verse of the year on that [ __ ] Champagne Wishes with Ab-Soul and Raekwon. He's gearing up for an album, so that's going to be [ __ ] fire. And then Shroom Clouds, did you guys listen to A$AP Rocky's new single with Jeremiah and Reggie? >> No, I haven't heard that yet, dude. >> I didn't I didn't hear that, yeah. >> Dude, the production on this is insane. It's like this really trippy detuned like slowed down detuned vocal chopped with this kind of acoustic like pretty sounding piano and [ __ ] and then it just comes in with like trap drums, man. >> Okay. >> And this is cuz I mean he put a video out for this. Like if Rocky's gearing up for an album, I'm all here for it. >> I already heard it's for sure coming out on the deluxe for Don't Be Dumb. Yeah, so that's going to be on the I think that that's coming out soon. That's coming out like the 30th. >> Yo, okay. >> Okay. >> Super trippy. Like I like this a lot, man. And then we got the first single off of the Sha Hef Nicholas Craven project, too. Hell's Kitchen, that one's going to be fire. >> Look at that. That's a good singles, for sure. >> Yeah. >> The [music] last full project that I would give an honorable mention to this week is Skip Waiters with Pix. Uh there was a couple songs I really liked off this one, Time Machine and Mr. Pix featuring Suave, who also a really big fan of Suave. But yeah, Skip Waiters, his vocals have a really distinct sound. Such an interesting tone that he gets not only his voice, but whatever he's doing in his vocal chain sounds really interesting. >> I really like that project. >> Yeah. >> Pilot, in my opinion that one like really sticks out a lot. It's very thematic. Feels like he put a lot into this. You know, like I feel like we would have highlighted this on another week, to be honest. Like this project was really [ __ ] cool. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I think the big thing for me is the production on this project was amazing. The production was really good. >> Yeah. >> That's what stuck out the most to me. >> It just felt like very much like you were just entering this kind of like different world a little bit. >> Kind of like his own universe. >> Yeah. >> That's a good way of putting it. >> It just creates a crazy cool vibe, but yeah, Mr. Picks and Pilot were probably my two favorites off that one. >> Mr. Picks was definitely my favorite. I thought the album was going to sound more like that, but um >> Yeah. And then it's like a bunch of R&B tracks in a row. >> When he he was dropping the video and the teasers, I'm like,"Oh, this choice this choice is going to be fire."And it's not that it's not, it's just that it just wasn't it wasn't the record that I was anticipating or thought that I was going to get. Not to take anything away from it. It was still it was still dope, but I was just like,"Oh, okay, it's this the direction he's going in."Which I feel like they hit or what they were attempting to do. Cuz again, like the production is amazing, like a lot of soul pop fusion. Yeah. >> Yeah, no, I couldn't have said it better. Like I definitely was anticipating something else, but I was like pleasantly surprised listening through this. I was just like,"Yo, not what I was expecting." >> Yeah. >> I really liked it. He killed it for that like soul pop kind of R&B. Like that's a great way to put it. >> Uh Gav, do you have another honorable mention? >> Yeah, um I'll shout out uh I'll shout out to Lil Speedy cuz I don't usually [ __ ] with drill all that heavy. Like it's just not really my thing. I got into it like a little bit when it first started to pop off a few years ago, but like it's been a minute since I've really been like sucked into a drill album. And I thought that Lil Speedy went crazy on this. Speedy Chill with Blood Hound Q 50. I like his flow. I thought the beats were [ __ ] sick. >> This cover is dope, too. >> That's what made me want to add it. I was like,"Yo, what is this?"Like I thought it was dope, but yeah, Lil Speedy with Hound October. >> Hound October. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> All right, well, that was probably the longest honorable mentions list we've ever had on the show, but hey, it was a good week. >> Yeah. >> Before we get into releases for next week, let's do plugs. This week I mixed and mastered a song for a single I'm going to have coming out next month with Killer Tracks, track called Venal. >> Hell yeah. >> Finished the mix, put together the album art for it, got that uploaded. Looking forward to that. Also, this Friday, so by the time you're hearing this, will be new Lucius B. Thundercat and Frequency Overflow single called Rockers. Really excited about that one. >> Dope. >> Stream that now. And uh you can always check us out at frequencyoverflow.com. What do you want to plug, Terry? >> Coming soon, new single releasing, No Control. So, I'm excited about that. Working on a couple other singles to release. And as always, you can find me on socials at yo Terry V. >> I want to shout out, by the way, we did between Terry, Matt, and I this week, we did like six different versions of a cover art for No Control. And uh it was a really dope process. It ended up being something that Terry made that was inspired off of an idea that Matt made. So, it was a It was a really dope collaborative process to get there, but that it ended up coming out really cool. So, yeah. Check out No Control coming up in a couple weeks here. All right, what do you want to plug, F? >> [ __ ] Um I've been working on polishing up uh beat tape and like working on kind of putting together an idea for a series. Working through some different album covers for that and like just artwork for it as well. Working on some new beats, too. Focusing on so on socials and like trying to get my stuff put out for people to actually see cuz I got so [ __ ] much of it. >> Yeah. >> But yeah, I'm really I've been really focused on on putting together this beat tape, so I'm really excited about that. I'm hoping I can get that out before the end of the year, but you know, it might be more of a New Year's thing, so we'll see how that all goes. Yeah, other than that, I've just been um trying to put together some new stuff and just stay stay inspired, but feel free to follow me anywhere, Instagram, YouTube, Spotify, @prodbyLunar.g. Give me a follow, check out what I've been putting out. >> I think we all have a beat tape that coming out. That's ill. >> Yeah, yes, beat tape is the move. >> Yeah. >> Cuz we all end up with more beats than we can like find rappers for. I think that's what keeps on happening. It's like, what am I going to do with all these beats? I got to release them at some point. I can't just wait for the perfect rapper for everything. >> Right. >> Facts. >> Well, that's plugs. Releases coming up next week. We got 6lack and Cola, Anderson .Paak and Cordae, Lisa from Blackpink, Norelle, Shabazz Palaces, 2C, Webbie and Boosie Badazz, Young Nudy and Young Miami. >> Young Nudy, that'll be fun. >> Yeah, I like Nudy. Well, that's our show. You can save the official Spotify playlist to hear the releases from each week. That playlist is updated weekly with all the newest projects. That link is in the description. You can see all our content on our website f2fpod.com. That's the number two. And our intro and outro music by prodby.lunarg. Thank you for listening to Friday to Friday, the show about Fridays that comes out on a Monday. Join us every Monday to stay in tune with hip-hop releases from Friday to Friday. Peace. >> Peace [music]. >> Peace.