Drake, André 3000 and More – New Hip-Hip Projects

As the vacations shortly strategy and the top of 2023 grows nearer, spectacular new hip-hop releases have continued to pour in earlier than the yr is out. This week, rap’s largest star places out a shock mission, two rap superstars hyperlink up for a joint mission followers have been clamoring for for years, an Atlanta icon proves his flute has one thing to say along with his debut solo album and extra.

Drake Drops New For All of the Canines: Scary Hours Version Undertaking

Regardless of saying the evening earlier than For All the Dogs dropped that he’d plan to take a break from music, Drake revealed on Thursday (Nov. 16) that he’d be dropping the third installment in his Scary Hours series.  

For All of the Canines: Scary Hours Version marks the third installment in Drake’s EP collection that started again in 2018 and expands FATD right into a deluxe album. The first Scary Hours pack got here along with his diamond-certified, Grammy-award-winning hit “God’s Plan.” 2021’s Scary Hours 2 included options from Lil Child and Rick Ross.

The 6 God introduced his shock return with an EP of songs by way of a trailer posted on Instagram. Within the video, which may be seen beneath, Drizzy pulls as much as a venue to see an orchestra efficiency the place he’s the only concertgoer. Drake narrates the video.

“I really feel no must appease anyone,” Drake mentioned within the trailer. “I really feel so assured within the physique of labor that I simply dropped, that I do know I can go and disappear for no matter. Six months, a yr, two years…It is not like I am choosing up on some unfinished s**t. It is taking place by itself. Who am I to combat it, proper?”

Drake dropped off his eighth studio album For All of the Canines on Oct. 6.

Learn Extra: Fans Think Joe Budden’s Criticism of For All the Dogs Is the Reason Drake Is Dropping Scary Hours 3

Lil Wayne and a couple of Chainz Drop Off Joint Sequel Welcome 2 Collegrove

Whereas 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne have lengthy teased a follow-up to their beloved joint 2016 album Collegrove, followers lastly get their want. The pair return within the type of Welcome 2 Collegrove, which was promoted by two beforehand launched singles, “Long Story Short” and “Presha.” The duo carried out the latter music on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon again on Oct. 20. They then carried out “Lengthy Story Quick” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this previous Monday (Nov. 13).

50 Cent added to the hype earlier this week when he narrated two trailers to advertise the collab mission between Wayne and Chainz. The trailers additionally revealed 21 Savage and Usher could be featured on the mission. 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne have been teasing Welcome 2 Collegrove for some time now. Throughout a 2022 sit-down on DJ Akademiks’ podcast Off the Record, Tity Boi spoke on how totally different the brand new album is from its predecessor.

“I really feel tremendous enthusiastic about this f**king mission as a result of it don’t sound like nothing I’ve ever heard earlier than,” he mentioned. “And doing one thing like that with Wayne, it’s welcoming, it’s warming and it’s going to be accepted.”

André 3000 Drops Debut Solo Album New Blue Solar

André 3000 shocked his longtime supporters on Tuesday (Nov. 14) by saying he’d be returning with his first-ever solo album earlier than the top of the week. Whereas New Blue Solar is an instrumental affair and accommodates no rapping, it is nonetheless good to have the OutKast legend again within the rotation. After the complete web misplaced their minds over not with the ability to hear the elite MC spit new rhymes, Three Stacks addressed the issues by revealing {that a} potential hip-hop project down the road just isn’t off the desk.

“There’s this false impression that I simply will not do it,” André mentioned of releasing a rap album, in a press launch for New Blue Solar. “I believe folks really feel like I am sitting round on rap albums, or sitting round and I am simply not placing them out in that approach. And no it isn’t like that.”

He continued: “In my thoughts, I actually wish to make a rap album. So perhaps that occurs sooner or later, however I received to discover a strategy to say what I wish to say in an fascinating approach that is interesting to me at this age.”

Learn Extra: Here’s the Best André 3000 Verse Every Year Since 1994

Danny Brown Returns with Extremely-Anticipated Quaranta Album

Danny Brown lastly revealed in October that Quaranta would drop after years of delay. The 11-track album has been pegged because the “religious bookend” to his breakout 2011 mission, XXX. Forward of the Quaranta‘s launch, Danny Brown rolled out two singles in assist of the mission, “Tantor” and “Jenn’s Terrific Vacation.”

Throughout an episode of The Danny Brown Show again within the spring, the Detroit native used his platform to converse on the explanation for Quaranta’s prolonged delay.

“I do not know what is going on on with Warped, I do not know what is going on on with administration. I turned my album in two years in the past,” Brown recalled, inserting the blame on his label and his workforce. “I’ll say, yeah, we’re nonetheless engaged on the album and s**t’s getting doper and regardless of the f**okay, however at this level man it is like, the place’s the urgency?”

The extremely anticipated launch of Quaranta follows Danny Brown’s joint effort with JPEGMAFIA, Scaring the Hoes, which dropped in March of this yr.

Learn Extra: Danny Brown Is No Longer Scared of Dying Now That He’s Sober

Take a look at different new tasks this week from Lil Durk and Only The Family, E-40, Rich Amiri and extra beneath.