Megan Thee Stallion is back with a new single, ‘Hiss,’ co-produced by LilJuMadeDaBeat and Bankroll Got It. It’s her follow-up to last November’s ‘Cobra,’ and both are expected to appear on the rapper’s upcoming third studio album, due out some time this year. Her last studio album was 2022’s Traumazine. [via Stereogum]

Ice Spice broke out in 2022 with ‘Munch’ and had an even bigger year in 2023 with her debut EP Like…?. Now, the Bronx rapper is back with a new single that has the very lol-worthy title ‘Think U The Shit (Fart).’ It’s the first taste of a project called Y2K, which Ice Spice started teasing last year. [via Stereogum]

Jersey Club queen UNIIQU3 has linked up with the DJ duo Black Caviar to drop her latest single, ‘Price Going Up’ ahead of her tour with Tinashe. Out now, the energetic dance-pop track marks the debut single from UNIIQU3’s forthcoming EP in collaboration with Black Caviar, Ramen Noodles, set for release this March. ‘Price Going Up’ follows ‘Body Moves,’ a collaboration between UNIIQU3 The Glitch Mob and Samurai Breaks, which dropped last September. Speaking on the release, UNIIQU3 said: “I’ve always have fun making music with Black Caviar. The production is filled with so much energy. When I collaborated with them for U NASTY I knew that wasn’t the last time we’d work together. My favourite thing about ‘Price Going Up’ is that it’s really a song about manifesting. It’s something I do often, it’s something I was doing heavily when recording this. Just imagining myself in a new elevated place in life mentally, physically and of course financially! Yesterday’s Price ain’t today’s price and that’s real life for me. This song is for my manifestors, for the shot callers and people who don’t plan on dimming their light to make others comfortable.” [via DJ Mag]

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Philadelphia’s genre-smashing duo GHÖSH released a new single and music video titled ‘Devil Lady’ and announced their new EP PRISMASSIVE, out May 26 on Ramp Local. “I have a difficult relationship with religion,” says GHÖSH vocalist Symphony Spell about the new single. “I grew up Baptist and I hated it. Church was always a place where I felt alienated and judged. I went to the kind of church and was raised by the kind of people who find the devil in anything they don’t like. The devil is in heavy music, the devil is in dark clothing, the devil is gay and slutty. I spent a lot of time afraid of the devil even though the devil seemed to be everywhere, in everything I love. Once I decided to honor the evil in myself, I felt liberated by the power. I have spent a lot of time trying to find the archetype for evil that is powerful, feminine and coquettish. Who is the hot goddess of the underworld or the powerful witch who’s actually pretty cute? There aren’t a lot out there; evil women are so often portrayed as haggard hermits. I wrote this song to help myself embody that creature. I reference some of my favorite feminine mythological entities like harpies, sirens, Pomba Gira and Strega Nona as means to harness their energy. Honoring the wickedness in the divine feminine is radical. It feels deliciously mischievous to declare that so proudly. Am I possessed? I might be.”

Chicago newcomer RG Coca releases her new single ‘Lost It’. In the track’s visual, we see her confidence and undeniable creativity on full display, as we watch her escape the law after a failed heist. On the track, RG Coca continues to deliver the same high-energy lyricism as seen on her recent From the Block performance.

Multi-platinum recording artist Coi Leray, has released two new singles: ‘Bops’ and ‘My Body’ via Uptown Records/Republic Records. The fittingly-titled track ‘Bops’, finds Coi proudly proving her success as a chart-topping artist who can crank up a smash hit after hit.

The combination of Rico Nasty and 100 Gecs has already proven electric. Now the brash rap iconoclast and hyperpop poster children have linked up again. ‘Turn It Up’ is not the genre-bending head trip you might expect from a Rico x Gecs summit. It’s a hard, straightforward hip-hop track with lots of empty space for Rico’s bloodthirsty growl to roam around in. The track arrives with a video by Isaac Garcia in which Rico plays a house cleaner who terrorizes a hapless suburban couple. [via Stereogum]

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Teezandos has let off a new tune dubbed ‘Magic Wand’. Continuing to set pace, Teezandos’ goes in across a fiery drill production to establish her sound further for 2022. The accompanying video sees her perform the track across various London landmarks to add depth to the energetic vocals and performance itself. [via GRM Daily]

Latto celebrates all the boss bitches in the new video for ‘It’s Givin’ from her album 777. ‘It’s Givin’ was one of the album’s standouts, receiving attention on its release night for its thumping beat and motivational messaging. Latto keeps that energy with the video, creating an inclusive workspace where all women can be bosses. The video highlights several disabled women and features cameos from stars like Angie Martinez, Ella Mai, Flo Milli, and Chloe and Halle Bailey, as Latto herself leads business meetings and drapes herself over the copy machine in a heavily modified business suit with strategic cutouts that show off her assets. [via UPROXX]

Nyota Parker is a rapper, vocalist and songwriter with Congolese and Irish heritage, based in Cape Town, South Africa. Her uniquely mixed background allows her to draw from rap and hip hop, jazz, trap, soul and more into what she terms as “Trazz.” The 21-year-old artist recently dropped her debut album Spectrum last November and its deluxe version earlier this month and now she shares the visual for the title track. The record is a blend of lofi, soulful textures with soft trap drum grooves provided by American producer, Jazz Groupiez. Nyota sure sounds at home and delivers a laidback unapologetic performance with insightful lyrics that dwell on self growth, awareness and focusing on one’s dreams despite the odds. The video is shot by Pink Lemonade Skate who makes use of the summer aesthetic of Cape Town, capturing the beautiful serene scenery and of course Nyota’s laidback and unassuming performance style. [via Earmik]

Going against the grain is just Kelow LaTesha’s style. The Prince George’s County, Maryland rapper has an animated and playful take on DMV rap that allows her to stand out from the sea of dead-eyed flows and bluntness associated with street rap from the region. Her new EP Turbo breezes through a variety of modes in 20 minutes. ‘Relax’ is a syrupy sugar rush. Over the blown-out drums, she stretches her voice until it sounds like it’s about to squeak. Kelow has all the space in the world to try carve out new grooves over the hypnotic beat. She’s rapping with a machine’s precision in the first verse, forcing every syllable to land a uniform distance apart. In the second verse, Kelow switches to a smooth melodic flow that sounds like she’s leaning back in a recliner. [via the FADER]

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Latto is channeling her “Big Energy” and taking aim at gender roles and sexism with her powerful new single, ‘Pussy.’ The defiant track, accompanied by a subversive image of a woman with her legs spread in front of a building resembling the White House, directly calls out the various types of men — politicians, abusive boyfriends, raging misogynists, incels — who attempt to control female sexuality and womanhood. It’s an aptly timed release for the rising rapper, as women across America are losing the ability to make choices about their own reproductive health following the repeal of Roe v. Wade. “Who is you to bash pussy?” Latto demands in the song’s opening verse, backed by a pitch-shifted sample of Betty Wright’s 1968 single ‘Girls Can’t Do What The Guys Do.’ “Buy the man my respect, watch he paint me as crazy/Y’all sexualize lesbians but y’all entertain me/They engaging, ain’t got supply from they mama basement/If you don’t get a pussy up, then he’ll take it.” [via Rolling Stone]

This week, Rico Nasty is releasing a new mixtape called Las Ruinas, the follow-up to her 2020 studio album debut Nightmare Vacation. We’ve heard a chunk of songs from it already and now she’s back with another one, a hard-hitter called ‘Blow Me,’ which comes with a music video featuring Rico sporting a bunch of different looks while walking what looks like a treadmill runway. [via Stereogum]

On Friday, CMG released its compilation Gangsta Art, which gives its roster a chance to show off. One of the tracks on that compilation is Glorilla’s new song ‘Tomorrow.’ Over the weekend, Glorilla dropped the ‘Tomorrow’ video, which shows her and her friends partying inside and outside a private jet, doing the kinds of things that you or I might do if private jets suddenly became a part of our lives. [via Stereogum]

Continually redefining their unique approach to hip-hop, Jesswar announces that the release of their debut mixtape LIFE’S SHORT, LIVE BIG is on its way this September, giving us the first taste with the celebratory new single titled ‘FELL IN LOVE’. Accompanied by a striking music video “something I dreamed of while playing the demo every day on my way to the gym”, shares Jesswar, ‘FELL IN LOVE’ is a lush track with an infectious groove that swirls around incisive lyricism and an effortlessly impactful vocal tone. The Yugambeh/Kombumerri land based artists goes on to tell that “I feel super recharged lately and I’m coming into a new side of myself that feels free and at peace. Making ‘FELL IN LOVE’ is symbolic for me, not only personally but creatively it gave me room to be gentle and blissful. This is a new path in my journey and I’m ready to be completely submerged in it.” [via Pilerats]

Nadia Rose has come through with visuals for her latest single dubbed ‘Recipe’. On the track Nadia asserts that she has the recipe and the accompanying visuals stick to the food theme by showing the rapper cheffing things up and handling business at a restaurant. [via GRM Daily]

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Queen Millz has just dropped the visuals to her new release titled ‘More Than’. A track that centres around Queen Millz’s devotion to music, her career and levelling up, ‘More Than’ is a message to the music industry that Queen Millz isn’t one to be slept on. In the busy visuals, we see Queen Millz working and performing at festivals, recording in the studio and more – showcasing that the success that she has received thus far hasn’t come easy. [via GRM Daily]

Ivorian Doll is finally back with another track, this time the rap star has released visuals for her sexually-charged track ‘Big Booty’. A celebration of sexuality, curves and body positivity, IVD presents a new twerk anthem that comes just in time for festival season. The visuals by Kaylum are bold and explicit, showcasing everything that the title would suggest. [via GRM Daily]

After teasing ‘Plan B’ at Coachella 2022 and officially dropping the new track shortly after, Megan Thee Stallion’s latest hit single finally gets its own music video, along with some major high-fashion looks from Mugler. We’ve seen Megan as a Mugler muse before, as she wore the designer label to the 2022 Billboard Awards, both on the red carpet and on stage for her live performance of ‘Plan B’ and ‘Sweetest Pie.’ For the video, Megan is seen wearing multiple Mugler custo looks, including a sheer paneled bodysuit with printed jeans and a cropped blazer top, a similar bodysuit with thigh-high stockings, as well as a headpiece designed by famous milliner Stephen Jones. [via NYLON]

Doja Cat has shared the video for her new track ‘Vegas’, which she recorded for the soundtrack of Baz Luhrmann’s new Elvis Presley biopic. The footage features a cameo by Shonka Dukureh, the singer and actress who plays early rock n roll pioneer Big Mama Thornton in Elvis. Thornton’s original version of ‘Hound Dog’ is incorporated into Doja Cat’s new track, and was famously re-recorded by Presley to huge success. [via NME]

Two of rap’s fastest-rising women link up for a fiery collaboration on Lakeyah‘s ‘Mind Yo Business’ featuring Latto. The Atlanta native and the Atlanta transplant (by way of Milwaukee) display some aggressive chemistry on the fast-paced track, which finds them boasting their big-money moves while warning haters not to stick their noses where they don’t belong. In the song’s video, the two women lounge among the shrubbery in a well-manicured garden while the thirsty gardeners try to catch a glimpse of their greatness from behind the hedges. [via UPROXX]

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Artist, producer, multi-instrumentalist Becca Starr releases ‘Tides’ into the world. This track is about an underlying suspicion of authority and religion, surrounding a concern close to Becca’s heart – Climate change. Exploring themes of guilt, anger and activism. Packed with groove-laden beats, in-voking a Trible battle cry that could be used by climate activists, that then leads into melancholic vo-cals haunting the chorus, with Becca bringing her rapping skills to the forefront in explosive fashion.

In her latest video, ‘PBC’ rapper Flo Milli channels her inner supermodel, rocking various fashions and delivering confident walks on floating runways. Directed by Amber Park, ‘PBC,’ which stands for “pretty, Black, cute,” is a next-level visual showcasing Milli’s ability to deliver fire bars while looking spectacular in a variety of clothes. Some of her looks include a black and white one-piece garment with long leather gloves and matching pumps, a red pearl snap shirt with matching pants and a long wig, and a cut green leather suit with a tight hood encasing her head. [via UPROXX]

Maliibu Miitch releases her first track of 2022 today, and ‘Letter To My Ex’ is a highly personal song for the Bronx rapper. It lays out what happens when a relationship sours beyond repair. Maliibu says, “Relationships have many facets.  I’ve written about the good ones, and here is the other side of that.” [via Hip Hop Magz]

Queen Millz has offloaded her new drill banger, ‘Real One’. Millz easily slides through on the jumpy drill instrumental, rapping about wanting romance and a man to treat her right with a rememberable hook. ‘Real One’ comes complete with a loved-up music video showcasing Queen Millz cosy with her lover. [via GRM Daily]

Trina really deserves more. The Miami icon has been so good for so long, that it seems as though her consistency gets her overlooked. She’s also well-known for extending her platform to younger female rappers, blessing them with both her encouragement and her cosign. Rappers whose careers she’s helped include City Girls, LightSkinKeisha and Tokyo Jetz. Fortunately, it seems at least some of the popular ladies she’s assisted remember her help and are willing to return the favor. On her latest single, ‘Clap,’ Trina reunites with Latto for a frenzied strip club anthem that finds the two rappers playing femme fatale, stressing both their beauty and their danger. I guess you could say that the song’s a warning that looks kill. In her verse, Latto goes from demanding a check for her attention to threatening, “If I reach inside this Birkin, bitch, you better duck.” On the energetic hook, the two encourage their strip club counterparts to make their backsides clap to make that money. [via UPROXX]

Young M.A has shared a new track and video titled ‘Aye Day Pay Day’ alongside the release of an NFT capsule that celebrates her career. The new song finds the Brooklyn rapper riding an aqueous beat by Amadeus, Buda & Grandz, and MadeByMarz with characteristic confidence. Watch its Marc Diamond-directed visual treatment below. [via The FADER]

Buzzworl’s Madame Molly is back with an all-new single dubbed ‘Henny No Chase’. On this new drop from Madame Molly we get a taste of her versatility as she delivers a melodic chorus, as well as slick bar-heavy verses. The flexing we hear on the song is extended to the accompanying visuals where Molly gets glammed up for a quick photoshoot. [via GRM Daily]

Atlanta force Mercury has shared her new project tabula rasa in full. Arriving in a blaze of hype, Mercury released a string of singles, gaining some high profile co-signs in the process. With Drake shouting her out, Mercury then took a step back, opting to find focus over following the headlines. New 10 track project tabula rasa is more considered as a result, matching the raucous Southern hip-hop she grew up with alongside what she terms “swag music…” A project that embodies personal evolution, tabula rasa is marked by a search for truth. Mercury comments… “To me, tabula rasa feels like the beginning of change. This project just shows different aspects of me and I really feel like I’ve grown with this project and found myself with it. I’m excited for everyone to experience it in their own way.” Alongside this, Mercury has shared the video for tabula rasa track ‘RASTA PASTA’ – produced by the Frank Ocean co-signed 454, it exemplifies her creativity. [via Clash]

Rico Nasty released her excellent album Nightmare Vacation at the end of 2020, and since then, she’s been steadily cranking out one-off singles: ‘Magic,’ ‘Buss,’ the Flo Milli collab ‘Money.’ Rico, who performed with Doja Cat at Coachella this past weekend, is reportedly gearing up to release a new mixtape. Now, she’s dropped another new single, a collaboration with ascendant Atanta rapper Bktherula. Rico has a bunch of different styles, and the new track ‘Vaderz’ returns her to the frantic, punk-influenced SoundCloud rap that helped make her famous in the first place. The song jams a whole lot of jagged energy into two minutes, and Rico and Bktherula have great on-record chemistry. The two of them trade off lines, matching each other’s energy and lining up with each other’s punchlines. Bktherula: “That ho bananers if she thought I was green and insane like Invader Zim.” Rico: “No Hannah Montaner/ This ain’t no double life, bitch, it’s really the way that I live.” Check out the hectic lo-fi ‘Vaderz’ video below. [via Stereogum]

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