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R&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week: Bryson Tiller, Lola Brooke & 41, Tierra Whack & More
Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Pratt & Moody, Chantae Cann and Rae Khalil.
On the hip-hop side of things, there’s no getting around the eye-popping new music video for Drake, SZA and Sexyy Red ‘s “Rich Baby Daddy.” The clip — which has already amassed over 7.5 million YouTube views — finds Drizzy and Solána partying in a hospital while the “Pound Town” rap princess (who recently gave birth to her second child in real life) goes into labor. The grandiosity of the song’s production — built almost exclusively around Moody’s sultry guitar — evokes the most stirring of James Bond themes, while the duo’s expansive combine vocal ranges trade off fluttery falsettos with robust full-voice crooning. Built around a skittering, bass-blaring beat crafted by Cardo, J.LBS, Johnny Juliano & Yung Exclusive, “Yeern 101” finds the TDE star effortlessly skating over the track with a borderline breathless flows.
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