Hip-hop obsessives have adored her 2009 mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty for over a decade, and now the project has finally reached streaming services - complete with a new Lil Wayne-Drake team-up, “Seeing Green,” as well as all the beloved mid-‘00s hip-hop samples intact, including the “Donk” rework on fan favorite “Itty Bitty Piggy.” The North Carolina MC seemed to be taking the same approach with the highly anticipated LP The Off-Season, revealing a track list with zero other artists name-checked… but the album slyly deploys other contributors, from Cam’ron’s chest-thumping intro on “95 South” to Lil Baby’s contemplative coda on “Pride is the Devil” to Diddy’s heartfelt prayer on “Let Go My Hand.” Of course, Cole’s mesmerizing use of language and personal revelations - particularly regarding fatherhood - remain the main attraction on The Off-Season, a full-length that adds to the legend of its creator.īefore Pink Friday, the countless radio hits and monumental strides for women in popular hip-hop, Nicki Minaj was a cutthroat mixtape star, a rising Young Money MC and one of Lil Wayne’s most promising proteges. Cole has made his own, becoming the rare hip-hop superstar in the 2010s to put huge numbers on the board with projects that often eschewed major guest stars. “Platinum with no features” are four words that J. Check out all of this week’s First Stream picks below: Cole gets back to work in The Off-Season, Nicki Minaj revisits a fan favorite, and Olivia Rodrigo is ready to upend your expectations.
Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases - the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
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