Black Moon is first up with Rise Of Da Moon, Smoke Dza, and Benny The Butcher drop Statue of Limitations, Homeboy Sandman makes his Mello Music Group debut with Dusty and L’Orange is back to work with Jeremiah Jae on Complicate Your Life with Violence.
Bass Reevez follows with Tha Fisha Hrz,Jake Milliner drops Bernie Says and TawiahStarts Again. Other projects this week include Waajeed’s Hocus Pocus, Corey King drops A Loveless Sunken Sun, Nicole Bus follows with her debut KAIROS, Harleighblu and Bluestaeb deliver on She and Marquis Hill closes things out with the Love Tape.
Bucktown’s own Black Moon follows standout singles “Creep Wit Me” and “Black Moon Rise” with their first full-length album in 13 years titled Rise Of Da Moon.
Smoke Dza and Benny The Butcher team on the six-track collaborative Statue of Limitations EP produced entirely by Pete Rock. Conway the Machine, WestSide Gunn and Styles P also appear on the project.
L’Orange and Jeremiah Jae follow their 2015 collaborative debut The Night Took Us In Like Family with the 17-track sequel titled Complicate Your Life With Violence.
Producer Bass Reevez teams with a who’s who of underground spitters on his album Tha Fisha Hrz... Features include Jamal Gasol, Estee Nack, Nowaah The Flood, Bub Rock and Rome Streetz.
Complicate Your Life with Violence answers eternal questions with an assassin’s bluntness: when do you fight and when do you flee, what does sanity look like in a sick world, how does one retain valor among the corrupt, and why does the union of one producer and one MC always yield the best music?
South London’s own Jake Milliner marks his solo debut with the release of Bernie Says featuring Alfa Mist, Marcus Tenney, Bubblerap (of Hawkhouse) and 25.
Tawiah makes her full-length debut with Starts Again, which finds her exploring identity and adversity. The album co-produced by Sam Beste also includes contributions from Sharlene Hector and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson.
Waajeed returns with the latest in a string of formidable projects titled Hocus Pocus. The magical extended play follows 2018’s From The Dirt and his more recent project Ten Toes Down.
Dutch songstress Nicole Bus is on the mic and behind the boards where she teams with multi-platinum producer Needlz to deliver her lush debut album KAIROS.