16 New Hip-Hop & R&B Albums You Should Listen to Right Now (Week of June 4)


This week’s crop of new albums features a movie soundtrack and new releases from veteran MCs.
Keeping up with new albums in the modern age of streaming can be a tough task for the average listener. With every week, dozens of new artists appear, older albums are added to streaming, and artists tack on bonus tracks to their albums via deluxe editions. It can be a lot to process.
That’s why every week here at Okayplayer, we round up the most notable projects from artists new and old, in hip-hop, R&B, and more. This time around, we have a joint album from Lil Baby and Lil Durk, the Gully movie soundtrack featuring 21 Savage and Schoolboy Q, and a bevy of releases from all over the globe.
Lloyd Banks returns to the rap game after five years away with The Course of the Inevitable. Smoke DZA and Sleepy Hallow also dropped new projects, making it a multigenerational New York affair. Stream and download your favorites below.
Lil Baby & Lil Durk – The Voice of the Heroes


Source: Quality Control Music/Alamo Records/Motown Records
Fousheé – Time Machine


Source: Trackmasters Entertainment
Lloyd Banks – The Course of the Inevitable


Source: Money By Any Means, Inc.
Sleepy Hallow – Still Sleep?


Source: Winners Circle Ent./RCA Records
Smoke DZA – The Hustler’s Catalog 2


Source: RFC/Cinematic Music Group
Peter Rosenberg – Real Late


Source: Real Late Records
Apollo Brown & Raheem DeVaughn – Lovesick


Source: Mello Music Group
BROCKHAMPTON – Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine (Deluxe)


Source: Question Everything, Inc.
ANKHLEJOHN & Rome Streetz – Genesis 1:27


Source: Rare Scrilla Records
The Avalanches – Since I Left You (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)


Source: Modular Recordings
Cherrie – Naag Nool


Source: Asylum Records
Mndsgn – Rare Pleasure


Source: Stones Throw Records
Various Artists – Gully Soundtrack


Source: Epic Records
Fly Anakin – Pixote


Source: Fly Anakin
Joy Oladokun – in defense of my own happiness


Source: Amigo Records, LLC
Seinabo Sey – Sweet Life


Source: Saraba AB