Grade Aplus: "Cold as Fuck"
Grade Aplus is off of the shrooms and back to "a little weed, little Tanqueray" with his new song, "Cold as Fuck." Rapping over Smoke DZA and A$AP Rocky's "4Loko," the Chicagoland rapper goes in about weak crews in the rap game as a reactionary comment on Kendrick Lamar's verse on "Control." Check it out and see if you can catch all of the references the LOD rapper makes without having to look up the lyrics.
Netherfriends: "Raven-Symone Freestyle" (feat. Grade Aplus)
Following up the Netherfriends X Chandler London "Shrooms Freestyle" is Grade Aplus' "Raven-Symone Freestyle" from the live recording of Kind of Buzzed, vol. 3. Astute readers/listeners will notice that the first portion of the freestyle is an excerpt from Grade's "Baby Grades," but the LOD rapper changes it up a bit, ending with a giggle for the ages. "Raven-Symone Freestyle" was also mastered by Chris Classick of Classic Studios to give it an extra layer of shine.
Remember, recording for Kind of Buzzed, vol. 6 Round 2 has been rescheduled to take place at Cafe Mustache on September 6th. Details for the night can be found on Facebook. The recording will follow a listening party of Kind of Buzzed, vol. 3, as well.
Netherfriends: "Raven-Symone Freestyle" (feat. Grade Aplus)
Following up the Netherfriends X Chandler London "Shrooms Freestyle" is Grade Aplus' "Raven-Symone Freestyle" from the live recording of Kind of Buzzed, vol. 3. Astute readers/listeners will notice that the first portion of the freestyle is an excerpt from Grade's "Baby Grades," but the LOD rapper changes it up a bit, ending with a giggle for the ages. "Raven-Symone Freestyle" was also mastered by Chris Classick of Classic Studios to give it an extra layer of shine.
Remember, recording for Kind of Buzzed, vol. 6 Round 2 has been rescheduled to take place at Cafe Mustache on September 6th. Details for the night can be found on Facebook. The recording will follow a listening party of Kind of Buzzed, vol. 3, as well.
Netherfriends: "Kind of Buzzed vol. 2"
Following the previous drops of Chandler London's "Ode to Joy Freestyle" and Swords the Ronin's "Black Belt Freestyle," Netherfriends' second entry in his freestyle/improvised series, Kind of Buzzed, is upon us. Featuring the aforementioned rappers and LOD/#100Trill rapper Grade Aplus and Second City Citizen member Rich Jones, Kind of Buzzed vol. 2 features a mastered mix of the set that was recorded live at Cafe Mustache last month. As the series continues to grow, Netherfriends is offering a range of rappers a platform to showcase their talents over original instrumentation while also allowing outside audiences a glimpse at how the magic happens.
If you want to be a part of that magic, make sure you attend the live recording of Netherfriends' Kind of Buzzed vol. 4 at Jugrnaut on August 16th. If you can't attend, the least you can do is check out the listening/release party for Kind of Buzzed vol. 2 tonight at the aforementioned Cafe Mustache, complete with a live beat/freestyle set. Who knows? Maybe you can be featured on a future Kind of Buzzed installment.
Grade Aplus: "Baby Grades" (prod. by MikeJaxx)
Grade Aplus is back with a new song under the Green Tangerine Co. banner, "Baby Grades." With production by MikeJaxx, Grade goes in about his parents telling him to get a real job and pulling an Oprah on former Disney Channel stars (i.e. "Have them pushing out some baby Grades/Flip the game/Make them ladies pay child support/Shit, I'll be crazy straight."). Who's having more fun than the duo of Grade and Jaxx right now?
Check out "Baby Grades" below, and if you're a lady feeling Grade's music, make some baby Grades for him.
#100Trill: "Feel Like It"
#100Trill is back with a new song, "Feel Like It." Money, weed, and alcohol is the holy trinity for the Chicagoland duo. Hey, if you have the power to do whatever you want whenever you feel like it, your holy trinity probably wouldn't deviate too far from that. Personally, my holy trinity consists of comic books, movies, and music... maybe that's why I'm not a successful Chicago rapper...
Regardless, listen to MikeJaxx and Grade Aplus do their thing. Like I've mentioned before, the duo is having fun with the #100Trill drops. Let their inherent fun infect you.
PaTTxPiff: "Mob" (feat. Insomnyakk, Polite, and Grade Aplus)
PaTTxPiFF makes his debut with "Mob," featuring Insomnyakk, Polite, and RH vet Grade Aplus over a Madlib beat. The rappers were united together for this collaboration as part of a promotion for up and coming brand Green Tangerine Co. Check it out below.
[RH Premiere] #100Trill: "Aye Bitch" (feat. Truth G)
Over the weekend, Grade Aplus tweeted, "We got the most ignant shit for [you] to ride to work to on Monday..." He said it, not me: this new #100Trill track, "Aye Bitch," embraces the "ignance" right from the beginning of the song with MikeJaxx setting the tone with the first bar of "Aye bitch, that pussy goooood." Grade and Jaxx, joined by Truth G, are very obviously having fun, which has been a common theme throughout each of the #100Trill songs that have been released thus far ("'93" and "Chain Clean"). There's a time and place for everything, as both Grade and Jaxx have shown with their previous work, and #100Trill shows that there is time to just cut loose and be ignant.