Hypetrak's Weekly Set - Volume 45
Back by popular demand! Welcome back to our beloved Weekly Set series. First things first, we
Back by popular demand! Welcome back to our beloved Weekly Set series. First things first, we apologize for not serving you our weekly recaps for more than two months. Due to licensing restrictions, some of the most popular tracks have been unavailable for stream, thus we thought about different ways to provide you with a weekly summary of quality contemporary music. Well, we won’t let our SoundCloud account collect any dust anymore and serve you the 10 most popular (streamable) joints and point out to other highlights of the past seven days. Without much further ado, here we go.
Odd Future is everywhere these days, so it comes as no surprise that this week’s top spot belongs to an OWFGKTA representative – Hodgy Beats. With his solo track “Mystery,” Hodgy proves that he certainly can hold is own on the mic and lays the foundation for a successful rap career. Also one who is backed up with a rapidly growing hype is Donald Glover, whose rap alter ego Childish Gambino continues to convince listeners from everywhere that his word play and flow are on point. Take his “Longest Text Message” for instance, that has been a fixture among our popular posts for more than just a few days. Cudder is officially back. After announcing that he is leaving drugs behind him in life, the Cleveland native serves his new tune “Capcom” which heats up the anticipation for his upcoming mixtape A Man Named Scott. As one of the game’s most thought-provoking lyricists, Common knows how to flex a complex rhyme and make it accessible for the masses. Thus, he was digging deep into his vault and liberated the Kanye West-produced “Follow Me” which features lyrics from one of his memorable Def Poetry Jam sessions from the early 2000s.
Further highlights encompass Domo Genesis & Hodgy Beats praising “Tang Golf,” the Netsky remix to Rusko’s new single, a not-so-remix sounding refix of Lupe Fiasco and Skylar Grey’s “Words I Never Said” by Sound Remedy, a rather unusual collaboration between Miami Horror and XV who pay homage to a special “Foreign Exchange Student.”
As far as music videos are concerned, we have seen the spaced out clip for Katy Perry and Kanye West’s “E.T.,” the “Grown Ocean” by the Fleet Foxes, Theophilus London’s Sara Q-assisted “Why Even Try,” Pac Div’s cooled out “Anti-Freeze,” the decade spanning “82-92” by 1982 and Mac Miller, The Strokes’s surprising gift “Call Me Back,” and the epic visual for Woodkid’s “Iron.”
Now listen to the Weekly Set and some other audible highlights further below!
Pharrell Williams – The Game Has Changed (Daft Punk)
Nicki Minaj – Tragedy (Lil Kim Diss)
SebastiAn – Embody (DJ Premier 95 Break Remix)
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light (Full Album Stream)
