Hypetrak's Weekly Set - Volume 40

Welcome to the 40th edition of Hypetrak’s Weekly Sets. Tomorrow marks the release of T.I.’s new album No Mercy. A fair share of tracks off the LP have already found their to the internet and indicate that the offering is shaping up nicely thus far – most notably the Drizzy-assisted “Poppin’ Bottles”. There have been some confusion surround Theophilus London’s latest audio “You’ve Got The Love”. Mr. London turned in his take on The xx’s interpretation of Florence And The Machine’s, “You’ve Got The Love” which served as the B-side of her hit-single “Dog Days Are Over”. We have also heard Snoop Dogg’s auto-tuned dedication to Prince William, “Wet”, which is likely to grow into a club favorite. Nas returned to the stage sending out some warning words via the Boola-produced “Snitch Alibi”. Bruno Mars conclude’s this week Top with the very soulful acoustic version of his latest single “Grenade”.

Further reader favorites consist of Deadmau5’s album cut “Raise Your Weapon” featuring Greta Svabo Bech, T.I.’s new single “No Mercy” featuring The-Dream, Le Chev’s stunning remix of Passion Pit’s “Sleepyhead”, Talib Kweli’s lyrical frenzy on “Palookas” and the latest Queens-anthem “Fake-ID” featuring Consequence, Q-Tip Large Professor and Havoc.

There is no denying that a decent visual backup enhances the musical experience of any song. Following artists used this formula during the past seven days. Darwin Deez with “DNA”, Aloe Blacc with “You Make Me Smile”, The Killers with their holiday-tune “Boots”, J*Davey with visualization of the Bossasaurs-remix of “Mama’s Back (End Of The World)”, Coldplay with “Christmas Lights”, The Bullits with the Jay Electronica and Lucy Liu-assisted “Close Your Eyes”, Cee-Lo Green with “It’s OK”, The Clipse’s “Life Change” featuring Pharrell Williams and Kenna, Tame Impala with their “Expectation”, and last but not least Reflection Eternal’s “In The Red”.

Also make sure to check out Redman’s new mixtape Pancake & Syrup as well as the trailer to the sure to be epic A Tribe Called Quest-documentary by actor Michael Rapaport. Listen to the audible recap below.