PRODUCER: TommyTrillfigga
ARTWORK: Laura Callaghan
Thanks to his booming twitter account and the help of Hot New Hip Hop, Tampa’s Broderick Batts has been making extreme leaps into the conscience of music lovers. This drop isn’t any different as he calls upon one of the most recent people’s champs, Swaghollywood. The two combine their unique voices to blend it into a great celebratory track called “We Eatin”. A statement to show your victory and flex a bit on those who opposed. This won’t be the last that you here of Broderick Batts and make sure that this isn’t the last that you hear of this track.
PRODUCER: 3rdEye
ARTWORK: Kenny H
After his heavily acclaimed debut project, Backwoods For Breakfast, was somehow deleted from the internet’s surface, Tampa’s very own Sunny Fritz has resurrected from the ashes with new management and a new banger called “FNWH”. Produced by 3rdEye, Sunny Fritz makes sure to keep his momentum going and maintain the same quality and work ethic through this re-surging period.
PRODUCER: Bear
As a lot of music is being pushed out through a conveyor belt, it seems as if we haven’t heard something with so much feeling behind a bass heavy production in a while. Bear & Lil Filth have done just that and it’s name is “Crystal Water”. With Black Society Records heading towards the light, Bear using his beat making greatness to put together an addictive track for the end of winter to only build to the momentum. So if you need to set the mood right for your significant other in 2016, simply just play “Crystal Water” and let the track work it’s magic.
PRODUCER: LeMieux
ART DIRECTION: @LSDOOMGFX & @SUPREMEKAIOFSAUCE
UPCOMING PROJECT: Level 1 | Release TBA
*PRESS START* on “Vegas”, OYABUN’S latest single as he details his lush, drug-induced adventure in Vegas on his journey to LA. With the help of LeMieux to provide the background ambiance, OYABUN paints the listeners a vivid portrait of partying, being dressed like a pharaoh in the Caesar Palace hotel, blowing money down the Las Vegas strip, and concluding his night at a strip club.
His melodic and infectious chorus “Imma need you to ride along, baby girl just ride” is enough to make any girl hop in his foreign and embark on the wildest night of their life. The message of the first verse is OYABUN talking from the perspective of Tupac during that infamous night at the MGM Hotel after the Mike Tyson fight. “Feeling like Tupac at the MGM, a man on my last days, oh, Imma die in my own lane”.. That verse is a major key to why this track gained the name “Vegas”.
So prep yourself for this adventure with the sun god as he gives you another taste of greatness before Level 1 is revealed to the world.
PRODUCER: King Carlow
ENGINEER: Federiiiiicoo at Extract Studios
ART BY: @T_Rellz
LATEST ALBUM: Brutus (Deluxe Edition) | Purchase via iTunes
NIKO IS, the gemini from the City of God and Javotti Media ground stomper is fresh off of another hip hop high after a critically acclaimed Alchemist produced track by Talib Kweli hit the net, featuring Ab Soul and himself. As today marks the one year anniversary of his Javotti Media debut album, Brutus, NIKO IS has blessed the people at CitrusRap with a premiere for this late winter. With “Soak Up The Hustle” NIKO IS gives a head bobbing lyrical onslaught over this smooth and nostalgic instrumental provided by King Carlow. A perfect track for the youth that tantalizes the part of our brain that craves genuine rhythm and poetry combined. Rapping vivid circles around today’s “rappers” like the Rio Olympic logo. Some may call it a reach, but NIKO IS surely has the potential AND ability to be to Florida what Kendrick is to California. If you don’t believe these words, just press play. CitrusRap loves proving doubters wrong.
PRODUCER: JahRahMf
All Hail the flawless duo called Nobodies, who are demolishing the game in South Florida as they let loose an intense sound wave called “Perfect Cell”. Ah man, this energy filled track with nothing but power and hard hitting lyrics is just what the state needed. Produced by one half of Nobodies, Jah provides a pulsing and head banging instrumental for both he and Matt The Fucking Rapper to simply destroy. I’m not surprised that Florida’s winter mysteriously got warmer after this track hit the net. The Nobodies have something great in store for us in the year 2016.
