This is a loaded week for the TIDAL Wave playlist. Each week, our staff mulls over the hottest tracks to have released within the last month and, damn, we had a good time these last seven days. 

A ton of high-profile records saw the light of day, including an entire Drake mixtape (!!!) called the Dark Lane Demo Tapes. A handful of selections from that were chosen for this week's update, in addition to some brand new female rap match-ups. Megan Thee Stallion is vying to go #1 with her Beyoncé-assisted "Savage" remix but Doja Cat and Nicki Minaj are also trying to hit that point with the official "Say So" remix. Both of those have been highlighted on TIDAL Wave.

We've also got new music from Lil Baby, Smoove'L, Jackboy, O.T. Genasis, and more. On the R&B side of things, we're keeping you chill with songs from JoJo, Kehlani, Mahalia, Leven Kali, and, you guessed it, Drake.

Of course, we've also got one joint from that new Chris Brown and Young Thug mixtape Slime & B, of which we expect even more to be added next week. Stay tuned!

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Alex Zidel (Editorial)

Lil Baby - Social Distancing
O.T. Genasis - I Look Good
Smoove'L - Just A Dream
Doja Cat - Say So (feat. Nicki Minaj)
Drake - Demons (feat. Fivio Foreign & Sosa Geek)

Mike Rapp (Sales)

Drake - Chicago Freestyle (feat. Giveon)
Drake - Demons (feat. Fivio Foreign & Sosa Geek)
Lil Baby - Forever (feat. Lil Wayne)

Cole Blake (Editorial)

Gorillaz - How Far? (feat. Tony Allen & Skepta)
Doja Cat - Say So (feat. Nicki Minaj)
Drake - Chicago Freestyle (feat. Giveon)
Drake - Deep Pockets

Paul Pirotta (Sales)

Drake - D4L (feat. Future & Young Thug)
Megan Thee Stallion - Savage Remix (feat. Beyoncé)
Chris Brown & Young Thug - Go Crazy
Drake - Demons (feat. Fivio Foreign & Sosa Geek)
Drake - When To Say When

Alex Cole (Editorial)

Drake - Pain 1993 (feat. Playboi Carti)
Drake - Not You Too (feat. Chris Brown)
Lil Baby - We Paid (feat. 42 Dugg)
Lil Baby - Get Money

Mitch Findlay (Editorial)

Drake - Chicago Freestyle (feat. Giveon)
Drake - Losses
Hardo - Hurry Up & Buy (feat. JID)
Drake - D4L (feat. Future & Young Thug)

Lynn S (Editorial)

Megan Thee Stallion - Savage Remix (feat. Beyoncé)
Doja Cat - Say So (feat. Nicki Minaj)
Kehlani - F&MU
Leven Kali - MADE 4 U (feat. SYD)
ADÉ - Replacements

Rose Lilah (Editorial)

JoJo - So Bad
JoJo - Small Things
Mahalia - BRB
Jackboy - Like A Million (feat. Kodak Black)
JoJo - Man

Aron A (Editorial)

Drake - Deep Pockets
Drake - From Florida With Love
Yung Tory - Timeout (feat. Pressa)
Doe Boy - Split It (feat. Moneybagg Yo)
Gorillaz - How Far? (feat. Tony Allen & Skepta) 

It’s been almost six months since we began curating our “R&B Season” playlist for all you R&B heads out there, and there’s no sign of slowing down. Every week, we’ve been keeping our audience up to date on the freshest R&B offerings out right now, and today, we’re back with some more heat.

This week, we’ve added two songs off JoJo‘s brand new album, good to know, including “So Bad” and “Small Things,” as well as a joint titled “1 Mo Time” featuring Jeremih off K CAMP’s recently dropped project, Kiss 5. Of course, the release of Drake‘s Dark Lane Demo Tapes meant that the previously dropped “Chicago Freestyle” was finally available to stream on Spotify, and while Drizzy is, for the most part, primarily of the hip hop sound, this Giveon-featured track is so versatile, it made the cut on both our “R&B Season” and our “Fire Emoji” playlists. We’ve also included Summer Walker and Khalid’s new collab, “Eleven,” as well as Trey Songz‘s single “Back Home,” which Summer is featured on. 

Check out all the latest additions to our “R&B Season” playlist including new music from H.E.R., Glass Animals, the Dreamville collective, and more. Make sure to follow our other specially-curated playlists on Spotify as well!

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Follow R&B SEASON on Spotify.

Follow our Wake & Bake playlist here.

Follow our G.O.O.D. Music playlist (for a GOOD ASS FRIDAY) here. 

After four years of silence on the music front, JoJo released her long-awaited project Good To Know. The nine-track R&B offering chronicles her personal and professional journey and JoJo shared that it is a project that is broken down into three parts. "The first being: here's what I do to numb myself. Get me out of my skin and let me be distracted with love, sex, substances," she said. "The middle part finds me realizing that I need to be on my own for the first time in my life to end patterns that aren't serving me anymore. Toward the end, I knock on the door of self-love. Accepting where I've been and meeting myself where I'm at."

Friday (May 1) was JoJo's big day as she's been rolling out Good To Know's release for some time. Then, Drake popped up with news of a surprise mixtape, Dark Lane Demo Tapes, that stormed social media even before it hit streaming services. JoJo couldn't help but laugh at the coincidental timing and tweeted a short message to the OVO Sound mogul: "Damn Drake ??." It was all in love, as both artists' projects have been the talk of social media all day. 

Have you checked out both albums yet? What do you think so far? 

Entertainers who begin their careers when they’re children or teenagers often find themselves struggling when they transition into adulthood. Those who have attained at least a moderate level of success are more at risk for going off the deep end, as they grapple with adapting to the ever-changing expectation of Hollywood. At just 13-years-old, JoJo became a pop princess when her single “Leave (Get Out)” topped the charts, but as she grew older, she had issues with her record label that kept her from releasing music and was told that she needed to get on a 500-calorie-a-day diet in order to be famous.

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On Friday (May 1), JoJo will release her anticipated R&B project Good To Know, and she recently sat down with PEOPLE to discuss what was going on behind the scenes during the years when she wasn’t able to release new music. Her father was battling an opioid addiction, and JoJo turned to alcohol to deal with her mental and emotional issues. It was common for the singer to drink until she blacked out.

“I was feeling overwhelmed and found myself wanting to get out of my mind because I was so scared and so sad,” she said. “At the end of the day, I am a product of a family with substance-abuse issues. When I woke up and didn’t know how I got home, I was like, ‘This is not okay.'” It took a few years for her to reshape her life, but after seeing a therapist and receiving a diagnosis of clinical depression, JoJo turned her life around.

“Because there is a history of mental health issues in my family, I didn’t feel any shame seeking help,” JoJo added. “Those of us who have a predisposition toward depression or a chemical imbalance — sometimes we just need a little help.”

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JoJo remixed her debut single, "Leave (Get Out)" into a must-watch social distancing public service announcement that is catchy enough to influence people to stay the hell in the house. With Donald Trump recently declaring the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a national emergency and local governments closing recreational businesses, limiting restaurant capacity, and temporarily closing public schools, the general public has been urged to only leave their homes if it is absolutely necessary. Now, with the governor of California, Gavin Newson claiming that 56% of the California population could possibly contract the life-threatening disease, hopefully, more public figures will follow JoJo's lead in encouraging their fellowship to self-isolate as much as possible.  Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images

The now 29-year-old singer/songwriter took to her Instagram Story to unleash a myriad of coronavirus-themed remixes to some of her most popular songs. During the brief clip, JoJo stands in the comfort of her dining room as she graciously croons, the following reworked lyrics:

"You been out doing god knows what
Breathing and touching everyone
And I refuse to die
Imma keep my ass inside"

The past few weeks have blessed us with album releases from the likes of Jhené Aiko and Jay Electronica‘s and dope singles from Kehlani and JoJo, and as a result, our “R&B Season” playlist is looking pretty fire. HNHH has been curating our custom R&B-centric Spotify playlist for months now, in order to give our hip-hop loving audience a taste of the often-overlapping genre’s finest offerings. 

The latest additions to the R&B roundup include two tracks off of Jhené Aiko’s highly-anticipated album, CHILOMBO, which dropped last Friday to high praise. The H.E.R.-featured  “B.S.” is a major highlight off the album, as is her stoner-friendly “Tryna Smoke.” Another big drop was Jay Electronica’s A Written Testimony this past Friday. While the project is predominantly hip-hop-heavy, as is to be expected from the Roc Nation rapper, Jay dipped his toe into the R&B sound alongside the album’s consistent collaborator, Jay-Z, on the devastating “A.P.I.D.T.A.” An acronym for “All Praise Is Due To Allah,” the somber song tackles the tribulations of loss, and was actually written on the night that Kobe Bryant tragically passed.

Kehlani also came through with some new music this week, denouncing unhealthy relationships on, “Toxic.” JoJo supported this sentiment on her own single, “Man,” and we decided to show both tracks some love. Check out our “R&B Season” playlist in full along with some of our other playlists below:

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Follow FIRE EMOJI on Spotify.

Follow R&B SEASON on Spotify.

Follow our freshly-updated Wake & Bake playlist here.

Follow our G.O.O.D. Music playlist (for a GOOD ASS FRIDAY) here. 

Her career catapulted when she was just a teen, and like many young singers, JoJo had to face off with her record label about her image. When she was 13-years-old, her song “Leave (Get Out)” became a hit record, but for years JoJo didn’t release new music. She was an undeniable talent on the R&B-pop scene, but years went by and still, JoJo claimed her label refused to put out any of her tunes. The reason? The singer now says it was because of “the way I looked.”

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JoJo sat down with UPROXX for an in-depth interview where the singer revealed that when she was 18-years-old, she was so eager to release music that she even restricted herself to a 500-calorie per day diet in an effort to lose weight. “I remember being sat down in the Blackground office, and the president of the label being like, ‘We just want you to look as healthy as possible,’” the 29-year-old shared.

“I was like, ‘I’m actually the picture of health,’” JoJo said. “‘I actually look like a healthy girl who eats and is active. And I don’t think this is about my health. I think that you want me to be really skinny.’ And he’s like, ‘No, I wouldn’t say that,’ blah blah blah,” she added. “But I ended up getting put with a nutritionist that had me on a 500 calorie a day diet, and I was on these injections that make you have no appetite.”

“I was like, ‘Let me see how skinny I can get, because maybe then they’ll put out an album,” JoJo continued. “Maybe I’m just so disgusting that no one wants to see me in a video and they can’t even look at me. That’s really what I thought.” Soon, the singer admitted that she began to spiral out of control.

“So, I started getting really f*cked up, drinking, making out with strangers, looking for validation and attention and looking to feel pretty, looking to feel good, to feel worthy,” she added. “There were definitely nights that I stumbled out of clubs and that I blacked out. I was just completely reckless, did not care. I needed to be buzzed to feel okay. I would go to the edge, stand on my tiptoes on the edge and then come back.” 

It wouldn’t be until 2014 that JoJo was finally released from her contract with Blackground. Watch JoJo’s interview below.

Singer JoJo has been on a strong campaign to return to the spotlight lately. Most recently, the songstress nabbed a Grammy for her work on PJ Morton’s “Say So” track for Best R&B Song at this year’s ceremony. Now, she’s returned to share her intent to deliver on brand-new album this spring.

In a statement, Jojo explains that her Good To Know studio album will be a product of all she’s learned and absorbed over the years.

“Every piece of feedback, criticism (internal or external), whatever it is — it’s all just information. And it’s all good! I’ve been lucky to have the space to reflect on my own journey up to now, and I hope people can take comfort in the fact that I am not anywhere near perfect, and I will never sugarcoat anything. We’re all constantly living and learning and that’s what makes this life fun.”

With the new album, JoJo also revealed an accompanying tour that will find her kicking off in Seattle on April 21 and ending things on May 30 in Minneapolis. August will resume the European leg of her run as she heads to Dublin on August 31st and wraps up in Sweden on September 25th.