To say that Swae Lee has been hard at work on his upcoming album would be a major understatement. The Rae Sremmurd artist has been plotting his sophomore solo LP, Human Nature, for quite some time now, and it looks like going into isolation with nothing but time on his hands has paid off, at least productivity-wise. On Saturday (June 13th), Mike Will Made-It, founder and CEO of EarDrummers Entertainment where Swae has been signed since 2014, offered an update on the status of Human Nature, and it looks like the producer has a lot of work ahead of him. Mike revealed that Swae had sent him upwards of 700 songs to sift through.
"This man swae lee just submitted 733 songs to choose from for his album," he tweeted, along with a "mind blown" exploding head emoji. While it's possible that he could be exaggerating, the number seems far too specific to be made up.
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Swae announced the title of his new album back in March, after dropping the presumed lead single, "Someone Said," the month before. Despite their solo pursuits, Swae and fellow Rae Sremmurd member and brother, Slim Jxmmi, insist that they have not broken up.
3 New Artists You Should Hear
We highlight three new, upcoming artists to check out.
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It’s been quite awhile since we last came through with an instalment of our artist-breaking series, and a lot has happened since that time. Unbelievable amounts of stuff, really– our last edition happened in July 2019. 2020 barely had a chance to start, and we were hit with the global pandemic that is COVID-19. While the pandemic is not over, we’re now in the midst of an even more important battle, with wide-spread racism and exposing all forms of police brutality. It’s heavy, to say the least.
Nonetheless, we’re hoping to brighten a few people’s day by breaking back our music discovery feature, and showcasing as-of-yet unheard artists for our readers.
If it’s your first time seeing this feature, here’s a quick breakdown of how it works.
- Every week, or every other week, or maybe every three months every 9 months, each of our staff members submit a song from an artist we’ve never yet (or else, barely ever) posted on HNHH (so get your song into the hands of a staff member, and wow them with your musical prowess)
- The song does not need to be new, in fact, most of the time, it’s an older record
- This can include music videos
- We listen to all the submissions as a team
- Eachstaff member votes on their top three favorite submissions out of that week’s batch of submissions
- We cull the votes, and feature the top 3 on the website, in a nifty little article like this
- We also always user/fan-submitted music as well. We go through all our Soundcloud messages and pick out the best submissions we find to include in our meeting (please send us your most fire submissions, it can be your song or someone else’s).
- When we’re in submission-listening-mode, you will know because we send out a tweet like this. See the tweet or IG post, submit a song.
This week, after a long hiatus, the three most-voted artists are all staff-submitted records. Stay tuned for the next instalment, keep an eye on our socials so you can submit your record.
We’d love to find out from the list below you’d like to hear more of on the site – vote at the bottom to tell us!
Artist: Mere Raj *Staff Submission*
Song: “DND”
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Sounds: Don Toliver meets Bryson Tiller meets R&B
Discover more music: Mere Raj’s Soundcloud
Posted before: No
Artist: Nasaan *Staff Submission*
Song: “Ben/Frank”
Location: Detroit
Sounds: Cold story-telling
Discover more music: Nasaan’s Soundcloud
Posted before: Yes
Artist: Chris Elite *Staff Submission*
Song: “Draco” feat. 22gz
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Sounds: New York drill, a la Sheff G
Discover more music: Chris Elite’s Soundcloud
Posted before: No
The Discovery Channel Playlist Episode 5: User Submissions
A new edition of our Soundcloud playlist, “The Discovery Channel,” has arrived.
It’s been awhile since we last scoured Soundcloud and brought you an edition of The Discovery Channel playlist. Since last summer, actually. Since it’s inevitable everyone is at home working on their next musical masterpiece, or perhaps just beginning to dabble and experiment (because nothing else to do), we’ve decided it’s an opportune moment to bring the playlist back. For this particular edition, we really relied on YOU. We put out a call for submissions on both Instagram and Twitter, and we received a shit ton of submissions in our Soundcloud DMs, and the best ones we heard actually make up the bulk of this playlist.
For clarity purposes, I want to say: not every single song on the playlist below was submitted by a user — approximately 12 of the songs that make up the 19-song playlist were user-submitted, and the rest I found through Soundcloud listening sessions. If you submitted but didn’t make it this time, please keep your eyes peeled for when our DMs will be back open, as we plan to do that again very soon.
The artists below are true Soundcloud up and comers, with followers that are growing, or barely-there yet. They’ve impressed with a singular song, adapting sounds and trends to suit their design, or experimenting and exploring new pop/rap/trap/lowfi avenues all in a very DIY-Soundcloud fashion. We start with the melodic, airy, rap, with Yola Ktwo’s opening “Mhhm” really setting the stage for that. Things get progressively harder, and perhaps more angst-y, as the tracklist reaches closer to Slime Tokyo’s submitted record “No Show” before things take a turn for the relaxing again, with the closing out songs veering firmly into r’n’b territory (with varying degrees of experimentation).
If you are an upcoming artist, Soundcloud is also doing weekly Instagram Live sessions, AMAs and workshops to help artists continue to move their careers forward during this time. On top of that, Soundcloud has a complete guide for how to keep the music going during COVID-19, you can check out that resource here.
Check out the new playlist, and let us know who you are fucking with from the tracklist below. The @’s in bracket indicate the user’s Soundcloud handle, so you can check out and support their page. Let us know if you’d like more of this.
THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL PLAYLIST – EPISODE 5 – TRACKLIST
1. Yola Ktwo – “Mhhm” (@yolaktwo)
2. Rence – “Hate u btw” (@yourstrulyrence)
3. Swank x Landeezy – “Believe In” (@justswankbruh)
4. Lil West – “BLEACH” (@lilwestbb)
5. J Neat – “Bros” (@jneat)
6. Lantrobroy Rosa – “Poltergeist” (@user-640821032)
7. Zarin Michael – “CRY IN THE RAIN” (@zarinmicheal1)
8. Macca Wiles – “Slime” (@maccawiles)
9. Slime Tokyo – “No Show” feat. RLNGOONY (@slimetokyo)
10. Just John – “Recipe” (@justjohnforreal)
11. Relu$ – “Rasheed Wallace” (@relusmoneysign-965153403)
12. Jay Pareil – “Hop Slide” (@user-666005475-913505696)
13. MAXIMILLZ – “On Your Own” feat. MULLALLY & ROMELL (@sumthrowaways)
14. Sierra Sellers – “Grown” (@sierra_sellers)
15. audrie powell – “Your Girl” (@audrie-powell)
16. Liza – “Morning Glory” (@liza_waz)
17. Eli Sostre – “FISH” (@elisostre)
18. Deonte Jupiter – “Enough” (@deontejupiter)
19. Ills Aint – “If You Wanna Run, Just Fucking Run” (@user980774583)
