Looking for new rap songs from your favorite mainstream and underground hip hop artists? Whether it’s gangsta rap, Dirty South tracks or old school hip hop, here’s where you can find the hottest new rap songs…
Admittedly, the internet has taken its toll on radio stations in the past decade, yet new songs get a lot of exposure. Here’s a short list of radio stations and internet radio where you’ll hear new music releases…
Pwer 106. The big name in the rap game. Power 106 drops music from the hottest rappers in the game, like Lil Wayne, Eminem and 50 Cent, as well as the up and coming new stars like Drake, Flo Rida and T.I.
Power 105. Strangely enough, this radio station originally played soft rock, but changed their format to hip hop and R&B in recent years. In addition to new rap music, they also play old school hip hop and have a section for rappers to spit freestyles (like the Wake Show).
Hot 97. Another authority when it comes to hip hop. Their motto is “We are hip hop and R&B” and given their years of experience dropping the latest new rap songs, no one would disagree.
IMEEM. With this website, you can easily create your own playlists from a wide variety of music, including underground rap, old school hip hop and regional favorites like East Coast or Dirty South. Another nice feature they offer is that listeners can also share their playlists with others through the social networking feature. Want to hear what other people are listening to? This is the place to check out.
Pandora. This just may be my favorite website, period. When it comes to finding new rap songs, look no further. With Pandora, you simply search for a musical style or artists and Pandora serves up a streaming playlist of related songs based on your preferences. It’s incredible how well Pandora serves up new artists; I’ll play this while on the computer and seem to hear a new song I like from an artists I’ve never heard of every ten minutes! Funded by the Music Genome Project, this website is completely free.
MixTapes
Rap music wouldn’t be where it is today if it wasn’t for mixtapes. It’s also a great way to hear rap songs mixed by DJs; not only does it give a new spin on the track, it also extends the shelf life of the original version.
DatPiff. This site’s selection of mixtapes cannot be beat. They also include numerous freestyles from rappers looking to get noticed.
ThatCrack. While their selection isn’t as big as DatPiff, but the quality is without question. Expect to see ThatCrack as the new source for mixtapes in the
New rap songs can be found at any of these sources. Keep listening, learning and enjoy!
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The music business has found the answer to its mounting ails, which all the iPod world knows: album sales being replaced by singles downloads, Tower Records closing, and Borders apparently not having a clue about what music to stock.
But now there seems to be hope on the horizon. Columbia Records is trying a radical new experiment. The record giant and a principle perpetrator of musical nonsense on an overly obliging public has retained a canary, much as songbirds have been employed to detect, by passing out, the presence of poison gas.
The job of the tuneful bird is to provide the executives in the A & R department with a reality check as to what a good song is.
Here’s the new protocol. First the staff listens to a new track. If they think it has potential, they play it for the tweety bird. If it starts to sing along, they can present the ditty to management for probable release.
On the other hand, if the canary just stares in silence or falls off its perch, the track is to be considered not music.
Rumor has it that the music business may be remade toward a new melodiousness. So far the hipsters in pop and rap at Columbia’s A & R department have played over a hundred selects for the canary. Yet they have not managed to play even one that has inspired the bird to sing along.
Since the canary is nature’s own expert on song, there’s just no way to get around the fact that the singing creature is the ideal arbiter of tuneful music.
Of course, A & R has grown somewhat impatient with the rigorous new standard, but management cannot afford to relent.
In fact, the chairman of Columbia has posted a sign in the A & R department that says, “If going into the woods to listen to birdsong was good enough for Beethoven, it’s good enough for us.”
So the A & R staffers, much to their reluctant tutelage, find themselves with only one choice: Listen to that bird.
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I find a lot of great new music on Pandora and Last.fm
also Reverbnation is a great place to find new hip hop, thats how I found Bad Habitat for the first time.
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