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🚨 Dear Father, hear me now. That is how ZUKO! starts, Fireboy asking not to fall. By the time he gets to Fighting he is still talking to himself the same way: it is not an easy life, but that is okay by me. 😮‍💨🔥

🚨 Asake’s entrance on “Ikebe 3000” is the part people keep replaying. Baby save me, make I touch am, feel am one time, right after Blaqbonez has already worn the ikebe nwayọọ hook thin. Two OAU boys, second song this year, still sounding like they recorded it in the same room they used to share 👏🔥

🚨 Drake has released the surprise single “Quebec,” extending the FOMO short film rollout that debuted earlier this week.

On VOLUME he asks, in Yoruba, if you can even see how the hustle looks from here. That is SWAGUU in one line. Burna Boy exec-produced the whole thing, Quavo only lands on the closer, and in between Seyi is either counting blessings or trying to get somebody back. Then he flips Oblee and it becomes the dance record on the tape 🤩🔥

🚨 Standout Reviews of Ayra Starr’s “Starrgirl”

Sinful but godly, westside everything, her voice floating while he talks himself stupid over the synths 😮‍💨🔥

On “Oh No,” Rema goes back to the love-song lane that first made him dangerous. A girl from Marbella, mixed signals, that chorus asking her not to leave. Rvssian and London give him a warm bed to plead on.

What Critics Are Saying About Victony’s ‘STARLIFE’

🚨 Beyoncé has released B’Day (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition).

Michael Jackson Would Have Turned 68 Today.

🚨 Ice Spice sounds bored of the argument on “Out My Face (My Baby).” She barely raises her voice and still makes the hook sting. Yachty comes through after and just starts having fun on it.

🚨 Seyi Vibez put the street anthem down for two minutes and sent a text instead. “Back 2 U” is the voice first, the drums second, the kind of record you play with the lights off and still feel it in the chest.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The drums come in first on What Are The Odds and stay busy the whole way. Jorja rides the garage and house like she’s been waiting for permission to move, still talking straight about the people who lied and the ones who stayed. Feels like the freest she’s ever sounded.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ whatsdhype.com/album/what-ar…

Victony keeps the production low and unbothered on STARLIFE so his voice can lean in close. whatsdhype.com/album/starlif…

Ayra Starr opens Starrgirl with “Dangerous” and never really lets the temperature drop. whatsdhype.com/album/starrgi…