This week has been a long one… You deserve to kick your feet back and chill. Thank god it’s FINALLY FRIDAY!

1. Kendrick Lamar (ft. Zacari), LOVE.

2. GoldLink (ft. Brent Faiyaz & Shy Glizzy), Crew

3. Kendrick Lamar, Members Only

4. Jhene Aiko, While We’re Young

5. Frank Ocean (ft. Jay-Z & Tyler, The Creator), Biking (Solo)

6. Sabrina Claudio, Unravel Me

7. H.E.R., Every Kind of Way

8. PartyNextDoor, Freak In You

9. Daniel Caesar, We Find Love

10. 6LACK & Jhene Aiko, First F**k

11. Bruno Mars, Chunky

12. T-Pain (Freaknik the Ghost), Save You

13. Miguel, the valley

14. SZA, The Weekend

15. Stwo (ft. Amir Obe & Daniel Caesar), Fill The Void

Listen and comment what you think below. Relax, it’s finally Friday readers!

[Listen to the playlist on Apple Music here]

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Thursday’s are prime time, little did you know! It’s the Friday before Friday, the breath before the break, the eye of the storm. Here are some tunes that will roll you over into the end of your busy work week, or get that 4-day weekend started.

1. Rihanna – Consideration (ft. SZA)

2. Miguel – Coffee

3. The Notorious B.I.G – Party and Bullsh*t

4. WZRD – Teleport 2 Me, Jamie

5. LION BABE – Rockets

6. Jesse Boykins III – Prototype (COVER)

7. Kendrick Lamar – Night of the Living Junkies

8. De La Soul – Buddy (ft. A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, Monie Love, and Queen Latifah) 

9. Stevie Wonder – Jungle Fever

10. Frank Ocean – Songs for Women 

11. Chance the Rapper – Juice

12. Soul II Soul – Back to Life (Acapella)

13. Stwo – Fill the Void (ft. Amir Obe and Daniel Caesar)

14. Tyler, the Creator – She (ft. Frank Ocean)

15. LL Cool J – Hey Lover (ft. Boyz II Men)

Listen and comment what you think below. Stay thirsty, and finish off strong readers!

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The Detroit rapper’s melancholy song is about a love gone wrong. In an email with Fader, Obé says that, “It’s the back and forth of a tortured love. A woman pulling me into her depths and unknowingly drowning me in the process. This is an expression of my suffocation.”

With lyrics such as:

Pour my heart out to the floors now

Treat your love like a drug, I been drugged out

Treat your feeling like a target bring em guns out

it is easy to have an insight to what he was feeling as he sings about it between the lyrics and the melody. The empathy will hopefully stop short of the lyrics “Let the bodies hit the floor now,” however.

The song has a somber, smoother melody for the beginning before suddenly picking up around the middle into more of a reggae style. This changes the mood of the song from something dramatic and into something that feels more hopeful, making the listener hope that Obé will find a love that will make him feel happy and less murderous.

You can listen to “No Peace” down below.

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This new wave of R&B music is eminently dope, wouldn’t ya’ll say?  It might even become a new genre.  From The Weeknd, PartyNextDoor, Kehlani, Bryson Tiller and now Amir Obe, it surely seems that way. A few months back, we heard Amir Obe featured on PartyNextDoor’s “I’m Good” record and the outcome was excellent.  This week, OVO’s signee PND hops on Obe’s latest offering, “Truth For You,” produced by NYLZ. Yet again, an exceptional collab comes to life.

Listen below and be sure to check for Amir Obe’s upcoming project.

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Along with a new track from Drake, we were treated with an exclusive Amir Obe and PARTYNEXTDOOR track entitled “I’m Good”. OVO Sound Radio never seems to disappoint when it comes to the clique-exclusive drops during sets. Stream the track below.

https://soundcloud.com/sound-flaw/im-good

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