TMG FRE$H lets go of his latest single “Champagne Cry“, featuring Detroit rapper, Tee Grizzley. FRE$H offers synthy vocals and metaphorical lyrics about seeing his kindness being taken as weakness to the Audi-produced after hours track.

“Champagne Cry” stands as the first collaboration between TMG FRE$H and Tee Grizzley. The pair take to the 808 heavy beat to show out for the harsh truth of the champagne lifestyle.

“We’re both very laid back  – almost reserved. I think we both sensed that integrity in each other and we’ve been good friends ever since.” says FRE$H about meeting Grizzley and recording their first single together. “This single came about while we were playing different records and when I played Champagne Cry Tee’s eyes lit up. He was like, ‘Bro, let me jump on that.’ Everything else was history.”

With FRE$H’s melodic vocals and Grizzley’s hard-hitting raps, the duo perfectly bounce their styles off each other in this single celebrating the hustle of holding true to your principles, rising to every occasion and to keep on shining!

“Champagne Cry” drops months after FRE$H debuted his single, “Anybody”, earlier this year. The accompanying music video, directed by Chancellor Warhol, racked up over one million views and became an instant digital hit. TMG FRE$H  has successfully positioned himself as “one-to-watch” for the remainder of 2020 and doesn’t plan on slowing the momentum in his music career anytime soon.

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Recently, Bay Area bred rapper Westside Tut released a funky West-Coast flavored single titled, “Big Boy Money” ft. Tee Grizzley. The track is produced by his longtime collaborator Juce and features a fluid hook over production highlighted by a classic G-Funk lead that would make DJ Quik proud. 

Combined with an official verse from Tee Grizzley this song has the pedigree to build a solid foundation online for Westside Tut who is already doing significant numbers on Spotify with playlists and monthly listeners.  When asked about how the song came together,  Westside Tut said he connected with the Detroit bred rapper when Tee Grizzley was doing a show in the Bay. 

“When he first started poppin I tapped in with him and he gave me his price. Then I saw he had a show coming in town and so I DM’d him and we actually met up in Berkeley to get it done. We met up in the studio and I kept the verse and just held onto it. A while later I went through some beats from my guy Juce and then I got back in contact with Tee Grizzley’s management to get the song cleared.  After adding the verse to the right beat from Juce, it was perfect.”

While Westside Tut has been able to find great success in with his music having tour with the likes of E-40, he also faced great tragedy amidst his rise as a rapper.  After losing his dad to cancer and his brother to gun violence in the same week, perseverance and family became his focus, even naming his label Family Business Music. That experience gave Tut the will power to never give up, something he hopes his fans learn via the popular themes throughout his music. 

“In a nutshell my music just deals with the pain coming from losing my dad and my brother in the same week. My Dad died from cancer, then my brother died after the club got shot up while we were just trying to blow off some steam recovering from losing our Dad.  A year after my dad died, I had my son on the same day as my dad died and ever since then it’s been a motivation to move forward from the bad situation to keep going upward.  To have somebody dependent on me is a big motivation to keep going and to be a strong man. Music is my motivation and it helps me just work through the bad situations and find clarity,” Westside Tut said. “My message is to never stop – overcome the bad situations.  Everyone around you might be doing something different, but you can still be you. We decide what we do, our surroundings and environment don’t decide what we do.”

While the title of Tut’s album is still in the works, Westside Tut does has plans to put out more music videos in support of his music in the coming weeks. 

“This year I’m really focused on putting out more videos – I’m working on those and I’m dropping a project sometime soon. I’m working on a theme for the album so it doesn’t just sound like a bunch of random stuff but I’m recording every day in the house.  I have a story to tell and I have a method to where you can really listen to it like a book and go through every song and learn something about yourself through me,” Westside Tut said. “The album is not set in stone, but I’m still playing with the words and the title without doing something that’s been used 1,000 times. It don’t matter where you came from it’s about where you’re going to. If you got a sibling or a brother and you see them making the same mistakes you’ve made, or you can tell them the story before the outcome, then that’s the purpose of my music. You might be going through the same things I’m going through and you can just listen and grow from the music.”

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UPDATE: New video for “Sweet Thangs” added below, which centers around a revenge story following a fatal robbery.

This is the Timbaland I’ve been missing. This week, fans get to check out a new single from Detroit’s Tee Grizzley titled “Sweet Thangs,” a beautifully-dark cut that sees production from the Virginia legend himself. The track is said to appear on Tee’s forthcoming project Scriptures, which is making landfall June 7th.

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Comeback king Tyga looks to transfer the success of his chart-topping singles into a full-length LP. Titled Legendary, the West Coaster’s seventh album comes with fourteen new tracks and appearances from Offset (“Taste,” which should help the album fare well with streaming sales immediately), Gunna, Swae Lee, Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, Blueface and more. Press play below.

Future – Save Me

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After getting 2019 started with The WZRD, Future delivers more music to his fans in the form of his Save Me EP, which sees seven new tracks and zero features. Judging from the immediate response, it sounds like the Atlanta veteran has taken a more emotionally-charged route in the vein of his collaborator homie Drake. See for yourself below.

MoStack – Stacko

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This one was definitely highly-anticipated. Across the pond, London’s MoStack delivers his debut album Stacko, which follows 2017’s High Street Kid project. Features on the 12-track project include peers Fredo, Stormzy, Dave and J Hus (the latter two appear together with MoStack on the track “Stinking Rich.”

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Domani – Time Will Tell

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Truth be told, Domani Harris is definitely showcasing a dope talent of his own, separate from that of his father, T.I. Today, he continues to deliver his own brand of music in the form of Time Will Tell. The project sees fourteen tracks, with contributions from The Olympicks, DaVionne, Lexi Alön and more. Press play below.

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I don’t know how the hell this happened, but the fact that Tee Grizzley managed to get a whole album produced by Timbaland tells me that we need to refocus on the Detroit star and pay attention. Today, we get to check out that collaboration, titled Scriptures, which sees fourteen tracks and additional features from A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie and YNW Melly. Take a listen below.

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