The Listening Party

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately?  Bop or Not: “Bongos”- Cardi B feat. Megan Thee Stallion; “Luxury Life”- Busta Rhymes feat. Coi Leray; “Smoking In The Park (Paradise)”- Tone Stith; “IDGAF”- Tee Grizzley feat. Chris Brown, Mariah the Scientist Music News: Blueface and Chrisean new baby; Drake release date for “FATD”; KDot “Element” diss lyrics Album...

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately?  Bop or Not: “Patty Cake”- Quavo feat. Takeoff; “Boyfriend”-Usher; “Jeans”- Jessie Reyez feat. Miguel; “Favourite”- Xavier Omar feat. Elhae Love of My Life: Hip Hop turns 50 years old this year, and the TLP crew recalls a moment/project that made them fall in love with America’s last great art form. Album Review: “Pat...

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately?  Bop or Not: “Jealousy”-Offset ft. Cardi B; “Angel”- Halle; “Mustard”-Jordan Ward ft. 6lack; “Paint The Town Red”- Doja Cat Say It Ain’t Zo: We discuss the alleged charges against Lizzo Album Review: “UTOPIA”- Travis Scott

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop or Not: “New Type”- Summer Walker feat. Childish Gambino; “My Phone Can Die”-Rory, Ari Lennox, and James F.; “Daydreaming”-NxWorries ; “Lipstick Lover”- Janelle Monaé Tig Ole Bitties on the Gram: Janelle has caused a stir 👀with the rollout of her new single/visual, “Lipstick Lover” for an upcoming album. We discu...

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop or Not: “Put It On The Floor”- Lotto; “Turn It Up”- Rico Nasty; “Just Relax”- Lola Brooke; “Bops”- Coi Leray Album Review:  “All For You”- Amaria Earworm: “Blank Face LP”- ScHoolboy Q

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop or Not: “4eva”- KAYTRAMINÉ; “Search and Rescue”- Drake; “Princess Diana”- Ice Spice/ Nicki; “Try Me”- Jorja Smith Damn, Daniel: Before we review him, do we believe him? Apologized for putting his cape around an irrelevant “culture vulture” YouTuber. All just in time for his third album release. Do we accept?  Do w...

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop or Not:   “GLU”- Usher; “What It Is (Block Boy)” feat. Kodak Black; “Body Do”- Chlöe; “Smoke”- Victoria Monét feat. Lucky Daye;  TicketDiaster:  Ticket sales giant, Ticketmaster is in under scrutiny again with accusations of price gouging. This time it’s a Canadian man suing the company over the price of  Drake an...

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop or Not: “How Does It Feel”- Chlöe feat. Chris Brown; “Kant Nobody”- Lil Wayne feat. DMX; “Moonlight”- feat. Kali Uchis; “Out of State”- Finesse2tymes ] \\] Music News: Riri to perform at Oscars; Drake contemplating “graceful” retirement in interview; Quavo claims there will be no more “Migos” after Take’s death an...

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop or Not: “Two Tens”- Cordae feat. Anderson Paak; “Pray It Away”- Chloë; “Do You Like Me”-Daniel Caesar; “Sucka or Sum”- Rae Sremmund New Year, New Music: 2023 is here and the TLP crew gives a quick overview of some of the biggest artists scheduled to release projects this year. EP Review: “Like..?”- Ice Spice

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop or Not: “Ron Artest”- Babyface Ray feat. 42 Dugg; “Let Me Go”-Daniel Caesar; “Fact”-Ghostluvme feat. Lil Uzi Vert; “Cuff It (Wetter Remix)”-Beyoncé  Don’t do it for the Gram: Like always, the Grammys leave us dumbfounded with the obvious snubs and stupid acceptance speeches. We give our post-Grammy commentary. Ear...

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop or Not: “ Shittin’ Me”- A$AP Rocky; “FTCU”- Latto, Glorilla, Gangsta Boo; “One Mic, One Gun”-Nas & 21 Savage; “Lil Mama”- 2Rare Spotify Wronged: Your favorite music stalker once again reveals how much media you consumed. Let’s share! Album Review: “HEROES & VILLAINS”- Metro Boomin

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop or Not: Pharrell and Travis Scott “Down in ATL”; Saweetie “Don’t Say Nothing”; Don Toliver “Do it Right”; Chance the Rapper and King Promise “Yah Know” Grammy Noms: How many did Beyoncé get, and how many did your fave not get all? Earworm: “Rose In The Dark” Cleo Sol Album Review: “Feed The Streets 3” Roddy Ricch

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop or Not: “Crazy For Me”- Coco Jones; “Ice Spice”- NLE Choppa; “Ballin”- A Boogie Wit da Hoodie; “ Say You Want Me”- Masego Fluorescent Beige: Aubrey doing the most, once again.🙄 Album Review: “Her Loss”- Drake and 21 Savage Afterparty: What you watching?

October 26, 2022 Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop or Not: “Matinee”- Smino; “Where I Go”- NxWorries & Paak (feat HER); “ICU”- Coco Jones; “Take Shots”-A Boogie Wit da Hoodie (feat. Loquacious Leprechaun) Earworm: “Learn 2 Swim”- redveil Album Review: “Girls Night Out”- Babyface Afterparty: What you watching nigga?

October 9, 2022 Thanks to our guest,Travis! check out is YouTube Candid at the Movies . Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop or Not: “Telfy”- Maiya The Don; “What Kinda”- Lebra Jolie; “Bulletproof Maybach”- DDG feat. Offset; “Bittersweet Goodbyes”- Joyce Wrice Earworm w/ Travis: “Extension Level Event: The Final World Front”- Busta Rhymes Album Revie...

Sept 25, 2022 Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop or Not: “Tomorrow 2”- Glorilla feat. Cardi B; “Dark Hearted”- Freddie Gibbs; “Nothing Even Matters”- SiR; “Fantasy”- DreamDoll feat. Kashdoll Entangled Leprechaun: We recap the dust up between Tory Lanez and August Alsina. Earworm: “aijuswanaseing” Musiq Soulchild Afterparty: SEASON 2 of Abbott debut...

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop or Not: “Alone”- YG; “That Was Me”- Russ; “FNF (Remix)”- Glorilla feat.  JT and Latto; “Outside”- Bryson Tiller Plenty of Hits: We review Ari Lennox’s sophomore effort, “age/sex/location”. Rap $hit Recap:  Spoilers for season 1….. You had plenty of time.

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop or Not: “Never Sleep”- NAV feat. Travis Scott & Lil Baby; “Us vs. Them”- Quavo & Takeoff feat. Gucci Mane; “All On Me”- Benjamin A.D; “If I Get Caught”- dvsn Renaissance: Queen Bey IS THE MUSIC NEWS, ALBUM REVIEW, EARWORM, AND ANYTHING ELSE YOU NEED HER TO BE! Afterparty: We review the first 3 episodes of...

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop Or Not: “Hot Shit”- Cardi B. feat. Lil Durk and Ye; “Good Love”- City Girls feat. Usher; “Cartier”- Muni Long; “Menace”-Lloyd Banks feat. Conway Crowded House: So with the recent effort from Drake and the upcoming Beyoncé album, House Music is being thrust back into the mainstream. Some embrace it’s re-emergence,...

Listens Lately : What have you been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop Or Not : “Cash In Cash Out”-Pharrell, 21 Savage, and Tyler, The Creator; “Baby Boo”- Muni Long feat. Saweetie; “Do What I Want”- Kid Cudi; “Never Gonna Be Alone”- Jacob Collier feat. Lizzy McAlpine and  John Mayer Who Made This List? : Rolling Stone released their 200 Best Hip Hop Albums of All Time List. We exam...

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with you listens lately? Bop or Not: “I Like You”, Post Malone feat. Doja Cat; “Mind Your Business”, Lakeyah feat. Latto; “Bad Idea”, Arin Ray feat. Blxst; “No Panties”, KenTheMan “MID”Year Review : Six months in, and we TLP give our takes on some of the more notable music released thus far. Album Review: “Hypnos”-Ravyn Lenae

Listens Lately: What have you been keeping in rotation with you listens lately? Bop or Not: “Say Yea”-Jacquees; “Hotel Lobby (Unc and Phew)”- Quavo and Takeoff; “Wraith”-Vic Mensa, Chance The Rapper, and Smoko Ono; “G.O.A.T”-The distorted voice formally known as Notorious B.I.G feat. Ty Dollar Sign and Bella Alubo Album Review : “Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers” - Kendrick Lamar  Afterparty : Any...

Listens Lately: What have you’ve been keeping in rotation with your listens lately? Bop Or Not: “Leave You Alone”-Ella Mai; “Warm Embrace”-Chris Brown; “Ice Cream”-Freddie Gibbs feat. Rick Ross; “Up At Night”- Kehlani feat. Justin Beiber Album Review: “Marigold”- Alex Isley and Jack Dine Album Review: “D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape” Dreamville Afterparty: What we been watching and a season recap...

Listen Lately: What have y’all been listening to here recently? Bop Or Not:  “Persuasive”- Doechii; “Fair”- Normani; “Blick Blick”- Coi Leray feat. Nicki Minaj; “Sometimes”- Juice WRLD Welcome Doechii: Newset TDE signee, Doechii has the distinction of being the label’s first female emcee. What do we know about her? Here’s what we know… Album Review: “Candydrip”-Lucky Daye Afterparty: What have you...

Listens Lately: What have you been spinning here lately? Bop or Not: “Hear Me Clearly”, Pusha T; “Head High”,  Morray feat. Cordae; “Sometimes”, Blxst feat. Zacari Ye-Mation: The Game and Ye debut the controversial visual for “EAZY”. Many have claimed the Ye has gone to far, what say you? Also, Jack Harlow as Woody Harrelson will be coming to a theater near you. Album Review: “Black Radio III” Rob...