Not gonna lie, my summer was pretttttty basic. But as far as music goes, it was probably one of the dopest yet.
It seemed I was constantly filling my days listening to album after album; new release after new release (shout out to ZANE LOWE’s World Record that really got me onto the live album stream release again; it’s almost like music has regressed back to the old days when we actually appreciated a new song coming out thanks to the music streaming availability).
And music is cool like that; we’ve lived through all these crazy evolutionary eras of pop and jazz and soul and hip-hop. Sometimes it’s just like how are we ever supposed to top *that*? And then a this wave of groundbreaking never-before-heard music gets released and we’re all like “OMG WTF THIS IS THE BEST LOL”
In light of the end of long summer days and warm weather feels, I wanted to give you guys my RIP SUMMER SIXTEEN playlist with all the songs that really stuck with me the past few months (available on Apple Music and soon-to-be Spotify):
- “Skateboard P” – madeintyo
- “Zaddy” – Ty Dolla $ign
- “Savage Mode” – 21 Savage and MetroBoomin
- “30 Hours” – Kanye West
- “Future Swag” – Young Thug
- “No Shopping” – French Montana feat. Drake
- “Go Off” – MIA
- “Hang Me Out to Dry” – Metronomy feat Robyn
- “TOGETHER” – KAYTRANADA feat. AlunaGeorge
- “Body” – Dreezy feat. Jeremih
- “CRZY” – Kehlani
- “E.V.P” – Blood Orange
- “Work For It” – DJ Khaled feat. Big Sean
- “Superlove” – Tinashe
- “sdp interlude” – Travis Scott
- “Boss” – Disclosure
- “My Jam” – Bobby Brackins feat. Zandaya
- “This Girl” – Kungs Music
- “Safari” – J. Balvin feat. Pharrell
- “We Do This Shit Every Night” – MOD Sun feat. Dej Loaf
- “Gold” – Kiiara
- “In Too Deep” – dvsn
- “Blow You Up” Yogi feat. AlunaGeorge
- “Work” Rihanna