The massively anticipated new single (clean version only) from the comeback king who almost never was, 2 Chainz, featuring ‘Ye. Trap hats, pitched snare rolls, barbaric bass, operatic OTT’ness and plenty skeet skeet – it’s all you’d want for your birthday.

Chainz’ solo Based on a T.R.U. Story drops August 14th and G.O.O.D. Music’s Cruel Summer is now expected September 4th.

Now streaming in it’s 6 track entirety across 6 kind uploads on YouTube (run through the playlist above). Thank you Hudson, thank you Lunice, thank you Allah.

Out now on Warp x Lucky Me, buy it and support two of the best in their field working in contemporary music today.

The beautiful Delilah‘s new album is now available to stream in full. From The Roots Up will be the North London singer/songwriter’s debut and is released through Atlantic Records on July 30th. Thankfully we’ve come to expect more of her than the average label vehicle for an alt-pop excuse, as through a solidly produced string of tracks over the last year (most recently a mindblowing Minnie-Ripperton-by-way-of-the-Weeknd cover of ‘Inside My Love‘) she’s proven a level of artistic integrity that’s been refreshing. Combining a few alternative R&B and leftfield electronic flourishes through-out and that smouldering vocal bristling over every climactic ripple, press play below, it’s definitely one of the best mainstream releases of the Summer (nights).

Stunning use of overlapping drones and progressive half-time on this sunk, latest shuffler from he who is Jamie XX, finally available in full for everyone’s aural pleasuring. Holly Miranda is a singer/songwriter also signed to XL and fans may have caught this remix of her record ‘Slow Burn Treason‘ via Jamie’s BBC Essential Mix from last year. The edit really soars as editor fills nooks of the track with some light cacophony, yet it still feels characteristically ‘tropical’ – this time in some distant bazaar-experiencing-a-sandstorm kind of way. It has us wondering what curve-balls Jamie has coming up for Co-Exist and how precocious he’ll get with the sound despite their prototypical but pretty first single ‘Angels‘.

Update: We’ve got word that while Jamie originally bootlegged Pangea ‘Bear Witness’ with Holly Miranda’s ‘Slow Burn Treason’ – he never finished it, Dylan God did.

Adult Swim continue their Singles Series with their stellar chill-hop pairing between two Californian sofa kings, Fly-Lo and Earl Sweatshirt. It also features some kook calling himself Captain Murphy after the Sealab 2021 character (rumours persist of him being an auto-tuned Earl or Tyler). Whilst this won’t be on there, expect Lotus’ deeply anticipated third album Until The Quiet Comes to make a loud noise October 2nd.

Marking the one year anniversary of her untimely passing is a rare previously unheard Amy Winehouse song titled ‘Jazz N’ Blues’. It’s not clear when this was recorded (sounds like Frank era material to me) or where it came from but either way, fans of the late singer will be happy it found its way out.

The new mid-tempo is another reminder of what was lost on July 23rd 2011 – she was not only a consummate vocalist, but also a songwriter for a generation; Like many of her songs ‘Jazz N’ Blues’ features unmistakable Winehouse London-isms – “I cross my fingers at the cash machine / as I check my balance / I kiss the screen / I love it when it says I got the means / to go to Miss Sixty and pick up my new jeans”.

With new material leaks few and far between, it’s another one from the mask of Aaron Jerome. A pretty blithe, exotic affair as kalimbas, texture and sub basscapades melt into one another and whilst it would be nice to get some vocal’ed up paraphernalia soon, you can sense SBTRKT is warming us up for something right now.

Well then. British Hip-Hop mixtape of the year so far? Few have brought this much style, dripping swagu, in a very long time. That leaves us with a strong contender in the third official release from an outfit at the very forefront of our changing underground scene. The Gang have a greater sense of glazed bullseye in wanting to lay down the Piff universe and wavey sonic direction on Plantlife; opting for a streamlined thirteen tracks fashioned for maximum vibrations. Whilst their previous work had raised all the right eyebrows from i-D Mag to A$AP Rocky (recently admitting to being an avid listener), the Rap collective were still waking and baking. But this collection sees them firmly on their way to hot boxing themselves retarded.

The exceptionally refrigerated soundbed built by a number of cold hands is again feeding on the group’s ‘Pizzy’ ethos. Heavily indebted to 808 culture and 130-140bpm lifestyles, with a pinch of Grime binary and skewered G-Funk, underpinned with chilled digital Soul and only the faintest nods to sample work: the assemblage on Plantlife is both cohesive, textually aware and emblematic of a next wave Brit twist on the Cloud Rap adage.

Rhymes themselves from the seven front men Young Skout, Don Silk, Phaze One, Super Dertie, Prince Bam, Skits and J Rells are often riddle-like with that licked-off-one’s-face syllable tripping, but the marijuana infatuated topical range isn’t necessarily limited. It’s actually very focussed – on celebration, decadence and other universal, recreational themes that with up-to-the-second slang feel authentic in their agenda to spread some sort of mystical mischief.

Whilst the free download below has even been selected as 1Xtra’s mixtape of the week, right now, it’s really not hard to see why Pizzy’s cult following is becoming more apparent.

Heads up those who caught this on our 22Tracks update last week. Bulging bass kicks punched with ominous, distant percs and crushed with icebox vox distortion – you can almost see Abel Tesfaye smiling in the back of the mist at the influence he’s had on a generation of now daring upcomers. ‘Tell Me’ however, is produced startlingly by Sir Berus and rode with hormonal steez from KC of South East London collective Last Night in Paris. With other members like Rainy Milo, Joshua Collard, Tara Carosielli, Nova Dreamz and Flowzart all making themselves heard right now, LNiP continue advancing in the local scene. Keep keeping in mind the majority of these guys average around 17 years young… yeah.

As summer slowly begins to creep up on London, Storm Queen (Morgan Geist) throws down a new cut-throat House bubbler with promises to make you sweat at the dance, while slyly cutting shade at an ex. ‘Let’s Make Mistakes’ is a full bodied anthem of disenchanted romance driven by a roaring bassline, and carried by singer Damon Scott’s soulful vocals and nothing-to-lose sentiments.

‘Let’s Make Mistakes’ is out now.