I got a proper cussing for having "only" 19 tracks on the last playlist. 😂 Listen, I was trying a 'less is more' ting, and I'm proud of myself for getting a 60-track shortlist down to 19, buuut I hear y'all—more is more. (Sorry, Matt.)
NEXXTING 05 (the best of September 2020) features 30 tracks! Spotify, Apple, and Youtube links below. Bonus: all previous playlists are now available on all 3 streaming platforms.
And if that's not enough, I've launched a Spotify playlist of the great tracks that don't make the final cut for main playlists. Meet NEXXTING (Extended Play) - 49 tracks and counting.
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1 — 🇧🇯 🇿🇦 — Shirazee and Busiswa's "RIGHT THANG" (MV) . Love this split-screen solution to having to shoot in the US and South Africa!
2 — 🇳🇬 — Darey and Patoranking's "Jojo" (MV). And the MV is as 🔥 as you'd imagine. I miss parties. 😢
3 — 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 — Jay Sean and Rishi Rich's "Nakhre" (MV) is legit stuck in my head.
4 — 🇳🇬 🇹🇹 🇯🇲 — The motherland and Caribbean join forces for Del B, Wizkid, Flavour, Kes and Walshy Fire's bop "Consider II". 🙌🏾
5 — 🇹🇹 — 2020 has put quite a damper on the creativity of the musicians typically known for carnival anthems, so Voice's "Dancing Away" (MV) is a pleasant surprise—so good.
"Cya wait fi morning come
Oh gosh, the night too long
Oh gosh, the fight too long
I cya wait fi see the sun"
- Koffee
6 — 🇯🇲 — Living legends Buju Banton and Koffee come thru with timely messages in the remix of Reggae hit "Pressure" (MV).
7 — 🇬🇧 🇯🇲 — Chase & Status samples a Shabba Ranks classic for Drum & Bass banger "Engage" (MV).
8 — 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 — Mick Jenkins's vocals grace Disclosure's House track "Who Knew?" (MV). The MV features a dope dance performance by dancer and actress Mette Towley.
9 — 🇿🇦 — Loxion Deep enlists vocalist Boohle for AmaPiano chune "iJezi'elisha".
10 — 🇿🇦 — More Boohle! This time snatching my soul on "Mama", a Josiah De Disciple (of Amapiano duo JazziDisciples) production .
11 — 🇨🇩 🇧🇪 — Rising star Lous and The Yakuza's "Amigo" (MV).
12 — 🇨🇴 🇺🇸 — ¿Téo?'s "Suplicar".
13 — 🇩🇴 🇮🇹 — Another fave newcomer, YEИDRY's COLORS performance of "Nena".
14 — 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 — Black Thought hops on Liam Bailey's old-school-Reggae-reminiscent "Champion".
15 — 🇳🇬 — I didn't think I could love TOBi's "Made Me Everything" (MV) any more, then I saw the MV. It's the Black joy for me. 😍
16 — 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 — Paul Epworth, ISHMAEL, Vince Staples, and Elle Yaya's "Mars & Venus" (MV). An Electro + Rap masterpiece I appreciate for putting ISHMAEL and Elle Yaya on my radar.
17 — 🇺🇸 — EARTHGANG's remix of Brittany Howard's 2019 "Goat Head".
"Last year, it was Margiela. Baby, this year, it's therapy—couple new priorities..."
- Kojey Radical
18 — 🇬🇧 🇯🇲 🇬🇭 — Che Lingo and Kojey Radical's killed this UK Rap collaboration "Dark Days" (MV). Track and MV are pure art.
19 — 🇬🇧 🇯🇲 🇳🇬 —It's Grime time! Veteran collective Boy Better Know ( Frisco, Skepta, Jammer, JME, and Shorty) are back with "Red Card" (MV). SN: Watching this MV reminded me why JME is my fave. Why is he like this? 😂
20 — 🇬🇧 🇯🇲 🇬🇭 — More roadman and Grime legend tings with D Double E and Kano's "Tell Me A Ting" (MV). Kano NEVER disappoints. Oh, my word. 👑
21 — 🇬🇧 — FLOHIO's dark head-banger "Unveiled" (MV).
22 — 🇩🇿 🇫🇷 — Soolking and Fianso's "Tichy" (MV). Love how raw and real the visuals are in portraying one of France's Manouche communities.
23 — 🇫🇷 🇨🇩 — Dadju's "Amour toxic".
24 — 🇬🇭 🇺🇸 — Amaarae's "FANCY" (MV). The visuals were so not what I was expecting, but I'm. Here. For. It. 😈
25 — 🇺🇸 — Maeta and Buddy's "Teen Scene" (MV). KAYTRANADA productions remain undefeated.
28 — 🇿🇦 — Another soul-stirring, genius composition: Muzi's "The Calling". Every listen, I go into something of a trance around 2:15.
29 — 🇺🇸 — Sángo's Baile Funk-influenced "Kalimba Funk".
30 — 🇳🇬 — Rennaissance Man / my Nigerian breddah Ike Slimster's "Lost Again".
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