Chance The Rapper's soulful, positive and formidable style is back. With a sound similar to "Juke Juke" and "Juice," Chance entertains us with a new song titled, "Angels". The track was announced and performed live last night on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert featuring Saba, Lido, Peter Cottontale, Nate Fox and Donnie Trumpet for The Social Experiment. On Colbert, Chance dropped a tidbit of information to radio station Hot 97 that he was making music with the comedian and host that will drop "soon." For now, enjoy "Angels" by Chance The Rapper below and download it for free on iTunes.
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Leather Corduroys featuring Vic Mensa - HAVE U EVA /
Savemoney affiliates have been very busy of late. Towkio released his ".WAV Theory" project a few weeks ago, Chance The Rapper is hard at work with Donnie Trumpet on his SURF album, and Vic Mensa recently signed a deal with Roc Nation. News today comes from Leather Corduroys as the creative duo, KAMI and Joey Purp, release a song with Vic Mensa titled "HAVE U EVA". The new track will have your head banging with its hitting bass and pondering many questions about the hard-knock life. Give it a listen below and a play at this weekend's party for excitement.
Kanye West-Wolves f. Vic Mensa and Sia /
In a world where it means everything to be unique and different, people still criticize artists that push boundaries and use music as a mode of expression, regardless of what form that expression takes on. Kanye’s new drop, “Wolves” which features verses from both Chicago native and SaveMoney affiliate Vic Mensa as well as Sia was released yesterday in his adidas Originals Yeezy Season 1 promotional video. The song itself and its release are both examples of his artistic ability as an ode to his development and ambition to create something different. The stark contrast between the almost church-like accents of Sia’s melodic tone and verse, and the distorted auto-tune covering up both Kanye and Vic’s voices creates a sound that is directly representative of the lost and found nature of love that they are singing about. The composition of this lonely ballad is just as two-sided as it’s content: love is distorted and complicated and indecisive. Vic Mensa’s experimentation here shows that he understands the artistry behind the song, and it’s refreshing. Whether he was instructed by Kanye or not, his versatility and his obvious expansion of the spectrum of his own sound is a quality that doesn’t exist popularly in today’s commercialized music culture.
It’s easy for people to hear auto-tune and justify it as another 808s, or hear a grimy, overproduced drum line and think Yeezus. It’s harder for people to accept it for what it is. Kanye has no tenure here, he isn’t and won’t be perfect, but Kanye has earned our appreciation and respect for this song, along with the artists therein featured. Check it out featured below beginning at 8:30, and craft your own opinion.
Get Involved /
While Vic and Kaytranada have kept it poppin’ with their latest two drops, we are excited to hear from the quieter Savemoney counterpart, Towkio, in his newest track: “Involved Ft. Vic Mensa (Prod. Kaytranada)”. Featuring also an involuntary head bob upon each listen, this song gives me some spring vibes that unfortunately don’t match the iced out weather here in D.C., or anywhere on the east coast for that matter. Hopefully this is the first track of a few more to be released early from Towkio’s “.wav Theory” which has been continued to be pushed back until April. Keep an eye out for upcoming information on Vic and Kaytra as well, and be sure to show the track some love below.