Infinite Shuffle #17: No Body No Crime

What’s up Shufflers? It’s almost time for Christmas and I haven’t bought any presents for anyone… shit. I usually have Youtube links, but Google is down right now so I could only squeeze a few in. Sorry.

Let’s get to it!

Artist of the week: Pi’erre Bourne

Whenever you hear the words “YO PI’ERRE YOU WANNA COME OUT HERE” you know you about to hear a BANGER. Pi’erre Bourne makes some of the catchiest beats out there. Whenever a rapper teams up with Pi’erre, he usually gets the best out of them.

Bourne can go from working with Playboi Carti on a number of tracks including the smash hit “Magnolia” to making an ELITE project with Young Nudy. Easily one of the best producers out. He does more than just produce, however. Today, I’m here today to talk about his solo artist work and one of my favorite projects of the last few years.

Project of the week: The Life Of Pi’erre 4

I might play this project every day. 50 minutes of Pi’erre sliding on his own beats. But what I want to talk about here are the transitions. Each song transitions to the other perfectly making for a great chilling and listening experience. I love it. The hooks are catchy as HELL too. This is my go-to project when I’m trying to write stuff, chill or get creative for some reason.

If you like those original 16 songs, he added 15 more songs in the deluxe version this year.

Songs of the week!

Sueco - PRIMADONA

You might know Sueco from his viral song “Fast”, and he’s been following that up well in my opinion. My favorite new song from him is ‘PRIMADONA’, where Sueco flows over a piano hip-hop beat. Those are my favorite style of hip-hop beats, he sounds way different on this song than on “Fast” and I think I prefer this style from him, to be honest.

The song is also too short in my opinion.

Chance The Rapper - The Return

After releasing “The Big Day”, we roasted the shit out of Chance The Rapper because of the level of disappointment in the album. I’m not even trying to be dramatic, but that album is so hard to listen to. “The Big Day” was supposed to be a moment where we look at Chance’s 8 years in the industry and celebrate all he’s achieved. Instead, we got 22 tracks that made us question everything.

Anyway, “The Return” is kind of a return to form for Chance. It seems like he’s trying to get back to what made an entire generation fall in love with him. A smooth beat that reminds us of the good old days in high school playing “Acid Rap” in the Subaru.

Jordan Solomon - Permanent Mood

I absolutely love this beat man.

Jordan Solomon will probably be an artist of the week candidate whenever he drops a project, but for now, we will just enjoy his single releases and snippets. The Toronto rapper has a ton of potential and should be one that you keep your eye on.

Juicy J feat. Logic - 1995

Logic retired from rap earlier this year, but he came back to feature on 2 songs on Juicy J’s new album. Logic and Juicy J work so well together and his retirement hasn’t changed that chemistry one bit. The transition from Logic to Juicy J on this song is like hitting caps lock with Juicy J goes “WHIPPIN' THROUGH NORTH MEMPHIS BACK IN 1995. SCREAMIN', "MAFIA!" HAD MY CITY HYPNOTIZED”

Carefree Logic is the best Logic in my opinion. Glad to see that he’s in a better place mentally.

Pritty - Cougar

I don’t know how I found this song, but Spotify brought me some heat and I just wanted to share it with y’all.

Sample of the Week: Snowy White - Midnight Blues

Meek Mill hops on some of the best samples around and DC4 is no different. Producer Dolla Bill Kidz decided to take Midnight Blues and sample the first part of the song.

I absolutely love the guitar on this song. That paired with Meek Mill’s powerful lyrics and message made it one of the more complete songs of DreamChasers 4. It’s really been 4 years since this project came out? Damn.

That’s all from me this week!

Oh, one more thing. I HAVE A PODCAST NOW! In addition to the newsletter, I’ll also be interviewing cool people and answering mailbag questions periodically. The Itunes link is under review but the Spotify link is up so go follow it if you want. When it launches (2021), I’ll put the recent podcast episodes at the bottom of these newsletters because I don’t want to make a separate substack for it.