Toronto’s XO affiliate Dropxlife dropped an instrumetnal mixtape yesterday called Furthur. Here is a track off it called “Tripxent”, one of my favourites from the tape. It’s reminiscent of those downtempo, droney-feeling sounds you’d come to expect from a Weeknd affilate. Really enjoying the slow, wading music from these guys, and it makes me even prouder to know that they’re representing our hometown right. These beats are hugely inspiring and influential to me. I wish I knew how to get that sound myself!

Grab it already, and throw it on while you commute home from school.

Joe5head - Who Dun it (Adele sample)

This dude needs to blow up soon.

There are very few sad songs in hip-hop. This is one of them. It’s CL Smooth talking of a friend in such a universal way, one we all express when reminiscing over a lost loved one. It was bit before my time when the song released (I was born months after the Mecca and the Soul Brother came out, in 1990) but I remember discovering it from this game when I was 13. Music has a way with sticking exact thoughts of moments from your life every time you listen and relisten. This is a song that does that for me, as I lost a friend right around hearing this track. Turn it up.