JULY 2020
Welcome to the Monthly post, where I lay out everything you may have missed over the past 30 or so days, name an Album of the Month, a Song of the Month, and give a little “state of the union”. Come look at some other Monthly Posts to catch up on previous months. Thank all of you for reading, and happy listening!
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Welcome, ladies and gentleman, to the very late and overdue Monthly post for the month of July! July was a month marked, personally, by more exhaustion and procrastination than ever. It’s not at all that I don’t want to be doing this stuff, Tha Soup Dude’s Kitchen is such a hugely satisfying part of my life that I would never trade in, BUT, what with the job being as demanding as it is nowadays (and how absolutely tiring mentally it has become) and an increased want to get back into other time-sinks like video games and reading, my schedule feels perpetually full. I can’t even believe it’s fucking August that time has just evaporated… I guess it’s good that this year tries to end itself as quickly as possible cause, bruh, 2020 has been a clusterfuck sans-music.
Speaking of music, you know, the reason why we’re all here, July came with so much music that I could hear music playing in my head even when nothing was happening. It was a massive undertaking going through the dozens upon dozens of albums, similar numbers of singles, and compiling my thoughts. Pop Smoke, Westside Gunn, SahBabii, KYLE, Curren$y & Harry Fraud, Blu & Exile, and so many more dropped quality projects, and other artists like J. Cole represented hard for the loose single category. Y’all need to get on this new music, use the tools and links provided here to get caught up on the things that dropped, it’s worth it.
I mentioned in it my last Fix, but I’ll also state it here that I’m looking to redo the way I talk about the singles and albums, and possibly even a different way to discuss releases that come from Bandcamp. I’m seeing that my Weekly Fixes can get very long whenever a couple extra singles or a lot of Bandcamp projects come out in the same week, and not only do I feel like that discourages people from reading the entirety of the post, but I also feel like it' can be overwhelming to listen to all of that music that you’re reading about. So maybe by breaking it up into a Singles, Bandcamp, and traditional releases posts, I can encourage more actual listening of the music, which is what I’m here for. Look out for something a little different starting next week.
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J. Cole
Lion King on Ice
Spotify/YouTube/Apple Music
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WEEKLY FIXES
Weekly Fix #27 ('20) & Week #27 ('20) Playlists (with Westside Gunn’s Flygod is an Awesome God 2 and Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon)
Weekly Fix #28 ('20) & Week #28 ('20) Playlists (with Che Noir & Apollo Brown’s …As God Intended and SahBabii’s Barnacles)
Weekly Fix #29 ('20) & Week #29 ('20) Playlists (with Blu & Exile’s Miles and KYLE’s See You When I am Famous!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Weekly Fix #30 ('20) & Week #30 ('20) Playlists (with Curren$y & Harry Fraud’s The OutRunners and Boldy James & Sterling Toles’ Manger on McNichols)
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ART APPRECIATIONS
Week #27 ('20) Art Appreciation (Featuring work from Huey P. & Manuel "Cep" Concepcion)
Week #28 ('20) Art Appreciation (Featuring work from ozy_worldly & Kei Imazu)
Week #29 ('20) Art Appreciation (Featuring work from Bobbito Ross & No Paradigms)
Week #30 ('20) Art Appreciation (Featuring work from Zach Sisk & Wesley Taylor)
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As for what we have coming in terms of releases, I think you guys will be excited. All of the Griselda artists, including the newest members of the collective, will be dropping within the next month or two. We have Boldy James and Westside Gunn confirmed for August, Conway mid-September, and the others in the near future (sooner rather than later I hope). I’m also looking forward to new projects from Bodega Bamz and Ransom, as well as ANOTHER project from Flee Lord and Mephux (the dude seems to be hell-bent on having a project come out every month this year). Keep up with all of this, and many more, over on my Upcoming Heat page. I try to update this page as often as I can with the most relevant and confirmed information I can. Some stuff slips through the cracks and I get bamboozled every once in a while, but a vast majority is gospel.
For those of you new to the Soup, let’s get you up to speed on the Socials. First is the Twitter, @tha_soup_dude, my favorite platform to engage with (and get my memes from), where you can follow and be the most up to date on what goes on around here. I’m finding that my Instagram, @thasoupdude, is where my biggest engagements come from. I update my story with my new posts and occasionally post there on the weekends, but I don’t like the format a much as Twitter if I’m being real. Then we have Facebook, where all of this madness started back in the day, where I have both my Official Tha Soup Dude’s Kitchen Page, as well as the unofficial birthplace of TSDK, Drake’s Hidden Children. This isn’t necessarily a “social” persay, but a very valuable tool for keeping up with music (besides here on TSDK of course, which is THE most valuable) is a website called RateYourMusic. More than anything it’s a music cataloging site, but you can also post reviews and rate stuff ig you so choose. I use it myself to dig back into smaller artists discographies and find connections between people. Tap into all of these resources to keep up to date with both me and music at large.
Well, that’s that, July in a nutshell. Like I said, look for some changes in the near future in the way I present a lot of new music coming out. I hope all of you have a better August now that this heat is starting to subside, and I hope everyone is in good health (and stays in good health, shit is wild out there). Peace.
