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Big Dese & Confidence drop new single “Melt”

Published

3 months ago

March 14, 2025

Bringing the heat, Big Dese and Confidence return with new single. “Melt” (out now on all DSP’s) is pure boom-bap fire delivered though it’s deceptively smooth beat, turntable cut chorus and lethally humorous punchlines. Added lyrical fuego comes courtesy of fellow Bostonian Oak Lonetree.

Stream / Purchase “Melt”: https://bsr.ffm.to/melt

“Melt” is the second leak from the forthcoming Big Dese and Confidence album Kool Moe Dese to drop on Below System Records. The first leak was “Strike Back” (link below). https://bsr.ffm.to/strikeback

Stream / Purchase “Strike Back”: https://bsr.ffm.to/strikeback

Both with extensive discographies in the game the emcee and producer initially met over two decades ago. Speaking on the genesis of Kool Moe Dese Confidence recalled “I was working on a beat recently and found some old vocals from Dese that were never used. I put the vocals over the beat and sent them over to him. He was feeling it and decided to write new lyrics for it and we just started building from there.” Regarding the album title Dese said “I always like to do a play on words on my name for my album titles. This one had such a classic hip hop feel to it I decided to reference a classic hip hop figure.”

More Info:

https://www.instagram.com/dese100

https://www.instagram.com/thatdudeconfidence

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Kingdom Kome x RUEN see the “Cracks In The Foundation”

Published

3 days ago

May 30, 2025

Rob Ducketts

Hip-Hop Heavyweight Kingdom Kome has just dropped a new single (with accompanying video). “Cracks In the Foundation” (Produced by long-time collaborator RUEN) is a socially conscious dose of jazzy boom-bap. As the emcee states “I was driving through my old neighborhood in Miami and it really had me thinking of the current state of the world today. It got me in an introspective state and I made this message to the youth.”

Listen to “Cracks In The Foundation”: https://youtu.be/Nwp_07pDO6o?si=fb5RTd0wNDK7ZxxQ

Available via streaming platforms now, “Cracks In the Foundation” is the first leak from the Barrel Reserve LP fully produced by RUEN.

Less than a year after the last collaborative LP the duo dropped, Malbec 2 Kingdom Kome reveals “we never stop working on music together. A number of these tracks were recorded while we were preparing Malbec 2 but were better suited for a separate project.”

Following the high-end connoisseur angle, Barrel Reserve is expertly crafted boom-bap for the real hip-hop aficionado. This extends to the album’s guest list, which includes Supreme Cerebral, Recognize Ali, Che Uno, DJ Exes, AjaxLo, Camarah Walleed and Soarse Spoken.

Kingdom Kome is still promoting his other recent LP for 2025 Alchemy II Ein Sof, which was entirely produced by another long-time production collaborator Onaje Jordan (Hometeam).

Stream / Purchase Alchemy II: https://kingdomkome.bandcamp.com/album/alchemy-2-ein-sof

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https://www.instagram.com/kingdomkome