Soundtrack your summer road trips, pool parties and barbecues with these exciting 13 releases. Nearly eight years since the release of their beloved debut “Yes Lawd!,” NxWorries — a hip hop/neo-soul superduo made up of rapper Anderson Paak and producer Knxwledge — is returning with “Why Lawd?,” which drops June 14. Preceded by a series of singles dating back to 2022, the full project will feature appearances by Thundercat, Snoop Dogg, H.
E.R., Earl Sweatshirt and others.
The American R&B singer-songwriter — who in recent months has emerged as a powerful voice for Palestinian liberation — is set to release their fourth studio album on June 21. The video for the album’s first single, “Next 2 U,” features an anti-war quote from Palestinian poet Hala Alyan and a troupe of dancers wearing kaffiyehs and dancing in front of Palestinian flags. Are you ready for another Hot Girl Summer? Meg’s third studio, which drops June 28, will be the Houston rapper’s first project released under her independent label Hot Girl.
The album’s second single, “Hiss,” — a spicy diss track aimed at Nicki Minaj, Tory Lanez, and others — at least according to her fans — was her first top-charting song as a solo artist. If you’re looking for something different, check out Hiatus Kaiyote, an Australian four-piece that combines elements of jazz, funk and neo-soul into something completely fresh and engrossing. Their fourth studio album, which arrives June 28, “is a sna.
