Out of My Head: Five Songs I Listened to This Weekend

Chiraq vs. everybody.

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This holiday weekend was a minefield of Drake song leaks and hip-hop message board intrigue, shouts out to the goblins of KanyeToThe and YeezyTalk.

More importantly, Gucci Mane, Jeezy, and Boosie Badazz are outchea dropping full projects within a week of each other, confirming my lifelong suspicion that hip-hop is infinitely generous, more than I could ever possibly deserve. Boosie will perform in New York tomorrow; you can find me at Webster Hall with a drank and my country boy jeans.

Justin Charity is a staff writer for Complex. Follow him @brothernumpsa.

Kez the Dude f/ Post Malone "Who Is White Iverson"

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Released: April 29, 2015

So, I'm a month late in realizing that someone fixed "White Iverson" (which is a pretty meh, Drake-begging record otherwise) by speeding it up and adding fatter bass kicks. So shouts out to Kez the Dude. Finally I can dance to this shit.

Joe Moses f/ RJ "Get Off on Slauson"

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Released: May 4, 2015

RJ bags the Academy Award For Best Quotable with, "East side, west side/Both'll split your head like apartheid," though truly the imaginary organ player is the real MVP here. I haven't yet listened to the rest of Joe Moses' Brackin tape, but "Get Off on Slauson" is an enticing preview.

The Boy Illinois "Sell Again"

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Released: May 18, 2015

While David Drake revels in DGainz's camerawork, I'm just amazed that a rapper and his beat could pair so fatefully well together. I legit can't get the Boy Illinois' growl out of my head. At less than two minutes and with only a single verse, "Sell Again" isn't ideally structured for radioplay, but goddamn if I wouldn't mind hearing it everywhere at all times of night and day.

Gucci Mane "Put Some Wood in Her"

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Released: May 22, 2015

Finally, Gucci Mane joins James Brown, Larry Graham, and George Clinton in the pantheon of catdaddy weirdos who've mastered the art and delivery of blunt, lecherous metaphors. No joke, "Put Some Wood in Her" is, essentially, trap game "Funkentelechy."

GENER8ION f/ M.I.A. "The New International Sound (Pt. II)"

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Released: May 21, 2015

For a song that's only three-and-a-half minutes, "The New International Sound (Pt. II)" takes several odd turns, twists, and bends, especially in the second half, when the bridge goes full-on (post-Madonna) Bond theme. What's M.I.A. got up her sleeve this year? Features aside, is she hinting at a new studio album of her own?

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