Song of the Day: 8/29/14 - Lil Herb ft. Common & Chance the Rapper - Fight or Flight (Remix)

To close out this week, Chi-town's own Lil Herb connects with veteran Common and rising star Chance the Rapper, both Chicago natives as well, to remix Herb's song "Fight or Flight", off his mixtape Welcome to Fazoland, which can be found here.

While Herb is usually known for being a part of Chicago's "drill" scene, a style of rap made popular by artists like Chief Keef, Lil Durk and Fredo Santana, and for featuring on Nicki Minaj's song "Chiraq", which was obviously inspired by this sound, this one finds him going over something way more soulful, and he still manages to sound right at home on this beat, as do the featured MCs on here. All in all, it's a dope song

You can find it here.

Song of the Day: 8/28/14 - Problem ft. Childish Gambino - Dollaz & Sense (Freestyle)

Here's a song that dropped last night after I posted yesterday's Song of the Day. This one features the West Coast's own Problem and multi-talented Childish Gambino rocking over DJ Quik's classic "Dollaz & Sense" instrumental. This one comes from Problem's mixtape, 354 Liftoff, which dropped shortly after this did, and can be downloaded here. Both rappers do their thing on it, but Gambino's verse here takes the cake, per usual. You can check out this version here, and if you like the beat to this, check out Quik's original here. It's a highly underrated song, so I recommend that you do so if you like that classic west coast sound.

Song of the Day: 8/27/14 - Redman - Bud Like You (Good Kisser Remix)

Today's pick for Song of the Day comes from Brick City's finest, Redman. Known for his wild flow and humorous lyrics, largely pertaining to smoking weed (so much so he is known as one of the founding fathers of what we call "weed rap"), he brings his personality to the forefront as he repurposes Usher's new single "Good Kisser" into an ode to his favorite pastime. If you know Redman's music, you can pretty much figure out the result from there.

Watch the video above to check it out, and look out for his mixtape "Muddy Waters 2" coming soon.

Song of the Day: 8/26/14 - Yelawolf - Primus Freestyle

Today's Song of the Day wasn't an easy call (easier than yesterday though, with Prince beating out names like Eminem, P. Reign ft. Drake, and others). However, my pick for today comes from southern rapper Yelawolf. The song features him utilizing his signature lyrical, Southern fried flow reminiscent of past projects of his such as Radioactive and his classic mixtape Trunk Muzik, over some rockin' Primus instrumentals. Catfish Billy always sounds right at home over these types of beats, so this is definitely a match made in heaven. This is a definite banger, and a must for fans of both artists.

You can check out the song here.

Song of the Day: 8/25/14 - Prince - Clouds

Since this is my first post on here I suppose I'll tell you how the setup of this blog is going to work: Each Monday through Friday I'll post my favorite song that was released during the respective day. On Saturday I'll review an album/mixtape/EP that was released during the week (or a throwback project if nothing dropped), and then on Sunday I'll do something else. (Consider it a wild card day.)

That said, here's the very first Song of the Day.  This is off of the legendary Prince's newly announced album Art Official Age (well, one of the two albums he's dropping on September 30th, the other being called Plectrum Electrum).  The sensual mid-tempo groove is always a welcomed sound from the Purple One, and is a call back to his music in the late 80s and early 90s. If this song is any indication, at least one of these two albums will be great.

You can check out the song here.

UPDATE: Alternate link here.