As much as people may not want to admit it but Florida has one of the strongest music scenes in the country. The fact that the Sunshine State produced a large mass of talent in a short amount of time defines what fast-paced nature that is brewing in the region that's putting out some of the versatile music in today's time. When most folks pay attention to Florida's scene, a lot of the traffic moves more towards the borders of Miami but the outskirts and smaller cities are playing major roles into cultivating the state's sound as well.
Read MoreTexas is off to a scorching start with the amount of talent that's coming out of the Lone Star State. As cities such as Austin and Houston have been making headway with talent that's making a huge influence on the national forefront, but Dallas is shifting the modern perception of Texas and how it's received to the public. With artists such as Spluge, Lil 2z, Yella Beezy, Molly Brazy, and more, it's been showing the scene has been on the bubble, but Emotional Xan is one of the artists that's emerging on the national scene that's carving his lane.
Read MoreThe DC, Maryland, and Virginia scene has solidified itself as one of the hardest one working regions when it comes to new and emerging music, and one of the hardest working artists in that area that's been making a name for himself is Maryland's own, Black Zheep DZ. The laid-back rapper takes more of a rambunctious route in his new material following the successful releases of his previous videos, "Shoefly" and "No Pad". Going off the rails of his normal sound, Zheep gets fully in his rebellious bag with the off-the-wall release of his new single, "FXCK 12 (X-PAC)".
Read MoreJPEG MAFIA recently dropped his latest single, “Puff Daddy.” If you’re not familiar with JPEG, to sum up his sound in short, imagine running an atonal but syncopated beat through a politically-charged paper shredder, and then every over-and-done trope in current hip-hop being forcibly shoved to the middle of this soundscape to be taunted, touted, and discarded by an aggressive, confrontational, and skillful MC. JPEG, who self-produces the majority of his work, is quite a jack of all trades in hip-hop, and it shows heavily in this single.
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