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This guy’s music is haunting and beautiful. This track’s a strong introduction, almost an anthem to the rest of his tunes, which cross genres and reveal a raw, talented artist in the making.

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Gabriel Black is a songwriter, producer and artist from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, now in Los Angeles.

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Gabriel, who hasn’t revealed his face yet (instead using his drawings to represent himself), makes his music in his bedroom and has racked up millions of streams in the last year. Check out his beautiful life EP immediately.

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A modern day Jurassic 5 that calls themselves “the hardest working boy band in the world” with deep hip hop and creative roots? Yes please.

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BROCKHAMPTON is a musical and artistic group formed in San Marcos, Texas, in 2015 and currently based in California. The group has 6 vocalists, 3 producers, graphic designer, photographer, web designer, VFX engineer and manager.

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These guys have been rapidly releasing music, with multiple tracks flying past 30M+ streams, and they just signed a record deal.

❤️ LOVE ❤️
Almost a love ballad, the guitar licks here are perfect against the smooth beats. My wife just busted out dancing when I put this on.

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Goody Grace is a singer songwriter and rapper from Manitoba, Canada. Jesse Rutherford is a singer songwriter from Newbury Park, California (and the lead singer of The Neighborhood).

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Mentored by Cisco Adler, Goody has exploded onto the scene. His collab with Gnash, That One Song, crossed 10M streams, and his recent EP Infinite racked up more than 20M streams.

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It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what Baby FuzZ is, in that he’s so many things – indie rock, glam pop, and soul-crushing ballads. Amos Lee? Bon Iver? No… he’s singular.

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Baby FuzZ (aka Sterling Fox) is a supremely talented young artist from Montreal, Canada.

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Criminally unknown, although his last release as Baby FuzZ, called Cig, did cross 200k+ streams. I also highly recommend digging through his Sterling Fox tracks.

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I don’t usually share such well known artists, but Scott just dropped what I think is his best album, ASTROWORLD, and this is my favorite track.

🤘🏼 WHO & WHERE 🤘🏼
Travis Scott (real name Jacques Berman Webster II) is a rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer from outside Houston, Texas.

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Scott has original tracks pushing 500M+ streams on Spotify, and has produced for or been featured by nearly every top hip-hop artist on the planet. 

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The 90’s era vocal samples are so nostalgic it hurts so good, and this beautiful track is a great intro into Matty, who just released some solo work.

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Matty Tavares is an artist/producer from Toronto, Canada.

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Matty’s well known for his work in BADBADNOTGOOD, a jazz project with deep hip-hop tendencies and numerous high profile collaborations – Tyler The Creator, Frank Ocean, Ghostface Killah and lots more.

❤️ LOVE ❤️
Bluesy vibes going on here in what is a really strong intro into an artist who’s been putting out really great stuff for over a year.

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Shraban is a 20 year old artist/producer from Montreal, Canada.

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A few months back Shraban dropped slow burner I Ain't No Good, to 100k+ streams, but in general this dude is way too unknown for the quality he's putting out.

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For me, YBN Cordae is a true next-gen throwback to the 90’s rap I have loved since I was a teenager.

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YBN Cordae (aka Cordae Dunston) is a 20 year old rapper from Maryland, now in Los Angeles. He’s a member of the viral collective YBN (hence the moniker).

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YBN is a group of gamers who met online, freestyled while they played, and following a viral hit from YBN Nahmir (150M+ Youtube views alone), Cordae’s follow up has launched him directly into the spotlight. 

❤️ LOVE ❤️
Kind of the perfect debut track, two beautiful performances that fit together seamlessly.

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Loladre (aka Laura Dreyfuss) is a singer songwriter, actress, and Broadway star from New Jersey, now living in Los Angeles.

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Best known as as Madison McCarthy on FOX's Glee and roles in Tony-winning Once, Grammy-snatching Dear Evan Hansen, an Netflix's upcoming The Politician (w Gweneth Paltrow), she's basically a polymath badass. 

❤️ LOVE ❤️
This track has no qualms about itself. Pop-reggae beat, uplifting message, backed up with some party-ready chants.

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Elley Duhé is singer songwriter from Dauphin Island, Alabama, now living in Los Angeles.

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Elley kind of broke out with Millennium (2M streams & Youtube views), and just dropped huge single with Zedd called Happy Now, all of which has made her one of today's hottest pop newcomers. 

❤️ LOVE ❤️
If you’ve been around a while you’ll know I’m a sucker for these nerdy-rap lyrical jugglers. Love this beat too.

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Atlas (aka Patrick Kelly) is a rapper and musician from Terre Haute, Indiana.

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Atlas has a sizable Spotify following, with a handful of tracks will above 1.5M streams.

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Sexy rhythmic twitches and electrifying guitar riffs, this track is full of production mastery.

🤘🏼 WHO & WHERE 🤘🏼
Ben Khan is a producer from London, England.

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Khan’s true following is on Spotify, where a few of his tracks are well over 3M streams.

❤️ LOVE ❤️
Savage banger alert, glitchy as all hell and frankly unstoppable. Some of the turns in this track are so tight they’d flip cars.

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ilo ilo is a production duo that popped up earlier this year with almost no context or details about how they are.

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After 8 months of Instagram teases, the duo dropped wait (must listen) and racked up 1M+ streams across platforms.

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A quirky, tight little project from a mysterious artist and his friend Ellen that has me super pumped for more.

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Yù Yī is apparently a project outlining the story of a little astronaut who goes by the name of Mister Hugo. Whomever is behind it is from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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About 150k+ streams for this little jam in about 3 weeks, the only track we have so far. Like I said, very curious for more.

❤️ LOVE ❤️
This track, apparently a bit of a throwaway side effort by NAUUDA, is undeniably infectious and cut up perfectly.

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NAUUDA (Jakob Eines and Alex-André Aanonsen) are an electronic duo from Southern Norway.

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These two seems to release a new cut every few months, to about 50-100k streams around the world. This track isn't on Spotify, but they have a bunch of tunes there to check out.

❤️ LOVE ❤️
Guitar licks, crispy as f*ck beats. What more could you ask for on a Friday?

🤘🏼 WHO & WHERE 🤘🏼
Bleta “Bebe” Rexha is a singer, songwriter, and record producer from Brooklyn, NY. Quavious Keyate Marshall, known professionally as Quavo, is a rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer from Lawrenceville, GA.

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Bebe is a straight up monster songwriter. She wrote The Monster, yeah the Eminem / Rhianna track. She's written for basically everyone, and 28m followers on Spotify.

❤️ LOVE ❤️
This is one of those early tracks that suggests an artist is destined to be a household name.

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COTIS is an 18 year old pop/rap artist from Victoria, British Columbia.

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In a month, his first single Phone Light Up did 1.5M streams on Spotify, and the track we share now is basically breaking music blogger's minds.

❤️ LOVE ❤️
Goosebumps. This type of song is timeless, but incredibly hard to pull off with this level of perfection. On repeat, all day.

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James is a singer songwriter from South London, UK.

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James is a special voice, and his Spotify releases reflect that with 300k+ streams on some previous tunes. But this performance on YouTube show COLORS is just next level. Go watch it right now.

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Dark, moody music rooted in hip hop beats, electronic touches, and an attitude that reminds me of BANKS and K. Flay.

🤘🏼 WHO & WHERE 🤘🏼
ARA is a singer songwriter from Fresno, California who apparently (like K. Flay and myself) graduated from Stanford.

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ARA is flying under the radar despite some sporadic blogger love. Check out her debut EP, HAIL MARY.

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Aside from a totally addictive (and dark) song, this group is just next level with their ability to turn weird into cool.

🤘🏼 WHO & WHERE 🤘🏼
Death Team are a Swedish indie pop group which consists of Mayka (born Maja Edelbring) and Johen Rafael Tilli. 

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With early love from Vice & Spin, these guys are swimming fast in the indie-pop lane, with millions of streams and a growing fanbase..