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“Belgium (Get Down)” is the second track off Jeremih’s 2016 tour-inspired mixtape Late Nights: Europe. The song is a hook-driven venture that succeeds off its bouncy, oft-ominous production while Jeremih focuses on his vocals vibes above lyricism. In naming Late Nights: Europe Stereogum’s Album of the Week, Tom Breihan called “Belgium (Get Down)” the best song off the tape.

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Lush is the debut album by indie rock artist Mitski, released on January 31, 2012. The album showcases her extraordinarily strong lyricism, tackling femininity and the pressures that come along with it over the course of nine powerful tracks. Though Lush hasn’t received the same contemporary acclaim as Bury Me at Makeout Creek or Puberty 2, this doesn’t detract from the record’s instrumental role in carving out Mitski’s current niche in the music industry.

She reflected on the album in 2015 with the Chicago Reader:

I haven’t thought about that record for a long time. I think that record is all about me trying different things. It’s the most varied in terms of genre or style, because it was my first album, and I took all these different songs I wrote at different times and put them in one record, as opposed to having focused time to write for it and just writing “an album”. I think for the first record, I was trying out all the different things I might want to do in the future.

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High Bloom is the duo Caroline White and Hans Hoffman. The band was initially based in Maryland before White headed off to North Carolina to pursue an MFA, but this won’t halt production. Their debut release Haloed came out on December 11, 2015, and the pair has a yet-unnamed album in the works.

White is also known for her work in Infinity Crush, Julia Brown, and Teen Suicide, while Hoffman’s has a dreamy instrumental side project, White Wreath.

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Jeremih’s quite the opposite of a “dummy,” as he graduated high school early at 16. In an MTV profile, he explained, “I was able to skip my junior year. They were like, Yo, you good, you been in everything.” Profile writer Meaghan Garvey described his upbringing as “read[ing] like a gifted and talented school’s entire extracurricular program.”

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Late Nights: Europe is a mixtape Jeremih released as a follow-up to his 2015 album Late Nights, his most critically acclaimed release to date. The mixtape was recorded during his European tour of Late Nights, with each song named after a stop (only “Dubai” and “Lebanon” are not located in Europe). Europe is the third in his Late Nights trilogy, and it remains to be seen if he’ll make good on the promises of two more with the title – Late Night Party with PARTYNEXTDOOR and Later That Night.

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“Pocket Watchin'” is Gucci Mane’s first collaboration with PeeWee Longway since his release from prison. The duo, who collaborated on the mixtapes Money, Pounds, Ammunition and World War 3D: The White Album, trade bars about people focusing on their wealth and what they can get out of it.

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A reference to his single, “Lemonade,” in which Gucci said the word “lemon[ade]” in a myriad of ways. Though it’s not his highest-charting single, the piano trill beat is easily his most recognizable.

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In his New Yorker profile, author John Seabrook recounted how the producer met Gucci Mane,

In 2006, Will met Gucci Mane (whose real name is Radric Davis) at Patchwerk, an Atlanta studio founded by Bob Whitfield, who had played with the Falcons. One night, Will recalled, Gucci was in the building, and Will passed him a CD with some of his beats on it. Not long afterward, Gucci summoned Will.

‘Yo, the homeboy with the beats! I got a thousand dollars for you!’ Gucci said. Will, all of seventeen at the time, replied, ‘I get my people to holla at your people, bro.’ Gucci was amused. In the course of three days in 2007, they made twenty songs together. After one especially inspired bout on the mike, Gucci Mane bestowed on Will his producer name: ‘Mike Will made it, Gucci Mane slayed it!’ he cried.

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“Guap On Me” is the first single released from the long-awaited collaborative mixtape Ape Shit by Future and producer Mike Will Made-It. The tape was speculated to drop on Thanksgiving 2015, but that date came and went without a tape.

The song leaked on July 18, 2016, the same day that Paparazzi (Dab) leaked.

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“Jordan Diddy” is a collaboration between Future and Gucci Mane that appears on Future’s mixtape Astronaut Status. The song was released months after the duo produced the collaborative tape Free Bricks. “Jordan Diddy” is about feeling like two extraordinarily powerful men – Michael Jordan and P Diddy – and is a concept Future would return to on Monster’s “Wesley Presley.”

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