Please Accept This Playlist As Our Dreamville Photo Dump
Supe Of The Day #005: radio host AyeeeDubb's favorite NC hip-hop from her early days on-air, plus new music from Jooselord, Trent Josiah, JUNE! and more.
It’s the week after Dreamville Fest, and I’ve seen so many photo dumps about it I’m starting to wonder if I was even there, or if all the memories I thought were mine were actually just grafted onto my hippocampus via other peoples’ photo dumps. I’ve seen photo dumps from regular people, photo dumps from famous people, even photo dumps that are merely a Pt. 1 promising that the real photo dump is coming soon! It’s all enough to make you say, “Damn, I love these photo dumps, but also, is there any other kind of digital content for me to consume?”
Well get a spoon, a napkin, and your favorite crackers, because it’s time for a new Supe Of The Day, our playlist dedicated to NC hip-hop, which is a playlist and not a photo dump, but hopefully will be accepted as one this week given the circumstances.
Is it at least based in some way on Dreamville Fest? No, not really. It’s predominantly made up of songs that radio host and No Skips founder AyeeeDubb sent over last year that I never got around to posting, but which still feel relevant as a window into one Carolina tastemaker’s vision of the state’s hip-hop. Here’s the philosophy behind her selections, in her own words:
A lot of the songs on this playlist take me back to the time when I was living in Charlotte, just graduated college, was doing radio part-time and we had a bunch of these artists come up for interviews and events, and it put me on to the NC music scene all the way. My love for local music comes from a lot of these artists early on.
Sounds like a photo dump, or at least an acceptable stand-in for one, to me.
In addition to AyeeeDubb’s picks, there’s some recent releases sprinkled in to keep things current, including a cluster bomb of Charlotte acts either with new songs (JUNE!, Gauxstman, Phil.) or late-2024 albums we overlooked (Lamaj); an NC rap character with a straight-laced new name (Trent Josiah, fka Trent the HOOLiGAN); and three still-underappreciated Triangle artists — one producer (Michael White), one rapper (Jooselord), and one producer/rapper (pat junior) — with new projects.
You can find it all in this week’s Supe, on Apple and Spotify. Enjoy, make sure to use your napkin, and for the love of God, don’t slurp.