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NFR Podcast

The Best New Music of 2023

NFR Podcast

NFR Podcast

Music, Music Commentary

4.9 • 716 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode we’re recommending the best songs from January and February of 2023 . We spoke about albums such as Logic’s College Park, Paramore’s This is Why and singles such as Lil Wayne’s Kan’t Nobody ft. DMX & more.


Check out our New Playlist on Spotify: https://go.nfrpodcast.com/SpotifyPlaylist

Check out our New Playlist on Apple Music: https://go.nfrpodcast.com/AppleMusicPlaylist


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List of Songs & Albums Discussed

•Lil Yachty’s new album Let’s Start Here

•Logic’s new album College Park

•Paramore’s new album This is Why

•Lil Wayne’s new song Kan’t Nobody

•Reuben Vincent’s new album Love is War

•Daniel Ceasar’s new song Do You Like Me?

•Larry June & The Alchemist’s new song 60 Days

•Kali Uchis’ new song I Wish You Roses

•Smino’s new song Smi, Myself & I

•& More

Transcript

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0:00.0

So we've reached the end of February. We're two months in. What do you think about this year so far?

0:03.9

I mean, listen, it's been kind of slow, but there's been quality. I'm not going to lie to you.

0:07.3

It's kind of getting me excited for what's to come with the upcoming months. And I never really

0:11.6

stressed within the January or February timeframe just because people are not releasing.

0:16.7

Holidays just finished. It's cold in certain areas of the world. Like, there's a bunch of different stuff.

0:21.7

It has been pretty uneventful so far.

0:24.0

Like, I feel like we're still missing like the first hip-hop hit of the year in terms of

0:29.0

like shit that's climbing and that's doing numbers and that's kind of uniting everybody.

0:32.8

Apart from that, I also feel like on an album level, the only real album that's like made

0:37.3

serious waves is probably what you already is let's start here. from that, I also feel like on an album level, the only real album that's, like, made, like,

0:37.6

serious waves is probably what you audits. Let's start here. That's been one of them for sure.

0:42.2

Mansion music got a lot of hype, but it's kind of come and go. A lot of people are maybe not...

0:45.6

Came and went after a day. Yeah, there's new Yit feels so empty right now? Like what's missing?

0:54.5

Well, yeah. I mean, we're missing definitely bigger artists to drop and just albums that are

0:59.2

impactful enough because like we're mentioning, the logic, the Don Tolliver, there's quality

1:04.7

within them, but they're not phenomenally put together albums from beginning to end. But it's

1:09.7

to be cool today to go through

1:11.0

our favorite music of the year so far. And guys, we actually just finally launched our playlist,

1:16.9

which are going to be dedicated to the best music of the year. We're going to be updating these on a

1:21.1

weekly basis. And you can find the links to our Spotify and Apple Music playlist that are available

1:25.9

right now in our description.

1:30.8

So that's going to be fun, bro, to kind of go through the power rankings of those playlist and swap songs out, put new ones in.

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