It’s day two of #DB49 week after Monday’s monster release of the video to Club Pictures and we’ve been treated to a track that won’t appear on the ‘Happy Hour’ project, out Friday. And as well as providing a ton of quotables (“Police on my Twitter page/Bitch I think I’m Ziploc“), ‘Next Year’ also highlights G-Side’s Clova’s skills on the buttons. Love this one.

Off the upcoming Dirty Glove Bastard x Baller’s Eve mixtape. Shouts to DGB for letting this one loose.

DB49 ft. Clova – ‘Next Year’ (Prod. By Clova)

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Rest in peace Slurricaine Da Don from Florence, Alabama, who reportedly passed away last night.

As well as being a superb rapper, the main mane G-Mane is a beast on these hooks. For the uninitiated can we please direct you to both of the Flo-Town representer’s excellent free projects, which we still bump on the regs. Check out Smoke Some Kill and Sunday On Da Porch for some of the man’s best work, as well as some incredible production from the Block Beattaz and DJ Burn One that you might have overlooked. Oh, and Kenny goes in on this too. Watch out for Mr Thomas, who’s got a mixtape coming real soon.

G-Mane & Kenny Thomas – ‘Work’ (Prod. By DJ Burn One)

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Whether you know him for that club-shutting, shot-busting street anthem Strap or from his impassioned, career-defining verse on G-Side’s In The Rain – off of the critically acclaimed Huntsville International project – anyone that knows Bentley knows he’s one of Alabama’s most exciting artists.

The Flo-Town representer and member of beat-bodying super group DB49, alongside G-Side’s ST 2 Lettaz (who recently bodied Drake’s ‘Over’) and Kristmas (who recently bodied S-X’s Woooo Riddem), came up under Alabama Hustle Unit boss G-Mane and is now on the verge of his solo onslaught, with the album ‘Intelligent Hoodlum’ dropping this summer.

Southern Hospitality is proud to present this exclusive track taken off our collaborative mixtape project with ATL’s hottest music and lifestyle blog Governed By Loyalty – Southern Loyalty.

‘So Serious’ features AC Burna of Huntsvegas duo Untamed and it’s MIDIMarc on the track.

Bentley ft. AC Burna – ‘So Serious’ (Produced By MIDIMarc)

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This just feels like some Cee-Lo-Goodie-Ball-&-G-UGK goodness. Authentic country rap music from some future country rap legends. Enjoy.

Ric Atari ft. G-Mane, Bentley & Sam Freeze – ‘Hard’

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Typically drunk, dastardly and dope, those DB49 boys are at it again, this time going off the top of the dome, well, with backing track provided by a homeless drummer, who scored some well earned shrapnel for his time. Another incredible DB49 experience.

How do you follow a stone-cold modern day classic like Ready To Go – the track that had the industry breaking down Southern Hospitality’s virtual and actual collective doors and that introduced the world to hip-hop’s new supergroup DB49?

Hows about kicking things off with a prehistoric wooly mammoth of a verse from Mr UK Time himself Bentley aka Bentley256, leading into something lyrically gutter from future High Times sponsored Mista 2 Lettaz and then rounding things off with a sinus piercing statement from the flyest fat boy on the planet (his words) Kristmas? Oh, and did we mention producer ATX? We won’t need to once you press play. Enjoy. (Seriously, this shit feels exponentially more profound with every listen).

‘Happy Hour’ coming soon…

DB49 – ‘Club Pictures’ (Prod. By ATX)

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Artwork credit: John Turner Jr

When people talk about artists not making music like ‘this’ anymore. This is the this they’re talking about.

When you hear that hip-hop’s next supergroup comes from Huntsville, Alabama, the critically acclaimed, New York Times certified, next city to blow, that ‘this’ suddenly begins to make total sense.

And in case you were wondering, there’s no need to wipe your feet as you enter the Drunk B4 N9ne Experience…

Formed of North Alabama’s finest, DB49 has been making waves at home and across the waters ever since the release of Southern Hospitality & Governed By Loyalty‘s collaborative mixtape project Southern Loyalty.

Southern Hospitality’s phone lines and inboxes have been inundated with pleas from internationally known DJs, radio show hosts and record label A&Rs to release this one song to the world as a single. And we were only too happy to oblige.

Super producers the Block Beattaz engineered the music from one of the south’s hottest prospects, Arkitek of Kash Kartel, to lay the backdrop for the world’s first introduction to DB49.

Taken off their upcoming ‘Happy Hour’ project, G-Side’s ST 2 Lettaz, mic executioner Slash, the founder of the W2 Boy movement and one of the world’s most cutting lyricists Kristmas, Alabama Hustle Unit boss, the OG G-Mane, and Bentley (you know, the guy who dropped the greatest verse of 2009 on G-Side’s ‘In The Rain’, off the Huntsville International project) blessed the world with the mesmeric, futuristic but soul-warmingly classic-feeling sonics of ‘Ready To Go’.

Feel this. And keep your eyes and ears wide open for DB49.

‘Happy Hour’ coming sooner than you could possibly imagine.

DB49 – ‘Ready To Go’ (Prod. By Arkitek & Block Beattaz)

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Southern Hospitality has joined forces with Governed By Loyalty, one of ATL’s hottest music and lifestyle blogs, to bring you a project featuring some of the greatest music the south has to offer.

One of this year’s most hotly anticipated projects, ‘Southern Loyalty’ is packed full of exclusive, original music from some of our favourite artists – spanning all the way from ATL to Memphis to Alabama and back – mixed by ATL’s finest DJ Fu and UK legend Rob Pursey, and mastered by the internationally respected mix master DJ Superix.

Features include Mr “Fuck Dat Hipster Shit” Grip Plyaz, Flo-Town’s Alabama Hustle Unit bosses G-Mane and Bentley, ATL and ATL via BK’s Mums FP and Siya, plus rising stars Niko Villamor, Priceless The Kid, Skewby, Young Lyxx, Nique, the true Hearts of Dixie in them Cole Boyz and some space-age sounds from Huntsville, Alabama’s finest Slow Motion Soundz camp. And many more!

Enjoy!

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