Alchemist and similar artists

Westside Gunn x Conway

Rip Bobby

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Harry Fraud

Dealer Plates (Ft. Action Bronson)

Sounds like: Alchemist, French Montana, A$AP Rocky

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2017 is here and the flood of new music has already begun streaming in, with New York producer Harry Fraud releasing Rogues Playlist Vol 2. The foll...

Alchemist

Any Means (Ft. MC Eiht & Spice One)

Sounds like: Roc Marciano, Sean Price, Conway

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Alchemist is winning rap. Mainstream cred? Check. Underground props? Check. Encyclopedic discography? Check. Though some may smirk at a Bevery Hills ...

Samiyam

Dart Gun

Sounds like: J Dilla, Alchemist, Action Bronson

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Samiyam returns with a new album, Animals Have Feelings. Fans of his unorthodox swing and animal rights advocates alike will surely rejoice. After r...

Freddie Gibbs

Extradite (Ft. Black Thought)

Sounds like: Alchemist, Scarface, Vince Staples

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Freddie Gibbs comes from a long lineage of hyper-masculine gangster rap. Loud boasts, detailed violence, nihilistic principles and all the mental and ...

Big Twins

Stick Up

Sounds like: Knxwledge, Sean Price, Alchemist

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Last New Year's Eve I found myself at Alchemist's studio with producers Animoss, Knxwledge, and two-thirds of the slept-on Queensbridge outfit Infamou...

Action Bronson

Bad News (Ft. Danny Brown)

Sounds like: Kool G Rap, Curren$y, Run The Jewels

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What's better than an Action Bronson/Danny Brown collaboration? How about production courtesy of the legendary Alchemist? Taken from the re-issued Gr...

Jon Wayne

Good Samaritans (Ft. Samiyam)

Sounds like: Ras_G, Alchemist, SelfSays

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It almost sounds like the premise to a hip-hop joke: Jon Wayne, Samiyam, and Ras_G walk into Alchemist's studio and create a banger. Well, it's real...

House Shoes

Dirt (Cohenbeats Remix)

Sounds like: Roc Marciano, Alchemist, Samiyam

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On a recent trip to Tel Aviv, House Shoes linked up with Michael Cohen, aka Cohen Beats. The Jewish hip-hop head is a vital part of Israel's small but...

Ras_G

Take It Slow

Sounds like: Samiyam, Alchemist, Joey Bada$$

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Ras_G, Leimert Park's high priest of boom-bap, is readying a second volume of Down to Earth, a collection of instrumental hip-hop beats. Perhaps known...

Ka

To Hull and Back

Sounds like: Armand Hammer, Durag Dynasty, Czarface

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Action Bronson & Riff Raff

Blue Jays

Sounds like: Danny Brown, Lil B, Gucci Mane

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Action Bronson and Riff Raff are two of hip-hop's most interesting characters, and on their latest team-up, "Blue Jays," they once again showcase thei...

Dilated Peoples

Good As Gone (Ft. DJ Premier)

Sounds like: Alchemist, Madlib, Strong Arm Steady

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Dilated Peoples is back. Throughout the 2000s, Evidence, Rakaa, and DJ Babu were the poster children of the screw faced, take-no-shit backpack ra...

Mac Miller

Walking Home

Sounds like: Nottz, Earl, Samiyam, Alchemist

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This weekend was a festive one: Record Store Day on Saturday followed by April 20, aka 420 on Sunday. Mac Miller celebrated the musical and medicinal ...

Roc Marciano

456 (Ft. Action Bronson)

Sounds like: Guilty Simpson, Alchemist, Samiyam

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Roc Marciano has rap in the Boston crab. With a simple and straightforward approach, Pimpstead's Supercat has leveraged impeccable street raps into th...

Roc Marciano

Ice Cream Man

Sounds like: Ka, House Shoes, Alchemist

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Roc Marciano never left the 90s. Not to say his sound is dated or a throwback, but the Long Island rhymer never strayed from the gutter. There are no ...

Samiyam

Hummus (Ft. Alchemist)

Sounds like: Knxwledge, Roc Marciano, House Shoes

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Not content with making dope rap beats that are equal parts Tom and Jerry, DJ Premier and DJ Screw, Samiyam adds the microphone to his arsenal. Wish Y...

Alchemist x Dr. Romanelli

Diagnosis (Ft. Action Bronson)

Sounds like: Oh No, Dilated Peoples, Action Bronson

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Here's something a little different to bring in the weekend... a tune comprised entirely of Coke commercials. Designer Dr. Romanelli, whose latest col...

Samiyam

Snakes On The Moon

Sounds like: Ras_G, House Shoes, Alchemist

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Samiyam came up under the Brainfeeder umbrella, but the Los Angeles by way of Michigan producer is a sore thumb in the collective. Among electronic gi...