By: Judah Gregory

Daniel Collins, also known as Dthang Gz, is a Dominican American rapper from the Bronx, New York and is 20. He would make his first studio track in 2020 with his single “Caution” and has released 12 official songs. Until now, with him getting over 10 million views on just one video, he is one of the biggest rappers from New York and I’ll be ranking his official studio songs 1 through 10 from worst to best.

10# LIKE to start the list off “Like” is the number ten on this list; the reason being that this wouldn’t really be the high energy track he’s used to producing. With the changes in him rapping fast how he usually is, and it slowing down in this song , it isn’t bad. And the addition of Bando to the song was good, but not what I’m used to from him, so it’s placed here.

9# Wilding 4 Respect I liked the song but the reason it would be placed so low is because of Dthang only getting a few lines that I think were overshadowed by the other collaborators on the song. Face mob and Kay hound with their parts in the song having a better sound to them and just fit with their style more than his on the track.

8# Smooth Criminal this song would just be bad considering that it wasn’t a Dthang original song, but still being posted under his singles still makes it count. But Ace0 the collaborating rapper would use a lot of auto tune in the song that made his voice sound robotic and it just didn’t sound good in the song. But for Dthang, he would do fine just because he was on for the last 20 seconds, so him barely being in it and it just being bad is why it’s low.

7# Opponent The track opponent would be produced by ShoBeatz who would remix a popular beat which is a trend in New York rap. I liked in this song that he would come on the song matching the flow of it well, and even though it’s considered to be one of his lower songs in the general view, I think it’s a good track only being this low because of its 1:46 run time.

6# Bunny Hop This song would have a very high energy beat and would gain Dthang someTik Tok attention with his Bunny Hop dance that he does in the music video; hence the title “Bunny Hop”. In this song he would also collaborate with the Drillys once. The song was added to its ranking and it also being his first million view video.

5# Scene Now to start the top 5, I chose “Scene” because of the sound of the song and I just like it in general. There’s not too much to say about it because it’s simple and still is a good song overall.

4# Play It Back Dthang would come to this track with him rapping on a melodic drill beat which shouldn’t go good together and sound weird but Dthang rapping on this song would actually be a good balance between the two. With his more child voice it would fit well with the song because of his flow on this song and it would highlight his rapping abilities good.

3# Caution This song being ranked at my number three, with this being his first single ever released is great. His rapping on the song would sound like he knew what he was doing on the beat and it would bring a new sound to the New York scene, with his new take on drill starting with this song so it’s all the way up here.

2# GGZ Box My second favorite, and favorite single single, from Dthang is this song he would freestyle over a great beat and it was produced by DameE who is a good producer in general. So, this was set up to be a favorite and is all the way up here.

1# Talk Facts The number one single for me has to be this song. He collabs with Bando and Tdot who both go hard on the song, and the beat would fit perfect with the song, and just hearing it is obvious that this is his best single. And it’s one of the most popular out because of the contents in it.

By: Ricky Perez Cardoza

Kanye West for the past few years has been in controversy after controversy and has gone completely silent on most platforms because of his comments on Jewish people. This affected Kanye a lot and caused him to lose a lot of his fans and people in his life. He also lost multiple companies working with him, including his bank; all departed from him and he even had his art diploma taken away over the Jewish comments. He lost brands like Adidas, Gap, and Balenciaga and had a documentary about him canceled. This was back in late 2022 and now there hasn’t been much on Kanye because he chose to go completely silent for most of 2023.

This has left Kanye radio silent for the past 3 years in terms of music up until recently when we had big news for his upcoming album titled ‘Vultures’ which was originally ‘¥$’. This album rollout has been calmer than his last album rollout for ‘Donda’.

Ye and his best friend right now, Ty Dolla $ign, have been working on this album for approximately 5 months and even if that sounds like not enough time for a good-sounding Ye album, from what’s been previewed recently at his multiple listening parties, it’s all sounding really good and most importantly more finished than his last album ‘Donda 2’.

The album rollout started back in November when pictures of him surfaced it showed Ye working on the album in the desert with a unique environment and architecture. 6 days later, on November 22nd, he dropped his newest song under the name ¥$ called “Vultures”. The song wasn’t that well received and even had a questionable bar by Ye.

After this, Ye had multiple private listening parties where we imagined he previewed music from the album. Later, on December 8th, Ty Dolla $ign dropped the track list for the album and this is also when we knew the title wouldn’t be ‘¥$’ and instead was changed, or was always ‘Vultures’.

On the same day, a video of Ye was posted of him previewing the song “Everybody” which had a sample from the Backstreet Boys and showed the amazing production on it.

One day before the listening party he performed at a club and said that the album was gonna come out that Friday, December 15th, which never happened.

On December 12th, he held a public listening party with tickets costing $2000 in Miami where he previewed a lot of new music. He played a total of 7 songs at this listing party and gave us a lot of information on who would be on the album.

On December 15th, when the album was supposed to be released according to Ye himself, he also revealed that he still hasn’t cleared a verse by Nicki Minaj. She said on an Instagram livestream that she won’t have the verse cleared on the song “New Body” that was a song from way back in 2018 for his unreleased album ‘Yanhdi’. This tweet had everybody sure the album wasn’t gonna drop that night.

On December 16th, he held another listening party that was shut down quickly by authorities because Ye didn’t have the required licenses and permits to have the listening party at the arena. This quickly became a disaster for the people who paid $2000 and waited hours to hear Ye when he was late to the arena. He then had them go to his apartment and that’s where he held the listening party for a short time, and we got 2 new songs and extended snippets of other songs.

The most recent news we’ve had for his album was when his agent said that the album is gonna come out on New Year’s Eve, and also a new rant Ye had on Instagram where he took shots at a lot of people, and is too long to dissect, but responded to a lot of critics including Drake and of news outlets.

As of this time, the album is still not out.