5 New Artists You Should Hear

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After a brief winter break, our monthly music meetings have returned with a brand new round of submissions from both our staff and our fans. Our e-mail (musicsubmissiongs@hotnewhiphop.com) is always open, and we recently went through a whole pile of submissions and found the cream of the crop to bring to our staff meeting. The team was able to listen to the selections, as well as a handful of selections that our writers co-signed and submitted themselves, and from there, we voted on our favorite picks. We typically have anywhere from three to six candidates, and this month, we've got five-- three from our staff and two strong ones culled from our e-mails.

We're pleased to highlight a couple of Canadian counterparts in Mike Shabb (Montreal) and Shanuka (Scarborough), as well as a Pennsylvania native, singer Bairi, a Bostonian in our e-mailed submission Tyler Loyal and finally, Detroit-based Eldric Laron.

Scroll to the very end to vote on your favorite artist from this month's selection, and stay tuned for another round submissions later in March.

The Guidelines

Each HNHH staff writer attending the meeting submits a song/artist of their personal choosing.
We also open up submissions to our readers/followers; this means you will see a Tweet or Instagram post go up stating that we are actively looking for new submissions, ahead of our scheduled Music Meeting. Follow us on Twitter and IG to never miss these.
We cull the best of the listener-submitted music to bring to the Music Meeting.
We listen to all the listener submissions and staff submissions as a team.
We vote on our favorite songs, resulting in the final list you will see below.
Then we bring the vote to the masses: keep scrolling to vote on your favorite from the list below.

How to Submit Music

Previously, we've only accepted submissions through Soundcloud messaging. We now have an official e-mail: musicsubmissions@hotnewhiphop.com, to help maintain submissions from everyone/anyone on a rolling basis. This means, you will not be relegated to the 'Open Submissions' message, but can simply e-mail us your music directly, at any time, should you wish.
Nonetheless, we do alert you to 'Open Submissions' when we are approaching a meeting - follow us on IG and Twitter and look out for these posts as well.
Submissions are meant for new or rising artists, however, the recency of the song is flexible.
When e-mailing a submission, the subject line should read Music Submission: [Artist Name] + [Song Name]. Please include in the e-mail: artist name, song name, social media links, link to stream song (video or audio), and any additional facts or things you'd want us to know.