The 4 Songs You Need to Hear This Week

At the end of the week, we’ll be highlighting the creme of the crop in music and rounding up the best tracks, videos, mixtapes and releases that came across our desks throughout the last few days.

Check out this week’s selections below.

May D recruits Akon and Davido

Mister May Dreturns with his new single "Hustle," a catchy track built on sparkling keyboards and a booming beat. The Nigerian singer pulled out the big guns for this one, recruiting Akon and man-of-the-moment Davido to join him on the track.

May D shines with his on-and-off auto-tuned verse but, for our money, Davido has the best bars on this one. May D's people mention to Okayafrica that the single is "afrobeat meets trap" and will released on his forthcoming album.

The return of Baloji

Congolese-born, Belgium-based rapper & producer Baloji dropped some of last year's hand-down best music videos—a stunning love letter to the Congo and his politically-steeped Kinshasa dance video.

After some unfortunate label limbo, Baloji's now signed with Bella Union and is marking the occasion by sharing the throwback dance video for "Spoiler."

"[The video was] shot on film in Kinshasa with four generations of Congolese musicians, from Bakolo Music International (the late, great Wendo Kolosoy’s musicians) to Malage De Lugendo of the popular '70s band Zaiko Langa Langa, as well as singer Klody Ndongala who became famous in the '90s singing in La Vie Est Belle alongside Congolese star Papa Wemba," Baloji tells Okayafrica.

Kojey Radical's celebration of struggle

Kojey Radical is one of the London musicians redefining the Black British experience. The UK-Ghanaian spoken word artist and rapper drops yet-another completely stunning music video with "Gallons."

“‘Gallons’ is the kind of record I want played very loudly at my funeral,” Kojey Radical tells Dazed Digital, “It’s how I feel every time I see my brothers get stopped and searched or when I hear about another person of colour amount to nothing more than commemorative hashtag. ‘Gallons’ is a uniting of class, it’s a celebration of struggle. The conversation doesn’t die when you kill us. Seeds of positivity will ensure that the beauty in all our differences will come together and grow for future generations.”

Vic Mensa confronts police shootings

Vic Mensa's new video for "16 Shots," the latest single from his new EP There's A Lot Going On, sees the Chicago rapper tackling a sadly all-too-familiar subject nowadays.

The video follows Mensa as he's beaten, tased, and eventually shot by police officers. The Ace Norton-directed music video is spliced with dash cam footage of the shooting of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police in 2014, the tragic event that inspired the song.