If I can borrow a phrase from Smuckers, with a name like Wordsmith, it’s got to be dope. Wordsmith, the latest lyrically gifted rapper out of Baltimore, is building up anticipation of his forthcoming mixtape by dropping “Ladder of Success”, a banger featuring the underground all-star roster of Kontact, Black Knight, Junclassic, RATheMC and Soulstice. If you’re hard at work building your own success, and I hope you are, this is definitely a must listen track. Listen and download…

SoulStice’s life has taken him off the beaten path (at least for your typical rapper), but his travels have only made the soulful Chicago-born emcee’s music equally adventurous. Fresh off the release of his powerful “Strange Kinda Love” and his official “Pretty Girls” remix with Wale, SoulStice returns to our pages to explain how his early days in the Chi shaped his sound, why his current home in the DMV has struggled to find a spot in the national hip-hop spotlight and why he’s not concerned with “making it” as a rapper. No seriously, he’s not. 

Wale’s opened the door for the entire DMV region, and with singles like “Pretty Girls” blowing up it feels like it’s only a matter of time before the man’s a true hip-hop heavyweight. Joining Wale on the endorsed remix is Chicago-turned-fellow-DMV representative Soulstice and Akshan, who give the track a reggae bounce missing from the original. See more to download.