Hot SoundCloud Week 2

Back for week two of the hot SoundCloud playlist. Productions by Tea proudly presents the best twenty artists to have submitted their tracks via SoundCloud, Facebook, or email. To get featured on future playlists, contact me at SoundCloud, or SoundClick. You can also email me.

This week features a mix of hip hop, rap, EDM and r&b. Fans will notice a repeat of the artists—this has to do with the quality of this week's submissions. Just how last week not everyone who submitted got a feature, we're doing the same thing this week. Several from last week were knocked out and the order has been rearranged.

This week's featured artists are:

Download the new mixtape, SmokersSection at datpiff.com. This track is straight fire, right down to the California green being referenced. Follow Dour on Twitter.

I'm here to steal your fame...says the gifted one, who spits a real-life song that tells the story of his life day by day. The rapper laces the boom bap piano instrumental with a whirlwind of his struggle.

The totally unknown MC gives us one of the most woke and conscious tracks to be submitted this week. He goes into the issues of black lives matters and the life of the neighborhood. His message "they don't really care about us" is reinforced with every lyric, which criticizes every aspect of our legal and criminal correction systems.

"Insomnia" is a banger. StreetMadeEnt rocks the track with a straight gutter flow. The group keep grinding and won't sleep, and rap lovers shouldn't sleep on this group, either.

Juke Joint Music Group presents "Cuncocshun," consisting of Big B & Soufhpau, natives of Memphis. Inspired by southern music pioneers such as 8Ball and MJG, UGK, Outkast, Dirty, Ludacris, and Goodie Mob. Soufhpau & Big B both started doing music together years back, and always mixed well with each other.

The feel-good EDM track pulses with a catchy melody and features a wonderful vocalist. Fans of electronic dance music should definitely tune into this SoundCloud page.

MoneyRock is a collective of talent spread across different states and countries. Their collective skills are definitely on display on this conscious track.

For the second time in two weeks, Mama Kleio drops bars and spits as sick of a flow as anyone else on the countdown. As far as a rap lyricist goes, Mama Kleio is the queen and all MCs should be put on notice by this wordsmith.

This track is still a joy to listen to; the beat, produced by Jou Beats, has a new wave style that captures a kind of Saturday morning essence. With wordplay and flow, this track is a personal favorite.

This sleeper track may have been released for a while, but it should not be slept on. The lyrics that Slim Cea spins give you a clear view of what life in his city is like.

The Ginja comes through with an off-the-wall flow that blows the doors down. It's all too easy to make a comparison to an early Marshal Mathers as Ginja raps his power up to his max power.

This conscious Boom Bap track comes to us by Paranormal. The New York rapper is dropping his sophomore LP titled The Project For Global Madness.

The trap beat bumps as the rappers spin their lyrics about what it's like working out of the "spot" when you suspect the feds are watching.

This group has a melodic and hypnotic sound. If you were to mash up "Man on the Moon" by Kid Cudi with Migos, that's what "Trash Gang" would be. The adlibs and sound effects are popping off all over this track and allow you just to chill back and enjoy.

The chilled out beat bumps along with a trance vibe as the solo rapper, Farri, laces the verses with crisp, poignant lyrics.

The Hartford Connecticut experimental hip-hop artist bumps a chilled out and relaxed flow that is sure to mellow you out.

A love song that starts off with a soft female voice calling her boyfriend to let him know that she's found someone new that she loves. She tells him goodbye and the rest of the track is Kee'shawn's way of kissing her goodbye.

This song tugs on the heartstrings as Prince MaGan recounts his mistakes. He asks for forgiveness and apologizes for his infidelity, saying that he would not "Repeat It."

The sultry singer's haunting melody cuts through the up-tempo electronic instrumental, giving her a distinct sound that is both classic and contemporary.

Skip Swavy AKA Skip Tha Engineer is a rapper based out of LA, and he comes hard on his latest project, Real Life Vol. 1, which is now out on SoundCloud.

SoundCloud is a music and social media platform used by independent and local musicians to share and post their various projects. Several well-known artists have started their careers posting their music only to be "discovered" later by major labels. It’s still challenging to make it in the music industry, but there are opportunities now that have never been available before. With SoundCloud, you are able to upload your music, follow other users who are uploading theirs, and connect with other artists.

However, it is not just for underground and aspiring artists; well-renowned artist regularly upload music to the site and are able to create big buzz by posting the links to different social media websites. Make sure to like and follow your favorite artist and keep it here for next week's playlist of SoundCloud artists that embody the essence of what SoundCloud is about.