As spring turns into summer, we promise to not say things are "heating up," because this is 2015 and we've moved beyond that. In any event, Long Beach's Vince Staples announced that he will follow last year's Hell Can Wait EP with his official Def Jam debut, Summertime '06. This week, he let loose of "Senorita," his stellar lead single bolstered by a Future sample and a turn from his ARTium labelmate, Snoh Aalegra. But there were other contenders, too. Newcomers like Tink, Lil Bibby and Lil Herb go up against Capone, Noreaga and other veterans in the XXL staff's picks for the best songs of the week ending today, May 8.

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Rich Homie Quan Feat. Offset, "Trap House"

The labyrinthine inner working of Cash Money are probably unknowable to anyone without plane tickets to Miami and a really good demo. So Rich Homie Quan's maybe/probably departure from Rich Gang, his duo with Young Thug, is confusing, but understandable. "Trap House" continues his push toward solo stardom, but it comes with a sad asterisk: Offset, the third of the Migos who was incarcerated when the trio shot to fame in 2013, is featured on the song as he sits, waiting, in a Georgia jail. XXL will continue to have updates on his legal situation as they become available.

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Fetty Wap Feat. Gucci Mane, Azealia Banks and Quavo, "Trap Queen (Remix)"

Though the Drake-featuring remix of his "My Way" grabbed most of the headlines this week, the ride-or-die anthem "Trap Queen" remains Fetty Wap's best song. The singularly focused Jersey native tapped Azealia Banks and Quavo for its remix, employing each MC's considerable talents and SEO favorability. But the real story here might be Gucci Mane, who turns in (or turned in before his incarceration, more likely) one of his finest verses in some time. The original "Trap Queen" may sound like the realest wedding reception imaginable, but the remix sounds like 2006.

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Tink, "Million"

Lifetime could learn a thing or two from Timbaland. The legendary producer (who serves as the music producer for the runaway Fox hit Empire) has treated his late protege Aaliyah's legacy delicately, being as protective as most fans could hope. Now, however, he's opened up the vaults and given his new project, Chicago rapper Tink, the opportunity to remix "One in a Million." Tink comes through in fine fashion, exercising varying flows to slide deep into the beat's pocket. As blasphemous as the remix might seem at first glance, it's a more than enjoyable update on one of late-'90s R&Bs crown jewels.

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Scotty ATL, "Cloud IX (Go Up)"

Do you remember DJ Toomp? There was a time when you couldn't escape him. The Atlanta producer got his start in the early 1990s, but the turn of the century was the dawn of a new era in mainstream rap, and it was the perfect environment for Toomp's bombastic sign. Known for his reliably anthemic T.I. singles and similarly ruthless work with Kanye West, Rick Ross, Jay Z, Ludacris, Nas, Young Jeezy and others, Toomp ruled the middle 2000s. Now, he's back, crafting "Cloud IX (Go Up)" for Scotty ATL. Injecting more negative space into his sound, Toomp comes out with another winner.

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Capone-N-Noreaga Feat. Tragedy Khadafi and The Lox, “3 on 3″

Capone and Noreaga are returning next month with a new album, Lessons, that aims to prove what those who have caught one or both of them live recently already knows: the War Report duo can still really, really rap. On "3 on 3," CNN link up with The Lox and Tragedy Khadafi, proving that tunnel vision and raw grit don't dissipate with age. If  you were born in New York, moved away and are having pangs of homesickness, you should be freebasing the Soundcloud link. You know, for your own good.

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Lil Bibby Feat. Lil Herb, "Better Dayz"

"Better Dayz" is the blueprint. Rolling hi-hats, minor keys, soul sample yelps, hostageless verses, the remnants of drill pieced together into a Frankenstein monster in streetwear. More choppers, more lawyers. At one point, Herb raps, "I keep my gun on me, I ain't never safe"--it's tight, evocative, paranoid. While Chicago is diced up by outsiders into pieces of stylistic caricature, Bibby and Herb cut across sub-genre lines by simple virtue of their rapping. There are promising young rappers, and then there are these two, who could very well be among the world's best in the near future.

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Shy Glizzy Feat. Jeezy, "Funeral (Remix)"

It's impossible to listen to music from Washington, DC and divorce it completely from the ongoing unrest in Baltimore. The remix to "Funeral" isn't explicitly political, nor was it made in the shadow of Freddie Gray--the original version appeared on Glizzy's Law 3, which was released for free last December. But at its core, it's protest music. What's more resolved than making sure people still get robbed at your funeral? Jeezy's addition to the song is a welcome one, jewelers looking like shiekhs and all.

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Vince Staples, "Senorita"

"Still 'Fuck the police,' they won't catch me." After taking the world by storm last fall with his phenomenal Hell Can Wait EP, Vince Staples returns with the lead single from his forthcoming Summertime '06. "Senorita" is one of Staples' most frantic tracks to date, his raps fluid and technical, the whole song built around a yelped sample from Future's "Covered N Money." No ID, who presides over Def Jam with a careful, artist-first eye, adds Snoh Aalegra to the coda, rounding out the record beautifully. Summertime '06 should be one of the year's grittiest, most human hip-hop albums. 

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