With nearly a decade in the game under his belt, Smoke DZA has survived the oft-rocky waters of the music industry and proven himself as one of rap's most respected MC on the indie circuit. Whether plying his trade with timely mixtape releases or in the confines of a studio album, The Kushed God is money, which is why his fans have been anticipating another release from the Harlem hustler. DZA delivers with Not For Sale, a project that finds the flamboyant rhymer handling business as usual.

Not for Sale is my spin on not trying to do what everybody else is doing but doing my own thing within the modern sounds of hip-hop,” Smoke DZA told Billboard. “I wanted to stay true to Smoke DZA while kind of trying to kill niggas with their own shit... I’m a fan of music and I found my creative patch on this album by flirting with different cadences and picking different tempos seeing what would work.”

Not For Sale takes an alternate route from his acclaimed 2016 collaborative effort Don't Smoke Rock, with Pete Rock. He reunites with the legendary producer here once again, but also pulls in contributions from Cardo, 183rd, Girl Talk, DJ Steel, LevyGrey and DJ Relly Rell. Guests like Ty Dolla $ign, Joey Bada$$, D.R.A.M., Vado, Bodega Bamz, Cozz and Dom Kennedy join Smoke DZA as he waxes poetic over the course of the album's 12 tracks. The result is a project that's high on firepower, with the Uptown ambassador leading the charge.

XXL gave Smoke DZA's 4/20 offering a listen and picked out 20 of the best bars from Not For Sale.

  • "The Legacy"

    Smoke DZA

    "My skully game mean, I drop two and a quarter/Alexander Wayne I copped for me and my daughter/She told me for her birthday she wanna go to Bora Bora/Hold up, some place she never seen on Dora the Explorer/That's my baby, she match my aura, make it happen for her/Any means, triple beams schemes for my little queen/I'm talking presence not presents, this is not for sale/I see that hate that you wearing nigga, it fits you well" —Smoke DZA

  • "The Mood"

    Smoke DZA Featuring Joey Bada$$

    "It's a Bada$$, Kushed God colossal/We coming through and we hostile/47 deep so everything's getting toppled/Showtime nigga word to James word to goggles/Everybody's fucked like a high-price brothel" —Smoke DZA

  • "The Mood"

    Smoke DZA Featuring Joey Bada$$

    "It ain't for purchase gotta take the game in doses/The illest shit don't really get too much promotion/Children of the indigo protect the fortress/Trump got the whole world feeling hopeless/Still I got my chest pokin'/Too much headaches not enough Motrin/Life will have a nigga self frozen/Won't have my self stolen, dough rolling, head first dove in/The flow golden, the wave, the boat rowing" —Smoke DZA

  • "The Come Up"

    Smoke DZA Featuring D.R.A.M.

    "Really fucking cool, keep it frost/Ain't shit changed but the weather and my drawers/Sour coming out of my pores/Under the tobacco, vanill' of course/I smell like boss, look like wealth/Through that wave, I'm Mike Phelps/You that maid, look like help" —Smoke DZA

  • "The Come Up"

    Smoke DZA Featuring D.R.A.M.

    "Take credit for the wins and losses/I now what I know, I just search for the reassurance/Niggas dying to be important/Souls get bought quite often/No integrity, what you talking?/All things, offsprings get lost in/The systems of these streets we involved in/Either you crack slinging or balling/The American dream to get rich and the whole hood all in" —Smoke DZA

  • "The High"

    Smoke DZA Featuring Velous

    "Smoking on Cheeba, sipping on Chevis/I'm in the old school, center of Portland like Arvydas/Them niggas tryna style I'm like beat it/It's Bob Marley on my chain not Jesus/Headcrack rolling fuck your fever/Dice game clean up, light-skin joint like Adina/Step out with her fuck the scene up" —Smoke DZA

  • "The Hustle"

    Smoke DZA Featuring Bodega Bamz and LevyGrey

    "Nobu like Wendy's if I want a light meal/If I'm on the bill it's a big fight filled/Really they ain't safe, for fronting they ain't paying for nothing/Man if only you could pawn your ice grill/All my niggas get money its protocol/Watch those before us ball/If I fuck that package up they'd be more appalled/The game got me not feeling shit like Toradol/Gear up take it to all of y'all" —Smoke DZA

  • "The Hustle"

    Smoke DZA Featuring Bodega Bamz and LevyGrey

    "The director, a fly lecture/The bullshit side stepper, seen it coming like 'Nah, heffer'/My gesture, bougie trifectas in Tribeca, yes sir/Time to rep a, Iceberg big, you could spot him like leopard/Effortlessly kill 'em my track record/Blueprint to the cool shit I'm that nigga, etcetera/Cold game, serve like Federer/Wimbledon, winners win, above the head of a simpleton" —Smoke DZA

  • "The Hustle"

    Smoke DZA Featuring Bodega Bamz and LevyGrey

    "No help needed but help wanted/Behind closed doors I'm kept dormant/This game sour like a grapefruit/I treat women like liquor I won't chase you/I keep it brief in case you was wondering/This piece, no puzzling, heat seek like summer in Phoenix/I'm sonning 'em, DMC, like Russ and 'em/Pop Cris', no rushing 'em, show guns, no tucking 'em" —Bodega Bamz

  • "The Love"

    Smoke DZA Featuring Ty Dolla $ign

    "Say word, you won't tell me what you fake heard/Nothing matter 'cept for you when it's paper/PETA ain't comin' for them bitches, man, that's fake fur/I'll go kill the shit myself and get you laced up/'Cause I just, wanna love you, the way that you wanna be loved/Travel places you ain't too fond of, Patróned up/We fogged up, you long club" —Smoke DZA

  • "The Lifestyle"

    Smoke DZA

    "Hopped out the womb, fogged up the room/Flowered the street, watch how it bloom/Roll up repeat, regroup resume/Highlights, premium servants, Kushed God, kill 'em with sermons/Kill 'em in furs and kill em in Sherlin's/Kill it and curve it" —Smoke DZA

  • "The Lifestyle"

    Smoke DZA

    "Don't confuse us, we shakers movers/Hotbox Ubers, I don't do hookah/Roofless, like the coupe is/My whole style I done deuced it/Came back on some new shit in my back like a booster/He paid? Dique, my account on Green Bay/My chick like cliché five-star cheap dates" —Smoke DZA

  • "The Antidote"

    Smoke DZA Featuring LevyGrey

    "I gots to find me the cure, I'm starting to get sick of them more/Pardon my back while that full-length just drag on the floor/I wore this shit right out the store/Ain't no better feeling, sick with flow I need Penicillin/This that raw shit that Medellin/Been had your hoe with her legs to ceilings/Show the king how that neck be feeling" —Smoke DZA

  • "The Antidote"

    Smoke DZA Featuring LevyGrey

    "Curve you, gaff your only dude was trendin'/Your own bread up, that's independent/S or F yeah big fat, next one its the get back/Player haters never prosper/Oscar ribeye with the lobster/Little nigga fix your posture/Keep me something looking proper/Resurrected my whole roster" —Smoke DZA

  • "The Game"

    Smoke DZA

    "Bugsey just touched down with like 200 Dickies/I told him pull up to the crib I'll move 150/Sent a kite up to my homie, drove down from Poughkeepsie/All cash give me the loot, nigga it's no Biggie, baby/Seven series I love the dough it's not my achilles/You got to feel me, the profit illy you not gon' kill me/Stop it really y'all too silly to want some drama really/Signing off, King of Gotham City" —Smoke DZA

  • "The Glow"

    Smoke DZA

    "She gave me her heart, told me you break it you buy it/She always cool always mellow, made me just trust in the process/Want me to swallow my pride, hoping my ego would digest/I'm like stay humble for what? They take advantage of modest/Running my lane in designer shit don't need no Dry Fit/Niggas be thinking they prophets/Misleading the youth while they profit/Me I'm still tryna process" —Smoke DZA

  • "The Soul"

    Smoke DZA Featuring Vado

    "Good business I take pride in making great moves/Wear a skully in the summer, yet I stay cool/Knew cats that curved the bag so they could stay true/Been hungry so long they starting to hate food/Heat on me for the bullshit, my Wade move/I was on the 'Lo they was on J. Crew/I was on the dank they was on K2/They was moving eighths, I had eight full" —Smoke DZA

  • "The Soul"

    Smoke DZA Featuring Vado

    "Barbecue and milldew, you know you done fucked up right? Where's Bill Duke/Fake nigga no matter how you dress it up, it's still you/Make 'em dissapear I'm skillfull/Watch 'em appear, under my field-boot/Can't even trust niggas be out to get you/Don't let your last meal be the hand that fed you/My Mexican homie flip the work good, he used to wrestle/Shit got hot over there he had to refuge" —Smoke DZA

  • "The Soul"

    Smoke DZA Featuring Vado

    "Try to manage your vibe energy/A fake friend could do more damage than five enemies/Barely see me with beef like Fried Kennedy/But bring your instrument we could have us a live symphony/In a tight alley, weed be like Cali's/Gunplay scenes I squeeze like Mike Lowrey/All you see is sticks and signs a light rally/Red track suit, new Swizz beat, white Bally's" —Vado

  • "The Hook Up"

    Smoke DZA Featuring Cozz and Dom Kennedy

    "Gather round hustlers, that's if you're still livin'/Get more groupie love than Mike Bivins/Y'all niggas gotta play your role, Taj Gibson/Shoot the whole video set like Benny Boom/Diamonds dancin' all in the light, cash rules/My chick gotta know how to rap, I'm Papoose" —Dom Kennedy

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