Isaiah Rashad, Mick Jenkins and More Featured on Jesse Boykins III’s New ‘Bartholomew’ Project

Jesse Boykins III is back with a luminous new project today (Aug. 1) and it's brimming with hip-hop features. Isaiah Rashad and Mick Jenkins come through with introspective, baritone bars on Boykins' newest project, Bartholomew. And that's not all. The Chicago-born soul singer enlisted a slew of hip-hop's young stars for his newest tape. Little Simz, DeJ Loaf, Kilo Kish, Audio Push and The Internet's Syd tha Kyd all boast features on the 17-track offering. Jesse co-produced many of the tracks himself, along with Chicago collective THEMPeople and C. Dexter.

"Oh, shame he didn't know how the story ended/The lies I'm not impressed with, I'm not the one to mess with/Mind is free of all things, we are soul connected/All of me/invested, only a fool would test this/If you're tryna be cool, forget it, independence I need/Don't be skeptical, don't pretend you can't see," raps Simz in "Indie Girls."

"Dance, dance with me/If I'm trippin', that's it, don't make no further plans with me/I ain't cripin', I didn't mean to make you bleed either/Would suggest you wear your heart on your sleeve though," Jenkins rhymes on "Only Way Out."

JB3 has worked with Asher Roth, Logic and Vic Mensa in recent years and his last full-length tape, Love Apparatus LP, dropped in April of 2014. Bartholomew drops just in time for the last few summer festivals going down in the season's third leg.

Whose got the best guest verse on the new project? Stream Bartholomew via Soundcloud above and judge for yourself.

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