Following the news of\u00a0Spotify launching a bunch of new playlists<\/a>\u00a0to further meet the demands of Hip Hop listeners, Apple Music has also announced three new playlists in that area.<\/p>\n This time, their focus is on three regions: Midwest, East Coast, and Pacific Northwest. The company notes that these three playlists: The New Midwest, The New East Coast, and The New Pacific Northwest, will aim to highlight rising talent from places like Flint, Louisville, Columbus, Philadelphia, Boston, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Portland, Olympia, and more.<\/p>\n \u201cLaunching these three new regionally-focused playlists allows us to shine a light on the vibrant local communities producing some of the most progressive sounds in hip-hop,\u201d said Ebro Darden, Apple Music\u2019s Global Editorial Head of Hip-Hop and R&B. \u201cIt\u2019s always been a priority to connect with artists and listeners at the community level as we champion discovery and emerging artists from across the map.\u201d<\/p>\n Apple Music Hip Hop programmer Cyle \u201cZini\u201d Tahsini added: \u201cRegional hip hop scenes have only grown in importance over the years and we\u2019re confident these new playlists will help spotlight tomorrow\u2019s superstars by giving them a global platform. We\u2019re excited to accelerate discovery and connect artists with new fans.\u201d<\/p>\n Fans can now tune into the three shows\u00a0The New Midwest<\/a>,\u00a0The New East Coast<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The New Pacific Northwest<\/a>\u00a0now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Following the news of\u00a0Spotify launching a bunch of new playlists\u00a0to further meet the demands of Hip Hop listeners, Apple Music has also announced three new playlists in that area. This time, their focus is on three regions: Midwest, East Coast, and Pacific Northwest. The company notes that these three playlists: The New Midwest, The New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple","category-music-industry"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saiidzeidan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saiidzeidan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saiidzeidan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saiidzeidan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saiidzeidan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saiidzeidan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saiidzeidan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saiidzeidan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saiidzeidan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saiidzeidan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}