Almost exactly a year after we highlighted New York emcee, Kota the Friend, as one of our always very popular New Artist Spotlight features. Dropping his pretty stellar debut album, FOTO, a few weeks later. He’s now back again with a new single, BQE and the announcement of his sure to be highly-anticipated sophomore solo album, EVERYTHING. Which will be dropping three weeks from today on May 22nd. Kota recruiting fellow N.Y. spitters, Joey Bada$$ and Bas. Having the following to say about the track, “BQE is a song for my hometown. It’s about the come up and pushing through no matter what. I think what we did with this track was show New York that this too is what the city sounds like.”