What You Were Lookin’ For: Weekend Playlist by Johnny Ciggs

by | Feb 8, 2019 | MUSIC

Every weekend, RVA Mag drops a banger of a playlist curated by influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This time around, we’ve got a playlist from Gritty City Records majordomo Johnny Ciggs, who has been rapping, producing, and curating some of the finest hip hop this city has produced for most of a decade now. His latest EP, Hotel Kanade, dropped last week, and now he’s bringing us a playlist full of hip hop, funk, soul, and R&B classics, plus a couple of totally random things thrown in there just to get your attention. This one will keep you moving all weekend.

Wake up, Virginia.

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