Home For the Holidays, Love Renaissance (LVRN/Interscope)

Love Renaissance is actually a hip-hop record label (correct name LVRN) based in Atlanta, GA, and this 2020 holiday EP features members of the label roster on six repurposed Christmas tunes. Artists 6LACK and Summer Walker start things off with "Ghetto Christmas," a modernized take on James Brown's "Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto," Young Rog & Shelley FKA DRAM take on Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad," OMB Bloodbath & Westside Boogie do a slightly profane version of "12 Days of Bhristmas" (that's how they spelled it, and don't think spellcheck didn't yell at me), Summer Walker does a slow-jam "Santa Baby," Eli Derby does a mellow take on Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas," and Shelley FKA DRAM returns on a fairly traditional reading of "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts)." Kitty Ca$h contributes a few short song intros that are indexed as individual cuts. All told, a listenable, if short, collection of holiday tunes in a modern style. Grab it from Amazon by clicking the cover.