Mike Dean Drops “SMOKE STATE 42222,” Loaded With Meditative New Instrumentals

Mike Dean released “4:20” two years ago, and now the Grammy Award winner has returned with more enchanting instrumentals.

BYHayley Hynes
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Back in 2020, Grammy Award-winning producer Mike Dean delivered an all-instrumental album which he dubbed 4:20, and a year later, he returned with 4:22. This time around, he's gone for more of a meditative vibe on his latest project, Smoke State 42222. 

Ahead of the work's arrival, Dean gave a hint of what could possibly be coming during an interview, stating, "I haven’t even made any plans whatsoever, but I think tonight I’m going to find a couple of things, and I’m just going to do a drop like Thursday night of a couple of tracks."


"It’s four, roughly two-minute tracks made up of four music tracks, three synths and a bass pad. So tracks five to 20 are stems of the first four, so people can download them and put in Garage Band or Ableton and do remixes. Each sound isolated," the 57-year-old explained of his latest arrival to HipHopDX.  

In other Mike Dean news, earlier this month he was hit with some serious hate from angry BTS fans after he trolled them online – read more about that here, and let us know what your thoughts on  

Tracklist:

1. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 1

2. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 2

3. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 3

4. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 4

5. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 1 STEM 1 (INITIALLY BLANK)

6. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 2 STEM 1

7. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 3 STEM 1

8. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 4 STEM 1

9. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 1 STEM 2

10. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 2 STEM 2

11. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 3 STEM 2

12. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 4 STEM 2

13. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 1 STEM 3

14. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 2 STEM 3

15. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 3 STEM 3

16. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 4 STEM 3

17. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 1 STEM 4

18. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 2 STEM 4

19. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 3 STEM 4

20. SMOKE STATE CHAPTER 4 STEM 4

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Hayley Hynes is the Weekend Managing Editor of HotNewHipHop, and has been since 2021. She began writing for the website that same year, primarily covering content in the Music, Pop Culture, and Streetwear niches after graduating from Vancouver’s Blanche Macdonald Centre with a Fashion Marketing Diploma. She previously reported on Travel, Entertainment, Beauty, and News at Narcity Canada for over three years. Hayley has also contributed articles and interviews within these realms to Folklr Magazine and the Calgary Journal while studying Journalism at Mount Royal University. In her spare time, she freelances for Bandbox Vinyl, having already interviewed hip-hop icons like Atmosphere and explored Syd’s discography. Hayley also uses her expansive pop culture knowledge and passion for astrology/self-enhancement to help others explore their curiosity in an ongoing Instagram video series. Among her favourite hip-hop artists are A$AP Rocky, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Nicki Minaj, and Mac Miller.