Who is thy? That’s King Louie from the Chi, who is far from the fictional character in Disney’s 1967 animated musical adaptation of The Jungle Book. King L, who was known to run the Chicago streets since before he was literally hit by a car, met up with Eric and Jeff Rosenthal from ItsTheReal during CMJ Week in New York City, to discuss Dave Matthews Band, Bootsy Collins’ Rubber Band, and Robin Hood’s Band of Merry Men.
For the latest episode of SoulCulture TV’s collaborative series The Co-Sign, we paired emerging UK talent Josh Kumra with Mr Hudson
Machine Gun Kelly takes Mac Miller’s ‘Loud’ and makes it ‘LoudER’. Simple enough.
[audio:https://jukeboxdc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/LoudER-Freestyle.mp3]Darq E Freaker & Boyadee represent Nu Brand Flexx in their latest visual.
The song that they created is titled ‘Gimme That’ and was done for Yours Truly & Adidas Originals’ Songs From Scratch series. We should be seeing the finished track soon.
Excellent producer, though there isn’t much depth to his lyrical ability. From his Legend Era mixtape.
Check out the newest #BeatsArmy member, Azealia Banks as she talks about what’s most important to her as an artist, what 212 means to her and Beyonce.
It’s hard to pick out favorites from a album such a Kendick Lamar’s good kid, M.A.A.D City, but these two tracks very definitely favorites of mine*:
FweshlyDipped links up with producers DJ Dahi and Rahki to find out how they created their dope contributions to Kendrick Lamar’s major label debut album ‘Good Kid M.A.A.D. City’.
*’Black Boy Fly’ was co-produced by Dawaun Parker.
Wale & his MMG family made a stop on their MMG tour last sunday at Penn State. JL from JUKEBOXDC was on hand and filmed the show as well as a behind-the-scenes with Wale. We see you The Game.
I would say that is pretty weird, even by Chester French’s standards:
Directed by and Starring Niko Da Ikon. Check out the video for the first true slow jam from Chester French from the album MUSIC 4 TNGRS.
Crooked I brings along his young guns to Soul Assassins radio for some serious bars.
On a cold and rainy Saturday morning, rubyhornet.com’s EIC, Alexander Fruchter, sat down for coffee with The Rza. The two discussed Rza’s new movie, “The Man With The Iron Fist” and how his years with Wu-Tang prepared him for his directorial debut.
Real talk: it’s difficult to avoid the infectious sound of RudeBoy in you happen to be in the D.C. area. Definitely interesting to see what he has to offer on upcoming projects. The above track is produced by Shelomon “Shai” Graves.
The man formerly known ar Mr. Drastick meets up with ComplexDS to speaks on women, his career, picking up the camera and more.
Above, Ne-Yo performs his platinum R&B sellout hit ‘Let Me Love You’ on The Ellen Show.
Ne-Yo is really trying to push his new sound to the masses, though possibly with some setback; his new album R.E.D. is project to sell about 60,000 copies in its first week, which is about half as Libra Scale. Another theory is possible: that the idiot decided to name is album R.E.D., which obviously holds similarites to The Game’s The R.E.D. Album and current competitor Taylor Swift’s Red, which has already sold well over a million copies in two weeks.
The 2012 UK Hip-Hop Awards will take place at The Tabernacle in Notting Hill on Sunday, 25th November. The above trailer features shoutouts from Freski, Immortal Technique, Dolby D, Funky DL, Pesci and Crossfade. You can get more info on the event here.
Yo, Bun B really has a lot of time on his hands, and I have to say this is stomach cramping hilarious. The UGK legend has hooked up with the obviously dope illustrator Shea Serrano to create a Hip-Hop coloring book of sorts for adults. You can check out a few pictures here and then head over to the official Tumblr to see more.
Some fairly humourous footage of Sneakbo and Jetski Wave touring in Dublin.
From the brand new album ‘Ten‘, a collection of Girls Aloud’s greatest hits plus four new songs.
Ludacris has been working on his new album Ludaversal for 2 years. He’s already dropped the singles “Jingalin” and “Representing” featuring Kelly Rowland, and now he has released an EDM-heavy single “Rest of My Life”. In the latest episode of The Truth, Rap Radar’s Elliott Wilson asks whether Ludacris might be trying too hard. Watch it and let us know what you think.
I’m pretty sure that you have to actually be on drugs to truly enjoy this. I am also pretty sure that I can tell when Lex Luger decides to use a throwaway beat.
I can’t even fake, these three WENT IN over a classic Mobb Deep instrumental while in London with Tim Westwood.
