At this year’s SXSW, we caught up with a number of artists to get their stories from the road. Rappers Lecrae, Trae Tha Truth, Casey Veggies, Skyzoo, Nyck Caution and Dee-1 all recalled funny, crazy or otherwise memorable experiences from their many road trips—from hitting a deer to taking a Greyhound cross country.
The Talks at Google program and Black Googlers Network (BGN) was proud to host Grammy-award winning recording artist and actress, Brandy, for an exclusive moderated talk and audience Q&A, in honor of BGN’s Black History Month, revolving around this year’s theme, “Mapping the Past, Searching the Present, and Inventing the Future.” On February 25, 2013, Brandy stopped by Google’s Mountain View, CA office to discuss her career in music and acting and how technology plays a major part in connecting Brandy with her fans.
Dunson links with Mickey Factz to shoot the visual for their record off Dunson’s debut mixtape Investment. If you not hip to Dunson, get on the train now or you will be left behind. Click the link and get his tape now.
The artwork was bad enough; this teaser completely freaks me out, One Missed Call-style. Sheesh.
On April 6th Future took over not only Compound Night Club, one of the hottest clubs in Atlanta but took over Atlanta itself with his rare home town performance. The city was on fire with the Final Four taking place in ATL this year.
I’m not particularly fond of Lore’l’s music, but those of you reality show addicts that check out her latest song, featuring Problem and produced by Buda Da Future and Grandz Muzik.
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Singer Morrissey has taken to The Daily Beast to pretty much breakdance on the recently deceased former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher‘s grave, writing a fairly scathing piece of how bad she was. You can read the full write-up (or write-down?) here…below is an excerpt:
Thatcher will only be fondly remembered by sentimentalists who did not suffer under her leadership, but the majority of British working people have forgotten her already, and the people of Argentina will be celebrating her death. As a matter of recorded fact, Thatcher was a terror without an atom of humanity.
As far as the rest of the UK, well….just take a look:
Taken from Mad News UK:
Yesterday The Daily Telegraph closed their online comment section because of the abuse aimed at Thatcher and a campaign to get the classic song from the Wizard Of Oz, ‘The Wicked Witch Is Dead’, to number 1 in the UK chart has been set up by a group of individuals on Facebook.
The Independent reports ‘that within 24 hours of the former Prime Minister’s death, the song had risen to number 9 in the iTunes best-sellers chart. It reached number 2 on the Amazon singles download chart. Sales figures for Monday, released by the Official Charts Company, showed that the song had already made it to number 54 in the rundown used by Radio 1. Also A song specifically written to attack Lady Thatcher, “Tramp The Dirt Down” by Elvis Costello, also rose to 79 on the iTunes chart.’
Produced by G Tank. Courtesy of The Grime Report:
Rival is back with this straight Grime banger ‘Recent Updates’ which see’s him spitting flames and addressing the Funky D situation.
Yungen has officially made his mark on the rap game with the release of his new mixtape Topic Of Discussion…after a thorough listen to the project, he definitely will be. You can check it out for yourself below (stream, tracklist and download link).
I’d expect more dates down the line, but for now you can check out the 3 available dates below, plus ticket info.
July:
Monday – 8th – O2 Academy Birmingham
Tuesday – 9th – O2 Manchester Apollo
Wednesday – 10th – O2 Academy Leeds
Tickets: [Live Nation – Ticketmaster]
The-Dream lets loose the title track to IV Play, which hits stores May 28th.
Alright so no offense to Visto (or PDP) but when I first saw this track I wasn’t really tryna post it based on the title alone, its a little too much for me. To be honest, it does sound like a hit and its definitely a eye-catching track.
Jay-Z has recently popped the top on Roc Nation Sports, and as a result, has a conflict of interest by owning an NBA franchise….so he’s apparently looking to remove his ownership. As reported by Yahoo:
Jay-Z – whose real name is Shawn Carter – owns less than 1 percent of the Nets, but has been a central public figure in the franchise’s marketing and move from New Jersey to Brooklyn.
Selling his share of the Nets is a necessary prelude for Jay-Z to obtain his National Basketball Players Association certification as an agent.
NBA rules mandate that no one individual affiliated with a player representation company can have an ownership stake with an NBA team.
Jay-Z’s Roc Nation company has partnered with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to launch a sports representation business that recently secured New York Yankees star Robinson Cano.
The process is expected to be completed in time for Roc Nation to compete for players entering the June NBA draft, but there’s no guarantee of the timing, sources said. Those within Roc Nation and the CAA alliance aren’t “chasing a clock on this,” one source said. “This isn’t about one draft, but taking the long view of the business.”
Rocko spoke with Ebro & K Foxx on what he has to do with his latest record due to the rape lyric controversy:
“Because of the type of traction that the record has as far as radio, it puts me in a position where I have to change it.
At the present moment, I have like six different verses from all types of different, talented artists, some multi-platinum. Some might have even have bigger accomplishments like Grammys and things of that nature.”
In addition to that, Rocko apparently has a well-suited replacements for the upcoming remix (which I hope we hear soon)….courtesy of a few artist’s Twitter accounts, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar & Trae are just a few of the rumoured collaborators….
I WONDER WHO'S GOING TO BE ON THE REMIX...... #UOENO#HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
— Rocko Da Don (@Rocko4Real) April 7, 2013
Cassie drops off her latest blend featuring Wiz Khalifa and taken from the upcoming mixtape #RockAByeBaby. This is pretty dope….she’s like another Rihanna now, really.
Young Buck keeps his name in the streets and on your computer screens with his latest visual for ‘Rubberband Banks’, courtesy of Charlie P.
Danny Brown has an important message for America before he leaves on tour.
Catch him rocking in a town near you, teaming up with Baauer for the “Worst Of Both Worlds” tour and headlining his own “Old & Reckless Tour” with special guest Kitty. And a little show called Coachella you might have heard of…
Originally premiered courtesy of Zane Lowe (BBC), TNGHT drops off a one track single to get the folks hype for the little mini-tour they’re about to embark on (check out the dates here).
Probably as a way to keep the forthcoming Home in your ears, Rudimental will be hitting the road come fall. Check out the dates below.
8th October – Leeds O2 Academy
11th October – Newcastle O2 Academy
14th October – Bristol O2 Academy
15th October – Bournemouth O2 Academy
17th October – Birmingham O2 Academy
18th October – London Brixton O2 Academy
Kendrick Lamar & ScHoolboy Q stop by Gangsta Grill Radio to speak on XXL’s Freshmen, MTV’s ‘Hottest’ list, Nas, Rick Ross & Lil’ Wayne lyrics and much more. Additional clips below (dope Fat Trel shoutout from Q in Part 3! We agree!).
Schoolboy Q talks about being better than everybody, his upcoming album, and his relationship with Kendrick Lamar.
Killer Mike hopefully got a nice check for getting featuring on the soundtrack to the upcoming video game Injustice: Gods Among Us.
Azealia Banks stops by to discuss her upcoming album and tells us how she deals with internet trolls. She also currently has the absolute BEST laugh in hip hop.
Produced by Show N Prove, Mystro’s Thomas Jules-assisted ‘You Ain’t Right’ is taken from her recent release Mystrogen.
