YP over a C-Sick beat, one of my favorite combinations, shot by the hard working D Gainz.
Old White Man Keeps It Real About Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin Case
Dude. Just press play. PLEASE.
KRivers (@KRiversUMG) – 2003
KRivers is a talented rapper from the Delaware crew Union Music Group. “2003” is a funky tune with hard rhymes, so you can’t really go wrong with taking a listen. Download here.
Chief Keef – April Fools (Video)
It seems like the higher the frequency of songs and videos Chief Keef puts out, the lower the quality of his songs and videos become. Just my opinion.
Panama (@itspanamababy) – Against The Wall
Panama has another song off of The Panama Canal, out this August. As he put it himself; “The industry may try to block you out but when you are real with yourself no one can diminish you or your brand.”
Brianna Perry Feat. T-Pain – Mascara Tears (Video)
Poe Boy’s 1st lady drops her latest video from Symphony No. 9. I’m definitely feeling this one.
ScHoolboy Q Speaks On Meeting Eminem
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From MTV:
Sure Schoolboy Q would love a verse from Eminem, but that wasn’t the purpose of Black Hippy’s meet-up with Slim Shady.
“We weren’t trying to go in there all, ‘Oh let me get a verse.’ We hate when people do that to us, so we actually wanted to go in there and be cool and feel him out and see what was going on before anybody asked for a verse,” Q told us of his June in-studio meeting with Em.
Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, Royce da 5’9,” Mr. Porter, Schoolboy and of course Eminem all linked up in Detroit. Fans — and news writers — hoped that there was an all-star recording session, but it was more of a hangout. “We just sat there, we chilled, we talked. We expressed what we liked about each other’s music, we talked about Slaughterhouse, we talked about his artists, we talked about us individually. He’s just a good dude, just chillin’,” Q said.
DJ Kay Slay – The Last Champion (Mixtape)
The latest from the Drama King features the typical New Yorkers (Papoose, Mysonne, Torch, Busta Rhymes, etc.) as well as Big K.R.I.T., Tone Trump, Trae Tha Truth, Kevin Gates and more. Stream, tracklisting and download below.
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – Everything 100
Back together again, we now get a new track from Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (all 5 of them). This record is certainly a strong one.
Dead Players – Yeah (Video)
Funny video (you can purchase the single here). Courtesy of High Focus Records:
50 Cent On His Next Album: “I Want The Record To Be Right.”
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Boo Boo tries to explain to MTV why he hasn’t put an album out in 4 years. It’s okay, 50.
Twizzle (@TwizzleSG) – Maniac
West London rapper Twizzle, is back with brand new single ‘Maniac’ set for release on 26 August 2013. Twizzle’s last mixtape release ‘The End is Near’ featured Wiz Khalifa and Chiddy Bang, and followed his Radio 1 backed 2010 single; ‘SkyDiving’.
Sabotage (@SabotageArtist) – Watch Me (Video)
Check out the latest visual from Watford-repping MC Sabotage.
ARTWORK/TRACKLISTING: John Legend – Love In The Future
Love In The Future officially drops September 3rd. You can check out the tracklisting below.
1. “Love in the Future (Intro)”
2. “The Beginning…”
3. “Open Your Eyes”
4. “Made to Love”
5. “Who Do We Think We Are” feat. Rick Ross
6. “All of Me”
7. “Hold on Longer”
8. “Save the Night”
9. “Tomorrow”
10. “What If I Told You? (Interlude)”
11. “Dreams”
12. “Wanna Be Loved”
13. “Angel (Interlude)” feat. Stacy Barthe
14. “You & I (Nobody in the World)”
15. “Asylum”
16. “Caught Up”
Deluxe Version Bonus Tracks
17. “So Gone”
18. “We Loved It” feat. Seal
19. “Aim High”
20. “For the First Time”
Fat Trel Signs To MMG/Roc Nation
Yesterday I got word that Fat Trel was signing a deal with through MMG/Roc Nation. Debo — who is Fat Trel’s manager — posted a picture on his Instagram of the contract. We have to wait for the official announcement from Ross & MMG, but congrats to Trel & his whole team. I’m also hearing that Roc Nation will come on board as management.
Congrats 2 my brother @FATTREL on his partnership w MMG u deserve everything coming 2 u @DEBO155 congrats #love sbsb lifer x smokers club
— Least Talented (@jonnyshipes) July 12, 2013
WTF: MSNBC Shows Trayvon Martin’s Dead Body For The World To See
You can read the full write-up over at Gawker (where we came across this)….I don’t really have any words for this.
Other major news media outlets (like the Huffington Post) have also revealed less-graphic crime scene photos (I’m guessing that these were all revealed during the trial), which you can check out below at the bottom of this post, if you care to do so:
A reader of mine sent me this photo last night. As the murder trial of George Zimmerman wheezes to its conclusion, the TV networks dutifully pipe in live pool video from the courtroom, as if it is force-fed to them and they have no choice but to excrete it, soft and undigested, into our living rooms, bedrooms, offices. Sometimes, the pool recorder or the networks’ producers don’t switch to a mundane image of lawyers being lawyerly quite fast enough, and we get to see snippets of the human cruelty, stupidity, and frailty that occasion trials such as this.
This is Trayvon Martin’s body. These are the last skinny jeans he wore, cuffed once at the bottoms. These are his stylish kicks, his sockless ankles. There are Trayvon’s taut neck, his slack jaw, his open eyes.
This is what happens. Not just when we input “black” and “teen” and “hoodie” and “night” into our onboard computers and output “DANGER,” but also when we find the aftermath Newsworthy, and must consume it voraciously from start to finish, but insist that we cannot stomach seeing the bones and gristle on our plates.
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Harry Styles Surprises Ke$ha During Live Interview
One Direction member Harry Styles decided to surprise Ke$ha while she was in the middle of an interview over at BBC Radio (she apparently thinks “he has a good mouth”…..her words, not mines). There was also glitter.
Royal (@RoyalFDP) – Wait For Me (Video)
‘Wait For Me’ is a new release from Kings Of The City’s Royal.
Inside The BOX.: Turk
AMxPLUGG from JUKEBOX:DC sits down with Turk for an exclusive interview and speaks on serving time in jail, his relationship with the Hot Boys and releasing two mixtapes since being home. He also spoke on Lil’ Boosie, his new artists and new management, how he got the name Turk, Lil’ Snupe and more.
Wale, Fat Trel x Black Cobain On Sway In The Morning
Wale stopped by Shade 45 on Tuesday, bringing along Fat Trel & Black Cobain. Sway starts the interview off by giving him props for his number #1 album. Wale then sat back and let Sway talk to Fat Trel & Black Cobain for a second. Wale ends the first part of the interview with an in-studio performance of his single ‘Love Hate Thing’. Part 2 should be dropping soon.
Rick Ross Performs ‘FuckWitMeYouKnowIGotIt’ At Mansion
Rick Ross performs ‘FuckWitMeYouKnowIGotIt’ off Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail, live at Mansion Nightclub in Miami.
Kanye Goes Off On Paparazzi At LAX
Kanye went off on a TMZ photographer today at LAX airport; this was after the camera man gave him props on Yeezus. Once the pap asked about Watch The Throne 2, Kanye then charged the photog.
“Don’t talk … don’t talk to me … I don’t want to hear paparazzi talk to me or anybody I know … and tell everybody never talk to anyone that anyone knows … don’t talk to themselves .. DON’T TALK EVER AGAIN.”