Kings of Leon plans to drop their sixth album Mechanical Bull next week alongside Drake, Elton John and Cher. Today, you can listen to the album on iTunes before it hits the stores next week via RCA Records. Kings Of Leon are one of my favorite bands out now….I look forward to this album. Listen to the stream right here.
The good people over at Fake Shore Drive got their hands on an unreleased Kanye West verse and beat, which he later gave to Trina for a song she did with Ludacris called “B R Right” off her sophomore album. Before this became a hit single, Kanye West first gave it to a singer named Myleka, which you can check out below.
Mike WiLL Made It stopped by The Breakfast Club this morning to announce that he has signed an imprint deal with Interscope Records. He also spoke on his upcoming projects, working with big artists, his new single ’23′, cleared up the rumors of dating Miley Cyrus and more.
Kathy Perry gives her man the ultimatum on her new single with her trippy friend Juicy J off her upcoming album Prism, which drops October 22nd.
Khalif da Menace drops a new video for “Call Me Menace”, produced by Ceezy. “Shot in Khalif’s childhood neighborhood, Old 4th Ward, Atlanta.”
Frances Capell did a great interview with Yung Gleesh while he was up in New York City recently;
By his late teens, Gleesh had already achieved local celebrity status playing percussion in the GoGo group TOB, which is commemorated by a tattoo on his right bicep. “Do you know how big that was? That was our Hollywood,” he says. “If you was in the band, you was Jay-Z and them.” In those days, Gleesh was known as Boogie, a more laid-back version of the self-described “shitbag” he later became. “With Boogie, I just smoked weed, minded my business, didn’t say too much,” he says. “After Boogie, I started hustling and making money. You would think Gleesh would be my most chill phase. No, that was my most ratchet, shitbag phase.” He pulls down his ski mask so only his almond-shaped eyes are visible. “When I ain’t got nothing and ain’t nobody doing nothing for me, I’m shitbag shawty and I’m coming for your ass.”
Read the whole interview here.
The below exchange is taken from Oyster Magazine:
Zac Bayly: Where are you right now?
Frank Ocean: I’m at a store for pants.What kind of pants are you buying?
Pants that hide my legs and my privates.Those are usually the best kinds of pants.
[Laughs] They are.I hate shopping for pants. It’s the hardest thing in the world!
Yeah, you can’t just go and buy new pants. And then, when you discover the pants, it’s this euphoric feeling all throughout your body, because you know you found the right pants [laughs].—
Frank Ocean: …You know, I didn’t ever have a disciplinarian in my creative life. As a young person I didn’t have — for lack of a better word — I didn’t have a Joe Jackson in my family. I didn’t have that sort of overbearing stage-parent… Or, even, I didn’t even have a parent who encouraged what I did in that way. And — don’t bring out the string section. It’s not really sad — what it did foster is… Well, my attitude was pure. I love to make music, and I love to write. It was writing first. I love to write and express myself in that medium, so that was the pure part — just the love of doing something, but there was also this fantasy of what the lifestyle would be and what the trappings of success would be. There are different little montage clips that you make up in your mind, like what a day in the life would be like once you’re a fully grown whatever-you’re-going-to-become, you know?
Zac Bayly: Yeah. I think every decision I make in life is based on a montage that I see in my head.
Frank Ocean: Yeah — yeah. I think that was me, but there was a transition — and it wasn’t like I just woke up and had an epiphany, but it was a transition where I began to realise that if I didn’t really begin to focus on the work, I couldn’t see any way for me to become who I wanted to become. It just wasn’t gonna happen. And then somewhere in that time of my life it was like… Instead of wanting to get to a certain level of fame or how much liquid assets I had under my name, it was more like, “How well can I develop my skill set?” You know? “How far can I push my creativity? If I’m gonna do this — if I’m gonna be a singer/songwriter — then OK, I’m a singer/songwriter, but how can I be the best?”—
Frank Ocean: …What’s your middle name?
Zac Bayly: My middle name?
Yes.My full name is Zachary Cameron Bayly.
Zachary Cameron Bayly. There was a bully in my elementary school named Bailey.Bailey?
At my middle school, actually.I wasn’t him. I’m not a bully.
[Laughs] I didn’t get bullied, but he was a bully. I was never a bully.What were you like in school?
I was a thug. I sold a lot of cocaine and crack.You sold cocaine and crack?
All the time.Really?
Yup.I was not as cool as you.
You weren’t as cool as me?I was reading Harry Potter.
Harry Potter is good.Wait — so you were reading Harry Potter and selling crack?
Um…
Read the full interview in Oyster #103: The Hang Out In Real Life Issue, on stands today!
Radar Online reports:
Now, as she and Kanye West enjoy their first months as new parents to North West and with the rest of her family under siege, it’s emerged that the E! reality star has made a stunning and surprising break – hiring a new publicist in a “bid to distance herself from her family melodrama,” according to the New York Post.
“Kim wants to set herself apart from the Kardashian p.r. machine and Kanye West advised her to build her own team,” an insider said, revealing the 32-year-old has hired Ina Treciokas as her mouthpiece, whose clientele includes Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson, Liev Schreiber and Justin Theroux.
She axed PMK*BNC’s Jill Fritzo, who has tirelessly represented her siblings for years.
A source tells RadarOnline.com: “Kim is letting Kanye revamp her entire lifestyle right now and she’s loving the changes he’s making, but she is still the same old schemer that she’s always been!”
Explaining the jab, the source said the hip-hop star’s well-heeled plans to turn his baby mama into an A-lister could be thwarted by just one person – Kim herself!
“Kim isn’t going to ever stop secretly texting the paparazzi or the people she knows that can help her stay famous,” the insider told Radar.
“Kanye would be really mad if he knew that she’s doing it, but Kim is still texting with paparazoos and talking to people that she knows will get her side of any story out.”
Said the source: “Kim knows what made and kept her famous. She isn’t going stop doing what she does, which is stay in the spotlight — and that’s no matter what she tells Kanye.”
Drake’s new album Nothing Was The Same is set to hit the stores on Tuesday, but leaked on the internet last night. On one of the tracks on the album, Drake seems to responde to Kendrick Lamar for his verse on Big Sean’s ‘Control’. You can read the lyrics below.
I don’t know why they been lying but yo !! is not that inspiring
Bank account statements just look like I’m ready for early retirement
!! any nicca that’s talkin’ that !! just to get a reaction
!! going platinum, I looked at my wrist and it’s already platinum
I am the kid with the motor mouth
I am the one that you should worry about
I don’t know who you’re referring to, who is this nicca you heard about?
Someone just talking that bull!!, someone just gave you the run-around
niccas downplaying the money but that’s what you do when the money down
I don’t waste time putting money down
I just go straight to who got it and buy it in cash
!! so good that you gotta come see me on tour and you gotta fly in first cla##
This has been years in the making, it’s all for the city
You know I come right every summer, Cash Money Records forever
I’m always big timin’ !! I came up right under Stunna
You know it
After parting ways with Fat Trel, Dakari “P” is back on the new music scene with a new group FU ( Worm x Moll Kush). He speaks on how he met Fat Trel, addressed stealing from Fat Trel, shows off his new studio and previews his new group’s video Damn which drops on Thursday.
I don’t love no hoes, so me and Chief Keef got one thing in common.
Chief Keef gives us a preview of a new song entitled ‘Love No Thotties’. I’m not sure where this shit will end up, but maybe Chief Keef has a new tape dropping soon. Directed by Zae.
Rick Ross has announced that he is heading on tour this year and will be performing with the 1500 or Nothin Band. The Mastermind tour is set to start on November 12th in Detroit and will end on November 23rd in Miami. No release date has been set for his Mastermind album yet.
Check out the tour dates below.
Nov. 12 – Detroit, MI – Masonic Temple Theatre
Nov. 14 – Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre
Nov. 15 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
Nov. 16 – Mashantucket, CT – MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods
Nov. 17 – Washington, DC – DAR Constitution Hall
Nov. 20 – Atlanta, GA – Fox Theater
Nov. 22 – St. Petersburg, FL – Mahaffey Theatre
Nov. 23 – Miami, FL – James L. Knight Center
As Pusha T prepares for the release of his new album, he lets go of another record off his upcoming album My Name Is My Name which is set to drop on October 8th. Funkmaster Flex got the green light to premiere Pusha’s new single. Produced by Nottz.
Katy B’s next album is on the way; in the meantime, you can enjoy her latest single from said project.
This serves as the intro to the highly anticipated Old, which drops September 30th.
More fun with collaborators Daft Punk, Pharrell and Nile Rodgers….taken from Random Access Memories, out now.
Perhaps I’m losing it, but there’s a gap in this video. Nonetheless, Spare Parts II is out now.
So, for whatever reason, Azealia Banks has decided to release the first single to her sophomore album Fantasea II: The Second Wave (which drops July 11th of next year) before her debut album Broke With Expensive Taste has even been released. Alright.
Iggy Azalea wears her birthday suit for the October/November cover (1 of 2) for Complex. Read an except from her Q&A, as well as behind the scenes footage, below.
On the next page (below), you can check out Chance The Rapper’s feature and cover.
You’ve been fortunate to be around veterans like T.I. at Grand Hustle Records and Nas, who you toured with. What are the greatest lessons they’ve taught you?
Nas encourages me to take risks. He’s made me be less afraid and even more unapologetic. Even with “Bounce,” I was like, “It’s a pop record. I don’t know.” He was like, “Just fucking do it. It’s something different. It’s one song, what’s the big deal?” I couldn’t believe Nas was telling me to do a hip-pop record. The thing that I learned from both of them is to be unaffected by everything. There were a lot of sad days in that studio, and T.I. would be like, “Look, shawty…” and give me a spiel about how he went to prison and if something’s not going to send you to prison or kill you, you shouldn’t worry about it. Career-wise, I used to compete with certain other people I had issues with. He sat me down and said, “You run your own race, like you’re a horse and you have blinders on. Don’t look at who’s on either side of you or who’s coming up.” That’s helped me a lot because even last year a lot of people would have chalked me up and said I was a wrap. I sometimes feel like I’m the turtle and other people are the hare. They win their race and finish or burn out and I just slowly run my own race. It works out in the end.
