French Montana had to have had more time than this video makes it appear to have come up with a joke that awesome.
@SalomonFaye – Alchemy (Video)
A new video from the creative and relatively unknown New Yorker Salomon Faye.
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UPDATE: @TinieTempah Performs At Wireless Festival
UPDATE: Some additional footage, courtesy of Tinie himself, below.
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Tinie Tempah performs his new hit, ‘Trampoline‘ (yea the song that Wiley doesn’t like), for the first time at this year’s Wireless Festival. Turn up.
Z-Ro (@ZROMOCITYDON) – Tripolar (EP)
New Z-Ro is hard to find now that Rap-A-Lot is essentially blacklisting the Houston Legend. Here is a stream of his latest project, Tripolar, which has had release delays because of the problem I mentioned above.
Midas Touch – Special Vibe (Video) (@AKSonline @JTheExodus @PhoenixDaFire)
Watch the brand new video from South East London Hip-Hop collective Midas Touch for ‘Special Vibe’, produced by Blackmale Beats. You can download the track here.
Drake & Kanye West Unite (Revolt TV)
You can check out plenty more performance footage from OVO Fest here.
Shakes (@Shake_Shakey) – 2013 @TheGrimeReport Freestyle
Shakes from South London gives us some hardcore bars in this freestyle, look out for more from Shakes coming soon.
Nipsey Hussle – Change Nothing
Another new Nipsey track, with production team 1500 Or Nothin’.
Naledge Feat. GLC – Shake Em Up
Naledge will be bringing back an updated version of Brain Power, and the below track with appear on the project’s re-release.
2 Chainz Performs (With The Roots) On ‘Fallon’
The Roots make every live song better, man. Above, 2 Chainz rocks with the band for ‘Feds Watching’.
ARTWORK/TRACKLISTING: Tamar Braxton – Love & War
Tamar Braxton’s Love & War drops September 3rd…..the tracklisting is below.
1. The One
2. Tip Toe
3. Stay and Fight
4. Love and War
5. All the Way Home
6. One on One Fun
7. She Did That (Interlude)
8. Hot Sugar
9. Pieces
10. Where It Hurts
11. Prettiest Girl
12. Sound of Love
13. White Candle
14. Thank You Lord
ALBUM STREAM: K. Michelle – Rebellious Soul
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VH1 blesses us with a full album stream for K. Michelle’s Rebellious Soul, which drops next week (August 13th).
DMC Visits The Combat Jack Show
The King Of Rock, Darryl McDaniels, raps harder than he ever did on this episode, spitting about coming up under the influence of the Cold Crush and the Furious Five, the rise of Run-DMC, the GOAT rap group, alcoholism, being an orphan, the death of Jam Master Jay and the eventual break up of the group. He also talks about his lifelong love for comic books and how he’s about to publish his own under his Darryl Makes Comics company. This interview is guaranteed tougher than leather.
Chief Keef – Morgan Tracy (Video)
This is apparently supposed to be an ode to Tracy Morgan. Alright, I’ll go with that one.
Jason Derulo Feat. 2 Chainz – Talk Dirty (Video)
This is pretty dope. Tattoos drops September 24th.
Lupe Fiasco Announces Yet Another Album, With Release Date & Lyrics
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What happened to Tetsuo & Youth? Now, Lupe has announced that he will be dropping a new album, titled Peace Of Paper/Cup Of Jayzus, on September 11th. In addition, he’s brought out some lyrics that will make up concepts for the album; you can check those out above.
Big Boi Will Be Joining ‘Celebrity Big Brother’
I think this will officially mark the end of Big Boi’s legendary career as we know it. From MSN:
Outkast rapper Big Boi is set to follow in the footsteps of fellow hip-hop stars Coolio and Sisqo after signing up to appear in the latest series of the U.K.’s “Celebrity Big Brother.”
The star, real name Antwan Patton, has inked a $450,000 deal with bosses at Britain’s Channel 5 network to join the fly-on-the wall reality TV show, which will begin airing later this month.
A source tells Britain’s the Sun, “Producers always like to mix things up with an American star and they hope Big Boi will do the business this year.”
Big Boi will join other celebrity contestants including Five singer Abz Love and model Sophie Anderton. Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, is also reportedly on board for the 12th season of the show.
ARTWORK: 2 Chainz – B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time
2 Chainz returns to DONDA for his latest artwork. Based On A T.R.U. Story II: Me Time drops September 10th.
PICS/VIDEO: Rihanna Gets Down & Dirty At Barbados’ Crop Over Festival
Rihanna was partying until the morning in her home island of Barbados for this year’s Crop Over Festival. Video footage is above but you definitely want to see the pics below. Who’s trying to go next year?
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Chris Brown Might Be Retiring After ‘X’
Above, it looks as if Chris Brown has finally become jaded to the point of retirement….for someone in his prime with so many more years in his career to go (especially after that beating incident with Rihanna), it kind of surprising. I suppose we will see what he does following X‘s release.
Ted Nugent Feels That Trayvon Martin Got What He Deserved
Aw, man. From Huffington Post:
In an interview aired on Maine’s WGAN Saturday, the 64-year-old Detriot native mentioned Martin when the discussion turned to recent protests of his New Haven, Conn., concert, according to the New Haven Register. Protests were planned in response to Nugent’s recent description of Martin as a “dope smoking, racist gangsta wannabe,” Hartford’s WFSB reported. Thousands have signed a petition asking Toad’s Place in New Haven to cancel the Aug. 6 show.
On Saturday, he doubled down on those very comments.
“Trayvon got justice,” he said, according to the Register. He reportedly added that the 17-year-old was a “gangsta wannabe” who had a “bloodthirst,” a quality he claims is supported by the fact Martin was eager to “get into fights with people.”
Last month, the “Motor City Madman” made headlines for comments he made about the Zimmerman trial in an op-ed for conservative news site, Rare.us. Nugent wrote that Zimmerman should sue Martin’s family for emotional suffering.
“Trayvon Martin’s vicious attack on George Zimmerman and Martin’s tragic death have no doubt surely dragged Mr. Zimmerman through 18 months of untold emotional hell, pain, distress, anguish, fatigue, nightmares and financial ruin,” he wrote. “Again, following the narrative of the pro-Trayvon media types and other race-baiters, if Trayvon Martin was a minor, then Trayvon Martin’s parents may be held liable for the emotional pain and suffering Mr. Zimmerman has been put through for the past 18 months, and surely for the rest of his life.”
Still, Nugent has insisted he is “anti-racist.”