I feel like this is both a light jab from YMCMB as well as a test to see if Charlamagne Tha God can handle real artists from that camp (I’m not including Tyga for theoretical purposes). Anyways, Weezy & Baby’s daughters appeared on The Breakfast Club to speak on their new book Paparazzi Princesses. They also spoke on, well….living life as part of the Rich Gang.
Jesus, is Hov about to make his own phone now?
Jay-Z is about to ink a hugely lucrative deal with Samsung Mobile, sources tell Page Six. The contract is said to be worth as much as $20 million. One source said, “The eight-figure deal will be inked in the next few weeks, and is the biggest of its kind. You can speculate that he’ll want to develop some kind of new music-streaming service to promote his acts and music on mobile devices.”
In the third episode, J. Cole speaks on how he tried to sign Kendrick Lamar to Dreamville Records. He also speaks on how he had to give away a lot of his beats for free and more.
Those who go the iTunes route actually get two additional tracks. No Shame, No Regrets drops June 11th.
Today we get to hear a new joint from No Malice’s upcoming Hear Ye Him project.
Don’t Look Down is still set for a July 9th release….check out Skylar Grey’s latest single from the project.
L’Oreal has premiered their new ad featuring Beyonce, as well as her latest tune ‘Standing On The Sun’. Check it out above.
Ogz’ Hollowman Jendor drops a visual to what is easily one of my favourite Grime cuts as of late.
Taken from Big Pun’s son Chris Rivers’ Wonderland Of Mystery.
In the second episode, J. Cole talks about working with and competing with his former idols — like Jay-Z and Kanye West — and not needing featured rappers to sell his albums.
Previously: Episode 1
Big K.R.I.T. made a stop during his King Remembered In Time tour in Seattle, WA. While in Seattle, K.R.I.T. sat down with Sermons Domain and spoke on a number of topics, including what he has in store for his sophomore album, a possible collaboration project with Wiz Khalifa, why “I Got This (Remix)” was never made, collaborating with other producers and his outlook on his work so far.
Directed by John Boros….taken from Willie The Kid & Alchemist’s collaborative EP, Masterpiece Theater, available July 2013.
MMG is going with a full court press marketing plan for Self Made Vol. 3. Today, they will release 3 new videos from the 3 songs they released yesterday. Here’s the first video off the project from Wale, Lupe Fiasco and Rick Ross. Self Made Vol. 3 is in stores August 3rd.
Wale talks Gifted (including his recently released remix to ‘Bad’) with Sway on his morning show. Additional clips below.
According to NyDailyNews:
A Bronx deejay who busted out beats under the name “Tech Trackz” died on a stretch of city subway tracks Saturday morning as he tried to retrieve an iPhone he had dropped, officials said.
Police sources said Francisco Diego Jr., 22, was shocked and then hit by a No. 2 train at the Wakefield-241st St. station — the last stop on the line — just after 1 a.m.
Sources said Diego told a token booth clerk he had dropped his smart phone on the tracks. After the train entered the station he managed to get between two train cars and jumped onto the tracks. He was electrocuted when he touched the third rail, sources said.
Paramedics rushed the tragically injured Diego to Jacobi Medical Center, but he could not be saved.
The always-smiling spin master had just worked a Memorial Day bash at Maximo’s Place, a Bronx nightclub where he often hosted dance parties, according to his Facebook page.
While You Wait… is out now. Banco coming soon.
Deacon Jones, a prototype of the pass-rushing defensive end who became a master of the sack and one of the N.F.L.’s greatest defensive players with the Los Angeles Rams’ line known as the Fearsome Foursome, died on Monday in Anaheim Hills, Calif. He was 74.
His death was announced by the Washington Redskins through their general manager, Bruce Allen, whose father, George Allen, coached Jones with the Rams and Washington Redskins.
He had been treated for lung cancer and heart problems, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported in September 2009. Jones told the newspaper then that he had undergone lung surgery and had a pacemaker installed the previous May.
July 16th is the official release date for the next project from Mayer Hawthorne, who seems to have scored him a currently highly-coveted Kendrick Lamar feature (which we can’t wait to hear). Check out the tracklist below.
1. Problematization
2. Back Seat Lover
3. The Innocent
4. Allie Jones
5. The Only One
6. Wine Glass Woman
7. Her Favorite Song (with Jessie Ware)
8. Crime (with Kendrick Lamar)
9. Reach Out Richard
10. Corsican Rosé
11. Where Does This Door Go
12. Robot Love
13. The Stars Are Ours
14. All Better
Elliott Wilson continued his CRWN series last week with J. Cole at the Highline Ballroom. In the first installment, J. Cole talks about his new album Born Sinner and mixtapes vs. albums.
Dream McLean takes to the mic to perform Weatherman on MistaJam’s Daily Dose Special.
Someone call Captain Planet. Age Against The Machine drops August 27th.
Just Blaze and Young Guru sit down for an exclusive conversation on Hard Knock TV. The interview starts of with Young Guru asking Just Blaze about his new song Higher and about making transition from Hip Hop into EDM. Just Blaze says that he has always made electronic beats but that he didn’t always have a place to release those beats which were often ahead of their times. Now that the genre lines are so blurred it is seen as more acceptable to listen to everything. As the conversation continues Just Blaze says that now he is “comfortable doing whatever it is I want…I’m comfortable playing what I want, I’m comfortable wearing what I want and just being me as an individual…not that I wasn’t comfortable with who I am but I was definitely doing a keeping up with the Jones kind of thing…I had to have a fresher jersey than Dame but meanwhile Dame was getting them for free from Mitchell & Ness cause he is Dame Dash and I had to pay $500 for it and I had to this every day for years straight…”
Young Guru tells Just Blaze that one of the biggest things that he had learned from him was to construct the record in his head before he sampled the parts. Guru talks about the making of Jay-Z’s Song Cry and that when he first heard the sample Just Blaze was going to use he thought it sounded off but that after Jay-Z laid his verse to the raw beat at night, they came back in the morning and it sounded like a masterpiece after Just Blaze was done building the track. That day Jay called 2-3 producers and told them that they were not on Just Blaze’s level.
Just Blaze continues by telling Guru how Jay’s Girls, Girls, Girls was originally intended for Ghostface and how Busta Rhymes originally heard You don’t Know and he wanted it for himself.
Courtesy of The Grime Report:
Rage from Slew Dem and Dogz from Street Souls drop some serious heat in thie exclusive Grime Report Freestyle over a new Skitz Beats instrumental.
