MC Serch Visits Juan Epstein

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Arguably one of the great Juan eps of all time. Serch tells stories of Slick Rick as a high school sophomore, meeting Russell Simmons in 1980, forming 3rd Bass, the death of Subroc (and subsequent birth of MF Doom), and his history with Nas. Epic! Check Serch doing his daytime talk thing weekdays at 4pm eastern!!

The LOX Speak On Macklemore, GRAMMYs

On the latest RapFix Live, The L-O-X were asked about a very retarded debate regarding Macklemore and Kendrick Lamar for this year’s GRAMMYs (out of the 7 nominations each artist has, they are competing for two: ‘Best New Artist’ and ‘Best Rap Album’. Some folks are not feeling Macklemore’s inclusion into the latter). According to the Yonkers trio, the money’s on Mack (now that I disagree with).

VIDEO: The People Vs. Mac Miller (Noisey)

Do you prefer old Mac or new Mac? We caught up with Mac Miller before his show in London and asked him to respond to some of the comments left on his music video “I Am Who Am (Killin’ Time)”. Who are his favourite white rappers? What happened to Mac? Did he fall off and start smoking crystal meth? Or is he the Adam Sandler of hip hop?

Pusha T Confirms Upcoming Clipse Album; No Malice Speaks On Reunion

It’s coming….that’s all I need to hear, but recently, No Malice has also added his input, stating that he will not regress when it comes to his music (as far as his faith is concerned):

“My brother and I are taking two different approaches to music…I’m very proud of the Clipse catalog. I really enjoyed that music and most of all, it’s made me who I am today. That’s not the kind of music I’m doing. I still hold out hope for a Clipse reunion. I really believe that we will be able to do it, but any music that I make is totally 100 percent going to glorify God. That’s what I do. That’s what I’m about. I’m still holding out hope that can happen.”

50 Cent Gives Feelings On G-Unit, Young Buck & The Game

International CES Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, America - 07 Jan 2014

50 Cent gave Complex a pretty in-depth interview during his time at CES; below is probably the best part of said interview.

We’re gonna cut to the chase on this one: What’s good with G-Unit right now?
G-Unit is something that I built, with the momentum of 50 Cent and the music I created. They had the opportunities. The object was to grow it outside from the people that was around me, but people change and won’t stay the same. As relationships grow older, everyone is off into their own little things. Unless you gonna hold them into the way they think like—“you better not think you gonna do something else,” like that—that was the Death Row motto. They kept them in check so they didn’t move out of the way. And if you don’t do that because you wanna see them grow to their highest potential, and they don’t want it: Where is it?

Tell me where’s the interest from G-Unit members. You got new guys out there that don’t have the support of record companies and are working, just to sustain and generate that energy that’s there. I like to collaborate with them, did it for a long time. Maybe there’s a point that we’ll come back together and make a disc. And whom do you mean when you say the whole G-Unit?

We can talk about the big three or the infamous five. Shoot.
It’ll never be five. That’ll never happen. I don’t even know if that’s possible because I don’t talk to them. I haven’t had communications with Young Buck since he been out of jail. I’ll never work with Game.

True. But you know Buck trying hard right now to get back in the game.
I hope he get it. But for me, I couldn’t move forward with the things that I want if I was concentrating on holding someone else back. Buck is out and active, but even when saying you seen him doing stuff: Where are the other members? See what I’m saying. You see the news and all the video stuff, I guess they expect me to shoot it and do it.

But let me ask you a question: How would you feel if you were a boss of a company, which you had to pay for, and the people who work for you switched to you work for them? If they are not moving and waiting for you to do it, that means you actually did the work. So it’s like, “you can call me when you’re ready to work for me.” If they are sustaining energy and building their own thing, we’re talking a different thing.

Jhené Aiko Reveals Album Release Date, Features For ‘Souled Out’

After taking a lengthy road trip with Drake on his Would You Like A Tour? in 2013 and receiving co-signs from the likes of LeBron James and hip hop favorites for her recently released Sail Out EP, Jhené Aiko isn’t getting comfortable anytime soon.

The petite songstress, who has already appeared on Drizzy’s Nothing Was The Same and J. Cole’s Born Sinner, is finalizing her solo debut Souled Out (via Artium/ Def Jam Records) and has finally put a time stamp on her highly anticipated project.

“May 2014. Souled Out,” she tells VIBE, smiling from ear-to-ear, before revealing a very special feature. “I have a song called “Premises” with my daughter Namiko Love. That, right now, is my favorite one.”

This isn’t the first time her 4-year-old daughter has laid down vocals for her momma. Namiko can faintly be heard on the 2011 mixtape that catapulted Jhené’s career, sailing soul(s).

But before the LP drops, the “Stay Ready” singer plans to deliver more eye candy. Watch her discuss pumping out more videos before the album’s release and her Sail Out EP in the full interview above. (Adelle Platon/VIBE)

T-Pain Speaks On Future Using AutoTune & Influencing Kanye West

From Vlad TV:

T-Pain clarified statements about Future not using auto-tune correctly, explaining that no other artist out right now knows the technology better than himself. He then begins to explain the history of why auto-tune was invented, which came from knowledge straight from the creator, whom he also met.

T-Pain also speaks about working with Kanye on “808’s & Heartbreaks’ in Hawaii, but admits he was upset over all the praise that Kanye got, because he felt that “Rapper Turned Singer” was the same album. When asked about working on Kanye’s “Good Life” track, T-Pain admits that it was one of the hardest songs he’s ever worked on.