The Trillectro Music Festival founders Modi Oyewole and Quinn Coleman sat down with Global Grind to break down the meaning behind Trillectro, how they came up with the idea for a new music festival in D.C. and what fans should expect at this year’s festival.
Foxy Brown made her RapFix debut yesterday, and while there she explains the reason she didn’t join Fab at Summer Jam. She says Lil’ Kim was added last minute and she didn’t come out because their well-documented issues. Below, she breaks down after some wise words from Big Daddy Kane.
Prodigy and Alchemist discuss the pros and cons of New York versus LA.
While in London, Georgia emcee Waka Flocka stopped through Bang Radio for their Tuesday Night Link Up series.
In the third and final installment of our interview, Mac talks to Nick Huff Barili about how he feels that Schoolboy Q’s up coming album is better than any TDE releases to date, including Kendrick Lamar’s GKMC. Mac back pedals on the statement a bit saying that he wants to support his homie Q and that he made the statement to help raise awareness for Schoolboy Q’s new album. Whether he really believes its better than Kendricks….we will let you come up with your own conclusions. Mac also talks about the current tour he is on and how he picked everyone involved, saying that its his favorite tour so far. Up next for Mac is an up coming tour in Europe with Lil Wayne and 2 Chains. Mac says he doesn’t know if the crowd will even recognize him but that it will be fun regardless. Mac talks about getting dap from Wayne at the MTV awards which he said felt authentic. Nick asks Mac about his project with Jazzy Jeff called 92 Til infinity, which Mac says is still in the works. The interview ends with Mac talking about how this generation needs to be better at revolution and references a documentary he saw about US Propaganda made by the North Koreans. (Ps that is Earl Sweatshirt’s voice in the background calling him a communist.)
The way Pusha T is telling it, My Name Is My Name will be the greatest album to come out this year(or whatever year it gets released).
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Charlamagne Tha God premieres his new show, Charlamagne & Friends, next Tuesday. For his ‘In Your Head’ segment, guest Big Sean speaks on playing music for Eminem at his Detroit recording studio.
Jay Electronica spoke with Revolt TV about Big Sean’s new song…he says that he sent his verse to Big Sean months ago and didn’t know that Kendrick was also a feature.
A month or two ago, Big Sean asked me to be on this record with him for his album. He had a demo hook on it at the time. I did my verse and sent it back.
UPDATE: He continues to give his take with Vlad TV (below).
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Just Blaze sat down with Hip-Hop Wired and gave his opinion on Kendrick’s ‘Control’ verse, along with his thoughts on some of the responses he’s seen in social media. He also says that he’s currently slacking on finishing up 3 beats for Drake.
UPDATE: Rap-Up TV also spoke to Big Sean at his Moet event about his new record, featuring Kendrick Lamar & Jay Electronica (added below).
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Even Sean Don agrees: Kendrick murdered him on his own shit. Hall Of Fame is still on the way.
Chris Brown is the next guest on Hot 97’s 97 Seconds series.
In this episode of The Truth, Elliott meets up with Earl Sweatshirt at NYC’s famous A1 Record Shop to dig through crates, “fondle some records”, and talk working with The RZA on his new album, “Doris”.
I have overlooked this, so you can also check out Vado in this series here.
In the third installment of Complex Individuals, Gunplay reveals the first album he ever purchased, his most embarrassing moment, and his favorite cuss word to use (hint: it rhymes with bunt).
Continuing the tradition of Long Beach hip hop, Crooked I explains how the city that raised him has defined his life and how his experiences in LA County have defined his music.
Meek Mill stopped by Power 99 tonight to speak about Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Control’ verse; he says he runs the streets, and y’all can have that backpack. He also says he likes Jay Z’s new album Magna Carta… Holy Grail.
Definitely an interview of interest, as The Breakfast Club gets Just Blaze to speak on why he wasn’t on Magna Carta… Holy Grail, where is Jay Electronica’s album, he latest foray into other genres and much more.
Spike Lee returns to The Breakfast Club to speak on his recent Kickstarter campaign (and the flack that he has received from it, Trayvon Martin and more.
Future stopped through Hot 97 to speak on Ciara, Honest, features and more.
‘Lift Off’ gives us a pretty dope breakdown of the songs on Big Sean’s upcoming Hall Of Fame, which drops August 27th.
In the third installment of The Process with Peter Rosenberg, Ab-Soul explains how he got into rapping. Born and bred in Carson, California, the TDE MC’s interest in music spurred from his parents day job. “I grew up in a record shop,” says Ab.
J. Cole and Bas sit down with Fuse to talk about the up-and-coming rapper.
Naya Rivera and Big Sean stopped by the #LIFTOFF with J Cruz and Justin Credible.
Naya and Sean talked how their song “Sorry” came about, Naya broke down the concept behind the song “I definitely bossed up on this song, It was sorta of just like a ladies anthem”, Big Sean talked new album Hall Of Fame, and Naya’s reaction to Big Sean’s verse in “All Me” My new girl is on Glee and sh*t, probably making more money than me and sh*t.
Future stopped by the studio with sourMilk and myself and talked about his new single “Honest” , recording “Bugatti” in one take, Miley Cyrus twerkin, collabos on the new album, and for the first time ever he tells the story behind Drake’s “Started From The Bottom.”
