Pro Era’s Joey BADA$$ and Kirk Knight visit Charlie Sloth at BBC 1Xtra and drop some serious bars for his Fire In The Booth series. You can check out what instrumentals were used destroyed below.
Instrumental 1: Redman — “Tonight’s Da Night”
Instrumental 2: Mic Righteous — “In A Gang”
Instrumental 3: Biggie Smalls — “Dead Wrong”
Instrumental 4: Paper Aeroplane ft. Splurgeboys — “WTF”
Instrumental 5: Chief Keef — “I Don’t Like”
Taken from Serena Soya’s recently-released Illuminated EP.
Lady Gaga recently appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman to perform ‘Dope’ and ‘G.U.Y.’ from her latest album ARTPOP. She also took a selfie with Bill Murray (and Letterman) and hung with Martha Stewart backstage. Random (but not really).
Trey Songz & Kid Ink provided the entertainment for this year’s Spring Break (courtesy of MTVu), which went down in Cancun….the event also featured appearance from Cash Cash and (a presumably recovered) Afrojack. Check out plenty of additional clips below.
L3MON has revealed the official music video for her new track, “One More Time.” Produced by Sean Fischer.
In a new vlog, Scarface chronicles his journey leading up to his forthcoming album Deeply Rooted. I need this album ASAP, simple and plain.
Yogi is gearing up for the release of his upcoming EP Burial — via Skrillex’s OWSLA imprint — which is set to hit stores in May. Above, he releases the lyric video for his record with Pusha T.
Maxsta passed by the 1Xtra UKG show with Cameo to talk about his new mixtape Maxtape 1.5 and dropped a freestyle.
Lethal B and Cherri V perform a live version of ‘The Drop’ for MistaJam on BBC 1Xtra.
Yung Gleesh drops a new video/track filmed and recorded? out in LA, produced by Dolan Beats. I really like the new high-pitched flow on the second verse. Cleanside’s Finest 3 coming soon! Shout out to Will Hoopes. Download the track here.
Fat Trel came through Tony Touch’s Toca Tuesdays for a little freestyle off the top. Get Gleesh now if you haven’t.
Spotted on Pitchfork:
Jack White isn’t the only one making efficient use of the recording studio at his Third Man Records store. Over the past weekend, Weezer stopped in Nashville to play a pair of dates. While they were there, they found time to hit Third Man and record a version of “Susanne”, which originally appeared as the B-side to “Undone (The Sweater Song)”.
In one video posted on the band’s Instagram, they record vocals in the crammed Third Man Recording Booth as a gaggle of onlookers watch. Later, frontman Rivers Cuomo “checks the mix on the one of a kind vinyl record.”
Wiz stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night for the show’s fist sign language rap battle. During the segment, Wiz performed his hit single “Black & Yellow” while three interpreters squared off with their hands.
Above, a very rare 50-minute performs from the brand that Trent Reznor built. Below, Austin City Limits also scored a pretty dope interview with Reznor, where he spoke on the above performance and recent tour.
You can watch Eddie Vedder’s very historic 1994 tribute to the fallen Nirvana frontman above, shortly after the hour mark. From DC101:
Kurt Cobain’s dead body was found on April 8, 1994. Later, it was revealed that the Nirvana front-man actually died three days earlier on April 5.
The news shook the music world.
The fallout led many to look to Pearl Jam. For the previous three years, both bands were constantly compared to each other. Pearl Jam and Nirvana were both based in Seattle, Washington and were considered the reigning kings of grunge.
On the day the news came out, Pearl Jam was scheduled to play a show in Fairfax, Virginia at the Patriot Center. Cobain had attacked Pearl Jam in the media. The relationship between the two bands was complicated.
But, on the night that the world found out about the death of Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder offered a touching tribute to his contemporary. He told the Patriot Center crowd:
“There’s a lot of space between us tonight…We’re not only kind of far, you know, we’re kind of elevated I noticed, a little more than usual. Either that, or I’ve gotten taller. But, I don’t think it’s very good to elevate yourself. That can be very dangerous. Sometimes whether you like it or not people elevate you, you know, whether you like it not. It’s real easy to fall…but I don’t think any of us would be in this room tonight if it weren’t for Kurt Cobain.”
You can read more on the story here.
Chevy Wood rides around with his lady for some “Pick Ups & Drop Offs” for his Young Scooter-assisted single off Gangland 2.
Bad Lucc rides through his L.A. hood with Problem in his new video for the title track off his Outchea EP. No one can say that Bad Lucc isn’t out here making moves.
Another visual from Noreaster, which drops on the smoker’s holiday (4/20).
50 Cent’s latest visual (directed by Eif Rivera) belongs to his STARZ TV series Power.
Taken from SBOE’s All We Got Is Us 2, out now.
Cam’ron releases the visual for his freestyle over Soulja Boy & Drake’s “We Made It” freestyle, which gives us some behind the scenes footage of Mark McNairy’s showcase during Fashion Week.
After Kentuck’s 74-73 win over Wisconsin Saturday, Drake met the team in the locker room to congratulate them for advancing to the national championship against UConn.
Young Scooter releases the visual for his record off DJ Esco’s and Future’s No Sleep tape. Scooter shows you how to stay awake off weed & food because most people usually fall asleep.
Maxsta jumps on Clean Bandit’s ‘Rather Be’. Check out the visual above.