DJ Skee introduces Young Guru at Grammy U’s “Era of the Engineer”.
Having worked with heavy hitters like Jay-Z, Eminem and Rihanna, Young Guru stresses the importance of an engineer in today’s major industry recordings while offering professional and personal insight into the music industry of today.
DJ Jazzy Jeff & Co. continue to depress us with their vicarious living (and we’re talking about their careers here!).
Don Diablo pulls Kelis out of the woodworks for his latest visual and single. She doesn’t appear in the video.
DMX’s son Xavier has responded through a Google Hangout session to X’s recent claims, saying that his father is basically playing the victim. This is pretty unfortunate.
The usual suspects get together for another visual taken from Rozay’s God Forgives, I Don’t. When will the Mastermind promo begin?
While I’m still not sold on her, this chick comes up with some pretty dope videos. Broke With Expensive Taste is coming soon…granted she gets her ass off of Twitter.
Pusha T brings out Travi$ Scott to assist him with ‘Blocka’ for the Coachella audience.
Paul White links up with Danny Brown was a dope collaboration, complete with a trippy animated video (courtesy by Plastic Horse).
More StreetHeat TV action as Wale dropped by the Shade 45 studio to presumably do an interview, blessing the cameras with an in-studio clip of ‘Fa We We’.
Produced by Cookin’ Soul. N.O.R.E.’s (or P.A.P.I.’s) new album Student Of The Game is in stores April 16th.
‘Here With You’ (originally seen on this project) is officially released 26th May.
2013, sets the release of Here With You, the North London rapper PW first single, a track taken from his recent FromPWithLveEP, a romance-themed collection of songs released on Valentine’s Day.
Black Cobain drops off the visual to his freestyle, ‘Not A Stain On Me’, where he pays homage to Texas. Young Gifted & Black 2 is coming soon.
Produced by Yello Man, the new visual and track from Terrorsum also marks the retirement of his artist moniker. From now on, he will be known as Christian King (his real name).
“Any music you see me release in the future will be under my real name Christian King … I feel I’ve outgrown the name Terrorsum and its not an accurate reflection of me as a person or the music that I’ve been making or want to make” – Christian King
Big K.R.I.T. performs At TSU Springfest in Houston, with a quick appearance from Bun B.
Tanya Lacey reveals the latest visual for ‘Now That You’re Gone’, due 26th May (preorder here).
1 AM – Thunder In The Sun is coming soon….in the meantime, you can preorder the above track here (released 2nd June).
Code Red is back with their brand new video ‘Unknown’.
Trinidad James is the next up to freestyle for XXL’s Freshmen series. Trinidad James had this to say about being 2013 XXL Freshman below:
Being a Freshman, it’s definitely an experience. It’s dope, or whatever. It’s another obstacle in life that I’m conquering. So it’s cool. I definitely couldn’t have predicted it. But I did say last year—when I started doing music and the way it started to get responses—that I really wanted to be on this cover because I felt like I was a true freshman. I think the later part of the year last year I was like, ‘I just wanna be on this Freshman cover.’ I felt like I was doing the right things and I had all the right criteria to be a Freshman when it comes to music. Really, I’m just a big fan of music. I love music, and I just felt like I had my own message to relay to people. So I decided to go for it, and now I’m here.
In this week’s episode of The Truth, YN decodes Jay-Z’s new song, “Open Letter”, where he speaks on his trip to Cuba, his new record Deal, and becoming a sport agent.
Check out the re-cap of Bridget Kelly’s birthday celebration with special guests; Jay-Z, Neyo, Trey Songz, Rita Ora, Melanie Fiona, and many more.
Her new Single ‘Street Dreamin’ featuring Kendrick Lamar is the 1st single from Funk Master Flex’s ‘Who You Mad At? Me or Yourself’ Mixtape dropping April 17th.
What I said was ignorant, being drunk is no excuse its wrong to stereotype anyone like that. I'm not racist just ignorant and not proud
— English Frank (@englishfrank) April 16, 2013
UPDATE: Above, English Frank sends a sort-of apology on Twitter.
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Wow, Frank. During the Hip-Hop Isn’t Dead show in Brixton (also featuring Akala, Black The Ripper and more), rapper English Frank decided to, well…..be racist towards an African security guard. Not sure how this is going to fare, but well see what the response is….
While Rihanna’s busy canceling tour dates, Beyonce is getting her tour started. The Mrs. Carter World Tour made it’s first stop in Belgrade, Serbia last night to a sold-out crowd in Kombank Arena. From the looks of it, she didn’t dare disappoint. More clips below.
From Xclusives Zone:
Styles P’s new album ‘Float’, produced entirely by Scram Jones, has finally hit stores today. To celebrate, Styles took over B.B. Kings last night for the album release party. He hit the stage alongside Sheek Louch and treated the crowd to a performance of classic records as well as his new single ‘Hater Love’.
