At last Sunday’s Disney VMA’s Kanye West premiered a new song, performing the new drumline-backed Love Lockdown (stereogum). Now, apparently Kanye’s not only rolling out new songs, but also a new album. No official word has been released by either Kanye or his publicist, but retail sites like Amazon and Target are listing LP4 under the title 808’s & Heartbreak with a release date of 12/16, so this seems as real as it can be….
I’ve always been somewhat of a fan of Mike Skinner aka The Streets, especially after his gorgeous sophomore album, “A Grand Don’t Come For Free,” got out a few years ago. His distinctive, sincere lyrics and well put samples (btw, Mike said on his Myspace blog a while back that he’ll soon abandon sampling on stage and will use only live musicians. Props for that, mate!), propelled him to instant success on the British hip-hop…
The Philly hip-hop group, Jedi Mind Tricks, are prepping their sixth full length studio effort “A History of Violence” for the October 14th release date. To support it, the highly controversial rap quartet are set to head over on a cross-country promotional tour. Check out the full schedule bellow.
Man, Kanye sure knows his timing. The world class producer just released the video for his Steely Dan heavily sampled track, “Champion,” a video that features Kanye training and competing in the Olympics. Of course, he becomes a champion. Song off the recommended latest West album, Graduation. Kanye West “Champion Video” Official Directed by NEON from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.
Last week’s Jay-Z dope appearance on the Madison Square garden stage, next to Kanye, proved to be a shocker for the whole rap scene. That was the coup de grâce of ultimate marketing stunts. The perfect entry and the perfect announcement for the new album, Blueprint 3. However, in all the commotion and all, I couldn’t get a good fix on the Kanye produced song, off Bluepring 3, titled “Jockin’ Jay-Z.” Well, not anymore, as…
Boy, that Jay-Z sure knows how to make an entrance. Yesterday night, during Kanye West’s show in NY’s Madison Square Garden, our very own Shawn Carter (Jay-Z for you fools) made his way around the stage on a avalanche of beats and introduced what’s now officially The Blueprint 3, his latest, upcoming album produced by none other then Kanye West. Anyway, here’s the fun part. Kanye and Jay-Z sung what could be the first track…
[tag]Lil Wayne[/tag]’s “Carter III” is doing pretty well on the Billboard, with a few million copies sold aldready, a million of which sold in its first week! Now that’s something and if you want to know how the man’s keep up with all the hype, then the video for his latest single off of Carter III, “A Milli,” might shed some light. First up: Rapping on the street, after all such a busy life doesn’t…
Freshly signed by major label XL, the Chicago based rap duo, The Cool Kids, are finally gonna release their much awaited mixtape, “That’s Stupid,” tonight for free. The new mixtape will feature a lot of new, unreleased songs by the duo, that’s sure to make this summer a lot more interesting, giving “kids with new systems in their car something to ride to.. and all the girls at the beach something to dance too” (an…
[tag]Lil Wayne[/tag] totally blew everybody over with his latest, recent studio effort “Tha Carter III,” the last album in the Carter trilogy and, most of all, what’s considered by most critiques the best rap album of 2008, so far. With a cover like this, you can’t really go anywhere but up. Anyway Lil Wayne paid a quick visit to Jimmy Kimmel a few nights ago, where he played a dazzling performance of Lollipop, one of…
Sorry about the wait, but when i heard there was new Blu hitting the horizon i had to get it so with no further adieu, The Flood continues… Blu – The Classy Man Jay Electronica – Bitches and Drugs Prod. By J Dillla Blu – Up All Nite Lil Mama – A Millie Freestyle Mickey Factz – 6 Letter Words Prod. By Jet Audio Blu – Departing Flights
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