Heavy On The Grind Ent. Whether it was an overhaul of unreleased material just sitting around on E-40’s hard drive or he had an urge to flex when it came to the amount of songs he’d release in a single year, the Bay area legend decided to drop The D-Boy Diary: Book 1 and 2 […]
Soundcloud U.K. rhymer Little Simz is returning to the rap game with her second album titled Stillness In Wonderland, which arrives on Friday (Dec. 16). But before the project hits online stores, the British rapper released a new single called “Poison Ivy.” Produced by SHE, the minimalist track boasts wailing guitars and bongo drums. On […]
Glassnote Entertainment This year, the actor Donald Glover has been showing his face much more than his alter ego Childish Gambino. Glover has been busy giving fans the critically acclaimed 10-episode dramedy Atlanta this fall. On the music side, he released the virtual reality smartphone app Pharos and performed in a desert while embracing his inner warrior. Atlanta […]
The Weeknd XO By the time House of Balloons reached its fifth anniversary last winter, it was clear The Weeknd had come a long way from the shadowy crevices of Toronto’s bursting underground. After his song “Earned It” landed on one of 2015’s biggest movie soundtracks, Fifty Shades of Grey, and he carved his drug-addled […]
Here is my official cover art for “TRU”, the ep, which will be available for pre order this week on iTunes. This photo means a lot to me. It’s not about exploiting myself, as many would like to believe. Yet, it is about accepting myself for how I am. Letting go of all the fears, […]
Is it a little on the pretentious side? Maybe. Does it look like’s he’s trying too hard to be avant garde? Some might think so, but that doesn’t mean that Jaden Smith‘s video for his new song “Fallen” lacks entertainment value. The clip starts off in 1867 Calabasas, Calif., and you see Smith get shot by an invisible […]
FBG1017 It was only a matter of time before Gucci Mane and Future linked up again following Guwop’s prison release but little did fans know they would actually hammer out a six-track mixtape and drop it out of thin air. Continuing the traptastic momentum the duo had with the first Free Bricks project, Wop and Hendrix […]
Neilson Barnard, Getty Images Sophisticated beats, innovative rhymes and group chemistry. For some reason this fundamental approach to good hip-hop song making has been largely forsaken but not by Run the Jewels. Take their latest single “Legend Has It” for example, off their forthcoming RTJ3 album. It’s produced by El-P, Wilder Zoby and Little Shalimar and contains a dope voice loop, punchy […]
Manolo Rose and Dave East teamed up for the new cut “Monopoly,” where both rappers say they have too much money and power for a woman to love them for the people they are. “You love me for me, but who are you kidding,” the hook goes, which actually borrows a line from Kanye West’s “Devil in a […]
Epic Records This probably wasn’t the rollout French Montana was hoping for with MC4, a sophomore album that would confirm his hit-making abilities to the rap game and beyond. Short for Mac & Cheese 4, the rapper was hoping to follow up his acclaimed Mac & Cheese mixtape series by making the fourth installment an actual album. […]
