40/40 Club 10 Year Anniversary PartyPosted by: B.Dot
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The Truth: Yeezus vs. Born SinnerPosted by: Big Homie
Just Blaze Exec Producing Slaughterhouse LPPosted by: B.Dot
Lil Wayne Responds To Flag ControversyPosted by: B.Dot
We had a whole lot of superstars on this stage here tonight. But this is… Papoose's house? We're all still reeling that the 20th anniversary of Hip-Hop's Super Bowl featured the Nacirema Dream as a headliner. Damn you Kendrick Lamar and your generous ways. Yeah it's hip-hop to bum rush the show but c'mon Pap you know you didn't deserve that look. And you gave even less fucks by performing a new song. C'mon fam. You've paid a lot of dues through the years but this was the big dawg time in the program. Don't disrespect the game in your pursuit for fame. Oh well, Brooklyn took it. 
Speaking of BK, Fab had a master plan of bringing Lil Kim and Foxy Brown back together again. But when it was time to make history, Fox Boogie was nowhere to be found. Where was you at? Wack.
Shot prior to Scooter’s return to the bing, he and his Brick Squad boss operate behind a table full of cash and lean in their new clip. Young Scooter’s Cell Block To Your Block coming soon.
Summer breeze makes me feel fine, Before Slum Village’s Evolution arrives on June 25, here’s their season groove to get you in the mood. Produced by Focus.
The street life is no place for such a pretty face. But with Pusha T close by, Kelly hits the pavement on her latest drop produced by Pharrell. Talk A Good Game drops next Tuesday.
Rapper Big Pooh is taking it back to his roots for his upcoming, Fat Boy Fresh Vol. 3: Happy Birthday, Thomas and drops off his first release. Says Pooh of the project.
“This EP represents a few things for me. I titled it ‘Happy Birthday, Thomas’ because it symbolizes a return to my Boom Bap roots. I also titled it that because I started recording project around my actual birthday.”
After missing a few appearances due to his seizures, Lil Wayne finally visited Jimmy Kimmel last night and spoke on the seizures and his current health status. Tune also spoke on his tour, daughter’s book, the Miami Heat, skateboarding and retirement.
Everything Andretti and Trinidad James do, they kill it. This evening, they both connect for a quick tune. Viva free music!
During the final days of creating Yeezus, Kanye broke his no media policy for a Q&A with New York Times’ Jon Caramanica.
Kanye opened up on parenthood, Kim Kardashian, dead prez’ influence on his music, music and fashion blacklash, the new album and working with Rick Rubin. Read the article in its entirety here.
One of the things I thought when I heard the new record was, “This is the anti-’College Dropout.’ ” It feels like you’re shedding skin. Back then, you were like: “I want more sounds. I want more complicated raps. I want all the things.” At what point did that change?
Architecture — you know, this one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration. I lived in Paris in this loft space and recorded in my living room, and it just had the worst acoustics possible, but also the songs had to be super simple, because if you turned up some complicated sound and a track with too much bass, it’s not going to work in that space. This is earlier this year. I would go to museums and just like, the Louvre would have a furniture exhibit, and I visited it like, five times, even privately. And I would go see actual Corbusier homes in real life and just talk about, you know, why did they design it? They did like, the biggest glass panes that had ever been done. Like I say, I’m a minimalist in a rapper’s body. It’s cool to bring all those vibes and then eventually come back to Rick [Rubin], because I would always think about Def Jam.
His records did used to say “reduced by Rick Rubin.”
For him, it’s really just inside of him. I’m still just a kid learning about minimalism, and he’s a master of it. It’s just really such a blessing, to be able to work with him. I want to say that after working with Rick, it humbled me to realize why I hadn’t — even though I produced “Watch the Throne”; even though I produced “Dark Fantasy” — why I hadn’t won Album of the Year yet.
This album is moments that I haven’t done before, like just my voice and drums. What people call a rant — but put it next to just a drumbeat, and it cuts to the level of, like, Run-D.M.C. or KRS-One. The last record I can remember — and I’m going to name records that you’ll think are cheesy — but like, J-Kwon, “Tipsy.” People would think that’s like a lower-quality, less intellectual form of hip-hop, but that’s always my No. 1. There’s no opera sounds on this new album, you know what I mean? It’s just like, super low-bit. I’m still, like, slightly a snob, but I completely removed my snob heaven songs; I just removed them altogether.
Wiz Khalifa’s back with the visuals for O.N.I.F.C., and on this video, he showcases his lavish living. It’s the lifestyle of the rich and shameless.
Snoop has lent his voice to the animated film, Turbo. And before it rolls in theaters July 17, he kicks up the bass and rolls out his contribution to the soundtrack. Turn it up.
