How ’bout a lil soul for your Saturday? With his contribution to Levi’s cool series, Tony Toni Tone’s former frontman remakes the Spinners classic which was written by Stevie Wonder. Study your lessons, kids. iv Previously: Nas Remakes “Hey Young World”
Two nights ago, The Unit brought the Invitation Tour to Beantwon. In the above clip, 50 fires a shot at Diddy and a playful one at Yayo before Banks bangs out his new single. No Lloyd. No problem. Splash! Sidebar: Peace, Connecticut
Fuck an industry event, Antwan brought the party at the Island bash. Even the ubiquitous producer behind the lead single off Sir Lucious Left Foot joined in on the fun. Stank them later. 57 Update: A couple of more performances from Boi.
The King’s uncaged and along with the funky drummer he’s gonna deliver his “Yeah Ya Know (Takers)” single at Stephen Hill‘s big show manana. Stay tuned. RapUp
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Eat your heart out, Hov. Now that Tha Dogg’s allowed back across the pond, he got to hold things down on the hip-hop front at this year’s Glastonbury festival. The good folks at Soul Culture got more footage to check out. Let’s pretend we were there.
You can’t stop this guy. Before introducing The-Dream at the big Def Jam party in LA last night, Khaled had to spit a few brief bars from the “All I Do Is Win (Remix)”. Exclusive Access has more of the festivities below which include performances by Big Sean, Jeremih, and Big Boi. Party on, party on, all night, niggas. 57
YN called it early and now, Playboy’s coming for 700%. Apparently, Heff’s former label Playboy Records owns the rights to Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds’ “Fallin’ In Love” which is sampled in the beginning of Drake’s “Best I Ever Had”. As a result, an infringement suit was filed against the rapper and Universal Music Group. According to Playboy: [They] knew or should have reasonably known, that the sound recording was protected by copyright…” and that “each Defendant continues to infringe […]
My new favorite performer got a chance to recite track 16 off The State Vs. Radric Davis for a gang of music industry folks. Nice sweater, La Flare. Brrr! RapUp
“All a nigga want for Christmas is another year”. Mr. Jenkins told ya before and he’ll tell you again. He knows Big Meech—the real Big Meech—and he got him to appear on his new song which incidentally bears a title very similar to Rick Ross’ current banger. Hmm. os UPDATE: Jizzle’s connect weighs in.
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This is a great reminder of how powerful and lasting Lauryn Hill’s influence has been in music. The fact that The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill eventually reached diamond status after so many years shows that truly meaningful music can continue finding new listeners long after its original release. I also like how the article highlights the combination of hip hop, R&B, neo soul, and reggae that made the album so distinctive. Achieving more than 10 million sales is an incredible milestone, especially considering how much the music industry has changed since 1998. The album’s success feels less like a temporary trend and more like proof that strong songwriting and authentic artistic expression can remain relevant across generations. It is interesting to see how numbers can tell part of a story, whether we are looking at album sales or using a proportion calculator to understand relationships between different figures.