With “LoveHate Thing” as the soundtrack, Folarin continues to share his influences with us in episode 3. This time around he draws inspiration from Bob Marley, Chuck Brown, Miles Davis, J Dilla, and more. The Gifted drops June 25. Previously: Ep. 2
Cash Money’s EDM arm, the Stafford Brothers, throw a house party led by The-Dream’s ex-wife. Oh yeah, Lil Wayne crashes the party too. hhnm
Queens lost a princess. Last weekend, 14-year-old D’aja Robinson was killed in a fusillade while inside a city bus. Over 2,500 mourners attended her funeral service yesterday in the borough. As an act of good faith, Queens native 50 Cent paid for the teen’s horse & carriage procession. Rest in peace, Asia.
J.Cole and A$AP Rocky held things down across the pond last night at Radio 1’s annual Big Weekend music festival. In the clip above Cole performs his gold seller “Power Trip”. After the jump, Rocky recites “Wild For The Night”.
Will Smith and his son, Jaden were on The Graham Norton Show promoting their new film, After Earth. They took a break from their interview and performed a medley of tracks including: “Hello”, “Switch”, and The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air theme song.
Game lost his friend Michael “Frogg” Reshard last month to gun violence and dedicates this track in his memory. Chuck’s Operation Kill Everything is coming soon. x
Meek explains the hierarchy of the game on his new track produced by Cardo. There’s level’s to this shit. Which plateau are you on? karencivil
Inspired by Oukast’s recording, LaFlare and Chill Will ride out in their Cadillac with bundles of that Grade A yay. This can be found on his Writings On The Wall 2 mixtape.
While in Chicago, Wyclef shot a visual for April Showers’ anti-violence cut. That gat-tar looks mean and vicious. Download the tape here.
From the streets to studio, Papoose and Premier mean mug through out his latest viral presentation. Off the Nacirema Dream which you can download here. eskay
Good to see Hit-Boy back on the solo side after Letter To My Mentors last December. Producing the beat and carrying the verses himself shows he doesn't need a feature to hold a track together. The dark visual from Daniil X fits the record well. We collect verified music industry contacts for this kind of outreach at https://demopoolbase.com/