Daily Archives: May 23, 2013

With their newest collaborative album, 2012, now over two months old, Massachusetts-made pair Statik Selektah and Termanology give track number three, “Up Every Night”, a fresh sound. Veering away from the usual underground collaborations, the duo better known as 1982 round up Cash Money-signed, Bronx-bred rapping machine Cory Gunz and L.A.’s 2012 XXL Freshman Kid [...]

With the G.O.O.D. Music album, Cruel Summer, now readying for a September 4th release, crew member Common stopped by Sway Calloway‘s Shade 45 radio show to discuss the forthcoming record. As the veteran Chicago rapper explains, it sounds like label boss Kanye West encouraged all his recruits to record their verses, but he will solely [...]

In similar vein to Curren$y‘s 24 Hours with Curren$y web series, AllHipHop, JumpOff TV and Tantrum Productions present part one of The Next 48 Hours with Rick Ross. In the 10-minute clip below, viewers get to shadow the Bawse as he embarks on a press run in NYC on July 30th, a day prior to [...]

After surfacing online in a clean edit earlier this week, Pac Div‘s contribution to the Champions mixtape, hosted by Meel and presented by LeBronJames.com, gets liberated in its uncensored form. I shouldn’t have to mention which classic hip-hop track is sampled here; let’s just hope Mibbs, Like and BeYoung don’t face the same backlash as [...]

He may have just treated us to the appetising Nas, Scarface and DJ Premier cut, “Hip Hop“, yesterday (with the CDQ audio being added earlier today), but DJ Khaled has another gem in store from his upcoming Kiss The Ring album. After getting a look at some on-set snapshots and behind-the-scenes footage, the We The [...]

Speaking of the devil, DJ Khaled unleashes arguably the most anticipated track from his upcoming Kiss The Ring album with “Hip Hop”, a boom bap-driven, piano-steered number featuring two top drawer verses from veteran emcees Scarface and Nas, and expert scratches by Mr. Hip-Hop himself, DJ Premier. Khaled’s built quite the reputation for hopping on [...]

Chief Keef‘s set at Chicago’s Lollapalooza music festival last weekend (August 4th) was both predicatable and surprising. To no frowns, the Chicago-bred upstart, who signed a deal with Interscope Records earlier this year, performed his raucous banger of a hit, “I Don’t Like”, which you can watch here. But as an unexpected gift to his [...]

In the run-up to the release of her debut album, Perfectly Imperfect, R&B singer Elle Varner kicked off her new vlog series entitled Elle In The City at the beginning of the month. Now, with the album in distribution – as of August 7th – here we have the second part in the series. [...]

Azealia Banks may have only recently released her Fantasea mixtape, but the first point of call for some fresh visuals is her 1991 EP, which dropped back in early June. In the first of four clips prior to the full release, Yung Rapunxel releases this brief 15-second trailer for her upcoming “Van Vogue” video. It’s [...]

As he gears up to release his brand new mixtape, Freedom of Speech, Freeway debuts yet another cut, along with its accompanying visuals. Following the sublime, Thelonious Martin-produced “Let You Know” a few months back, the bearded one places this new JRB-crafted “We Up” number in front of the lens of director Jimmy Giambrone, who [...]