Daily Archives: June 17, 2013

Everyone’s favorite rebellious Bajan, the gorgeous Rihanna has retured to the top of the UK Albums Charts with her sixth solo album Talk That Talk – eight months after she first claimed the top spot back in November 2011. [...]

For the second week in a row, UK Grime pioneer Wiley‘s latest mainstream look “Heatwave” will sit at the summit of the UK Singles Charts. [...]

Continuing on his lovestory campaign, Cali native Shawn Chrystopher links up with filmaker Adam Valencia to help shed further light on the content and concept of the recent Timbaland signee’s mixtape with his new vlog series, lovestories. [...]

By way of a late pass, I’d like to present Allyall‘s excellent Wu-Tang podcast mix, Wu Tang In the Cut. The carefully constructed 1 hour 18 set features music taken from The Wu’s debut group release, and the first set of solo albums that followed from Method Man, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, The GZA… ohh and a track from [...]

Meek Mill‘s highly sought after go-to beatsmith Jahlil Beats has been on an incredible run as of late, putting together instrumentals for some of Hip Hop’s biggest artists. Recently the Roc Nation signed producer has been receiving a lot of praise for his work on Meek Mill’s Big Sean featured banger “Burn,” amongst many of his other current radio/Internet/underground smashes. [...]

The unpredictable real world of the Braxton sisters is set to return to our screens this coming Thursday, August 16, for the third seasonal installment of their much talked about reality show, Braxton Family Values, broadcast on WE.tv. Here’s a taste things to come.  [...]

With over 15 years of worth knowledge from the game under his belt, seeing him mix ten of 11 Jay-Z albums as well as Eminem‘s 8 Mile soundtrack and Little Brother‘s classic The Minstrel Show, legendary sound engineer Young Guru chooses to send a large part of his time sharing his fruits of wisdom with fellow music enthusiasts, up [...]

While we await the arrival of his sophomore album, O.N.I.F.C., and perhaps more audio or visual material from the record, next month, Wiz Khalifa releases a freebie in the meantime. After getting a Wale and T-Pain-infused makeover back in May, songstress Elle Varner‘s “Refill” single, taken from her recently-released Perfectly Imperfect LP, gets a smooth [...]

The last thing one wants to hear on a beautiful Summer’s day is bad news, but that’s exactly what we’ve got as R&B’s man of the moment Frank Ocean has announced the cancellation of a number of European tourdates. His scheduled appearances at this weekend’s Way Out Way festival in Sweden, UK’s V Festival and his opening slot [...]

Def Jam are looking to do it big with the music videos today. Not long after releasing the visuals for Big K.R.I.T.‘s “Me And My Old School” remix, featuring Slim Thug and Lil’ Keke, 2 Chainz‘s recently-heard Based On A T.R.U. Story club cut, “I Luv Dem Strippers“, gets its own clip. To no surprise, [...]