Clearly Kendrick Lamar has a thing for surprise collaborations. After recruiting MMG‘s Gunplay for “Cartoon & Cereal” earlier this year, and recently announcing a collaboration with pop’s fame monster Lady Gaga, Black Hippy‘s biggest star trades pounds with The Snowman, a.k.a. Young Jeezy, for “Westside, Right On Time”, his contribution to the newly-instated #TDEFamAppreciationWeek. And [...]
August 17, 2012
Andy Bustard
New Music
Following an unorthodox order of the initial teaser and full release of the audio, here we have the music video to “Old School Caddy”, arguably the standout cut from G.O.O.D. Music producer-turned-rapper Hit-Boy‘s debut rap effort, HITstory. Director Topshelf Junior takes matters to a quintessential desert route, where Hit-Boy cruises in an old school Caddy [...]
August 17, 2012
Andy Bustard
Music Videos
Following “Nasty”, “The Don” and “Daughters”, its the well-received and candid “Bye Baby” cut that’s the next from Nas‘ new album, Life Is Good, to receive the visual makeover. The video shoot is underway, and it looks like Aristotle (who also directed “The Don” video, as well as Ludacris‘ “Jingalin’” and Fabolous‘ “You Be Killin’ [...]
August 17, 2012
Andy Bustard
Music
After getting a glimpse of the clip with some behind-the-scenes footage, and with the full audio on deck (the tapedeck for that matter), here we have a brief trailer of the music video for Trey Songz‘s “Hail Mary”, a Young Jeezy and Lil Wayne-bolstered cut which will feature on his new album, Chapter V. In [...]
August 17, 2012
Andy Bustard
Previews
Making his second appearance on the blogosphere today, following the release of the music video to he and DJ Khaled‘s “Don’t Get Me Started” collaboration, which will also feature on Khaled’s upcoming Kiss The Ring album, Ace Hood debuts the second volume of his Body Bag mixtape series. We’ve already had a taste of a [...]
August 17, 2012
Andy Bustard
Mixtapes
Clearly that Maybach Music deal last year paid well, ’cause Wale‘s got plenty bags of money to toss around. Just a day after rounding up Omarion, Yo Gotti, Lil Wayne, French Montana and Black Cobain, in addition to the originally-featured Rick Ross, Meek Mill and T-Pain, for a remix of “Bag of Money”, the dreadlocked [...]
August 17, 2012
Andy Bustard
New Music
East London raised rapper and actor Kane Robinson aka Kano took to his instagram moments ago to reveal that he would be the leading man in Mercedes Benz’ new A-Class UK campaign. [...]
August 17, 2012
Verse
Culture, Music, News
Despite taking residence under Lil Wayne and Birdman‘s Cash Money roof back in February, and prepping a comeback single with a guest verse from Weezy, it looks like Limp Bizkit are calling it a day. [...]
August 17, 2012
Andy Bustard
Music News
After serving up a few appetisers of his upcoming Summer Games mixtape (due out August 20th), The Kid Daytona commences a ten-part audio and visual series to accompany his new project. The first episode comes as a remix to Kanye West‘s Late Registration favourite, “Gone”, and pairs the track with footage from the Bronx rapper’s [...]
August 17, 2012
Andy Bustard
Music
Currently out in Japan promoting his current album, 2011′s Recovery, Eminem has already brought some surprises to his Far East tour. Just a day after welcoming his Bad Meets Evil partner Royce Da 5’9″ to his set in Osaka, the rapper brought out another old pal on stage during his performance at Tokyo’s QVC Marien [...]
August 17, 2012
Andy Bustard
Music