Daily Archives: May 21, 2013

Following the surfacing a couple of days ago of the Chris Brown featuring track “Nobodies Business” off Rihanna’s upcoming album, Unapolegetic, the Virginian-born singer hit Big Boy’s Neighborhood on Power 106 earlier today, where he premiered his newest single, “Nobody’s Perfect.” [...]

With the surge of R&B acts going down the dance music route lately, it’s nice to have Alicia Keys back on the scene, flying the flag for good old rhythm & blues. We first heard new track “Brand New Me” performed live at the Roundhouse in London at the iTunes festival back in September, but [...]

West Coast rap star Kendrick Lamar hit the stage at East London record shop Rough Trade this evening (Nov. 9) to perform a few songs from his new album, ‘good kid, m.A.A.d city‘, before signing records for fans – watch his performances of “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe”, “Backseat Freestyle” and “m.A.A.d city” below. [...]

On “Focus,” legend of the LA underground Ras Kass links up with South African hip hop singer Pro-Verb and the King of the New School Kendrick Lamar for a feel-good, West Coast anthem. [...]

Ellie Goulding‘s had her music put through the wobble-machine plenty of times, but here she links up with Skrillex [not for the first time] to create a “Bittersweet” piece of pop music for the Twilight generation.  [...]

Just yesterday we heard B.o.B link up with T.I. and Juicy J for “Still In This Bitch,” a bass-led banger from his forthcoming mixtape Fuck ‘Em We Ball, and now Bobby Ray has another track for us; the Osinachi-produced “Alright.” [...]

I’ll be honest, I’m not the biggest Hopsin fan. Whilst he’s got an ability to produce bizarre and hilarious punchlines, I think the L.A. rapper also has a tendency to mess with his flow, voice(s) and eyes in a way that’s just a little bit tiresome. [...]

Kaleem Taylor is a man on a mission. Having already supported the likes of Miguel and Boyz II Men, as well as racking up close to 160,000 video views for his Frank Ocean “Thinking About You” cover as part of a live session at the legendary Maida Vale studios for Trevor Nelson, the West London [...]

In a sit-down with Sara G of 106 KMEL radio, OutKast‘s Big Boi named the artists set to appear on his upcoming second solo album Vicious Lies & Dangerous Rumours. [...]

The founders of the polarising rap lyrics website Rap Genius were guests on this week’s Combat Jack radio show, with producer extraordinaire Just Blaze and the opinionated blogger Dallas Penn. The crew (Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory) recently received a staggering $15m investment from Californian venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz and whilst their vision is exciting, Rap Genius’ [...]