Monthly Archives: May 2013

Detroit rapper Danny Brown is teaming with buzzing producer and current internet sensation Baauer to bring their brand of brash music to a live audience. The two artists are hitting the road at the beginning of April for their ‘Worst of Both Worlds’ tour in Texas, then they will make an appearance at Coachella and [...]

Harlem rapper Azealia Banks recently announced via her Twitter account that the label has finally greenlit a release date of the 26th March for her single “Yung Rapunxel” with a music video courtesy of Jam Sutton and “snippets” to follow. The single news was then followed by a posting to her Soundcloud page of a [...]

Michael Winans Jr of the famous gospel family The Winans was sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison for his role in a $8 million financial scam similar to the Ponzi scheme that brought down Bernie Madoff. According to Fox 2 News Detroit, 30 year old Winans attracted more than 1,000 investors through 2007 and [...]

Warner Bros have released the first footage of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, the magician comedy film from 30 Rock director Don Scardino. The film stars Steve Carell as the eponymous character, a magician in Las Vegas whose relationship with his partner Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) comes to an end after street magician Steve Gray (Jim [...]

Ohio singer/songwriter Rashad drops off a monochromatic visual for the Styles P assisted “The Life” from last year’s Museum mixtape. The impressive track features a montage of images that include classic historical clips, footage from some of Rashad’s shows, portraits, city skylines, Styles P rapping and Rashad singing . It all sounds disconnected but it’s [...]

Memphis king of all things trippy Juicy J gets his Ladies Love Cool J vibe rocking as he adds a verse to electro-pop duo Passion Pit‘s “Constant Conversations” slow jam – and it actually works. [...]

Kendrick Lamar’s rapid rise to fame has reached that point where everything he does, whether large or small, is going to reach his growing fan base. For example, fellow TDE emcee Ab-Soul was headlining his own sold out show out at SOB’s in NYC and decided to bring his brother in rhyme K. Dot out [...]

Consequence ends Black History Month with a fitting tribute to black actors in a video for the track off the Movies On Demand 4 mixtape. The visuals focus on Cons and his son Caiden couch surfing as memorable movies and television series are displayed on the screen. Two personal favourites include Denzel Washington in X [...]

Up and coming UK producer Lapalux will drop his Brainfeeder Records début Nostalchic this March, but just to keep us on our toes, he gives us a new single that won’t even be on the LP. [...]

The Pro Era Crew continue their run of great music releases this week with another dope cut from members Dirty Sanchez, Rockamouth and the dearly departed Capital STEEZ. “Maxwell” features a superbly looped eponymous sample and some truly smooth drum kicks that the emcees use to lay down lyrics about the women ala The Pharcyde’s [...]