Ok, we see how this is going now. It’s only been a couple of days since Drake unexpectedly dropped the first single, “Started From The Bottom,” from his upcoming album, and already this is the second remix from a rapper we’ve seen. Earlier Wiz Khalifa remixed the joint by adding a pretty solid verse onto [...]
February 5, 2013
Nura Abdela
Hip Hop, New Music
After months of speculation and a list of high profile co-signs Chi-Town’s own Chief Keef has finally announced that he has reached the milestone most up and coming artists hope to get to… signing to a major label. [...]
June 17, 2012
I Am Ayo
Music, Music News
With a Soulja Boy appearance and poor taste in artwork (rappers, stop ripping off G.O.O.D. Music‘s covers, please!), I would have been more than happy to pass up on “Red Bentley”. But a Curren$y feature makes a rap blogger do strange things. You already guessed it – this track is your quintessential trap rap lark [...]
June 10, 2012
Andy Bustard
Hip Hop, New Music
A previously unheard version of “Yamaha Mama” — which was originally a Soulja Boy/Sean Kingston collaboration appearing on 2008′s iSouljaBoyTellem — by ladies’ men Drake and Chris Brown has just surfaced. This is apparently NOT a new track, just a version you’ve never heard. [...]
Among other TV personalities and celebrities dancing [and, in many cases, embarrassing themselves] for a good cause this weekend, Lulu hit the dancefloor to crank that and roll rather convincingly to Soulja Boy‘s 2007 dancefloor phenomenon and US number one hit, “Crank That,” to raise money in the second heat of BBC One show Let’s [...]
February 27, 2011
M. Gosho Oakes
Comedy, Music, TV
Jukebox, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins’ protégé and co-creator of Willow Smith‘s hit, “Whip My Hair” has responded to Soulja Boy‘s claims that he wrote “Whip My Hair”. Soulja Boy, who is supposedly listed on the songwriting credits (probably owing to the lyric ‘hopped up out the bed, turned my swag on’ featured in the verse), garnered [...]
January 6, 2011
Tahirah Edwards Byfield
Music
With new album Gutter Rainbows due for release next month [January 25th], Talib Kweli recently held a listening session and, in addition to previewing the album, the Brooklyn emcee also spoke on his recent G.O.O.D. Friday feature, ‘Chain Heavy,’ and his admiration for Kanye West’s latest album, My Dark Twisted Fantasy. Captured in the videos [...]
December 23, 2010
M. Gosho Oakes
Music, New Music
Lupe Fiasco dropped into Angie Martinez‘s show on HOT 97 a few days ago to talked about Lasers, Fiasco Friday and squashing the perceived beef between himself and Soulja Boy and actually working on a song with him. [Source] [...]
November 25, 2010
Verse
Arts News, Music
“I don’t want to be super-Lupe-Fiasco-lyrical and n***** don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about” — Soulja Boy in XXL Interview In response to SoulJa Boy‘s recent comments, Lupe Fiasco delivers some good ol’ fashioned super lyrical music for the folks (like myself) who don’t need a dance to go with their hip hop. [...]
November 9, 2010
Verse
New Music
X-Factor is my not-so-guilty weekend pleasure, especially during the audition stage. I’m not the only person in the SoulCulture camp watching, either – last week Marsha posted Gamu Nhengu’s brilliant rendition of “Walking On Sunshine”. This week I was blown away by 16 year old Cher Lloyd‘s version of Keri Hilson‘s remix to Soulja Boy‘s [...]
September 5, 2010
Tahirah Edwards Byfield
Music, TV