Announcing his Real N*ggas Back In $tyle album dropping February 26th, Oakland rapper Philthy Rich shares “King Jack”, an emotional single honoring late Bay Area legend The Jacka. “King Jack” features verses from Freeway and Paul Wall, along with piano-ridden production by AK47. Pre-order Philthy Rich’s Real N*ggas Back In $tyle now on iTunes.
(AllHipHop News) The Roots have announced their annual picnic and the line-up is epic.
Future, Leon Bridges and Usher will be the headlining acts, but they are backed by a varied assortment of super stars when it goes down on Saturday June 4 on Festival Pier in Philly.
Other performers include Blood Orange, Kehlani, DMX, Jidenna, Ibeyi, Paris Monster, Lil Dicky, Migos, Anderson .Paak & the Free Nationals, Willow Smith, LOLAWOLF, Tish Hyman and Lil Uzi Vert. DJ sets from Kaytranada, Swizz Beats, Metro Boomin, Rich Medina, and Everyday People feat. DJ Moma.
With the Super Bowl around the corner and dabs surely in order for Cam Newton and his Panthers, Rich the Kid unleashes visuals to his “Dabbin Fever Intro.” Just to set the record straight on who started this dabbin stuff – Rich the Kid speaks his mind on the dab with new reporters speaking in the background.
What’s wild though, is in this video Jaden Smith (see images below) makes a cameo with the homies. Is Jaden on those dabs too? Spitta, G-Eazy, A$AP Ferg and more also represent in this video. Check it out and tell us who else you see in the comments below!
A$AP Mob is deep – we just now getting a real chance to hear A$AP Twelvyy, A$AP Ant and other A$AP’s get their turn in the market. Rocky and Ferg lets us know it was real and now the next wave is upon us just like Yams would want. This “Trip” joint is super solid with production from Harry Fraud (*cue the tagline “la musica de Harry Fraud”). This is a New York heavy joint that should get the city riled up.
The Clapback heard ‘ROUND THE WORLD….and then comes the selfie. Listen, there are some people you simply don’t want as enemies and, for Kanye West, Amber Rose is clearly one of those people. Now, I know for a fact…well an alleged fact, that Kim Kardashian is known to pay to make “problems” go away. I don’t mean putting hits on people. She allegedly pays to make people her friends or to stop them from talking badly about her.
When this selfie popped up this morning, it was fairly clearly that something dramatic happened and a wave of peace befell all parties. I suppose this is a good thing, but more importantly…a necessary thing. Easy Yeezy does not need any more “fingers in the bootyhole” bombs heading into the release of his next album.
“Blow A Check” was already a local success for Miami’s Zoey Dollaz, but it reached even larger heights when Puff Daddy gave it the old Bad Boy brush up, added French Montana to the mix and featured it as a bonus track on his 2015 “MMM (Money Makin’ Mitch)” mixtape. Finally, after a few months and major radio play, “Blow A Check” gets the official video treatment.
Between taking breaks from the booth, Mr. Twitter Fingers has offered his official opinion on the ails of social media. Last night (Feb. 1), while using his personal Instagram account, Meek Mill offered his introspective insight on the effects of social media. The “Dreams And Nightmares” rapper re-posted a statement which reflected his sentiment.
According to the Philly musician, carefully crafted façades are skewing people’s perception of reality. “The new life! It’s a shame,” read the accompanying message to the main post.
Today, Usher debuted his powerful new video for “Chains” and you don’t have to pay for a TIDAL subscription to see it. “‘Chains’ is my way of spreading light on the issues we face in our social injustice system,” says Usher. “As artists we have to use our platform to spread awareness and inspire action.”
Bringing awareness is exactly what this video does. “Chains” features Nas and Bibi Bourelly. The video was directed by TIDAL’s Film the Future.
Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter, Aloe Blacc, is always good for an inspirational track, so it was no doubt that he would appear on the official soundtrack for the film, “Race,” a movie abou the legendary athletic superstar, Jesse Owens, whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics
The film hits theaters on February 19th and now we can hear the first single from its soundtrack. Check out Aloe Blacc’s “Let The Games Begin” and get inspired. To learn more about Aloe Blacc, visit www.aloeblacc.com and follow him on Twitter (@aloeblacc).
(AllHipHop News) Yesterday (Feb. 1), Freeway spoke on the Hip-Hop beef between Drake and Meek Mill. While respect and brotherly love were extended to Meek, the “Rock The Mic” MC also challenged his creativity. “I love Meek and that’s my man…He definitely could’ve went in and did more than what he did. Who knows, it’s not over yet,” this according to VladTV.
“Hip-Hop is competitive. You know, I feel like I’m better than everybody. So, I’m pretty sure that every other artist feels the same way. If you don’t it’s something wrong with you,” offered the lyrically adept wordsmith. When discussing Drake’s inflammatory diss-track, “Back to Back,” he added, “it made a big impact, but it was light.”
After recalling his own personal beefs that required him to remained “strapped up,” the Philly Freezer mentioned, “I’m happy that it’s staying on wax and it’s not violence [associated with the Drake and Meek Mill beef].” As the discussion further delved into beef and reconciliations, Freeway would mention the relationship between Jay Z and Beanie Sigel, and Lil Wayne and Baby.
Timbaland recently stated that producers don’t exist anymore, and it just seems like people are just beat makers. Metro Boomin seems to have felt some kind of way about it. How he felt we aren’t completely sure. Maybe he is just analyzing the statement. Maybe he disagrees with Timbo, and truly considers himself to be a producer. Nowadays, the beat patterns and drum selections all seem to be the same. It’s like 20 records that sound the same at all times. It seems like no producers go left anymore when others are all going right. Timbaland stated,
“We don’t have producers anymore. We have great programmers. Beats are not made how we used to make them anymore. I think they come as a package now. Beat making has changed. They don’t even know how to make their own snares.”
Timb also said,
“I feel like Metro Boomin will change eventually.”
Well there certainly is a difference in being a beat maker and a producer. Which would you consider Metro Boomin to be? Does Timbaland have a point about there no longer being any producers?
(AllHipHop News) DMX is well-know to e a man of God as well as a man of the people. A man seeking $5 found this out, but learned a very valuable lesson about exercising the right to be silent. He asked for $5, but they upped it to $20 in the face of the rap star.
DMX said, “God… he gives me the blessings because I pass them on. The Word says, ‘hoard nothing, for it will become stale.’ God can’t fill a full warehouse. God can’t fill a full warehouse.”
The man kept trying to talk and X became more and more frustrated. Finally, they depart without any monetary exchange. Perhaps there was a deeper meaning to their confrontation.
The RIAA felt that including music streaming was the next logical step in the continued evolution of Gold & Platinum Awards to reflect the changing marketplace of music consumption. The new Album Award formula is 1,500 on-demand audio and/or video song streams equals 10 track sales which equals 1 album sale. The RIAA’s Digital Single Award ratio has been updated from 100 on-demand streams equals 1 download to 150 on-demand streams equals 1 download. With the new update Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ was one of the albums to be certified platinum. TDE boss Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith a.k.a. Dangeroo Kipawaa wasn’t too excited about the change as he tweeted,
“No cheat codes 2 platinum… #TDE. We don’t stand behind this @RIAA bs. ole skool rules apply. 1 million albums sold is platinum. until we reach that #, save all the congrats.”
What are your thoughts? Should Anthony and TDE just get with the times?
Well as Blac Chyna keeps her publicity stunts rolling, it appears that she took time to remove her “Future” hand tattoo as she has moved on to “date” Rob Kardashian. During the time that Blac Chyna was featured in Future’s “Rich Sex” video, the two were said to have been dating. Blac Chyna even posted a photo of her Future tattoo on Instagram with the caption,
“Thought it was a drought.”
When Future came out and said he was single, social media clowned Chyna. Chyna seems to be quite the attention wh*re and the Queen of petty. It seems like she got with Rob Kardashian to get back at Kim K & Kylie Jenner. Seeing that everything she does seems to be for publicity, it’s clear why she felt the need to show her getting the tattoo removed. Many believed the tattoo was fake. Blac Chyna even claimed it was done with a sharpie at one point. Carry on.
Are Kanye West & Kim Kardashian, and Amber Rose swingers now? Just maybe, or Amber Rose and Kim K could just be trolling. Remember, Kanye said he and his wife have the type of love to turn exes into best friends. Amber Rose & Kim Kardashian shocked the net by posting the same photo of them together. Kim’s caption read,
“Tea anyone.”
While Amber’s read,
“Swingers.”
Nothing with Ye, Kim, Amber, Kylie, Tyga, Blac Chyna, Rob, Kris, Bruce, and Khloe really surprises anyone anymore. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Plus there is definitely some money all of these crazy folks can get together. Actually money probably is how this photo came about. They probably could get some coins from a new freaky flick too. We wonder if a camera crew was present LOL.
In case you forgot:
Kanye West is married to Kim K.
Amber Rose was with Kanye.
French Montana was with Khloe.
Scott was with Kourtney.
Amber Rose was spotted chilling with Scott and French.
Blac Chyna and Amber Rose are best friends.
Tyga is with Kylie.
Blac Chyna was with Tyga.
Rob Kardashian is now with Blac Chyna.
Kylie & Rob have the same stepchild.
Chicago rhymer Chris Cap teamed with fellow Windy City representative Jeremih for the new track “U Got It.” The song has already collected nearly 50,000 plays on SoundCloud in a week.
In an exclusive interview with AllHipHop.com, Cap discusses his collaboration with the R&B star, the current status of Chitown’s music scene, and the full length project to follow 2015’s Fallen Summer EP.
I’ve been knowing Jeremih for some years now. I met him just really randomly in Chicago and he has been a really cool person. I’ve been blessed to attend [J. Cole’s] Forrest Hill Drive tour and [Jeremih’s] album release show for Late Nights: The Album thanks to him. Being a fan of his music it has been a great year for sure.
What was the creative process for “U Got It”?
That was all the genius of Jeremih. He crafted it, and it was really just a lay up for me to add my verse to it. It is definitely a fun song that the club can get lit to. So I just brought some personal experience to the writing of the verse. I love the song, it’s so dope to me.
Was there a certain muse for the song?
On my end the muse is just a collage of experiences from my life. I just took some experiences from traveling to NY, Miami, and LA, and put it all together in a verse – all the beautiful women I have met and great parties. Jeremih”s hook and verse was so dope it made it easy to bring my experiences to bars.
How is the music scene in Chicago at the moment?
The music scene in Chicago is amazing. There are so many great artists and so much great music being put out right now. I feel like Chicago is how NYC was in the 90’s – everywhere you look it’s stars. We set trends and slang for the world. All eyes are on us right now, and I plan on people hearing my story and experiences. This song is a “hello I am here” for me.
And You Say Chi-City
When are you releasing the follow-up to Fallen Summer?
I have so much music, so I am ready whenever. But life is all about timing so as soon as the timing is right I am going to put out the follow-up. It’s a few artists I want to work with and put on it, and some videos I want to shoot. But it’s all about the timing for me.
(AllHipHop News) Over the last 12 months Atlanta rapper Future has released five projects, but it appears the Freebandz leader is not done dropping full bodies of work. Future is reportedly set to debut his latest album on the first episode of DJ Khaled’s new Apple Music Beats 1 show We The Best Radio this Friday.
Khaled revealed his partnership with the tech giant on his Instagram page. The Miami native wrote, “Just signed a new deal with Apple Music. We The Best radio and TV debuting this Friday at 8 PM EST/5 PM PST! World premiering the new Future album this Friday!”
Future’s most recent project arrived just two weeks ago when the Purple Reign mixtape hit the internet on January 17. He previously dropped the Beast Mode, 56 Nights, and What A Time To Be Alive (with Drake) mixtapes as well as the #1 album DS2.
(AllHipHop News) Late last year, news broke that British singer Rita Ora was suing Roc Nation in order to get out of her contract with the label. The company, founded by Jay Z, has now filed a counter suit against Ora.
In its cross-complaint, filed last Friday (Jan. 29) in California Superior Court, says it has “tirelessly promoted” Ora’s career, spending over $2.3 million promoting and recording her 2012 album Ora. The filing calls for that $2.3 million to be returned, and for damages on the four remaining records in her contract.
According to Ora’s lawyer, Howard E. King, Jay Z called the “R.I.P.” performer after she filed her suit and the Hip Hop mogul said he would released her from the Roc Nation contract. King even referred to Jay as “gracious” and suggested Sony Music has been delaying the process.
“It was just a little twist, because Jay Z, we are told, has to answer to Sony Music, so that’s been the hangup in having this go away,” stated King. “But we’re confident that Jay can resolve whatever he has to with Sony Music.”
Rita Ora released one album under Roc Nation, 2012’s Ora. The LP debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, and it spawned The Notorious B.I.G. sampling, UK hit record “How We Do (Party)”.
(AllHipHop News) Rihanna’s latest album Anti is looking to open at #27 on the album chart with about 16,000 SPS (Sales Plus Streaming) units, but those numbers do not tell the full story. The 16k total only includes one day of streaming since the album was released on a Thursday and weekly counts begin on Friday. After a full seven days of streaming and digital purchases, Rihanna is closing in on another #1 album.
HitsDailyDouble reports Anti is predicted to move about 95,000-105,000 albums sold and 120,000-130,000 SPS. This will put the Roc Nation songstress ahead of other new arrivals Islah by Kevin Gates (75-80k, 80-85k), This Is Acting bySia (70-75k, 80-85k) and Nine Track Mind by Charlie Puth (45-50k, 60-65k).
If Rihanna returns to the top spot on the album chart, it will be the second #1 of her career. 2012’s Unapologetic landed in the pole position with 238,000 copies sold in its first week.
Anti has already been certified platinum by the RIAA thanks to Samsung giving away one million free downloads of the album to fans. However, Billboard (which reports chart placement) refused to add the free downloads as part of its album chart calculations.
(AllHipHop News) Legendary Hip Hop group De La Soul has signed a multi-year global deal with Kobalt Label Services. The agreement is in support of the New York trio’s new album And The Anonymous Nobody, which will be independently released on their own AOI Records.
De La Soul’s new arrangement with Kobalt includes exclusive digital and physical distribution and synch representation on the masters. There will be worldwide representation and product management support through Kobalt Label Services in multiple territories.
“I’m highly anticipating this relationship with Kobalt. After doing so much research with our team I think this is the best situation for this project based on its history and enthusiasm to help us face all the challenges in today’s industry,” says Maseo.
De La Soul wanted to make another sample-based album like their classic 1989 LP 3 Feet High and Rising. The group spent several years recording more than 300 hours of live music. And The Anonymous Nobody will encompass everything from Hip Hop, Bossa Nova, Soul, Funk, Disco and Reggae.
The concept album was produced by De La Soul and Dave West. The group’s Kickstarter campaign garnered more than 11,000 backers and $600,000 in funding.
“De La Soul has established itself as one of the most widely acclaimed hip-hop groups of all time,” states Richard Sanders, President of Kobalt. “With three decades of recording history, they have deep-seeded roots in the music industry and a reputation for creating ambitious, eclectic music that has pushed the boundaries of hip-hop and popular music. Kobalt is excited to partner with them and make music history together.”
