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It’s a Boy: Kim & Kanye Announce Sex of Unborn Child!

Last night (June 21), Hip-Hop superstar, Kanye West and his wife, reality-TV personality, Kim Kardashian confirmed the sex of their unborn child. As it turns out, they expectant couple will be welcoming their first son into the world, this according to Yahoo News.

Precious moments like this when we were traveling on tour with you are what I live for. You’re such a good daddy to North &  yo will be the best daddy to our new son too!

With over 36 million Instagram followers, Kim K. shared the above caption which accompanied a photo of her husband, Kanye holding their daughter North, which seems to have been taken in a hotel room. Earlier this month, on an episode of ‘Keeping Up With The Kardasians,’  the highly-accomplished couple detailed their desire to have more children and their struggle to conceive.

It looks as though their prayers have been answered. Congrats go out to both Kim and Kanye. Check out the photo of Kanye and North. What do you think they’ll name their little boy?

Kanye and North

 

Kanye West’s “SWISH” Album Reportedly Dropping This Fall

(AllHipHop News) After changing the title of his upcoming album from So Help Me God to SWISH, Kanye West has been relatively quiet about the project. Rumors have been flying that Ye’s 7th solo LP could be an Apple Music exclusive, but other than that fans have not received many details about SWISH. Not even a release date.

[ALSO READ: Kanye West To Get $200 Million From New Deal With Apple?]

The Guardian is now reporting the album is set to drop sometime this fall. It should be noted that Kanye nor his label have confirmed Swish is scheduled for the third quarter of 2015.

The GOOD Music founder previously released the singles “Only One,” “FourFiveSeconds” featuring Rihanna & Paul McCartney, and “All Day” featuring Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom & McCartney. All three songs are expected to appear on SWISH.

[ALSO READ: Kanye West Blasts Censorship Of “All Day” & “Black Skinhead” At 2015 Billboard Music Awards]

Lil Scrappy: Charleston Church Shooter Saw It Was Okay To Kill Black People (VIDEO)

(AllHipHop News) Ever since Dylann Roof took the lives of nine Black church goers in Charleston, South Carolina last week, numerous celebrities have weighed in on the massacre. Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star Lil Scrappy became the latest rap figure to offer his thoughts on the racially motivated killing.

“It always goes back to being prejudice and all this hateful stuff,” Scrappy told DJ Smallz Eyes. “That little boy seeing that on TV everyday that you can get away with killing a Black person.”

Scrappy also suggested African-Americans should change their behavior when dealing with police, rich rappers need to “see about your people,” and citizens may want to start carrying firearms to church.

[ALSO READ: Nas On Charleston Church Shooting: “Racism Is Rotting America” (VIDEO)]

Watch Lil Scrappy’s interview below.

Rampage – “Vibes & Culture” (MIXTAPE)

The one and only last boy scout Rampage bursts back onto the scene with a brand new mixtape titled “Vibes And Culture”. Remember, the Flipmode Squad alum just released “Remington Steele” a mere two months ago. Never one to gather moss, this powerhouse follows in a new suit for this release. “Remington Steele” was themed in the late seventies player theme. This time, he channels his inner Rasta to fuse a Jamaican flavor to the mix. It’s Rampage, you already know it’s got a smooth, old school Hip Hop vibe to it as well. So get the Barcadi ready and press play to experience “Vibes & Culture”.

Listen below.

Listen To Kendrick Lamar On Jidenna’s “Classic Man” Remix

Wondaland artist, Jidenna, calls on Kendrick Lamar for the official remix of his buzzing single “Classic Man”. This track will live on the forthcoming Wondaland compilation “The Eephus” dropping August 14th. Pre-order now on iTunes.

Da YoungFellaz – “Bragging Rights”

Da YoungFellaz are making a lot of noise in the NYC and because of that they have been asked by HOT 97 to perform at a few upcoming showcases around the city. They are also in the process of dropping their new project, “The New York Times,” and it will consist of classic 90 tracks that they had some in house producers flip for them. That project will drop next Monday, but in the meantime the duo gives us a dope flip of Biggie & Hov’s “I Love The Dough” instrumental.

Kendrick Lamar Talks New Album In Guardian

Kendrick Lamar’s sophomore project Too Pimp A Butterfly may be still in rotation, but the Compton rapper is already thinking about what his next album will be about. In his interview with The Guardian, King Kendrick hinted a new album when stated that he knows what to do next:

“I know exactly what I want to say next,” he says. “Everything is going to make sense – not only to myself but to anybody who wants to understand life and music. Everything will make a little more sense.”

Kendrick is another artist within TDE that is working on a new album. Earlier this weekend, fellow TDE member ScHoolboy Q announced that he to is working on a new project. Expect more from TDE in the near future.

 

Young Thug – Be Me See Me

There’s no stopping Young Thug. The Atlanta rapper recently released another banger with producer Metro Boomin. The two artists have been working together for a while, with a number of their tracks acquiring popularity to their sound. No word on whether the track will be on Hy!£UN35, but this will hold fans off. Check out “Be Me See Me” below.

https://soundcloud.com/tinychainsaw/young-thug-be-me-see-me-p###-metro-boomin

Father – Who’s Gonna Get F*cked First (Video)

Last year, ATL rapper Father emerged within the music scene after getting attention from his internet hit “Look At Wrist” and dropping his LP Young Hot Ebony soon after. Today (ironically Father’s Day), Father released the official video for single “Who’s Gonna Get F*cked First”. The single is also the name of his sophomore project, which was released earlier this year. Make sure you watch this at home, because this video has NSFW written all over it. Check out “Who’s Gonna Get F*cked First” below.

Check Out The Footage Of Kanye West’s Set During Birthday Bash

Last Night, Kanye West headlined Hot 107’s Birthday Bash in Atlanta. During his set, several cameras caught the performances, including a new freestyle and the performance of “All Day”. Check out the footage of the show below.

https://youtu.be/lBVGZD6caw8

https://youtu.be/JW5wJFe07Ro

Odd Pick: Peter $un – Starships Are Made Of Love

Here’s a brand new song found by The Odd Side, a column on AllHipHop that captures where hip hop is going.

Richmond artist as been establishing a unique sound for himself for a while now. Along with many acts including D.R.A.M. and Sunny & Gabe, $un is one of the reasons why Virginia is flourishing with a diverse array of musical talent. Recently, Peter $un released a new song called “Starships Are Made Of Love” via DJ Booth’s Soundcloud. The track, produced by Dallas producer MEDASIN, has a smooth yet odd instrumental that $un sings and raps over. This is definitely the type of sound that is taking hip hop to an astronomical level, literally. Let us know what you think, and look out for the next update of The Odd Side.

D’Angelo Wants More Artists To Invest Their Music In Social Issues

Last Year, D’Angelo released his highly anticipated project Black Messiah. It was the first project that the soul artist has released in 14 years and, alongside Kendrick Lamar’s sophomore album To Pimp A Butterfly, became one of the most recognizable albums this year to speak on societal issues through its trackless. Although this may be a huge accomplishment for D’Angelo, he doesn’t want to be the only artist making socially charged music. In an interview with the New York Times, the Soul veteran spoke out about how there’s a lack of socially charged music in Hip Hop and music. He also included Kendrick as one of the artists actually making an album like Too Pimp A Butterfly. The article reads:

” Now more than ever is the need to sing about it and to write songs about it. And no one’s doing it. There’s only a chosen couple of people. I think it just takes one little snowflake to start a snowball to go down the hill. My contribution and say, Kendrick Lamar’s and some chosen others’ start the snowball. That’s all I can hope for. I don’t know if I’m comfortable being quote-unquote a leader. But I do realize and understand that my role as a musician, and in the medium that I am, that people are listening to me. Kids are listening to me. We have power to influence minds and influence lives. So I respect that power. I really do. I’m not putting myself on a pedestal or anything like that. I think that’s dangerous. When you start playing with that, and you’re not careful, you can get yourself into trouble.

Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware. Now the trend … it’s just [expletive]. But to tell you the truth, there are a lot of people who feel the same way that I feel and that are making great music, conscious music. But for some reason or another it seems like the gatekeepers are not allowing that stuff to filter through to the mainstream. Kendrick Lamar, he’s an example of someone who is young and actually trying to say something. Who else? You got Young Jeezy and Young Thug. You know what I’m saying? It’s stupid. It’s ridiculous.”

You can read the rest of the NY Times interview here, where it also includes the first meeting between D’Angelo and former Black Panther Party co-founder, Bobby Seale.

Lupe Fiasco Writes A Letter To “White Supremacy”

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Dear White Supremacy,

First of all you are not really that supreme. While throughout history White Supremacy it must be admitted you have achieved some very dominant positions. These positions have been gained mostly through force or some biological agent such as disease that did a lot of the dirty work for you in advance. I mean and anybody can use force on an unarmed populous and anybody can have smallpox. Not judging, just wanted to point out that having a disease that native folks aren’t immune to because they’ve never seen it doesn’t make you strategically smart or tactically superior, just kind of sick. And these dominant positions don’t really stand up to the test of time that long either. There is nothing about you biologically or physically that denotes an innate mode of supremacy. For that matter there is also nothing about you psychologically, philosophically, cognitively, academically, socially, architecturally, culturally or even financially that signifies a higher position above any other group. And to be diplomatic there is nothing about you that denotes innate inferiority as well.

So what you really are is something in the middle. You are regular. White Regularity is congruent to all other forms of regularity i.e. Black, Brown, Etc etc. But in regularity there is room for differences and this is where White Regularity shines! Each group gets the same essential universals. Dance, food, music, etc. and it must be admitted that the White Regularity take on these universal institutions has been unbelievably impressive and a great addition to the total world culture.

I mean spaghetti and meatballs, Romeo & Juliet, Coldplay, The Tuxedo, lighter that air travel are all world class additions to the collective bucket but they are no less or more impressive than every other regular groups take on the universals either. And if we really wanted to get analytical every invention is built on inspiration from a previously existing invention so the claim of “The Supreme 1st” to do something is highly debatable and except for a few exceptions, impossible! All things human aren’t born from a supreme overlord solely working in isolation.

Things are created in collaboration and in tandem with other cultures, knowledge structures and movements and more important, People. I mean if those Muslims didn’t catalog all that Greek philosophy for research we might not even know who Plato was. Now whether this collaboration is forced which is seen so much but not exclusively throughout human history does not take away the fact that it is done with the help of somebody else.

We are supreme as a spectrum of colors in collaboration. One color does not dominate the other nor can it. Sure Steve Jobs was white. But the guy who built the computer was probably Chinese. And the girl who wrote the programs for the computer is probably from Mumbai. And the raw materials that were used to make it where probably first pulled out of the ground by somebody in South Africa. And if you take this highly collaborated upon piece of high technology to an indigenous tribe in the jungles of Brazil they’d probably use it as a boat paddle. And we can go on and on down or up the rabbit hole all day long and you’ll always find a regular somebody relying on the abilities of a just as regular somebody else that another regular somebody doesn’t even care about.

White Supremacy is a lie white regularists tell to themselves in hopes that they can get a one way ticket to the top and hope we other colors overhear it. Here’s the bad news, ain’t no top. Here’s the good news though, ain’t no bottom neither! It’s just the regular ole middle where nobody is safe from being influenced by somebody else’s extreme regularness. Is your s####### flag printed in Mexico? Did you know the s####### is officially from Asia and the subcontinent? Did you know black people had slaves in Africa too? Did you know in the world your considered a minority too? I mean you call us n###### and b###### but you gotta ship all your former Native American land backwood sourced ginseng to China to get money to support your meth habit. Meth that’s made with chemicals produced in India. I mean Hitler hated everything about the Jews expect every possession they had. It’s funny how the things you hate so much you have to rely on the most for your survival.

And if you wanted to get really ironic and meta about it, White Supremacy has to validate it’s on identity based solely on its relationship to other races! I mean now that’s what I would call joined at the hip. Without us there is no white supremacy because there would be nothing to supreme over! That sounds so stupid but sometimes the truth is stupid. Stupid like a fox. And no not stupid like a Fox News I mean the real fox. The animal. 
In closing white regularity (the race formerly know as white supremacy) I myself on behalf of my own black regularity salute you. Good luck with the northwest front I hear it’s beautiful in the spring and probably a strategic death trap if and when Yellowstone finally decides to blow up!

Yours Truly

Wasalu “Lupe” Jaco

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Lauren Hill – “I’ve Got Life”

Earlier this week, Lauryn Hill premiered her cover of Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good”, and the internet went crazy. Now, the elusive singer is back with another cover of one of Nina Simone’s classics. This time though, Hill adds a revolutionary verse make the message more crucial to listeners. “I’ve Got Life” might be a part of Nina…Revisited: A Tribute to Nina Simone, a project that showcases different covers of the legendary singer’s work. The project includes Common, Alice Smith, Mary J. Blige, and many more artists. Check out “I’ve Got Life below”.

Stream Hot 107’s 20th Birthday Bash

Big things are underway in Atlanta, thanks to Hot 107. The local station is throwing a Birthday Bash that features a big name lineup featuring Kanye West, Future, Migos, K- Camp, and much more. What makes this more dope is that you can live stream the show. Check out the show below.



Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream

 

Travi$ Scott Premieres New Song “All We Know” At JMBLYA

Last night at in Dallas, Travi$ Scott debut a new song titled “All We Know” at JMBLYA. According to Complex, the new track is a collaboration with singer Partynextdoor. It was also produced by Eastbound and Canadian producer, Wondagurl. Travi$ Scott’s debut album Rodeo is coming very soon. Check out the clips below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=41&v=SEaXLHpDIZU

Nacho Picasso – Blunt Raps II

Seattle has bred a host of talented act, but none of them is quite like Nacho Picasso. After checking him at SXSW a few years back at the Diamond Supply showcase, we knew that he was going to blow up. Its just a matter of time before he really gets that nationwide exposure.

Kartel Gang Ft Statik Selektah – “XXL 2015 Freshman Friday Freestyle”

After garnering posts everywhere with their last single “Paid Dues” featuring Beanie Sigel, Kartel Gang returns with a dope freestyle over some Statik Selektah cuts. While they didn’t make the XXL cover, the guys have something for the blogs and media on a Friday to rebuttal the cover. Watch how the beat changes up over various XXL Freshman beats. Hope you enjoy!

Jadakiss – Shame On Ya (Freestyle)

Recently, Jadakiss released a new freestyle named “Shame On Ya”. The LOX member’s 1 minute song rides to the beat of Ol Dirty Bastard’s “Brooklyn Zoo”. No word on whether this is a teaser to any new projects, but we’ll keep you updated. Check out “Shame On Ya” below.

https://soundcloud.com/therealkiss/jadakiss-shame-on-you-rappers