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Terrace Martin "3ChordFold Pulse" Album [Stream]
West Coast artist and producer Terrace Martin drops 3ChordFold Pulse, a 13-track set featuring a mixture of new songs, live versions and other exclusives from Terrace and collaborators.
The 13-track project includes “Angel,” a video and instrumental by 9th Wonder. Additional features on the project include James Fauntleroy, Robert Glasper, Snoop Dogg and Teedra Moses.
New Music- Chris Batson "Come Back For You"
Rising LA-based (via Orlando, FL) singer/songwriter/producer Chris Batson drops a self-produced, new joint “Come Back For You.” In the song, Chris promises to come back for his lady love. It seems that we will be able to dive deeper into the soul of this new R&B artist through his new emotional releases. He croons, “Baby, I’m gonna make us both rich and I’m gonna come back for you. I’ll be the one that you never forget. I’ll be the one that you never regret.” Chris also recently released a series of videos directed by Chris Smith from his We Got Lost Along The Way EP, it follows the same female protagonist as she contends with the consequences of her actions.
Take a listen to Batson’s “Come Back For You”
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Also check out Batson’s We Got Lost Along The Way EP video anthology below.
D’Angelo + Questlove Talk Soulquarian Sleepovers, Not Being Neo Soul + More
(AllHipHop News) What happened last night (May 21st) at Brooklyn Arts Museum on 200 Eastern Parkway can only be described as magic. D’Angelo gave his first ever live lecture as apart of Reb Bull Music Academy with guest moderator Nelson George and surprise guest Questlove.
Before stating, “Sly you promised” when asked about a potential Sly Stone and D’angelo collaboration, he explains how the funk legend is “f*cking with the autoune sh*t”:
He’s always constantly working on music. It’s the truth. He’s working on mad sh*t. [– Nelson interjects– He played you something?] Yeah. [Nelson George interjects- Ohhhhh!] Yeah, It’s progressive, it’s new and he’s f*cking with the Auto-Tune sh*t”. I heard it and was like ‘Nah damn, why you using Auto-tune? But the way he did it, he’s doing it like no one else. I mean of course, it’s Sly.
When D’Angelo released his last album, 2000’s Voodo, CD’s were still the dominant driver of music sales, there was no social media and a home studio cost in the thousands. In 2014, D’Angelo understands the pervasive nature of outside influences but blocks them out by putting himself in a self-created “bubble”:
To a fault, I think that I’ve put myself in a bubble so that I’m not affected by any of that. Although it’s hard not to, ‘cause it’s the world we live in now, right? I mean I completely block all this sh*t out. I mean, I have to. When I’m thinking about music or when I’m being creative, I can’t even put my mind there.
Hip Hop’s unofficial orator Questlove was in the packed audience and at various moments participated in the discussion from his seat. After initially coming onto the stage to explain how he first D’Angelo, Questlove returned and during his part of the lecture spoke directly with D’Angelo about the bad side of his self-imposed bubble:
The problem with the bubble thing is that sometimes you’re unaware of the effects. [D’Angelo’s] always amazed at the fact that Voodoo is still rippling. The effects of it are still rippling and spreading. There’s a whole nothing audience that are into it.
With two of the founders of the dynamic movement, The Soulquarians on stage, it was not long before the conversation shifted to that. Accoring to Questlove, the members of the Soulquarian movement recorded solo albums in New York City’s Electric Lady Studios simultaneously. The group began to spend so much time with each other that there were 1998 sleepovers:
Between 1997 and 2001, 2002, we literally just took over Electric Lady Studios. I remember at one point in 1998 it was like sleep overs. We would stay up. Watch Soul Train all night and figure out something. Like see a trick that Al Green’s doing. Mostly it was like practice before the show.
D’Angelo added:
The main premise was, it’s not just going to be one group. It’s not going to be one album that does it, it’s going to be a movement. It’s going to be all of us.
D’ Angelo initially stated “I plead the fifth” when moderator Nelson George asked if the term neo-soul “was a valid phrase or was it just some PR bullsh*t?” Later he gave an actual answer:
I don’t want to disassociate or anything and respect it and what it is. But I will say this, anytime you put a name on something you pu t## in a box. So, the mai nth ing about the whole ‘neo-soul’ thing, not to put it down, but.. you in a position where you want to grow as an artist. You never want to be told, ‘hey, you not doing what you did on Brown Sugar. But right now, I’m not.
After stating “I never claimed neo-soul”, the usually reclusive artist explained “when I first came out, I started saying I do ‘Black music’. But after an hour of revelatory insights into the life of D’Angelo, it is Questlove who gives the only insight into an “unmentionable, unspoken, third record”:
When Voodoo came out, that was at one point in history, that was a hard pill for a lot of people to swallow. It’s weird now, because it’s in our DNA. But when it came out there were a lot of people that were like whoa, wait a minute, this sounds like an acid trip or something. What are you guys doing? Now it sounds normal, especially compared to the….unmentionable, unspoken third record.
Gang Related Stars Ramon Rodriguez, RZA & Terry O'Quinn Discuss New Fox Series 'Gang Related'
Stars lit up the red carpet last night for the premier of Fox’s highly anticipated drama, Gang Related.
With an all-star cast including The Wire’s Ramon Rodriguez, Wu-Tang legend RZA and Lost’s Terry O’Quinn, Gang Related
follows the Los Angeles Police Department efforts to decentralize the precincts most treacherous gang operations.
Terry O’Quinn on his role as Sam Chapel:
I play a LAPD captain who leads the gang task force of which RZA and Ramon Rodriguez are members, and we’re trying to mitigate the influence of the gangs in LA.
RZA on his role:
I play a guy named Cassius Green- he’s a drug enforcement agent out of New York City who was recruited by Sam Chapel, played by Terry O’Quinn, to come to California and help bring down the gangs. Being that Cassius is a guy that kinda understands that world, he becomes a great asset to the gang task force.
The series’ main protagonist, Ramon Rodriguez, plays a gangster caught in a battle of morality.
As a member of the city’s worst gang, Rodriguez initially joins the area’s task force as an informant, collecting information to spread within his set. As the plot unfolds, enemy lines become blurred as his police and gang allegiances clash, ultimately resulting in bloodshed.
Ramon on his role as Ryan Lopez:
Ryan Lopez is a LAPD detective, but we find out he’s also giving information back to his family, and his family ends up being a gang.
He was raised by his gang, so he’s torn between his two families; the family of the LAPD, his brotherhood with RZA and others, and also with the family he was raised in, the Acosta family.
Gang Related premiers on Fox tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Watch as we chop it up with the cast and hear from the event’s celebrity attendees.
Almost Every Pharrell Williams Track Begins The Same
(AllHipHop News) After two decades in the spotlight, superproducer Pharrell Williams has crafted a signature production sound that can heard on albums by Jay Z, Justin Timberlake, Pusha T, Snoop Dogg, Robin Thicke, Daft Punk, and countless others.
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In case listeners were never able to figure out which tracks came from Skateboard P, Discopop made a compilation of a few hits produced by Pharrell, and they all have something in common. The opening of each track begins with a four-count loop of the first beat.
Listen to Discopop’s mash-up of Pharrell intros below.
1. SWV – “Right Here”
2. Jay Z – “Frontin'”
3. Kelis – “Milkshake”
4. Snoop Dogg – “Drop It Like Its Hot”
5. Robin Thicke – “Blurred Lines”
6. Shakira – “Why Wait”
7. Frank Ocean – “Sweet Life”
8. Pharrell Williams – “Brand New”
9. Paloma Faith – “Can’t Rely On You”
10. Pharrell Williams – “Happy”
11. Pharrell Williams – “Hunter”
12. Jay Z – “I Wish”
13. Pharrell Williams – “Gust Of Wind”
Jay Z Opens 40/40 Club In Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport
(AllHipHop News) Jay Z’s 40/40 brand has officially arrived in the south. The New York based businessman and emcee has opened the newest location of his 40/40 Club sports bar in Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
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Billboard reports the “scaled down” replica of Manhattan’s flagship site is located in the Concourse D concessions area of the airport. A separate VIP lounge extension is scheduled to open this fall.
The Atlanta 40/40 is now the third location currently open. Besides the Manhattan spot, there is also a 40/40 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Two other clubs in Las Vegas and Atlantic City have been closed.
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MMG's Gunplay Says He Would Fought Solange Back In The Elevator
(AllHipHop News) Jay Z’s reaction to the elevator attack by Solange led to the creation of some classic memes. The 9-figure mogul also received praised for his measure, non-violent response to being hit and kicked by a woman.
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One fellow rapper revealed that if he was in that situation he would not have held back on returning blows to his sister-in-law. Maybach Music Group’s Gunplay spoke with The Breakfast Club recently, and the Carol City, Florida native shared why his elevator experience would have been different.
“She would got the business,” said Gunplay. “You wanna run up on a n***a like you’s a n***a, I’m gonna whoop you like a n***a.”
The “Krazy” rapper goes on to say that he would have fought the woman back and then handled the legal and career consequences later.
“I don’t care how much I’m worth. I’m going to spend it on a lawyer. That’s why I got money,” stated Gunplay. “That’s just me. It’s just instinct.”
Gunplay does add that he felt Jay did the right thing and commends him for his restraint, but for him he would have had to “put them hands” on a woman who attacked him first.
Gunplay has been involved in violent incidents in the past. He got into a fight with members of 50 Cent’s entourage at the 2012 BET Hip Hop Awards. He was also charged with robbing and assaulting an accountant in his office that same year. The charges were later dismissed after the prosecution could not locate the alleged victim.
[ALSO READ: Gunplay’s Robbery and Assault Charges Dismissed]
Watch Gunplay’s interview below.
Terminator X Says Music Biz & Public Enemy's "Greed " Is Why He Left Rap
(AllHipHop News) Terminator X retired from making music years ago, and the Public Enemy affiliate has now spoken out on why he stepped away from the game. In an interview with Crazy Hood, the DJ says the obsession with money is one of the reasons he left the music industry.
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“I left the music business because I was fed up with the greed and cutthroat environment that it is—this includes Public Enemy,” said X. “That is not an environment I choose to be in. My family started an ostrich farm, which I participated in, but it is not the reason I left the music business.”
After a conversation with Quincy Jones at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony, Terminator X made the decision to come back to the business. He is now a contributor to Chuck D’s RapStation platform.
“I decided that I was coming home to my music only on my terms and I would not let the music ‘business’ come between us again,” X added.
The rap game has surely changed since P.E.’s heyday, and X does not have a positive opinion on the current state of Hip Hop.
“I think the subject matter of modern Rap is, for the most part, the worst it’s ever been,” said Terminator X. “Most of what I hear out there is either sex, violence, or drugs. I would be happy if they would simply find anything else to rap about.”
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50 Cent Sells $5000 "Animal Ambition" Bundle & Other Merchandise
(AllHipHop News) With just under two weeks to go before 50 Cent drops his comeback album Animal Ambition, the G-Unit leader is offering his fans the chance to purchase exclusive merchandise featuring the LP.
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50’s official store website is selling several bundles related to his 5th studio album. For $40 buyers can get a bundle with a T-shirt and CD, or for $180 a 50 fan can get a shirt, CD, signed poster, and a pair of SMS headphones.
The Queens rapper was also offering a $5,000 package that included 5 copies of the deluxe CD, 3 T-shirts, 5 signed posters, 2 pair of headphones, and the chance to hang out with 50 himself. Unfortunately for those willing to give up 5 grand the bundle is already sold out.
Animal Ambition is scheduled for release on June 3rd.
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Jay Electronica Deletes Twitter Profile
(AllHipHop News) Jay Electronica had become somewhat of a Twitter celebrity in recent months. From epic rants about the government and thugs, to Q&A session with fans that including addressing Kendrick Lamar’s “Control” verse, to cryptic messages that left the public guessing what exactly he was trying to get across, Jay E’s timeline was a must read for Hip Hop followers.
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That all appears to be over, at least for now. Electronica has quietly deleted his Twitter profile. An explanation for why he decided to end sharing his thoughts on the social media platform has not been revealed.
Jay Electronica’s long-awaited debut album is expected to be released later this year. The Roc Nation rapper recently promised Act II: Patents Of Nobility will drop before 2015.
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Hip Hop Rumors: Aaliyah Biopic Cast Finalized?
Rumors of who will play our beloved baby girl Aaliyah have been circulating for awhile now, and we now know at least one actress who did not get the part.
Tristin Mays let fans know Avia Instagram that she would not be playing the role of Aaliyah in the movie based on the late singer’s life.
Who do you guys want to see on the big screen as Aaliyah?
Hip Hop Rumors: Kanye And Kim Set To Spend HOW MUCH On Wedding?
Kanye and Kim are gearing up for their big day this upcoming weekend, and more details are spilling out about the extravagant wedding, including that the wedding is set to cost around $7 million!
RadarOnline reports:
“With the E! Network footing the bill for most of the wedding — presumably for Keeping Up With The Kardashians or a wedding special — the couple felt that left them with a hefty budget to splurge on the rest of the festivities.
Kardashian, 33, literally wants her wedding to be “the” wedding of the century, the source said, so she has been watching the Royal Wedding on loop!
Some of the swag being reported include:
- $2 million for just one of Kim’s wedding dress options
- $650,000 for a rehearsal dinner
- $3million for security
- $2million for a live performance from The Carters
- $1million for flowers
7 milli for a wedding though? But hey, if you got it I guess you can spend it…
Hip Hop Rumors: Hip Hip Mothers Set To Get Reality Show?
Lawd let the ratchetry begin…
RadarOnline is reporting that a few of Atlanta’s Hip Hop’s finest are gearing up for a new reality show, but it’s not the rappers, it’s their mothers.
The list of mamas will include‘Tiny’ Harris’ mother Diane, Rasheeda Frost’s mama Shirleen, Rich Homie Quan, Ca$hout, K Camp’s mothers.
And the show wouldn’t be complete without ATL’s own Kandi Burruss’ infamous mom, Mama Joyce.
Personally I think we need to throw Waka Flocka’s mom and Scrappy’s mom in to the mix, that’d make one hell of a lineup.
Hip Hop Rumors: Drake's Got A New Boo?
Drake’s got a new boo thang and she’s not his typical cup of tea (meaning she’s not a stripper).
Now Drake has had tough luck with the ladies, but this one may be a winner. Drake is alledgedly dating Rap-A-Lot Records CEO J. Prince’s daughter, Brandy.
Drake posted a pic to his Instagram with the caption, “Me and my boo since way back when and every now and again @Fairytailshair haaaaa,” and it seems like the two have been having a good time kicking it in H-Town.
Quincy Jones: I Was A "Baby Gangster" + Criticizes New Michael Jackson Album
(AllHipHop News) Quincy Jones has sold enough records to have an opinion on everything. During a recent interview with Canadian radio station CBC, Jones criticized the recent Michael Jackson album Xscape, describes Vibe Magazine as a “disaster” and more. In 1993, Quincy Jones founded Vibe Magazine and 20 years later, Vibe Magazine was sold to Spin Media and reduced to a quarterly release instead of its usual monthly release. According to one of the most accomplished musicians ever, the magazine was not one of his best moments:
Vibe was a disaster. I let it be in the hands of somebody else. That doesn’t work. It was terrible.
The accomplished composer claims growing up in Chicago he “saw a dead body everyday” and had gangster life aspirations growing up. Ironically, the self-proclaimed “baby gangster” was able to turn one night of crime on the town into the start of the most illustrious producing career ever:
We had the city covered. We were baby gangsters. We had all the stores. Working all the stores. Steal boxes of honey. This was during [World War II] in the 40s. The Armory were our recreational center, but it was also an armory for the military. We went in there and we ate up all of the lemon pie. Ate the ice cream, had pie fights and everything else. Then we walked around and broke in the rooms and so forth. I walked in one room, saw piano in the dark, I closed the door and something said ‘go back in that room.’
Jones reveals that Jackson and himself went through “900 songs to get Thriller. To get nine songs.” After stating that he disapproves of the new L.A. Reid executive produced Xscape album, Jones states that “it’s none of our business” due to the multiple parties involved with monetary interests:
They’re trying to make money. And I understand it. Everybody’s after money, the estate, the lawyers. It’s about money.
Check out Quincy Jones full interview with CBC here.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Is Somebody Mad At Jay Z?
I have to admit that this rumor seems a bit silly to me. However, somebody hit me and told me that somebody is upset with Jay Z. They speak as if that person’s name is Rick Ross. I don’t know what the final sales numbers were on his last album, Mastermind, but the album is rooted in that. Seems like somebody, maybe Rick Ross is upset with Jay over the final sales tally for Rozay’s album. Now, the source tried to tell me some other stuff about Def Jam and whatever, but I rely couldn’t see this being real. But, they claimed that Def Jam was also upset with Jay Z, because the first single “Devil is a Lie” really didn’t pop off the way they expected it to happen. Anyway, last time I checked all of these guys were rich so I’m going to let it marinate in Rumorville.
Yeah…I question this rumor since Ross and Jay seem so friendly.
“They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!” -illseed.
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