With a new album called, Canal Street Confidential on the cusp of its release, Curren$y drops the visual for his track “Boulders.” “Boulders” is the third visual released off of the forthcoming 2nd studio album and showcases Curren$y lighting up, driving expensive whips and doing what he does best – smokin loud, ridin around, messing with females.
Rihanna has been getting people excited about her highly anticipated project Anti. With the release of the album’s artwork, an official release date, and the numerous commercials that aired during the American Music Awards last night (according to HYPETRAK), fans everywhere cannot wait to hear Anti through their speakers when the project drops this Friday. However, fans might also need to prepare to purchase their tickets to her world tour. Today, the pop star announced that her Anti tour, featuring the Weeknd, Travi$ Scott, and Big Sean as her tour guests. The tour will start on February and end in August, traveling everywhere from Baltimore to Switzerland. Check out the official tour dates and locations below.
Rihanna ANTI World Tour – (Tour Dates)
Source: Pitchfork
02-26 San Diego, CA – Viejas Arena *
02-28 San Jose, CA – SAP Center *
03-01 Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Arena *
03-04 Austin, TX – Frank Erwin Center *
03-05 Houston, TX – Toyota Center *
03-06 Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center *
03-08 New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center *
03-09 Atlanta, GA – Philips Arena *
03-12 Jacksonville, FL – Jacksonville Arena *
03-13 Tampa, FL – Amalie Arena *
03-15 Miami, FL – American Airlines Arena*
03-18 Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena *
03-19 Cincinnati, OH – U.S. Bank Arena *
03-20 Charlotte, NC – The Time Warner Cable Arena *
03-22 Washington D.C. – Verizon Center *
03-23 Buffalo, NY – First Niagara Center *
03-24 Auburn Hills, MI – Palace of Auburn Hills *
03-26 Hartford, CT – XL Center *
03-27 Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center *
04-02 Newark, NJ – Prudential Center *
04-03 Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo *
04-05 Quebec City, Quebec – Centre Videotron *
04-06 Montreal, Quebec – Bell Centre *
04-09 Baltimore, MD – Royal Farms Arena *
04-10 Boston, MA – TD Garden *
04-13 Toronto, Ontario – Air Canada Center *
04-15 Chicago, IL – United Center *
04-18 Winnipeg, Manitoba – MTS Centre *
04-20 Edmonton, Alberta – Rexall Place *
04-21 Calgary, Alberta – Scotiabank Saddledome *
04-23 Vancouver, British Columbia – Rogers Arena *
04-24 Seattle, WA – KeyArena *
04-27 Salt Lake City, UT – Vivint Smart Home Arena *
04-29 Las Vegas, NV – Mandalay Bay *
05-03 Los Angeles, CA – Forum *
05-07 Oakland, CA – Oracle Arena *
06-11 Amsterdam, Holland- Amsterdam Arena &$
06-14 Coventry, England- Ricoh Arena &$
06-16 Cardiff, Wales – Cardiff Stadium &$
06-18 Sunderland, England – Stadium of Light &$
06-21 Dublin, Ireland – Aviva Stadium &$
06-24 London, England – Wembley Stadium &$
06-27 Glasgow, Scotland – Hampden Park &$
06-29 Manchester, England – Emirates Old Park &$
07-04 Stockholm, Sweden – Tele2 Arena &$
07-07 Copenhagen, Denmark – Refshale Island &$
07-09 Hamburg, Germany – Volkspark Stadion &$
07-13 Milan, Italy – San Siro &$
07-15 Nice, France – Allianz Stadium &$
07-17 Frankfurt, Germany – Commerzbank Arena &$
07-19 Lyon, France – Grande Stade &$
07-23 Lille, France – Stade Lille &$
07-26 Prague, Czech Republic – Synotip Arena &$
07-28 Cologne, Germany – Rhein Energie Stadion &$
07-30 Paris, France – Stade de France &$
08-02 Berlin, Germany – Olympiastadion &$
08-05 Warsaw, Poland – PGE Narodowy &$
08-07 Munich, Germany – Olympiastadion &$
08-10 Vienne, Austria – Ernst Happel Stadium &$
08-12 Zurich, Switzerland – Letzigrund Stadion &$
* with Travis Scott
& with The Weeknd
$ with Big Sean
Miami hip-hop artist Epidemic provided top DJ’s, bloggers and industry tastemakers with an exclusive first listening event for his highly anticipated “2018” Mixtape dropping early next year. The event was held over the weekend and featured a who’s who guest list with WWPR Power 105.1’s Angela Yee hosting at the iconic Empire hotel rooftop.
Angela Yee’s fellow Breakfast Club morning show counterpart and the Global Spin Awards’ latest “DJ of the Year” recipient, DJ Envy dropped by to support Epidemic and perform a guest DJ set featuring his hot new single “Squat 4 Me”. The high profile event featured celebrity guests including Jay-Z’s RocNation artist Jay Electronica, DJ Suss-One and DJ Amanda Blaze who both entertained the crowd with unreleased records from Epidemic’s new project.
While in New York Epidemic continued his promo tour for “Squat 4 Me” with club hostings and appearances at top clubs across the the city, including: Heaven’s with WQHT HOT 97.1’s DJ Wallah, DJ Spinking and DJ Hollywood; Starlets with DJ Clue and Lust with DJ Self and DJ Sparks.
Take a look at the video of “Squat 4 Me”
Here are some picture from Epidemic’s listening event:
M.O.P. and Onyx seek fan support to create a joint album produced by the production team SnowGoons.
For the month of December, the New York-based crews seek to raise $30,000 by the end of the month of December.
The 90’s titans outlined their needs on their KickStarter page. At press time, they were close to raising $3,000.
The funding is where we need your support. We hearten every Rap fan to join the band wagon and make this happen. We’re international. A project like this requires face to face meetings in order to create a unique, superb and outstanding album. We have to independently cover studio time, video production, marketing, promotion, travel, pressing, artwork as well as mixing and mastering, which is truly the hard part for an album of this caliber. The release is estimated roughly for spring 2016 to drop, via Goon MuSick and Major Independent.
The SnowGoons are a production team that have already produced albums for each group individually.
Click here for learn more about the project.
Freddie Roach gives a straight and colorful answer to AHH’s Kylie Krabbe on his feelings about his fighter Miguel Cotto’s loss to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez at the Mandalay Resort and Casino in Vegas this past weekend. Alvarez won the fight by a judging landslide with scores across the board of 117-111, 119-109 and 118-110.
Nevertheless, many who watched the fight live, as well as on HBO’s Pay Per View argue that the score cards were entirely too far apart if not perhaps a questionable win in a fight where Saul Canelo threw the harder shots but also missed while Miguel Cotto landed more shots, albeit with less damaging results, but more accuracy – which should have added up to more points. During the battle Freddie Roach “wasn’t really concerned” about losing – nor were any of his other corner men in what they viewed as a more competitive fight than the final scores revealed. Looking back, Roach states bluntly: ” I still think we won the fight.”
Cotto himself was so caught off guard by the scorecards that he did not address HBO’s Max Kellerman or the press post fight, leaving Roach to speak for him as viewed here. In any event, due to the disparity on the cards, this match up likely won’t be seen again as Golden Boy marches forward with Canelo, promising that he will fight again in May. Though it would appear unlikely that Canelo’s opponent in May will be the enduring elephant in the room, undefeated fan favorite Gennady “GGG” Golovkin with his ever popular “Mexican Style” via Karaganda, Kazakhstan, Canelo was quick to say that he is anything but afraid of battling GGG in what is likely to be another Pay Per View Bonanza when it comes down the pike in 2016.
Still Photo: Tom Hogan – HoganPhotos/Roc Nation Sports & Golden Boy Promotions
Delaware rap collective Cypher Clique links up with big time producer Dope Boi Beatz (Bryson Tiller “Don’t”) for their latest record “Every Time I Pull Up.” This is the Delaware collective’s first release since they dropped the well received “Love The Universe” EP back in June and our first time posting them. The guys have performed at the FireFly Festival for over 100,000 people and they are developing a large following in the First State. Press play below and get his to fast rising Delaware talent.
Alabama State was recently scammed by fake promoters who claimed they could book Lil’ Wayne to perform at the university’s homecoming concert. Now, the school organizers have issued a statement about the incident.
“It’s disheartening to share that MAC recently learned the booking agent we partnered with for this performance never actually reached out to Lil Wayne’s team, even after being paid per contract,” says Yardayn Watkins, co-founder of Millennium Age and second year student at ASU.
According to the statement, Millennium Age partnered with a third party booking agent who claimed to have close ties with Lil’ Wayne’s team and would book him as the headliner for ASU’s homecoming concert. MAC members and the concert promotion team took time to review a booking contract, received administrator approval, and paid the entire fee to book Lil’ Wayne; thus, ticket sales and promotion took place, unknowing that the agent had no intention of reaching out to Lil’ Wayne’s camp.
Once school administrators approved Lil’ Wayne as a part of the lineup, they were never contacted by the booking agent.
“We apologize to those who felt victimized, hurt or thwarted, as we are now experiencing those feelings ourselves. We’d like to extend our gratitude to those who worked hard on the show, and hope to reconcile our good faith with the students and fans at Alabama State University,” reads the statement.
Wayne’s manager Cortez Bryant also issued a statement regarding the scam. “Fake promoters are the lowest of people on this earth because they are damaging the integrity of artist and most important hurting the fans who are expecting to see their favorite artist,” he said. “I’m now in contact with Alabama State University and will do everything in my power to work with them to persecute whoever was behind this. It’s not fair to the college students.”
Taylor Gang’s newest member, 20 year old Raven Felix continues to build her fast growing buzz and connects with Wiz Khalifa for the infectious Lil Jon and Mike Free produced “All On You.” On her latest, Felix showcases her ability to flip effortlessly from singing to rapping while Wiz sets the tone over a top notch production. Raven Felix’s Valifornication is coming soon.
Last week, the White House Council on Women and Girls held a summit that focused on issues that affect the lives of women of color. During the summit, Charlene Carruthers, Executive Director of the Black Youth Project 100 and Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art moderated the “Hip-Hop: Women’s Vulnerability and Values” panel. Panelists included Angie Martinez and MC Lyte.
During the panel, MC Lyte praised Fetty Wap for being a “feminist rapper” and being “able to get [his] message out without degrading [his] sister.”
“He may have a very unique way of presenting his ideas, but he does love women,” Lyte said. “For what he’s up against in this climate with all of the other emcees, he’s taking a stand. He’s being pretty courageous right now with what it is he presents in his music because it’s really not the norm.”
Lyte also mentioned Kendrick Lamar and Talib Kweli as rappers who have a more gentle approach when they rap about women.
Watch a snippet of the panel below.
Photo via Nick Minaj’s Instagarm
A battle of the booty! Well it seems as if Nicki Minaj wasn’t here for Jennifer Lopez’s opening performance at the American Music Awards. Lopez danced through a medley of this year’s hits during the opening number, that included Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda.” Some felt the former “Fly Girl” (In Living Color) held it down, and others felt she was a little bit rusty. The cameras caught Nicki Minaj giving a little smirk during the performance. Nicki claims that she was watching herself on the screen, then turned back to watch J-LO, to suggest that there was no shade here. Mmmm hmmmm Nicki. We hear ya.
Tyler and the Odd Future crew threw a crazy concert last week with the Camp Flog Gnaw shows. Of the performances we really enjoyed, we had to show some love to the YG peformance of “Twist My Fingaz.” We talking about LA and YG, its doesn’t get any more gangsta than that. Twist your fingers and press play below!:
Photo via Lil’ Boosie’s Instagram
In a time were same sex marriages are legal and trangender women are awarded as heroes, you would think people would be more accepting of the LGBT community. Well, people are very much still divided on the topic. Lil’ Boosie has made it clear that he is not here for the “gay s###.” He says,
“Since I’ve came home ever time I turn on the tv some gay s###. I try to watch love and hip hop (gay s###) tried to watch empire (gay s###).”
Boosie went on to say he even saw a cartoon doing some “gay s###.” He said next there is going to be a gay channel for kids encouraging them to embrace being gay or wanting to be gay. 50 Cent also expressed that he feels there is too much “gay content” on ‘Empire.’ Is Lil’ Boosie homophobic? What are your thoughts?
Photo via Pharrell
Rumor has it Pharrell and Jay Z recently got into it over Pharrell allegedly backing out of a deal with Tidal. Allegedly they got into it so bad, that Pharrell now has a black eye. Pharrell showed up to A&E’s ‘Shining A Light’ concert with a very noticeable black eye. Who punched P? Was it Hov? Allegedly Pharrell told his family and friends that the cause of his black eye is from a spatula. He claims he and his wife were just playing around in the kitchen and a spatula flipped up and hit him right in the eye. Domestic violence? Accident? Are you buying this story?
No matter how busy his schedule is, J. Cole always makes times for his fans. The “Apparently” rapper recently went to North Carolina and visited a fan who is battling cancer.
“I really appreciate this just wanna give a big s/o to my mom and my aunt for bringing my favorite rapper to see me — I’m proud to say that I’m blessed even tho I have cancer he told me to keep positive so that’s what Ima do thanks j.cole #RoleModel ,” Stackhouse wrote on his Facebook account. Stackhouse also resides in Cole’s hometown of Fayetteville, NC.
This isn’t the first time Cole World has met with his fans up close and personal. Back in November 2014, he visited a fan in Dallas and played his 2014 Forest Hills Drive album in its entirety three weeks before it was released.
Photo via Wire Image For Samsung (sourced)
Sources close to Tyga & Kylie Jenner have claimed that the couple split late last week. Allegedly it was over something Tyga did. There have been rumors swirling about Kylie catching Tyga Facetiming a stripper. Some even believe the reality star has moved on to A$AP Rocky. As the two were spotted together getting out of a vehicle and ducking from the paparazzi. To refute the break up claims, Kylie & Tyga were spotted heading to a venue together. Kylie even posted a photo to her Snap Chat with the caption “Everyone needs to chill.” Maybe the two are just trolling us and are really still together, or maybe A$AP is really trying to slide in the picture.
Rihanna has announced the official release date for her highly anticipated eighth album, ANTI. HitsDailyDouble reports that the Bajan beauty’s new project will drop on Nov. 27th via TIDAL. If you are not into TIDAL, you will have to wait until Dec. 4th for the album to hit stores.
The “BBHMM” singer also launched ANTIdiaRy.com, a promotional site that features exclusive video content related to the album that can only be accessed from a Samsung device.
Details about ANTI are scarce, but a collaboration with Travi$ Scott, whom she is rumored to be dating, is expected.
Sean Kingston claims that he was kidnapped by jewelry store employees after a watch sale gone wrong, TMZ reports.
Kingston was making payments on a $225,000 watch he bought from Avianne Jewelers in Los Angeles. After paying a total of $185,000, he reportedly refused to pay anymore because he felt that the watch wasn’t worth the asking price.
After a few arguments, the “Beat It” singer agreed to do a swap and give them the watch back in return for something worth $185,000. The 25-year-old told the LAPD that when he met with the jeweler on (Nov. 17) at 1:50 a.m in a parking lot, things took a turn for the worse. Kingston said that when he got in the car, the watch was snatched off his wrist. When the jeweler refused to give it back, Kingston refused to get out of the car. He was reportedly then driven around a secluded area and then thrown out of the car.
LAPD says this is considered kidnapping and are currently investigating.
Everyone loves their Grandma, even Fetty Wap. But this song isn’t just about Fetty’s G-Ma, this song is about how Fetty’s Grandma wants her baby to pull up his pants – among other things. Fetty been out of commission as of late after getting in a motor bike accident, but the homie been getting bands on bands on bands. Hence the reason his pockets are so heavy and his pants wont stay up! Check the humorous track below.
You know DJ Khaled has the hits, so when he drops a new song with Chris Breezy and MMG’s Wale, you know its going to be radio friendly and there’s a good chance that you will hear the song in the clubs this Winter. You know the time of year, its cuffin season and you are getting a real chance at locking something down. Check Chris Browns verse though at the end… That boy wildin.
