With Newark set to release in 7 days, Tsu Surf continues to build anticipation by sharing “Her Problems” off the project in visual form. The Twizz-directed music video captures Surf visiting a shawty at Rutgers New Brunswick, and telling a bit of her vivid story. The relaxing production, courtesy of Montage, perfectly compliments the introspective lyrics Tsu Surf delivers. Watch “Her Problems” below, and be sure to support Newark when it releases on Oct. 30th!
Ty Dolla $ign has been on a tear lately. With his new project Free TC set to release in November, and with “Blasé” ft Future and Rae Sremmurd burning up the airwaves, we can see why Atlantic wanted to sign Ty Dolla $ign.
In this video, the Taylor Gang certified member can be seen jamming out with Babyface on the acoustic as the director goes back and forth between scenes of Ty and his lady friend.
We are looking forward to this Ty Dolla $ign album, it should be a good one!
Migos continues to push out new content with their latest video “Say So” produced by Zaytoven.
The BET Cyphers have been a very popular over the past few years. Several stars like Kendrick Lamar, Big KRIT, Joe Budden, and many others have lit up the mic. Recently, the YouTube’s TheRoachMotelTV made their own spin on the well-known addition to the BET Hip Hop Awards. With the official show’s commercial uploaded on their account with the cypher video, there’s a chance you will see more.
Expect new material TheRoachMotelTV soon.
As we all know Lil Mouse didn’t f### with Slim Jesus’ “Drill Time” single. Now he adds fuel to the fire with another track going at Slim Jesus titled “Nail Em To The Cross”. Listen below!
Photo by J. Wright (@WhoisJwright)
REVOLT TV kicked off the first day of the second annual 2015 REVOLT Music Conference (RMC) in a major way at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. Themed, “The Merging of Music, Technology and Innovation, “ the 2015 RMC allowed attendees to personally interact with leaders from both the music and technology industry, gain insight and knowledge from industry trailblazers, and enjoy exclusive musical performances.
Perhaps one of the major highlights of day 1 was the RMC concert headlined by Puff Daddy & The Family!. Diddy brought out quite a few surprise guests including Lil’ Wayne, Lil’ Kim, Busta Rhymes, French Montana, Los, and Christian Combs. Before Diddy performed his classic hits and rocked the stage with his new single “Workin’,” Dej Loaf, Jidenna, Ace Hood and Post Malone held it down on the stage as well. Puff Daddy & Friends ran through hits from “All About The Benjamins”, “Get Money”, “A Milli,” to “OchoCinco” and more. It was when they got to “Ochocinco” that Diddy really turned up. He even grabbed videographer J. Wright’s camera as he was filming for AllHipHop, and made an attempt to film himself during the performance on stage! Turn up Puff! Check out the video below.
BreadWinner Kane adds Kevin Gates & Tana to his single remix “While She Talkin,” for this dope boy friendly audio release. The track is produced by Zaytoven and features a ass slapping chorus and lazy stripper laden verses from Kane. The beat is reminiscent of some of Gucci’s better days and is likely to be a breakout track for Breadwinnter Kane who says he’s Kevin Gates brother on the track.
Compton’s AD comes with a Superstar Remix to his LA Street Anthem “Juice” bringing along fellow Compton MC The Game as well as Ty Dolla $ign, OT Genasis, Iamsu! and K Camp. Produced by League Of Starz.
With “Rolling Papers 2” on its way, Wiz Khalifa has been going super hard (pause) lately releasing new music and today Wiz drops two new tracks to hold the fans over. Listen to his Harry Fraud produced track “Just Because” & “Outsiders” produced by Big Jerm below.
Things have been quiet that past week or so after Tyga released like 10 consecutive visuals for his last project, F## Wat They Talkin Bout. With a beat the includes sounds in from the classic ice cream song you recall from your childhood, Tyga raps all about that soft serve cold goodness. You gotta love the Ben N Jerry’s shout out on his verse “I’m the Ice Cream Man / She Chunky Monkey.” This is about as street as ice cream gets unless you are familiar with Master P’s “Mr Ice Cream Man.” Which version do you like better? Comment below!
You may remember internet sensation, Jade Novah, from her popular “if Beyoncé did commercials” skit that had the media going crazy this summer, but did you know Jade can sing too? Long before Beyonce let us know that girls ran the world (duh), JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS were the original girl power movement. Now “Jade and the Holograms” have channeled their inner rock stars to empower young women to be creative and go for it!
The new JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS film offers millennials a fresh, modern take on the classic cartoon. With a new generation of teens who may not be so familiar with JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS, Jade is delivering a lively performance that will offer excitement and connect a new audience to Jem’s unique story. Fans of the cartoon can appreciate that this film, although different from the original, will be a musical journey highlighting themes that are very prevalent for today’s young adults.
In anticipation of the new JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS film, hitting theaters this Friday, October 23rd, watch Jade’s original music video covering its title song “Youngblood.”
In case you missed her spot on Beyonce impersonation, check it out below.
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(AllHipHop News) Nearly two decades ago, No Limit Records was one of the premier music companies in Hip Hop. Between 1998 and 1999, founder Master P had the label’s artists putting out projects on nearly a monthly basis. The constant releases and the highly publicized distribution deal with Priority Records made The Tank an appealing option for many performers.
Besides C-Murder, Silkk the Shocker, Mystikal, and Romeo, West Coast representative Snoop Dogg even signed with the New Orleans based label. According to Master P, other eventual Hall of Fame level rappers were interested in partnering with No Limit as well.
“Anybody you can think of called me for advice or thinking ‘What can I do to get with No Limit?’ From Eminem to T.I. to anybody you could think of, we done had that conversation where they wanted to be with No Limit,” P told HipHopDX. “It was a sad tragedy, but [2Pac] was trying to get is life together, thinking ‘What could I do?’ Same thing with Snoop. People started checking for us, because they knew we was making money. They knew we was printing money.”
Watch Master P’s interview below.
Rhymefest, Kanye West’s longtime songwriter, has recently opened up to The Daily Beast about the industry, being snubbed, and whether Yeezy has been writing all of those raps. It seems like Rhymefest is fed up! Rhymefest has Golden Globe, Grammy, and Oscar statuettes, however you never really see him onstage accepting these awards, and he’s hardly mentioned alongside these successful tracks. Rhymefest seems to suggest that he’s having financial problems as well as he stated,
“It does kind of bother me that I go to my friends’ $20 million houses, and last year I was trying to figure out how to pay my mortgage. It’s not their fault, totally. When you look at the way artists get paid now, streaming has decimated the income of the writer, so the writer doesn’t really have a career anymore. My ASCAP royalty checks went from a lot to almost nothing.”
Rumor has it that Rhymefest accepted a reduced contribution percentage on songs that he wrote on the front end, and he made a mistake by not viewing his songwriting as a business. Apparently a lot of his agreements were made on a friendship tip too!
He went on to say,
“I’ve written for all of Kanye’s albums with the exception of 808s & Heartbreak,” he says, adding, “There are a lot of songs that my name isn’t even on.”
Rhymefest seems to be looking to get his dues in all forms. Rhymefest also explains that he gave several songs to Ye because he had the clout and rapped better on the songs at the time, and he should get credit for that. Apparently he can’t help but to feel that Ye wouldn’t have had all of that (success) without his words. Interesting enough Kanye claimed that all of his lyrics off his first four albums were off the dome. He says he didn’t start writing anything down until ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.’ But were those all of Ye’s lyrics? What are your thoughts?
Read more about Rhymefest views on The Daily Beast. Click HERE.
After Wale’s appearance on Power 105’s “The Breakfast Club” morning show yesterday, Meek Mill took to Instagram to post an emotional tirade against his label mate. In turn the, “trigger fingers turn to twitter fingers”, rapper was given the honor of “Donkey of the Day” yet again. The hosts of the show then opened up the phone lines for callers to give their opinion on the issue. Unsurprisingly, no one agrees with Meek.
(AllHipHop News) We The Best head DJ Khaled has built a career off of combining different artists on a single track. Songs such as “We Takin’ Over,” “I’m On One,” and “They Don’t Love You No More” featured rappers like Lil Wayne, Birdman, Drake, and Meek Mill. But how does Khaled handle it when his regular collaborators are feuding in public?
The Breakfast Club asked Khaled that very question. The creator of the upcoming I Changed A Lot album explained why he remains neutral in the beefs.
“From the beginning of me coming in the game, I’ve always promoted unity by my records. If it becomes a situation where it gets a lot of heat involved, I’ll be the guy trying to resolve it. You’ll never hear me on both sides diss somebody. I don’t do that. I show love to both sides,” said Khaled. “Y’all are amazing artists. I don’t want to see none of this. If it goes down, it’s the game. It’s Hip Hop. It’s part of what we do.”
Watch DJ Khaled’s interview below.
Slaughtering the BET Hip Hop Award cypher on national TV in addition to trending on Twitter the night of it’s airing has already put artist Joyner Lucas in a prized positioned. Iconic Rap veteran, Busta Rhymes officially co-signs newcomer Joyner Lucas on lyrically episodic track titled, “Jumanji”.
(AllHipHop News) Lee Daniels already has a hit television show with Empire, but he is ready to take on another music centered series. The director of Precious and The Butler is teaming back up with Fox for a new drama called Star.
Production for the pilot of Star is scheduled to begin in December in Atlanta. Daniels has also launched an international casting search for the show. Performers interested in trying out for parts can submit a two-minute video featuring the artist singing and doing a short monologue here.
Entertainment Weekly broke down the four main roles for Lee Daniels’ Star:
TAR: “Character is a Caucasian female, 18 years old (actor must be 18 years of age or over). She’s a tough chick with a badass attitude.”
ALEXANDRA: “Character is an African-American female, about 20 (actor must be 18 years of age or over). She’s an elegant yet classic beauty. Alexandra wants to put this material world behind her so she can make real, authentic music.”
SIMONE: “Character is half African-American, half Caucasian, Star’s younger sister, 16 years old (actor must be 18 years of age or over). Tragic and adorable.
COTTON: “Character is a half African-American and half Latina transgender woman with a stunning look, 20 (actor must be 18 years of age or over). She has an especially keen eye for fashion.”
Photo via Fetty Wap’s Instagram
It seems that Fetty Wap’s sister and baby mama, Lezhae, have gotten into a full out feud. Fetty remained quiet as his sister came for his baby mama on Facebook. Fetty’s sister, Divinity, took to Facebook to address a few issues between her brother and his baby mama. She talked about how money is really being spent, custody, and whether or not the mother of Fetty’s daughter even really wants the child. It got really nasty between the two. We hope Fetty and Lezhae can get an agreement together for the sake of the child.
(AllHipHop News) Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye could easily be crowned the biggest breakout artist of 2015. The Canadian singer’s Beauty Behind The Madness sold over 300,000 copies out the gate and spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200. His singles “Earned It,” “Can’t Feel My Face,” and “The Hills” have all cracked the top 3 on the Hot 100.
Before topping the charts this year, The Weeknd grabbed the attention of music followers with his 2012 compilation Trilogy. The project took repackaged songs from his three critically acclaimed 2011 mixtapes House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence. The Republic Records artist told Rolling Stone he believes Trilogy sparked a trend that inspired two of the most successful music stars on the planet.
“I probably could have toured off Trilogy for the rest of my life,” stated The Weeknd. “It definitely changed the culture. No one can do a trilogy again without thanking The Weeknd. A lot of artists started doing things faster and quicker after that: Justin Timberlake dropped two albums in a year, Beyoncé dropped a surprise album.”
He added, “I’m not gonna say any names, but just listen to the radio. Every song is House of Balloons 2.0.”
Watch The Weeknd’s video for “The Hills (Remix)” featuring Eminem below.
(AllHipHop News) Chief Keef has often come off as awkward in interviews. It is not clear whether the “I Don’t Like” performer is just shy, not interested in media attention, or something else. But one fellow Chicago rapper has diagnosed Keef with a developmental disorder.
The Daily Beast interviewed longtime Kanye West collaborator Cheland “Rhymefest” Smith. The article included the Oscar/Grammy winner discussing the press coverage of Keef and other young rap acts.
“I think many rappers these days have afflictions, such as Asperger’s, bipolar disorder, or autism. They need advocates, but we turn it into entertainment. The media is turning autism into entertainment,” said Rhymefest. “When I look at Chief Keef, I clearly see someone who has autism. Look at the way his face is structured, or his insensitivity to violence. He needs an advocate. But someone put him out there and exploited that child.”