Florida native and recording artist Mal Forte‘ delivers the official visual for the General Beatz produced single “Thinking of You” off his DJ Prince Patron hosted mixtape Encore. Watch the visual below and head over to Live Mixtapes to stream/download the project in it’s entirety!
Over the weekend, Jeremih was hauled off to the jail over the weekend when he got a little too turned up for his birthday.
According to TMZ, the Chicago crooner was pulled over by California Highway Patrol around 2:15 a.m on July 17th. He was charged with a misdemeanor DUI and spent the night behind bars.
The “Birthday Sex” singer’s bail was set at $15,000 and he was released the next morning.
This isn’t his first run in with the law, though. The 28-year-old was also arrested in December of 2014 for disorderly conduct and obstruction of the law. He was also arrested in November when he and his entourage allegedly threw bottles a manager at a Montana Fuddruckers restaurant after accusing him of being racist.
T.I is gearing up for the release for his tenth studio project and is steadily making changes before gifting it to the fans. During a sit down with Movieweb, Tip revealed that he has trashed the Trap’s Open title for something else.
“My tenth album, The Dime Trap, I’m working on it,” said the Grand Hustle rep. “I just released the first teaser from it yesterday and it’s going to be an extension or a continuation of the vibe from Trap Muzik. I feel like, when you’ve done hits like ‘Whatever You Like’ and ‘Dead and Gone,’ when you do those mainstream kind of ‘Blurred Lines’-ish kind of records, you don’t go and try to top ‘Blurred Lines.’ You just come to a whole new element, bring it back down and build the process back over again. I’m breaking it all down, back to the element of where my music first began to interest people, and build it all over again.”
His new track “Project Steps” serves as the first single. The Trouble Man also had a blockbuster weekend at the box office. His latest flick, Ant Man reportedly brought in $58 million at the box office.
In the wake of the media firestorm over OG Maco’s tweets mentioning Future and the DS2 creator’s response, rumors began circulating someone confiscated Maco’s website and offered the domain name up to the highest bidder as revenge on behalf of the #FutureHive.
For days, OGMaco.com included a message the site was up for sale. A photo of Future featured on the web page led to speculation the Dungeon Family affiliate was involved in trolling Maco. It turns out Future had nothing to do with the situation, and the owner of the site did not hack Maco nor was he even a fan of the “F*ck Up Some Commas” rhymer.
That still left the question as to why OG Maco did not have control of OGMaco.com before the domain sale went viral. AllHipHop.com spoke with the Atlanta-based rapper about the hoopla over the website, and Maco clarifies he did not have any connection to the page.
“What no one realizes is OGMaco.com was never my website. It was never meant to be my website. We never bought the domain name, so they didn’t hack my site,” explains Maco. “As soon as ‘U Guessed It’ blew up, somebody bought OGMaco.com and MacoMattox.com. MacoMattox.net was always going to be my page.”
A person identified as Tom Kane was reportedly the individual selling OGMaco.com. Kane was seeking $5,000 cash/$10,000 bitcoin for the domain name, and he even offered a 20% discount to “a person or entity named OG Maco.”
Despite the reduced price, Kane did not seem to be a supporter of OG. He told Noisey:
This Maco individual was saying a lot of things on tour about people being stupid and him being able to manipulate 40 million minds because of song choices, which makes him seem like he is almighty. So, you would think for someone to talk like that, they would be smart enough to own their own name, but clearly they don’t. So, we kind of used his remarks as a window to remind people that you should probably clean your own house before you get to somebody else’s house and start calling it dirty.
Maco saw Kane’s interview. He addressed the comments while speaking with AllHipHop.com.
“I seen the guy talking to Noisey. He’s an idiot, because he thinks he did something to me,” says Maco. “He thinks he’s hurting me, but I would never buy a domain I never intended to use.”
As far as the perceived issues with Future, Maco discloses the two A-Town representatives cleared the air about any misconceptions they may have had about each other. And for those conspiracy theorists claiming the entire ordeal was an elaborate publicity stunt to draw attention to Future’s new album, Maco shoots down those allegations.
“I wish me and Future had a plan like that. That would be awesome, because that means there’s a tape somewhere,” jokes Maco. “What makes it so funny is that everybody looks at the negative comments, but nobody looks at the first thing I said was, ‘I love Future.’ I got Dirty Sprite 2 on my phone right now. I bought the deluxe edition. I’ve been a Future fan since 1000.”
Maco also returned to Twitter to let the world know he spoke directly with Future and it is time for everyone to move past pitting them against one another. But that has not stopped people on social media from still believing Future fired back at Maco via a “hacked” website.
“It’s really funny to watch people be so ignorant and so hate driven that they would really think, ‘Oh yeah, Future got you.’ They really think Future did it,” states Maco. “Like Future would be that petty to buy my website. That’s so funny. He could just come to an event and try to ball on me. He wouldn’t go through the process of buying my domain name and putting up that lame ass joke.”
The OGG delegate adds, “That was some suburbanite white kid who thought it was funny. But it was really inconsequential to me, because OG Maco dies at the end of this year. I don’t care about the OG Maco name. I’m Maco Mattox.”
Listen to OG Maco’s self-described Future inspired track “Sposed” below.
(AllHipHop News) When Chris Brown’s mother warned her son to “watch who you standing beside,” apparently her message was right on point. According to TMZ, law enforcement believes the individuals that robbed Brown’s home last week were close friends of the R&B singer.
Police sources tell the website evidence suggests a club promoter was directly involved in the robbery. Apparently, the culprits mentioned $50,000 in cash Brown had just received from appearing at a local nightclub. It was also clear the robbers knew the home belonged to the “Ayo” performer.
Sources in Brown’s camp are confirming he was hit by people he knew well. The authorities also suspect the incident involved Blood gang members. The Los Angeles Police Department’s Gang Unit was assigned to the case.
Brown has been tied to the Bloods in the past. Last year, CB denied being an official member of any gang set, but he did tell MTV he is acquainted with known gang members.
“When you’re in L.A. and you’re around people, you meet everybody. You meet Crips. You meet Bloods,” said Brown. “Especially in this industry that I’m in. I’m not in the country world. I’m not in the all the way pop world. You in Hip Hop.”
(AllHipHop News) Part of Compton emcee Kendrick Lamar’s brand has been about uniting the separate gangs of his hometown. The Top Dawg Entertainment artist talks about the concept in his music, and Kendrick recently expanded that ideal to fashion.
On July 18, Reebok released the “Reebok Classic x Kendrick Lamar Ventilator.” The sneakers feature “Neutral” on the inside of each tongue. The back of each shoe is inscribed with “BLUE” on one foot and “RED” on the other.
TDE posted a video of Piru member “G Weed” and Crip member “Jigga” discussing how Kendrick’s message impacts young people.
“Music is real influential, and you got people like Kendrick that’s promoting unity,” said G Weed. “Everything starts with kids. That makes these kids wanna be cool with each other. No matter what neighborhood they grow up in.”
Weed and Jigga also got the chance to get an early preview of K. Dot’s Reebok Ventilators.
“This message is about a whole lot of peace and unity,” added Jigga on the rapper’s sneakers. “Kendrick is giving us a reason and understanding of why we should have unity.”
The limited edition “Reebok Classic x Kendrick Lamar Ventilators” are available on Reebok.com, Shiekh, Shoe Palace, Bait, DTLR and Shoe City for $125. Check out photos of the sneaks here.
Watch TDE’s “Kendrick Lamar – Reebok Ventilators” video below.
(AllHipHop News) California collective The Black Eyed Peas returned this weekend with a new video for their track “Yesterday,” and one fellow artist seems to feel like the group may have adopted her video treatment from an earlier vid.
Soul singer Erykah Badu posted a message on Facebook featuring a link to BEP’s “Yesterday” clip as well as a link to her visuals for “Honey” off 2008’s New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) album. The Texas native pointed out both videos had very similar themes, but she was a good sport about the correlations.
Badu wrote:
Besides Badu and BEP’s respective videos being shot in a record store, they both also feature animated vinyls. The artists appear in the LPs’ photos as they perform the lyrics of the song.
Watch the video for Erykah Badu’s “Honey” and Black Eyed Peas “Yesterday” below.
(AllHipHop News) Back in March, Kanye West released the performance version of a video for his single “All Day.” The official Steve McQueen directed clip will debut for the first time in America this Saturday.
The New York Times reports an expanded video titled “All Day/I Feel Like That” will run at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for four days. The 9-minute visual premiered at the Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris in March.
McQueen’s production features the song “All Day” as well as another cut from West’s upcoming album Swish. The 12 Years A Slave filmmaker previously conducted a Q&A with Kanye for Interview Magazine.
(AllHipHop News) Atlanta rapper Future is on pace to have the best first week sales of his career, and he is likely to open with the number one spot on the album chart for the first time. According to HitsDailyDouble, Future’s third studio album DS2 is projected to sell 125,000 – 135,000 copies with a SPS total around 135,000 – 145,000.
Future’s previous two albums did not even crack the 100K mark out the gate. 2012’s Pluto sold 41,000 copies in its first week, and 2014’s Honest pushed 53,000 copies over its initial week run.
The deluxe edition of DS2 includes the club banger “F*ck Up Some Commas” and “Where Ya At” featuring Drake. Metro Boomin produced a large number of tracks on the project. Zaytoven, Southside, Sonny Digital, Allen Ritter, Elijah Sacii, Cali The Producer, and others also contributed to the sequel to Future’s 2011 mixtape Dirty Sprite.
If Future’s numbers hold out and DS2 tops the Billboard 200, the Freebandz leader will join Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Big Sean, Wale, A$AP Rocky, and Meek Mill as the only rap stars to score #1 albums in 2015 so far.
(AllHipHop News) Art often imitates life, and that is the case with the upcoming short film Score. The 30-minute movie focuses on a young producer who has experienced tremendous success working with top Hip Hop talent, but he’s met with opposition when he wants to score films on his own.
The premise of Score is loosely based on the life of Grammy nominated producer Sonny Digital. The beat maker behind songs by Future, 2 Chainz, ILoveMakonnen and others will star in the film. Sonny will also provide the score for Score.
“This film is something I wanted to do and be a part of because the storyline is really almost exactly what happened to me when I first started producing. Nobody was trying to give me a chance, folks wouldn’t hit me back about beats I sent out, doors weren’t opening up, nothing was going my way,” says Sonny. “I also like the fact that I get to star in this movie and also do the score, both are firsts for me. I feel like after this project’s released, I’ll get more opportunities doing things like this in the future.”
Score will also feature cameos from Zaytoven, DJ Scream, DJ Toomp and DJ Spinz. An exclusive soundtrack featuring all Sonny Digital-produced beats with a few collaborative efforts will be released as well.
Filming for Score begins August 2015. The producers have set up a Kickstarter campaign to help raise funds for the movie. Rewards include a digital copy of Score, a copy of the movie’s soundtrack, a thank you credit in the film, tickets to the Atlanta premiere, and more.
Watch a video about the Score Kickstarter campaign below.
(AllHipHop News) Maybach Music Group artist Wale will join First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House this week for the 2015 Beating the Odds Summit. The Reach Higher initiative event will host more than 130 college-bound students from across the country in Washington, D.C.
Wale will perform for the students from urban, rural, foster, homeless and special-needs backgrounds who have overcome obstacles to make it to college. “The Matrimony” rapper is also set to take part in a panel moderated by E! News co-host Terrence Jenkins which will feature the FLOTUS, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and 1vyG co-founder Manuel Contreras.
“I’m beyond honored and grateful to be involved in the First Lady’s ‘Reach Higher’ initiative and to have the opportunity to sit down with her, as well as perform for the kids of D.C. I believe that the youth are the first step in creating a better country, so to be involved in a program that aims to enrich their lives is truly the greatest reward,” says Wale. “Having grown up in Washington, D.C., being invited to the White House by the First Lady is a dream come true. Thank you to Mrs. Obama and her entire staff for this opportunity.”
The 2015 Beating the Odds Summit is scheduled for Thursday, July 23. In addition, students will participate in workshops and panels led by the U.S. Department of Education, Google’s Jaime Casap, and other leaders in K-12 and post-secondary education.
Here’s a brand new song found by The Odd Side, a column on AllHipHop that captures where hip hop is going.
Louie Lastic is a DMV producer known widely for his beats with Goldlink, but this single showcases his talent alone. Last week, Lastic released his single “Close2u” via Soundcloud. The track is upbeat and features a seriously sample by Max Priest’s “Close to You” before the structure of the song switches in a dope way. Check out the track below.
DRAM’s been having an uprise ever since his hit “Cha Cha” went viral in 2014. After getting radio play, featured appearances on projects from several artists, and now he’s teaming up with his Virginia colleague DP once again. The new title is called “50/50”, and the beat is also produced by D.R.A.M. himself. “50/50” is also the first D.R.A.M.has worked with DP since “Superlit” released earlier this year. Check out the song below.
About a week ago, news started to circulate that Kendrick Lamar would release his first sneakers under Reebok. The shoes’ message was to unite both Bloods and Krypts together through a unique color way that includes both red and blue, the main colors for both gangs. In the video below, two gangsters from both parties are brought together to discuss their uprising into a gang as well as Kendrick’s impact on their culture through his music and the his edition of the Reebok Ventilators.
To thank his fans for the success for the success of Dirty Sprite 2, Future is going on a fully free four city mini-tour to salute his fans. Ironically, the tour is called “Salute the Fans”. For now, the specific for each location hasn’t been released, but will soon be disclosed to the #FutureHive the morning of each show. Check out the official announcement of the “Salute the Fans” Tour.
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J. Cole was recently performing in San Diego, when a hater in the crowd decided to throw a phone at his face. Cole brushed it off like a boss and continued his show.
https://youtu.be/E9jpnjbYfXoJ. Cole
If you’ve checked out our Soundcloud for a couple of days, you might be hip to the dope remix of “Return of The Mack” on our timeline. The edit of the classic Mark Morrison song was made over the a J Dilla beat from one of his original beat tapes, according to the producer behind the edit, Kaytranada. The Montreal producer also hinted on new music coming soon as well, hopefully an album. check out the Dilla edit below.
Earlier this year, Post Malone came on to the scene with his banger “White Iverson”. Now, the rapper released an official video for the single. The set of visuals, directed by Van Alpert, showcases a combination of weird stuff and clliche’d rap video additions from Malone in a white basketball on a white court, to the gently doing donuts in the desert. Check out the video for “White Iverson” below.
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Jay Rock has been in TDE for a while now, usually in the shadows of one of the most dynamic music collectives out now. However, that’s all about to change with his new project coming soon. On Friday, the Watts rapper played a little snippet of his new music for Kendrick Lamar. Although the clip is fairly brief, you get the feeling that Rock’s new album is going to be as dope as the leading artists within the group. Check out the clip below.
@jayrock s### sounding Krazy… He press play on @kendricklamar in the studio last nite… Let's go champ! #TDE pic.twitter.com/QJJcHrFc1Q
— TOP DAWG #TDE (@dangerookipawaa) July 17, 2015
Yesterday, Wayne released a brief clip of him in the studio with ATL rapper, Rich Homie Quan. The collab is pretty odd, due to the fact that Wayne is still beefing with Birdman. according to Complex, Young Thug along with Peewee Roscoe were accused of having a plot to kill him. However, there is no proof of conspiracy of murder. With Quan working with Wayne, there’s already of a good chance of new music from the releasing soon. Check out the video below:
