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Asher Roth Announces New Album Titled ‘Retro Hash’
Asher Roth took to Facebook earlier today to announce his new album title, Retro Hash, which is tentatively set for 2014. He just dropped this video, above, announcing the title with the accompanying message, "This should explain where I've been the past 4 years." Th...
What’s The Wu-Tang Clan Up To This Christmas?
The Wu-Tang Clan has had a big year, celebrating the 20th anniversary of their seminal debut album Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers, touring the country and Europe, and working on their long-awaited sixth group album, A Better Tomorrow. With all...
Cash Money May Launch A Sports Management Company
Cash Money Records may be getting into the sports game. The famed record label—home to Lil Wayne, Drake and Nicki Minaj, to name a few—has filed a legal request to trademark the name Visionaire Sports Group, according to government records obtained by XXL. The label has e...
Slaughterhouse Sets 2014 Tour Dates
Slaughterhouse has been hinting that their new album would be something special for a little while now, and today news breaks that they're at least headed out on the road together starting this March. Kicking things off at SXSW in Austin, Texas, they'll then go straight to the Northeast, after which they'll head through the Northwest, Southwest and up through the East Coast before finishing things
Talib Kweli Sticks To His Lyrical Roots On ‘Gravitas’
Most artists in any industry will slow down as they get older, take more time between albums and projects as life's other distractions tend to take on a bigger role. Someone forgot to tell that to Talib Kweli. The Flatbush-born MC has been on a tear over the past fifteen months, dropping a highly-regarded mixtape, Attack The Block with Z-Trip last September as an appetizer for two albums in 2013,
Mac Miller Is All Grown Up
When Mac Miller and I get on the phone, he's walking in to his brand new house in Los Angeles. Miller, who turns 22 next month, is finally looking forward to some time to relax after a whirlwind year which included two albums—June's Watching Movies With The Sound Off, his well-received sophomore album on Rostrum Records, and his new live album Live From Space, out today (Dec. 17) ...
TDE’s Top Dawg And Punch Respond To Drake’s Kendrick Lamar Diss
The rumored remix to Future's "Shit" featuring Drake and Juicy J (and produced by Mike WiLL Made It) finally dropped today, and it contained a few choice words from Drake that have been interpreted as shots at Kendrick Lamar. The two have a history that's been cordial but chilly in the past few months; as Kendrick helpfully pointed out in his BET Cypher, "Nothing's been the same sin
Alex Wiley Unveils New Video For “The Woods”
A trippy picnic in a forest provides the visual backdrop for Alex Wiley's new video for "The Woods," off his Club Wiley mixtape. The Chicago up and comer released his debut project this June, and has dropped a handful of videos over the past few months. Dir...
Mos Def Drops Out Of Black Star Show
Anticipation was evident last week when Brooklyn Bowl announced that Black Star—Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def—would be performing together for the first time since March on Tuesday night (Dec. 17). Today, however, the venue officially changed the event to read Talib Kweli and Friends. The show i...
Drake Producer Noah “40” Shebib Talks Beyoncé Track
Beyoncé's epic album release Thursday night lit the Internet on fire and caught everyone by surprise—everyone including those who worked on it. Rolling Stone spoke with Drake producer and OVO staple Noah "40" Shebib about his contributions to the album, as he produced the track "Mine" featuring Drake over a two-day period this summer.
"They were pressur...
Watch TDE’s Full Cali Christmas Performance
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Last night TDE performed at Power 106's Cali Christmas show in Los Angeles, where Kendrick Lamar spoke on J. Cole and the Grammys, which streamed online. Today the full performance is available featuring Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Jay Rock...
Nipsey Hu$$le Taps DJ Drama For New “More Or Less” Video
DJ Drama hosted Nipsey Hu$$le's most recent mixtape, Crenshaw, and he makes an appearance in the video that Nip dropped today for "More Or Less," above. Crenshaw made serious waves after Nipsey released it for $100 with a #Proud2Pay campaign that netted him $100,000 overnight, including 100 copies from Jay Z's Roc Nation. He'll be...