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Rock The Bells Founder At A Loss For Words Over Festival Cancellation
Chang Weisberg, the Rock The Bells founder and owner of the festival's production company Guerilla Union, spoke yesterday to Radio.com about the festival's cancellation in both Washington, D.C. and New York. The company released an official statement yesterday saying that the cancellations had to do with poor ticket sales, with a source telling XXL that the company stood to take a $3 million hit.
DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Havoc And Salaam Remi Explain The Making Of Mack Wilds’ New Album
Mack Wilds is probably best known for his role as Michael on HBO's The Wire, but he's delved into the music business via an EP he dropped in 2011, titled Remember Remember. He recently hooked up with Salaam Remi, who helmed his debut album New York: A Love Story, and brought in top-level New York producers such as DJ Premier, Pete Rock and Havoc from Mobb Deep to help him work on the project.
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Kanye West Goes On A Twitter Rant Against Jimmy Kimmel
Kanye's not happy, and he's taken to Twitter to tell the world just why he's upset. This time, it concerns a Jimmy Kimmel spoof of 'Ye's latest interview with the BBC's Zane Lowe.
On his television show last night, Kimmel enlisted a child to read the transcript of Kanye's three-part interview with the BBC, and Kanye didn't take kindly to it, unleashing the rant encapsulated below...
Rock The Bells Issues Statement Regarding Cancellation Of D.C., NYC Shows
Rock The Bells just released a statement regarding the cancellation of the final two weekends of its tour in Washington, D.C. and New York City. XXL reported earlier today that the dates would not be fulfilled, with a source indicating that the reasoning was due to poor ticket sales, and that parent company Guerilla Union would take a $3 million hit with the cancelled dates. Acc...
Rock The Bells Cancels Washington, D.C. And New York Shows Due To Poor Ticket Sales
Rock The Bells, the traveling hip-hop festival celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, has already pulled off two successful shows in Los Angeles and San Francisco this summer. But according to local Washington, D.C. publications, as well as Ticketmaster's web site and XXL's own sources, the iterations in both the nation's capital and the New York City area have been cancelled.
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Stalley Prepping Album For Second Quarter, Wiz Khalifa And Omarion On Deck Too
Stalley hosted a dinner party at a restaurant in New York City last night, celebrating the release of his recent Honest Cowboy EP, which dropped September 17. The EP, his first retail project since signing to Maybach Music Group in 2011, was a 7-track update on his August mixtape of the same name and included three new previously-unreleased tracks that did not appear on his last tape.
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Nicki Minaj Is Focusing On Recording Her Third Album Due Next Year
Nicki Minaj has a whole lot on her plate right now, but the biggest thing she's working on is her third album, she told E! Online this week. Speaking while on a promo run for her new Minajesty perfume, the richest woman in hip-hop said that her decision to step back from her American Idol judging gig came from her desire to spend more time on her music.
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Pusha T Invites Fans To Compare His New Album To Drake
Pusha T isn't afraid to speak up—he called Lil Wayne's Dedication 5 mixtape "trash" recently, after all—and he's been speaking lately about how he believes that My Name Is My Name, his oft-delayed solo debut set to drop October 8, will be the hip-hop album of the year.
"I'm so happy that my ...
The Come Up: Alex Wiley
This June, just as Chance The Rapper's star was beginning to become blinding off the strength of his off-the-wall Acid Rap mixtape, another young kid from Chicago released his own project that existed outside of what had become the new normal of Chicago drill music. Ale...
Nicki Minaj Is The Only Female On Forbes’ Hip-Hop Cash Kings List…Ever
"Pull up in that You Can't Afford This / Only rap bitch on the Forbes list," Nicki Minaj raps on Rich Gang's "Tapout" earlier this year. It's not surprising to hear that Nicki Minaj showed up again on Forbes' annual Hip-Hop Cash Kings list which came out today—what with her myriad endorsement deals with Myx Fusion and Pepsi, her judging role on American Idol and her perfume and
Oddisee Will Package A New Mixtape With Upcoming Instrumental Album
Oddisee is dropping an instrumental album on October 1, and the Mello Music Group chief announced today via Okayplayer that fans that purchase the album will also receive a mixtape along with it. The mixtape, titled Tangible Dream, will feature vocals as well and will be available in CD, vinyl or digital (via Bandcamp) versions.
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Drake Lights Candles, Flirts With Chelsea Handler On Her TV Show
Drake stopped by Chelsea Lately last night as part of his promo run for Nothing Was The Same, which is in stores today, and the interview only barely stayed on any sort of topic before running off the rails and into full-scale sexual...somethi...