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Watch The Video For Vado, Jeremih “My Bae”
Vado hit record off of his Sinatra EP "My Bae" gets visuals. The Lee On The Beats record featuring Jeremih finds the rapper touring Harlem with his number one girl. The video is directed by Itchy House Films
Watch the video above.
2 Chainz Responds To Hot 97’s DJ Funkmaster Flex’s Comments
Funkmaster Flex was a guest on the ESPN2 show Highly Questionable with Dan Le Batard and Bomani Jones and said 2 Chainz had the worst freestyle on his Hot 97 show. “The freestyle that wasn’t very good on my show, it had to be 2 Chainz.” Flex said saying th...
27 Reasons To Follow @Skinnythicks On Twitter
Are you following @Skinnythicks on Twitter? You need to ASAP. Here's 27 reason why you should
Paid Dues Is Cancelled This Year
Sad news today. Paid Dues founder and Strange Music artists Murs announced on Facebook in an online statement that the hip-hop festival is cancelled this year. Murs explains that Guerilla Union had a very financially-challenging year and they can't put together a successful Paid Dues for 2014.
Murs did s...
Drake Says Meek Mill’s ‘Dreams And Nightmares’ Intro “One Of The Best Rap Moments Of Our Generation”
Meek Mill has garnered a lot of positive attention lately. After delivering a body bag on DJ Khaled’s first single “They Don’t Love You No More." he now has Drake singing his praises for one of his older tracks. Earlier this morning, Drake went on Twitter and voiced his opinion on Meek Mill’s Dreams & Nightmares into from his first album dating back to 2012.
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Pusha T Hopes To Make More Music With His Brother No Malice
After receiving critical acclaim over his debut album My Name is My Name, Pusha T has leapfrogged his peers and has the streets buzzing for his next project King Push. He sat down with Larry King recently, and touched on why despite his solo success, that The Clipse is still intact and will never break up...
Lil Boosie Shares The Artwork For His Next Single
Lil Boosie's new project, Touchdown 2 Cause Hell, is set to drop on July 15. Boosie just dropped his new collaboration with K. Michelle—which XXL got the behind-the-scenes footage of— and he’s ready to make some music. Today, Boosie dropped the single art...
Kid Cudi On Justin Bieber: “He’s Just A Kid”
Kid Cudi was once notoriously known for being a wild boy and not caring what anybody had to say about his antics. Now, Justin Bieber is the new kid on the block being crucified by the media for this bad boy antics. In an interview with Esquire, Cudi broke down Bieber and his mischievous actions...
Floyd Mayweather Shares A Snippet Of A Lil Wayne And Drake Track Off Of ‘Carter V’
Got to love how superstar athletes are doing promo for Lil Wayne's upcoming album Carter V. First it was Kobe Bryant who tweeted out a promotional poster with the caption, “Carter V season begins #carterV. Now it's Floyd Mayweather taking to his Instagram to share a snippet of a record by Lil Wayne and Drake off of Weezy's upcoming album.
If this doesn't give y...
G-Eazy’s New Album Is Dropping In June
G-Eazy announced that his new album These Things Happen will be officially released on June 23, 2014. The album is available for pre-order starting today via digital retailers. These Things Happen is set to feature A$AP Ferg, E-40 and many more as well as producers, Christoph Andersson, Blackbear and Devon Baldwin.
You can view the tracklis...
Rihanna Loves To Be Naked
NSFW alert! Rihanna destroyed the internet yesterday when her cover for the French Magazine Lui was unveiled, showing a topless Rih Rih. Rihanna also landed on the cover of Vogue Brazil this month, and the pictures from the shoot were just as scandalous.
One thing every fan knows is that R...
2 Chainz’s Upcoming EP Will Drop At 7 P.M. On Monday
2 Chainz shared on Twitter and Instagram that he's dropping Freebase at 7 p.m. on Monday (May 5).
Monday ...7pm .... http://t.co/wmNwB9n3nP #freebase http://t.co/ar5H4cGYKM
— Tity Boi (2 Chainz) (@2chainz) April 30, 2014
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2 Chainz has a EP entitled Freebase in the works that's set to drop on May 5. The tracklist for the EP was relea...