Flying Lotus

Exploring uncharted musical terrain is as natural to Steven Ellison, otherwise known as Flying Lotus, as his sincere awareness and appreciation for the genres and artists that have preceded him. In fact, it's that same fascination for both the history of musical trends and the possibilities of its future course, that has permitted him the continued ascension into such remote musical territory thro

Flying Lotus recently released his fifth studio album You're Dead! today and to celebrate. He went in on Twitter and completely broke down the recording process for the entire album. In about an hour from now I'll be talking about the album on here...

It takes a pretty great video to match the artistry and complexity of a Flying Lotus song, especially one as great as his collaboration with Kendrick Lamar. Hiro Murai succeeded in doing so, however. He directs the poignant and beautiful video that goes from somber mourning at two kids' funeral to a dance routine after the children miraculously rise. ...

Kendrick Lamar has been pretty quiet about the details to his sophomore LP, but it hasn’t stopped him from putting out cold verses. Since getting snubbed at the Grammys in January by Macklemore,  K.Dot has been hard at work contributing features to various artists including the likes Alicia Keys, YG, Breezy, Jeezy, Imagine Dragon, his TDE label mates and most recently the Purple One himself. There

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After scoring a feature from Kendrick Lamar for his album You're Dead!, Flying Lotus has been diligently crafting something bigger. Flying Lotus made a short film featuring Noomi Rapace (Prometheus, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) The short film features six songs unreleased songs from Lotus. It was d...

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It’s almost two years since Flying Lotus released Duality, his project under his rap alter ego Captain Murphy. There have been subtle hints that new material from Captain Murphy is on its way with “Between Villains”, and "Cosplay," as well as an epic origin story on Adult Swim. Even on FlyLo’s ...

There’s plenty of new music to sift through. How do you know what is good or bad? Well, that’s where we come in. Aside from a busy week of interesting news, there’s always a plethora of dope music that drops. Sometimes it’s out of nowhere, and sometimes it is promoted and released right when we expect it. As rap heads, we are a...

This song is pretty incredible. Over crisp, almost intoxicating production from Flying Lotus, Kendrick Lamar drops some though provoking bars that makes you wish these two will continue to work together. “Never Catch Me” is worth the hype. Listen bel...

Kendrick Lamar may be the reason Flying Lotus has yet to drop his Captain Murphy album. According to the producer/songwriter, K. Dot recorded several verses over tracks he had previously recorded for the album. He told Pitchfork, "I went on tour and he recorded to a bunch of my songs...

Captain Murphy is back. Flying Lotus had the internet paying close attention when he dropped a mixtape and video for his alter-ego last year. Now the Captain makes his return in a new animated short for Adult Swim that details the character's origins...