Dan Rys
Pharrell’s Will.I.Am Dispute Is Turning Into A Popularity Contest
Pharrell and Will.I.Am have been trading shots and case filings back and forth ever since Will.I.Am filed a suit against Skateboard P over the launch of Pharrell's I Am Other YouTube channel. Originally, Will was trying to claim trademark infringement, saying consumers would be confused between the two, seeing as both Will and P have achieved "great distinction" in music and have worked
Pusha T Aiming For Top Five Debut For New Album
After a series of delays, the debut solo album from Pusha T finally dropped October 8. Now, Billboard is projecting that My Name Is My Name will start at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, moving around 70,000 copies in its first week.
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Dipset Is Too Fly For Jay Z
Cam'ron and his Diplomat cohorts are no stranger to beef, even with Jay Z (see "You Gotta Love It" and "Dig-A-Hole"), and Killa doesn't want to go down that road in the wake of Jay's verse on Drake's "Pound Cake."
"I've done made more millionaires than the lotto did / Dame made millions, Bigg made millions / 'Ye made millions, Just made millions / Lyor made milli
Check Out Pusha T’s Stark New Video For “Pain”
The song has been out for about a year now, but Pusha T just dropped his new video for "Pain" featuring Future, and it's stylistically similar to the other stark videos he's been dropping lately. Face hidden by shadow and a black and white color scheme—much like the album cover—see King Push rapping the song while video footage of police beating during the Civil Rights movement are inter
Meet Pusha T’s Real “King Push” Producer Sebastian Sartor
Sebastian Sartor walks out of the Best Buy in Manhattan's Union Square Tuesday night empty-handed. "I just tried to buy the Pusha T album," he says. "I did a proper, thorough search. I went to the desk and , 'You're sold out?'" He smiles...
Action Bronson Taps A Legendary Special Guest For ‘Blue Chips 2′
Action Bronson took to Twitter today to unveil the tracklist for his Party Supplies-helmed Blue Chips 2. The 19-track tape has a number of expected collaborators and an introduction helmed by Big Body Bes, which is becoming custom for Bam Bam nowadays. Ab-...
Alchemist And Oh No Prepping New Gangrene Album
"Busy" is an understatement when it comes to Alchemist and Oh No, the two producers behind Gangrene. The duo is fresh off the year-plus-long grind of helping to create the first-ever score for GTA V, and both have some big projects in the works on their own...
Nas Is Helping People Find Jobs
Nasty Nas has been spreading his money around in a series of investments of late, most recently with a San Francisco startup that aims to help people in their job search. The company, called Proven, has built an app that allows people to apply to jobs using their smartphones, simplifying the process for the average job seeker...
Pharrell Will Have Big Performances At His Wedding This Weekend
Pharrell apparently got married secretly this past August, but he's throwing a star-studded party in Miami this weekend to celebrate, with Jay Z scheduled to attend and Robin Thicke and Justin Timberlake reportedly set to perform, according to the Daily Mail.
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Flatbush Zombies Drop Creepy New Video For “Death”
The new visuals for "Death" from Flatbush Zombies' excellent mixtape Better Off Dead come in typical creepy Zombies fashion. Appropriate for the season, the Brooklyn trio are riding a tractor through a hayfield and get down like Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Hope you...
Nipsey Hussle Reportedly Makes $100,000 In One Night By Charging $100 For New Mixtape
Nipsey Hussle dropped his new mixtape Crenshaw today for free, but last night held a pop-up shop in Fairfax where he had 1,000 copies available for $100 each. With fans lined up around the block, Nips reportedly sold every copy he had available, making $100,000 in one night. He ...
Childish Gambino Releases Full Version Of New Single
Two hours after announcing the name of his upcoming second album, Because The Internet, Childish Gambino drops the full version of the single he used to promote the release, presumably titled "yaphet kotto (freestyle)." In the full song, which clocks in a little over three minutes, he shouts out Chance The Rapper ("Chance The Rapper, yeah that nigga crazy / Big brother, little broth