Glasses Malone

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Glasses Malone calls on The Game and Kirko Bangz for "Too Hood." The new track exudes West Coast vibes. Glasses boast confident bars on the banger, rhyming about his G status in the streets. "We ca' pull up in a whip worth a house/Leave the motor runnin'/Both hop out/Can't nobody take it/Might take pictures/That's life when you hanging with a fixture," he raps. Tow...

Killer Mike jumps on the remix for Glasses Malone and Kendrick Lamar's "Thuggin" and delivers one of the verses of the year. The original song is off of Malone's upcoming album Glass House 2, which drops sometime this year. While taking shots at Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Geraldo Rivera, Don Lemon and Wolf Blitzer, Mike spits bars about oppression, corruption in the just

In today's climate, going four years without dropping an album is like an eternity. Watts MC Glasses Malone last put out an album, his debut, Beach Cruiser in 2011 following a run of successful mixtapes. In 2015, fans are still waiting for the follow up...

Have you been looking around Facebook only to feel like it is bitter baby mama's day instead of the official day for dad's? Fear not. Glasses Malone has the remedy. The Cali MC pens a timely ode to his pops with his new song, "Flowers (Happy Father's Day)...

Glasses Malone calls on Dom Kennedy for his new track titled "After Hours." This track is sampled from the Staple Singers' "Do It Again," as well as Jay Z's version from his Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter album. Produced by Malone and Chromatix, "After Hours" is a mellow, melodic song that balances out the Beach Cruiser rapper and Dom's laid back bars. Glasses

"When I wrote Thuggin'," Glasses Malone remembers, "it was my take on current society." In a brand-new behind-the-scenes video, the Los Angeles native speaks about his collaboration with Kendrick Lamar. While the latter has more star power on a national level, it's the young Compton MC who was star-struck when the two started working together...

Glasses Malone links up with Kendrick Lamar for "Thuggin." The song is a banger. While being a hard street record"Thuggin" is thought provoking and calls out a lot of things that are happening in not only hip-hop but in media. Tupac is once again the inspiration behind another West Coas rapper's new music. The...

Happy Born Day, Glasses Malone!

The unlikely duo of En Vogue's Maxine Jones and Glasses Malone are teaming up for a new song called, "To The Max." The song will be the first single from Jones' upcoming album. "My mom was a huge En Vogue fan," said Malone to XXL. "She loved them. I w ...