JAY ELECTRONICA – HOLLADAY
Yet another unreleased song from Jay Electronica has hit the internet. But there still are no signs of Act 2…unless you have Just Blaze’s cell phone.
DOOMSTARKS – LIVELY HOOD
After what feels like an eternity of waiting for MF Doom and Ghostface Killah’s collaborative album (or whatever it’s supposed to be), we get the official single from the duo.
DOCUMENTARY: THE MAKING OF STATIK SELEKTAH’S LUCKY 7
Revolt goes behind the scenes with Statik Selektah to deliver the making of Statik’s Lucky 7 album. You’ll also get to see Statik in the lab with the late, great Sean Price.
CHRIS RIVERS FEAT. NITTY SCOTT MC & WHISPERS – I JUST WANNA RAP
Chris drops a one two punch today with this dope ass freestyle over Weeknd’s ‘I Can’t Feel My Face’ instrumental and the visuals to his I Just Wanna Rap single off his upcoming tape entitled Medicated Consumption.
ROYCE DA 5’9″ TALKS PRHYME 2, NEW SLAUGHTERHOUSE ALBUM, SOLO ALBUMS AND GETTING EMINEM ON PREMIER PRODUCTION ON “THE CORNER” PODCAST
Late last week, Royce Da 5’9″ appeared on the hip hop, boxing, MMA and pro wrestling podcast “The Corner” to talk about Floyd Mayweather’s supposed final fight (Nickle is a huge boxing fan) but also revealed a ton of news regarding his upcoming work with DJ Premier (PRhyme 2), Slaughterhouse, two solo projects, Bad Meets Evil and finally getting Eminem on a DJ Premier track. The interview starts at the 1:00 mark and go to the 1:27 mark for the hip hop conversation.
On the new Slaughterhouse album…
I gotta go to NYC on the 15th of this month and go over these last mixes for the Slaughterhouse album. Just Blaze is mixing right now. We’ll tighten up whatever we have to tighten up and we’re handing the album in.
It’s really introspective and vintage slaughterhouse. Just Blaze is a great executive producer with a lot of great ideas. He has this shit sounding like a movie. I think people are going to be really impressed. A lot of complaints that people had with the last album, which I was able to go back and catch in retrospect. Sometimes, man, as a creative person, you don’t catch everything. You don’t hear it the same way because it’s a situation will have you excited and at that time we had so many people talking like we couldn’t make records. So we were going in making these big ass records and I don’t know how all of them ended up on the same album. I don’t even remember. I think with that album it was the song selection. We had a bunch of songs that just didn’t make the final cut. We’re really conscious of that this time. People will be impressed and it will exceed expectations.
On dropping 4-5 projects in the next year…
Once I get back from this quick Slaughterhouse tour I’m going to get back to work on this solo project I have for a new series I’m starting. It’s kind of like how I did the Bar Exam series. Right after I’m done with that I’m jumping into the PRhyme 2 album and then I’m taking my other solo project, that’s not part of that series, probably to a major.
I’m looking to put out the Slaughterhouse album, the PRhyme Deluxe album, which is done right now, my solo album, that series and maybe something else within the course of the next year. I’m making up for the time I sat out the past two years.
On new Bad Meets Evil material…
The Bad Meets Evil stuff we look forward to doing it. I’ve gotta be in Detriot long enough and he has to be free then we just kind of have to be hanging out to do it because that’s how we did the last one. I had some songs he liked that he rapped on and he had some songs I liked. We just put them all together and did some more stuff and put the album out. When you’re friends with somebody who has their own label and they can do whatever they want to do that’s how it goes. It’s always a possibility. I haven’t spoken with him about that lately but I am supposed be going to see him soon and play him some music. I have a lot of music that he hasn’t heard so we just gotta kind of get together and update each other on everything.
On getting Eminem on a DJ Premier beat…
Em is the type who’ll say “why didn’t you ask to get me on this?” I don’t want to bother him. I try not to abuse friendships and make him feel like he has to rap on shit just because I’m doing it. That’s why I didn’t ask him to be on the first PRhyme album. Maybe the second one. That’s all I’m hearing. Everyone wants to hear him on a DJ Premier track so that’s definitely possibility.
KXNG CROOKED – IF I WAS DRE
The emcee formally known as Crooked I puts on Dr. Dre’s crispy Air Force 1’s and takes them for a walk.
KENDRICK LAMAR PERFORMS WESLEY’S THEORY, KING KUNTA & U ON THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT
As the first guest on the debut of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” Kendrick Lamar (who just so happened to be the last guest of “The Colbert Report”) is joined by Anna Wise, Bilal and Thundercat to perform “Wesley’s Theory,” “King Kunta” and “U.” Watch it all above.
RHYTHM ROULETTE – GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW
Georgia Anne Muldrow is a multi-faceted musician whose skills lie in her ability to channel spine-tingling soul through her vocals and hard-hitting-yet-groovy production. After listening through three randomly selected records, she concocted three different tracks from the classical and operatic samples she pulled, creating some eerie funk to rattle the system in your car trunk. While she wasn’t sure if she survived the challenge, her beats say otherwise.
JOE BUDDEN UNVEILS ARTWORK AND TRACKLISTING FOR ALL LOVE LOST
Joe Budden’s All Love Lost drops on October 9th and the emcee serves up the artwork and his unique way of handling the tracklisting for the album. The tracklisting is placed in a letter where the title of the songs are in all caps. Check it out below and make sure to cop it when it drops.
Is ALL LOVE LOST? Maybe our foundation BROKE while we were PLAYING OUR PART, but when I fell no one noticed there was a MAN DOWN. Before that I felt IMMORTAL. Telling everyone I LOVE, I’M GOOD. Afterwards I didn’t think I’d MAKE IT THRU THE NIGHT. I Felt ppl just wanted to SLAUGHTERMOUSE. So to keep busy I’ve been listening to what those hoes say while deciding WHERE DO WE GO from here. The UNNECESSARY PAIN is constant. I still got LOVE FOR YOU.
DJ PREMIER & THE BADDER – BPATTER
Listen to the new single by DJ Premier’s live band, The Badder, title “BPATTER” where funky jazz sounds are surrounded by Preemo’s vocals and scratches. The full LP is on the way!