In a recent interview with People magazine, President Obama said Kendrick Lamar’s “How Much a Dollar Cost”—from this year’s awesome To Pimp a Butterfly album—was his favorite song of 2015. Conversely, First Lady Michelle Obama’s favorite song was Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk”. In case you ever doubted Obama’s cool, et it be immediately dispelled with this news. Read the rest of the interview after the jump, via People.
Post Malone’s crossover smash “White Iverson” gets a long overdue remix courtesy of French Montana and Rae Sremmurd’s Slim Jxmmi. Post Malone looks to capitalize on the success of his single with a debut album, titled Album of the Year out early next year. Check out the Dallas singer-songwriter’s “White Iverson” get remixed after the jump.
Pusha T is set to drop his new album Darkest Before Dawn next week. It’s arriving before his highly-anticipated King Push album, which will arrive April 2016. Today, he’s shared a new track called “M.F.T.R.” (More Famous Than Rich), featuring The-Dream. It’s co-produced by Boi-1da and Hudson Mohawke. He shared the lyrics yesterday via Genius. Hear the track above; it premiered on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show. After the jump!
Although Jadakiss hasn’t really been making waves when it comes to the album format, he’s still a legend in the game — there’s no question about that. His last album was 2009’s The Last Kiss, which featured some stellar cuts — including single “By My Side” — but since then Jada’s mostly been hard at work with his fellow LOX brothers. However, all of that changed recently when the Yonkers emcee dropped his latest album, Top 5 Dead or Alive. And he’s now sharing the visuals to one of the album’s many highlights, the Ne-Yo and Nipsey Hussle assisted “Ain’t Nothin’ New,” produced by Beat Butcha, Buda & Grandz. Enjoy the music video to Jadakiss’ “Ain’t Nothin’ New” after the jump.
Well shoot, Ras Kass ain’t playin’. The legendary West Coast emcee is set to drop his provokingly titled Lyrical Hip Hop Is Dead EP on January 16th, and he’s sharing its first offering in the Royce da 5’9″ featured cut titled “Attitudes.” In addition to having Royce on board already, the project will also feature guest appearances from Guilty Simpson, Rampage the Last Boyscout, his son Ras Austin & more. In the meantime, check out “Attitudes” remix with Royce after the jump.
Migos’ Offset is officially a free man. After spending nearly eight months behind bars on drugs and weapons charges, Offset was released on Friday (Dec. 4th). And what’s the first order of business for Offset? Why drop a new track, of course. Back to the rap grind, Offset records “First Day Out,” a possible ode to Gucci Mane’s song of the same name. Check it out after the jump.
This morning, the nominees for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards have been announced. Kendrick Lamar is nominated 11 times in nine categories. Right behind him is The Weeknd whose up for seven Grammys, Drake with five, Alabama Shakes and Florence and the Machine are up for four, and Kanye West, D’Angelo, and Diplo are up for three. Check out the full list of nominations after the jump.
Although A$AP Ferg’s kept awfully quiet since dropping Ferg Forever last November, he’s kept busy working on various endeavors. On top of collaborating with Adidas for his Trap Lord collection, Ferg’s been cooking up some new tunes. Here he links up with Hit-Boy for “Tatted Angel,” a track Fergenstein dedicates to his day one fans. Listen after the jump.
Today is rapper Chinx’ birthday, he would’ve turned 31. Unfortunately, Chinx was killed in cold blood in May. In honor of Chinx’ birthday, Puff Daddy and French Montana remix of their “Money Ain’t a Problem” collaboration featuring the late rapper. Listen after the jump.
On Friday, December 4, 2015, Young Roddy released his highly-anticipated debut album “The Kenner Loop.” To celebrate his album release, Young Roddy performed for a packed crowd at Los Globos in Los Angeles, California. Click through this slideshow to see exclusive photos from the event. All photos by Kyle Stuart. Copyright 2015 Triumph Media Holdings, Inc. Purchase Young Roddy’s debut album “The Kenner Loop” on iTunes Now.
Bas and J. Cole are linking up for “Night Job,” the Dreamville crews latest collaboration. On it the two rappers go bar-for-bar over the Cedric Brown and KQuick produced track, which samples Jeremih and Shlohmo’s “No More” from earlier this year. Check it out after the jump.
After dropping the visuals to his Joey Bada$$-assisted cut “Nothin’ But Love,” BJ the Chicago Kid is back to give fans some more tunes. For “The Resume” the Chicago Kid links up with another top rapper from the new school, Mississippi’s Big K.R.I.T. Check out “The Resume” after the jump.
Although 50 Cent’s The Kanan Tape was scheduled for delivery on Thanksgiving, it’s now looking to be officially released on December 9th — he promises. To hold eager fans over, 50 is sharing a track from the forthcoming, long-gestating tape, and it’s a goodie. Linking up with forward-thinking Atlanta producer Sonny Digital — whose responsibile for a slew of exciting rap production — 50 Cent is claiming, once more, that he’s indeed “the man”. Check out 50 Cent’s reinvigorating “I’m the Man” after the jump.
Rick Ross’ eight studio album Black Market is set to drop tomorrow (Dec. 4th) and he recently shared “Color Money,” which has been perceived to be a Drake diss. Today, during an interview on Power 105.1 FM’s “The Breakfast Club,” Rozay talked about the track. When asked, “Are you taking shots at Drake on ‘Color Money’?” Ross was quick to respond: “I just released ‘Color Money’ and that record is what it is. It’s a lot of people that’s gonna interpret it a lot of different ways.” He also talked about Lil Wayne’s beef with Birdman, and shared his thoughts about ghostwriting. Check out the full, half hour long interview with Rick Ross after the jump.
After teaming up for “Sho You Right,” Daz Dillinger and Snoop Dogg reunite for “Best Friend” which is set to appear on the duo’s forthcoming street album, Cuzznz. Mark your calendars because the forthcoming Cuzznz is set to drop in the new year, January 16th to be exact. Listen to Daz Dillinger and Snoop Dogg’s “Best Friend” after the jump.
