Famous Dex teams up with A$AP Rocky for the visual for ?Pick It Up.? Directed by AWGE/Hidji Films, the video opens with Dex dressed in a fur coat, stopping by vendors in a flea market, including A$AP and his display of cell phones. Dex then exits with designer bags and two women on each side of him. Dex and A$AP meet up later in an office, where A$AP shows up in a fur coat of his own, surrounded by women dancing and answering phone calls.
An official release date for Dex?s debut album, Dex Meets Dexter, is still unknown, but it is set to drop this spring. Earlier this month, A$AP shared snippets of unreleased music on his Instagram Stories labeled ?Testing,? but a release date for his third album is yet to be announced.
Brooklyn rapper Uncle Murda went to war on this one as he hits back at VA emcee Mad Skillz on the new diss track, “Why You Mad?”?The track opens with a phone call where Skillz says Murda was disrespectful on his latest yearly recap.
“My Virginia n*ggas gon’ bump this, n*gga / They don’t fuck with you like they fuck with the clipse, n*gga,” he raps. “They don’t fuck with you like they fuck with Pharrell, neither / You tried to takeover like Jay and you got ethered.”
Murda ignited the beef on his 2017 yearly Rap Up by dropping a few stabs at Skillz, which gave way to the below Skillz diss track.
“Bitin? niggas, I could never get along with y?all /?A song? Naw, straight curvin? niggas,” he raps. “I wouldn?t even take a picture with Uncle Murda, nigga.”
OVO Rapper Baka Not Nice premieres the video for his latest single, “Money In The Bank.” The clip coincides with the song’s raw lyrics as the hard-hitting emcee surrounds himself with pretty women, money, and luxury cars as he spits his notorious verses.
“Locked up ’cause a nigga didn’t tell /?Real niggas never took the deal like Chappelle,” he raps. “Warden tripping ’cause I treat the jail like a hotel /?My celly tripping ’cause I got a cellie in my cell (cellie).”
Baka has a longstanding friendship with Drake that resulted in an official signing to OVO back in June of last year. ?When [he] got out of jail, there?s a lot of different paths that he could have took,? said the 6 God. ?He decided to focus on music.?
Rapper Kendrick Lamar and labelmate, R&B songstress SZA?team for “All the Stars,” the first single from ‘Black Panther: The Album,’ the motion-picture soundtrack for the upcoming Marvel-inspired film.
On the track, the Compton-emcee spit painstaking and thought-provoking bars about how he sees the world and entitled people, while SZA supports with soulful and inspirational vocals.
“This may be the night that my dreams might let me know /?All the stars are closer, all the stars are closer, all the stars are closer,” SZA sings before Lamar unleashes his force.
Tell me what you gon’ do to me / Confrontation ain’t nothin’ new to me / You can bring a bullet, bring a sword / Bring a morgue, but you can’t bring the truth to me / F*ck you and all your expectations,” he spits. “I don’t even want your congratulations /?I recognize you far as confidence and /?Calculated promises all in your conversation /?I hate people that feel entitled /?Look at me crazy ’cause I ain’t invite you.”
‘Black Panther: The Album’ is being curated by Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) and label boss?Anthony ?Top Dawg? Tiffith.
?Black Panther? is directed by critically acclaimed?filmmaker Ryan Coogler and stars Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Oscar? winner Lupita Nyong?o and Danai Gurira, among others.
This will mark the first time that Lamar will write, produce, perform and curate for a major motion picture.?He was hand-selected for the role by Black Panther Coogler. ?I am honored to be working with such an incredible artist whose work has been so inspirational, and whose artistic themes align with those we explore in the film,? said Coogler. ?I can?t wait for the world to hear what Kendrick and TDE have in store.?
Cortez Kenny also shared his excitement. ?Marvel Studios? Black Panther is amazing, from its cast to its director,? he gushed. ?The magnitude of this film showcases a great marriage of art and culture. I?m truly honored to contribute my knowledge of producing sound and writing music alongside Ryan and Marvel?s vision.?
TDE’s?Tiffith said working on ?such a powerful movie? is a ?great opportunity? and a revealed a sign of things to come: “We?re always working on new goals at TDE, so teaming up with Disney, Marvel Studios, and the Black Panther film makes perfect sense.”
Cam’Ron, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana,?and Freekey Zekey, better known as?The Diplomats, releases the brand new music video for “Once Upon a Time.”
In the visual, the rap collaborators take us to church the only way they know how; a little bit of Jesus and a lot of hood. The clip features choir singers in the background while Cam and Capo spit their raw and in your face lyrics.
The Diplomats recently announced their upcoming EP and documentary. “We working on a Dipset docu-EP right now, so, it will be very dope?slash movie, slash seven songs,” Capo recently confirmed during an appearance on MTV’s newly relaunched TRL.
Cap goes on to say the Harlem-based collective is returning in order to deliver the sort of content he feels has been largely absent from the landscape of 2017 hip-hop.
“It’s been a void in the music industry that hasn’t been, know what I mean, captured in a long time. We represent a lot of things from [hood] politics, to hood savvy, to dope boy fly to staying fresh every day,” Cap says. He’s not hating, though. “The climate of the music and things like that?I love it. I love going to clubs and getting lit and everything, but it’s a different type of music that you need when you hustling, and that’s what we always represented.”
Of the new project, Juelz says, “You know, we got a lot of relationships, so you never know who gon’ end up on a couple of these tracks.”
There’s no word on when the EP and documentary will be released
Fresh off the release of their latest album, ‘Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues,’ 36 Chambers ALC drops a remix to the original track “Hood Go Bang,” which now features Redman, Method Man, Raekwon, Mathematics, and U-God.
On the offering, the rap collaborators deliver an onslaught of polished andaddictive lyrical hip-hop backed by a?headbanging beat.
“Hood Go Bang (Remix)” follows the previously released music video for “People Say.”
‘The Saga Continues’ is now a complete project highlighting every member of Wu on the Mathematics-helmed album, with the final addition of U-God’s distinct vocals on the track. The remix is available at all major streaming platforms.
36 Chambers ALC is a lifestyle company founded by RZA and Mustafa Shaikh to house innovative efforts in the music, art, fashion, and literary spaces. The highly successful Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues was the company’s inaugural musical release.
Brooklyn rapper Joell Ortiz releases an early Xmas present for Hip hop fans worldwide.
The lyrical beast drops “Start To Fade,” featuring Raekwon and Motown Legend himself Smokey Robinson. The record is a street love story that sees Joell and Chef spitting fire like they only know how. They paint a vivid picture with Smokey crooning the hook.
Rap recording artist Machine Gun Kelly drops the brand new single, “The Break Up,” via?EST 19XX/Bad Boy/Interscope. “The Break Up” is rumored to be about a high-profile relationship that ended a couple years back.
The Cleveland native recently teamed up with X Ambassadors and Bebe Rexha for the heart-wrenching single, ?Home,? from the accompanying soundtrack to Will Smith?s new Netflix action-thriller, Bright. The trio of performers hit the stage this week at The Voice?s season 13 results show and WWE?s Tribute to the Troops. The song has already been streamed over 40 million times.
Machine Gun Kelly will close out 2017 in his home town for his Double XXMAS show at the Wolstein Center, making it his first ever headlining arena show.
