Month: July 2017

Meek Mill Tallies Up His ‘Wins & Losses’ On New Album [STREAM]

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For Meek Mill the past couple years haven’t been the easiest. He’s taken a fair amount of losses from losing his artist and lil homie, Snupe to being humiliated on the Internet for his beef with Drake, and breaking up with Nicki Minaj. Meek has also celebrated wins and on his new album ‘Wins & Losses’ he puts both sides in perspective.

On his third studio album, which he considers his fourth, Meek tackles every topic that has surrounded him. Over 17-tracks, the MMG spitter breaks down his ups and downs, while reintroducing himself as a new person that his trials and tribulations have created.

Meek calls on some heavyweights for features on the album, which include Chris Brown and Ty Dolla $ign on “Whatever You Need,” Rick Ross and Yo Gotti on “Connect the Dots,” Young Thug on “We Ball,” Lil Uzi Vert on “F**k That Check Up,”and more.

This week Meek has been releasing parts of a short film leading up to the album, that tell the story of a man losing his brother. Watch here.

Stream ‘Wins & Losses’ below.

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Curren$y Feeds Ends The Drough With ‘The Champagne Files’ EP [STREAM]

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Curren$y has been on a bit of a hiatus, but the New Orleans rapper returns with his new mixtape ‘The Champagne Files’. The 10-track EP includes no features and contains songs with interesting titles like “Tennis Bracelets,” “Sparking Water,” “Issa Flip,” “1942,” “Spray,” and “Champagne and A Stripper.”

Stream the album below.

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New Music: Justine Skye – “Back For More” Feat. Jeremih [LISTEN]

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Justine Skye is “Back For More” on her new collaborative with Jeremih. Equipped with pacing harmonies, the killer duo go back-and-forth with serene melodies and vocals that would set any studio on fire. This single comes at a time Justine is working on her first acting role and announced the completion of her upcoming album.

This week she tweeted, “Blessed to be featured as a co-lead my first movie, filming has been going amazing. New music dropping this Friday. Album done and OTW.”

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New Music: Kevin Gates – “No Love” [LISTEN]

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While Kevin Gates remains trapped behind bars, his estate release a new single called “No Love.” Over the booming production Gates raps about fake friends, haters, enemies, and anybody else trying to press him.

It remains to be seen how long he’ll stay incarcerated, but in the meantime press play below.

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Vic Mensa Drops His Debut ‘The Autobiography’ Album A Week Early On NPR [STREAM]

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A week before dropping his highly-anticipated debut album, ‘The Autobiography’, Vic Mensa has decided to share it with fans a week early through National Public Radio (NPR).

As the new breed of Roc-A-Fella (Now Roc Nation), Vic Mensa delivers his 15-track debut album with tantalizing songs and a punch-packing list of collaborators consisting of Pharrell, Pusha-T, Weezer, Ty Dolla $ign, The-Dream, and Saul Williams.

Just last week he had an album listening in LA, where Jay-Z introduced him and praised him heavily. Upon reaching the stage, Vic explained what this album meant to him and what it took to put together.

“This album is really my blood, sweat, and tears, and everything that I’ve learned up to this point in life,” he explained. “I kinda had to go through a lot of different things to even be able to put this album down on wax.”

Press the link below to get the early stream via NPR.

‘THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY’ EARLY STREAM

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New Music: A-Trak – “Believe” Feat. Quavo & Lil Yachty [LISTEN]

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A-Trak has spent a majority of his week teasing his new single “Believe” featuring Quavo and Lil Yachty. It started a few days ago with the superstar DJ/Producer singing along to the track with cutouts of the collaborators.

“Believe” has a nice structured sound and the production sounds like it was crafted for Quavo and Yachty from the beginning. French Montana and Swae Lee already have a summer anthem with “Unforgettable” and DJ Khaled has shot his shot with the Rihanna and Bryson Tiller-assisted “Wild Thoughts.” Perhaps this is the next song to make this an even hotter summer.

On a call from Ibiza, A-Trak told Beats1 in a phone interview how the song came about.

“[We] recorded the song hanging out,” he said. “I wanted that to come through in the vibe of the song, that this is a hangout thing, having fun. Even the way that they’re trading lines back and forth. To me, it reminds me of the way that Jadakiss and Styles P used to do it. People don’t do that enough anymore, just trading bars.”

Listen below.

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New Video: Tyga – “Move To L.A.” Feat. Ty Dolla $ign [WATCH]

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On Tyga’s “Move to L.A.” featuring Ty Dolla $ign, he pays homage to Bad Boy with the Ma$e-inspired hook, that takes inspiration from the Ma$e and Total’s collaborative “What You Want” single off 1997’s ‘Harlem World’.

Staying with the Bad Boy theme, Tyga and Ty Dolla $ign go all out Harlem World in the video for “Move to L.A.” Their wardrobe pays homage to Puff Daddy and Ma$e’s outfit in The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Mo Money Mo Problems” video. Tyga and Dolla $ign rock similar yellow track suits along with goggles as they defy gravity and go aerial.

T-Raww’s ‘Bitch I’m the Shit 2’ will drop later tonight and include features from Kanye West, Pusha-T, Vince Staples, Young Thug, and Quavo, along with Ty Dolla $ign.

Watch the video below.

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Meek Mill’s “Wins & Losses” Short Film Continues To Unravel With Chapter 4 [WATCH]

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If you’ve been following along with Meek Mill’s “Wins & Losses” movie, you’ve already watched “Chapter 1: The Rebirth,” “Chapter 2: The Trap,” and “Chapter 3: The Price.” If you haven’t yet, you can watch HERE. The story continues to unravel with Meek unveiling “Chapter 4: The Homecoming” a day before his ‘Wins & Losses’ album release.

In Chapter 4 of the Spike Jordan-directed clip, Meek appears in Church to pay his respects to the man who was shot and killed in “Chapter 2: The Trap.” Dawning his Lil Snupe chain, Meek raps, “When they killed my ni**a Snupe, I seen my young ni**a in the casket / probably the reason why I keep taking all of these drugs,” he laments.

Watch below.

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New Music: Tyler, The Creator – “Ain’t Got Time” [LISTEN]

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Many of you may have already heard this song as Tyler, The Creator’s entire forthcoming ‘Scum Fuck Flower Boy’ album was leaked on the Internet ahead of its Friday release date. The entire album possess that raw quality Tyler material, but “Ain’t Got Time” is definitely one of the standouts.

On the track Tyler spits provocative lyrics and alludes to being homosexual rapping, “Next line, I’ll have em’ like woah / I’ve been kissing white boys since 2004.” The Internet went into a frenzy when fans heard the line and controversy has since followed.

Tyler has said the track’s production is a combination of J Dilla’s “One Time” and “Introduction” by Bel-Sha-Zaar, which has been sampled in the past by Deee-Lite on “Groove Is in the Heart.” The original instrumental was made during Kanye West’s ‘The Life of Pablo’ sessions and expected to be on the album.

Although the singles contains no features, Tyler was lobbying for Nicki Minaj to jump on it and feels she played him.

“I wanted Nicki Minaj on that shit so fucking bad,” he explained. “You have no idea. I reached out to her so many times. Tried to get her number. She couldn’t think of nothing. She said, ‘I couldn’t think of nothing.’ That’s what they relayed. I’m like, ‘How the fuck you hear this beat and can’t think of shit? Stop that shit. Stop playing.’ I’m like, ‘Nicki playing me right now.’”

Listen below.

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New Video: French Montana – “Whiskey Eyes” Feat. Chinx [WATCH]

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On French Montana’s recently-released ‘Jungle Wars’ album he showed his loyalty to his day ones and how solid he is. The Coke Boy rapper put Max B, (who is currently incarcerated) on a track with The Weeknd, while also adding deceased rapper, Chinx on “Whiskey Eyes.”

In the video for “Whiskey Eyes” French honors his late friend, Chinx. The Majik Films-directed visuals begins with a video of Chinx cheering to the Coke Boys and popping a bottle of Dom Perignon. French then goes on to rap about his ups and downs and losing Chinx.

French also puts Chinx son in the video next to a portrait of the fallen rapper, that was painted on his birthday.

Watch the video below.

 

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Modsun Spits Over Drake’s “O To 100” & K. Dot’s “LOVE.” On #Freestyle020 [WATCH]

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Oh you thought we were done? Justin and Milk may have taken a little break, but just know they aren’t done with their freestyle series and still have a vault full of clips ready to be fired. For their latest #Freestyle020 them LA Leakers boyz called on the self-proclaimed hippie, Modsun.

The groovy rapper spits over two different instrumentals in a little over six minutes. Modsun starts off by spitting over Drake’s “0 to 100” before going off on Kendrick Lamar’s “Love.”

Watch the full freestyle below.

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New Video: Kid Ink – “Supersoaka” [WATCH]

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Kid Ink chills in a empty warehouse and does yoga with some baddies in the visuals for his Murda Beatz-produced single “Supersoaka.” The Jathan-directed clip shows models doing yoga stretches and poses in full provocative form.

“Supersoaka” is off Ink’s ‘7 Series’ project, which he’s been dropping videos for on a consistent basis. This video follows “F With U,” “No Strings,” “Lottery,” & most recently “Mochi,” to get the full video treatment.

Watch the full video below.

 

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