LA! A few of your favorite artist are getting together and performing at the Music Box in Hollywood (do you remember how epic K. Dot’s show at the Box was last time?) for a good cause. Project RISHI and DWC are two charities based in Los Angeles. The concert takes place, November 18th, and everything else you need to know is on the flyer above. Get your tickets here.
Update: Kendrick Lamar performing with Schoolboy Q, TiRon, Ayomari, Azad Right and Mateo. Concert promo video below.
After three free albums and a few mixtapes, Childish Gambino, also known by his real name Donald Glover (NBC’s Community), is ready to share with the world his first commercial release, Camp. NPR highly suggests you open up a tab for Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary as you listen to the project because his lyrics are “so dense with analogies and comedic references that you’ll need those reference guides to decode some of his verses.” Get your tabs ready and click on the link below to stream the album.
By the way, did you know Donald Glover got his rap alias “Childish Gambino” from an online “Wu-Tang Clan name generator?” Haha, the things I learn on NPR. Pre-order Camp on iTunes.
Album Stream: Childish Gambino – Camp via NPR
Shout to ISPS for the link!
Rolling Stone gets the exclusive album stream of G.O.O.D. Music artist Pusha T‘s Fear of God II: Let Us Pray. The sequel to Pusha’s latest mixtape, Fear of God, which dropped earlier this year, has features from Kanye West, Tyler, the Creator, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, Juicy J and more. Check out the rest of Rolling Stone’s interview with Pusha T and stream the album below. Fear of God II: Let Us Pray drops tomorrow!
Fear of God 2 builds pretty naturally on the mixtape you put out earlier this year. What was your goal for the follow-up?
My goal was actually just to put the body of work together. The new record was going to be just things that I leaked to the Internet, but I figured that the fans should get it in a better way, rather than just having to download the whole record from off of HulkShare. This is just street music. It’s for the street, it’s for the fans. As soon as the records are done, I usually just give them out anyway, to keep the energy and the intensity going.
My full-length album is coming out at the top of the year and up until then, I feel like people should just hear music, hear me, hear me with my peers, people that they respect. And it’s my solo project. In the Clipse, we were always snobby in regards to working with other people. People never really heard us with a slew of other features. I took this opportunity to give the fans the opportunity to hear me with some of their favorite artists, favorite rappers and new guys coming up, and people who have a presence in different genres of hip-hop.
Album Stream: Pusha T – Fear of God II via Rolling Stone
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Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg work at the Dogg’s House on the soundtrack for their movie, Mac And Devin Go To High School.
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GoodFellaMedia.com sat down with Kendrick Lamar to talk about his upcoming features with Jay Electronica and Joe Budden. He would also like to do music with Waka Flocka, SADE, Andre 3000, and Portishead.
Here’s some unreleased Cudi that is rumored to be where the line “that sh*t cray” originated from. At least that’s what I read. So it isn’t about the Cray brothers? Dah well. Download below.
Download: Kid Cudi – To Da Top
“This is the place I wanted to play the song. I’ve been waiting to come in LA to do this. Imma take y’all back a little bit.” Mac Miller performed in front of a sold out crowd last night at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. Sure the video starts off with a little bit of another cover he was doing, Weezer’s “Say It Ain’t So,” but he finishes it off by performing an acoustic cover of a west coast great. Miller’s Blue Slide Park drops tomorrow, pre-order here.
Hawdwerk & Jansport J release the fourth single off their sophomore release, BlackBalls. The song titled “Bars & Noble” features Gold Chain Military members Planet Asia & TriState, who also perform as a duo under the General Monks alias. BlackBalls will be available on iTunes, November 10th.
Download: Hawdwerk & Jansport J ft. General Monks (Planet Asia & TriState) – Bars & Noble
I already know I’m going to love these tracks. Take Care drops November 15th. But you already knew that.
Download: Drake ft. The Weeknd – Crew Love
Download: Drake ft. Rick Ross – Lord Knows (Prod. by Just Blaze)
Download: Drake ft. Rihanna – Take Care via SC
Yesterday, Hot 97 premiered a new electro-feel track, “Heartbeat,” off Childish Gambino‘s upcoming album, Camp. Yesterday, Childish Gambino also performed at a Pitchfork festival and revealed another song off Camp. This one’s called “Backpackers.” Camp drops November 15th.
Download: Childish Gambino – Heartbeat via Complex
Download: Childish Gambino – Backpackers + freestyle via fashionably-early
Frank Ocean began his tour last night at the House of Blues in his hometown of New Orleans. You can see the Odd Future crooner perform “Thinking About You” and “American Wedding” in the videos above. Two more stops to go, NYC and LA.
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Haha at Sway confusing Dev for Devi Dev. Is there a hidden singing career we don’t know of Devi? DJ Whoo Kid and Sway premiered another song on Shade 45 a few minutes ago. This time it’s singer Dev‘s track titled “Kiss My Lips” featuring Fabolous. R-Rated lips and radio rip for now.
Picture by Bobby Hundreds.
Update: Better radio rip.
Download: Dev ft. Fabolous – Kiss My Lips
Shout out to HHNM for all the quick radio rips!
DJ Whoo Kid and Sway released a bonus track on Shade 45 featuring Dr. Dre off Slim The Mobster‘s upcoming mixtape, War Music, available November 8th. He’s baaaack.
Radio rip for now.
Download: Slim The Mobster ft. Dr. Dre – Back Against The Wall
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