XXL celebrates 40 years of Hip-Hop with 5 covers featuring 5 icons of the game: Jay-Z, Outkast, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne & Snoop Dogg.
The issue also includes year by year lists of the 10 most important albums and songs from 1973 through 2013, as well as stories on Nipsey Hussle, Strange Music and Karen Civil.
A friend of mine has been telling me to check out Raquel Rodriguez but I never got around to it until she got my attention by trapping me on Facebook and linking me. Ok, maybe it wasn’t that dramatic but she did send me Raquel’s soulful cover of Justin Timberlake’s sweet single “That Girl.”
What a voice! I noticed on her video that she included a link for a kickstarter to help fund her new album. For more information on her future project click here and if want more music from the L.A. singer, click here for her official YouTube page.
Spotted some of The Theorist‘s piano covers over at TOW then ended up on his YouTube page and found all these covers of some of my favorite songs. His latest piano cover is of “Ni**as In Paris” but I posted some of my favorite covers from the Canadian musician after the jump.
By the way, to see the rest of the post aka “after the jump” you have to click on the title of the post. For some reason the “read more” button isn’t showing but we’re getting that fixed soon!
Continue reading Video: Jay-Z x Kanye West – Ni**as In Paris (The Theorist Piano Cover)
Florence + the Machine covers Drake‘s ‘Take Care’ on BBCR1’s live lounge at Maida Vale studios.
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VIBE thought that 50 Cent would be a good fit for a cover boy of international status. Here’s a few of the excerpts that you will find in the cover story on stands April 5th.
50 ON HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH CHELSEA HANDLER
Chelsea is confident. I think confidence is the sexiest thing about a person. She’s the kind of person that if you’re blessed with the opportunity to hang out with her, you’ll enjoy it. I’m not sure you’ll look at her and actually want to jump over the table and fuck her, but you might. You would leave after talking with her feeling that she is a cool person.
50 ON BEST NEW ARTIST GRAMMY RESULT
I think Drake got robbed. He should have got artist of the year last year [ laughs], to be real with you… He did a lot, man. I don’t believe that Drake would have been as successful or his project would have been as successful if Lil’ Wayne was home. That point where Wayne had to sit down provided a complete focus on Drake.
