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Kanye West ‘Only One’ Video Game (Trailer)

Kanye orignally premiered this during his fashion show at Fashion Square Garden earlier this year, and today he put out the official trailer for his new video game “Only One.” The game is inspired by his late mother, Donda West, the game is in partnership with Encyclopedia Pictura.

Kanye West’s Top 5 Best Twitter Rants #HappyBirthYE

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Happy BirthYe, Kanye West. We know how outspoken the Chicago rapper is and often goes on Twitter to vent. So, in honor we had to pick our favorite Top 5 Twitter rants. Top 5, Top 5, Top 5.

Tweets is Watching.

5) Don’t tell Kanye shit.

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/706897396425498624

4) Put some respeck on Kanye’s ideology as a designer.

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/702606143135342594

3) Ye always supports his inner circle, so make sure you do before you catch an L.

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/702561799816790016

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2) Just when you thought Kanye don’t care…

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1) Ye don’t have enough money, he needs help — Mark Zuckerberg!

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/698699904303132672

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You gotta love Kanye being Kanye. You gotta love Kanye, “straight from the ‘Go Kanye, chop up the soul Kanye, set on his goals Kanye.” Happy BirthYE, Kanye.

@IamBNyce

 

L.A. Leakers Rewind: May 29th – June 4th

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YG ANNOUNCES ALBUM RELEASE WITH NEW TITLE

YG came out this week and announced he will be releasing his second studio album on June 17th. The album formerly known as ‘Still Krazy’ was switched to ‘Still Brazy.’

‘Still Brazy’ will be loaded with 17 songs and features from Drake, Lil Wayne, Nipsey Hussle, Joe Moses and many more. The lead single off the album is “Why You Always Hatin’?” feat. Drake and Bay Area up and comer, Kamaiyah.

Check out the full tracklist with feature below and show your support by going on iTunes to pre-order the album HERE.

1. Pops Hot Intro
2. Don’t Come to LA (Feat. Sad Boy, A.D. & Bricc Baby)
3. Who Shot Me?
4. Word Is Bond (Feat. Slim 400)
5. Twist My Fingaz
6. Good Times Interlude (Feat. Syke 800, Duce, Marley Blu & Burnt Out)
7. Gimmie Got Shot
8. I Got a Question (Feat. Lil’ Wayne)
9. “Why You Always Hatin?” (Feat. Drake & Kamaiyah)
10. My Perception (Feat. Slim 400)
11. Bool, Balm & Bollective
12. She Wish She Was (Feat. Joe Moses & Jay 305)
13. YG Be Safe (Feat. The Homegirl)
14. Still Brazy
15. “FDT” (Feat. Nipsey Hussle)
16. Blacks & Browns (Feat. Sad Boy)
17. Police Get Away wit Murder

SCHOOLBOY Q ANNOUNCES ALBUM RELEASE

ScHoolboy Q has finally set the official date for his next album to follow up Oxymoron. Q took to Twitter to announce he will be dropping the album July 8th.

TDE came out and said in late April that the album was turned in, so maybe it was a strategic move to wait and drop it in the summer.

The first single off the upcoming album was “Groovy Tony” which was followed by “THat Part” feat. Kanye West. There’s no album artwork, tracklist or title as of yet but stay tuned. In the meantime watch the video for “THat Part” that dropped this week below.

NEW MUSIC

The temperature is beginning to heat up as summer quickly approaches. Along with that heat came more heat from a plethora of your favorite artists. Listen to releases from Drake, Rihanna, DJ Khaled, Kanye West, Pusha T, Gucci Mane, YG and more below.

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@IamBNyce

L.A. Leakers Rewind: May 13th – May 20th

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DRAKE ON ELLEN

Fresh off SNL, Drake continues to make his television rounds when he visited ‘The Ellen Show’ earlier in the week.

The “Hotline Bling” rapper discussed his SNL appearance, his relationship with Rihanna and had the shit scared out of him by a man ironically wearing Drizzy’s infamous “Hotline Bling” outfit.

In the video below Drake plays a friendly game of “Never Have I Ever” with Jared Leto and Ellen. Watch below to find out what the 6 God has never done.


KANYE ON ELLEN

Kanye made a rare television appearance earlier this week paying Ellen a visit to discuss several interesting topics and even played a funny 5-second rule game.

Ye started by talking about his kids (Saint and North) before he went on a stream of consciousness rant focusing on wanting to improve mankind. He notably shouted out Rakim and Phife Dawg. (R.I.P)

Watch the rant and the hilarious games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7387oLNtgps

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/733371181512990722

Nice to see Kanye in a playful, fun mood.

CHANCE DROPS HIS THIRD MIXTAPE

Chance blessed the game with his third mixtape release this week. The ‘Coloring Book’ formerly known as Chance 3 made waves creating a frenzy.

The 14-track mixape sounds more like an album with features from: Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Justin Bieber, 2 Chainz, Future, Young Thug and a couple others.

Watch Chance perform “Blessings” on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZyt5dSNcFo

Go buy the album if you haven’t! I give it five flames.

Chance even received praise and support from good friend and mentor, Kanye West.

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/732016090620928000

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/732737690114785281

LAKERS GET 2ND PICK IN LOTTERY

As Laker fans we are well aware that we need more talent to put the team back at the top where we belong. This week’s NBA Draft Lottery brought us the 2nd overall pick in this year’s NBA Draft.

Kobe’s retirement opens up a spot in the starting lineup and also leaves us without a face of the franchise.

It will be interesting to see who the Lakers end up getting. Let’s hope it’s a future superstar.

@IamBNyce

NEW ScHoolBoyQ “THat Part” feat. Kanye West (Audio)

Kanye West teased a collaboration with ScHoolboyQ earlier today before Q released “THat Part” on iTunes.

ScHoolboy looks poised to release a follow up album to ‘Oxymoron’ after also dropping “Groovy Tony” in April.

The Cardo produced “THat Part” is now available on iTunes. Buy it HERE.

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/730771527071760384

@IamBNyce

TBT – #ThrowBackTune Of The Week – “All Falls Down”

Chance The Rapper declared Kanye West “the greatest artist of this generation” in a recent interview with Complex.

In honor this week’s #ThrowBackTune is “All Falls Down” off of Kanye’s freshman album, ‘College Dropout.’

This song has a very powerful message and highlights Kanye’s ability to transcend meaningful messages in his songs. Something he did a lot in the early stages of his career.

Also seen in the video is a young Stacey Dash, before she turned on the culture. LOL.

Yeezy definitely has tremendous influence on the culture from being able to sell a plain white t-shirt for $500 to selling out arenas. However, I don’t know if I agree with Chance. What do you think?

@IamBNyce

L.A. Leakers Rewind: May 1st – May 7th

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VIEWS GOES PLATINUM IN A WEEK

In its first week Drake’s ‘Views’ went certified platinum and with the kind of units it’s moved so far, the album figures to go multiplatinum soon.

According to Drizzy’s label, Republic Records, ‘Views’ sold over a million units and was streamed over 250-million times on Apple Music in ironically, 6ix days.

The success of this album has Drake sitting on a pedestal in the hip-hop game, with numbers that only big Pop stars like Taylor Swift and Adele are able to conquer.

Mainstream songs on the album “One Dance,” “Hotline Bling,” and “Controlla” really helped propel sales and streams for the album.

‘Views’ is officially the most successful urban album of the year thus far. The album tops sales of Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’, Kanye West’s ‘The Life of Pablo’ and Rihanna’s ‘Anti’.

Drizzy will go on to host Saturday Night Live on May 14th. The second time the rapper will do so.

Watch these hilarious skits from the last time he hosted:

FORBES HIP-HOP FIVE LIST

Forbes released their annual “Forbes Five: Hip-Hop’s Wealthiest Artists” list with some familiar names and a new one.

Diddy topped the list with an estimated net worth of $750-million for his stakes in Ciroc vodka, Revolt TV network, Aquahydrate alkaline water and SeanJohn clothing.

Dr. Dre came in at No. 2 with $710-millon much of which came with the sale of his Beats by Dre headphones brand to Apple. Last year’s N.W.A. biopic also reeled in a nice amount of revenue. In addition he also has stocks in Apple and a plethora of real estate in Southern California.

Jay-Z cruised in at No. 3 with $610-millon for his TIDAL streaming service that has over 3-million subscribers and also a slew of other business ventures including D’usse and Ace of Spades champagne.

At No. 4 was Bryan “Birdman” Williams with $110-million for the success of multiplatinum selling artists: Lil Wayne, Drake and Nicki Minaj. Put some “respeck” on that.

The final and newest member of the list at No. 5 is OVO head-honcho, Drake with $60-million. The music sales definitely helped, but Drizzy owes most of it to touring and partnerships with Jordan, Apple and Sprite.

The combination of the moguls totaled over $2-billion combined.

50 Cent’s recent bankruptcy struggles kept him off the list this year.

See the full breakdown HERE.

KANYE GOING ON ‘TLOP’ TOUR

Kanye West already has one of the most successful albums of the year with ‘The Life Of Pablo,’ and he is looking to follow the success with a tour.

He teased ‘The Life Of Pablo’ tour on Steve Harvey’s show Tuesday saying he could be hitting the road in September.

“My tour game is unprecedented,” he bragged to Harvey. “So we’re going to go out in September I believe, and we’re just working on some of the ideas right now.”

I’m excited to see the kind of creativity he will exude for the tour, from the merch to the stage design.

The tour is only in the planning stages, so there are no dates out or opening acts on the bill as of now. Although, it is safe to assume he will probably take his artist Desiigner on tour with him after the success “Panda” has had.

FRENCH MONTANA SIGNS TO EPIC RECORDS

Epic Records has been busy adding to their roster lately with the recent signings of DJ Khaled, Rick Ross and Puff Daddy. The label announced this week that French Montana was the newest signee.

The partnership of Puffy’s Bad Boy Records with Epic had a lot of influence in the signing of Montana, being he is also signed to Bad Boy. Take that, take that, take that.

It’s been three year’s since Montana dropped a studio album, in the meantime he’s been supplying the streets with anthems like, “All The Way Up,” and mixtapes.

His next album will have the Epic Records stamp on it.

SPACE JAM 2 TO STARR LeBRON JAMES?

Several sources have confirmed that Space Jam 2 will be starring LeBron James, but according to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst “no deal is in place,” although a deal is expected to be done soon.

The director of Fast & Furious, Justin Lin, was announced Monday as the director for the upcoming sequel.

Space Jam came out in 1996 and raked in $230.4-million worldwide and starred Michael Jordan in a box office monster that has since became a classic.

LBJ looks to be MJ’s successor in the series. Let’s see if James can come close to the success Jordan brought to the film, because he hasn’t been able to match it on the court.

@IamBNyce

Kanye West Teases ‘TLOP’ Tour

Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images

Kanye West already has one of the most successful albums of the year with ‘The Life Of Pablo,’ and he is looking to follow the success with a tour.

He teased ‘The Life Of Pablo’ tour on Steve Harvey’s show Tuesday saying he could be hitting the road in September.

“My tour game is unprecedented,” he bragged to Harvey. “So we’re going to go out in September I believe, and we’re just working on some of the ideas right now.”

I’m excited to see the kind of creativity he will exude for the tour, from the merch to the stage design.

The tour is only in the planning stages, so there are no dates out or opening acts on the bill as of now. Although, it is safe to assume he will probably take his artist Desiigner on tour with him after the success “Panda” has had.

Keep it locked with us and we will share any further developments.

@IamBNyce

L.A. Leakers Rewind: Mar. 20th – Mar. 26th

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R.I.P. PHIFE DAWG

Hip-hop lost a true pioneer this week with the death of Phife Dawg, who passed away at the age of 45 after a long battle with diabetes.

His family released a statement which you can read below:

“We regret to share the news that on Tuesday March 22nd, 2016, Malik has passed away due to complications resulting from diabetes,” the statement reads. “Malik was our loving husband, father, brother and friend. We love him dearly. How he impacted all our lives will never be forgotten. His love for music and sports was only surpassed by his love of God and family.”

He impacted many lives since the inception of supergroup, A Tribe Called Quest. The funky lyrics he spit to those classic instrumentals will forever live in my head.

The 5-foot Assassin released five albums as part of A Tribe Called Quest and one solo album in 2000. He was a true poet, lyricist and musician.

I hope you all will Find A Way to the Award Tour as you link up with miss Bonita Applebum to have Hot Sex On A Platter as you embark on the Scenario.

My favorite Phife Diggy line was the one below:

Feel free to share your favorite Phife Dawg line in the comments section.

REST IN POWER, Phife.

50 CENT AND THE GAME PARTY AT THE SAME CLUB

One of the longest standing beefs in hip-hop is probably 50 Cent’s and The Game’s, dating back to 2005. Since then there’s been a number of diss tracks and even a couple of unfortunate violent situations between both entourages.

This past week it appeared as if things were a bit more peaceful with both rappers making appearances at the same club in Hollywood.

Although the two did not share a handshake or even a stage it was huge for both rappers to be in the same building after the negativity that has existed between them.

Game seemed to be playing peacemaker as he ordered more than a few bottles of 50’s Effen Vodka and followed by praising the taste of the vodka on his Instagram. In addition he mentioned the two “used to be as tight as @Kehlani pussy.” The post has since been deleted.

Nice to see the two can actually be in the same place enjoying themselves without any drama. Hopefully they can put their differences in the past and go back to making the fire music they once made together.

KANYE MAKES A QUICK MIL

Kanye West tweeted a couple weeks ago that he was over $50-million in debt. The situation appeared to be so dire he tweeted millionaires and billionaires to invest in ‘Ye.

Well, according to Mr. West he made $1-million in two days from “The Life Of Pablo”-inspired pop-up shop in New York. We’ve all seen the price tags on Kanye’s jackets, hoodies, t-shirts and other clothing so it’s very possible.

“The Pablo pop up was almost a pop up of influence,” he tweeted. ““but there is no other brand that could sell 1 million dollars of clothing in 2 days from 1 location!!!”

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Well, if things continue to go as they are he just needs another 52 pop-up shops to be debt-free! Yay! Or should I say ‘YE!

JAY ELECTRONICA EMBARKING ON A TOUR

Although this may sound like a myth, Jay Electronica announced he will be going on a five city tour.

The tour is scheduled to be kicked off next week in San Francisco, CA. and most shows will be on the West coast, atleast for this run.

During his April 2nd show he’ll perform a J. Dilla tribute along with Slum Village, Black Milk, Guilty Simpson, Phat Kat, Blaqroyalt.

Here’s all the tour stops and venues:

03/30 – San Francisco, CA @ 1015 Folsom
04/02 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
04/03 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
04/06 – Denver, CO @ Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom
04/10 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Cabooze
04/13 – San Diego, CA @ Music Box
04/17 – Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s

Listen to his newest song below:

Still no word on the album but don’t hold your breath. I’m sure if it ever drops it will include a Frank Ocean feature and may even drop the same day Detox drops. Jokes.

SXSW RECAP

The biggest independent music festival capped off this week and there was way too much to talk about, so let’s highlight the main happenings.

Drake closed out the final night of the Fader Fort as he surprised guests after Yo Gotti got off the stage.

Drizzy performed some of his newer hits like, “Jumpman,” “Energy,” “Know Yourself” to name a few.

In his final year of presidency, Barack Obama became the first president ever to take part in any festivities at SXSW.

Barack hit up the SXSW Interactive Keynote Conversation where he showed major support and appreciation to “influencers.”

During the keynote, the First Lady released a song to support her #62MillionGirls global education initiative which she discussed at the event.

Listen to a snippet of the song, “This Is For My Girls,” written by Diane Warren and features Missy Elliott, Janelle Monaé, Kelly Rowland, Kelly Clarkson, Lea Michele, Zendaya and others.

Althought there were countless David Bowie tributes at this year’s festival none was bigger than Anderson .Paak and The Free Nationals.

The combination of both genres made for one of the best Bowie tributes I’ve ever seen.

Paak is already a blend of genres in himself with the way he meshes hip-hop, R&B and even a little bit of dance. There was an abundance of energy and the band was simply graceful.


WRITTEN BY: BRYAN MELARA – @IamBNyce