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Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Albums of 2016 Includes Béyonce, Kanye West, Drake, Chance The Rapper & More [PEEP]

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Béyonce, Kanye West, Chance The Rapper, Frank Ocean, and Young Thug all finished in the top 10 of Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Albums of 2016.

Queen Béy lead the way with her highly-acclaimed ‘LEMONADE’ topping the list. The platinum-selling album’s placement came to no surprise to some, after its worldwide popularity and countless awards and accolades.

“Beyoncé shut everyone else down this year with a soul-on-fire masterpiece, testifying about love, rage and betrayal that felt all too true in the America of 2016,” wrote the magazine. “The queen not only made the album of the year (and make no mistake, David Bowie would have been the first to say so), she delivered a confessional, genre-devouring suite that feels larger than life yet still heartbreakingly intimate, because it doubles as her portrait of a nation in flames.”

Chance The Rapper, Frank Ocean, and Young Thug all followed Béyonce in the top 10 for their albums ‘Coloring Book’, ‘Blonde’, and ‘Jefferey’, respectively. Both Chance and Franky Ocean have received high praise for the continuous success of their projects while being indepedent.

Drake’s ‘Views’ finished 42nd after ‘If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late’ placed third last year, behind Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ and Adele’s ’25’.

Other hip-hop notables include: Danny Brown’s ‘Atrocity Exhibition’ (19th), Rihanna’s ‘ANTI’ (25th), A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘We Got it From Here…Thank You 4 Your Service’ (30th), Alicia Keys’ ‘HERE’ (32nd), Maxwell’s ‘blackSUMMERS’night’ (40th), and Future’s ‘Evol’ (43rd).

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Kendrick Lamar Covers ‘Rolling Stone’ Magazine (News)

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K Dot graces the cover of Rolling Stone magazine new issue!

You can cop your copy on Friday.

Lamar is vague about what specifically the title To Pimp a Butterfly means (“That will be taught in college courses someday,” he says). But he describes the album as “honest, fearful and unapologetic.” “You take a black kid out of Compton and put him in the limelight, and you find answers about yourself you never knew you were searching for,” he said. “There’s some stuff in there, man. It’s a roller coaster. It builds.”

In addition to “The Blacker the Berry”, another confirmed track is “King Kunta”.

The songs range from the intensely personal to the swaggeringly aggressive – like “King Kunta,” which could be the theme song from a Seventies blaxploitation flick. When Pharrell Williams first heard the track, he praised it by calling it “unapologetically black.” “It’s just him expressing how he’s feeling at the moment,” says Lamar’s longtime producer Mark “Sounwave” Spears. “And right now, he’s mad.”

Drake Says He’s “Done Doing Interviews For Magazines” (News)

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According to Drake, Rolling Stone has some explaining to do following some eyebrow raising quotes made about his good friend Kanye West’s. After publishing a story where the Toronto MC called Macklemore’s Grammy apology to Kendrick “wack as fuck,” more quotes from the interview were released causing Drake to get upset.
“There were some real questionable bars on there,” Drake allegedly says of Yeezus to the magazine. “Like that ‘Swaghili’ line? Come on, man. Fabolous wouldn’t say some shit like that.”

Following the release of these questionable quotes, Drizzy went on a tirade via Twitter slamming the magazine for promising than yanking his cover as well as reportedly misquoting him.

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Kanye West’s Next Album Will Be Eight Songs (News)

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I think my next album is going to be eight songs. It’s just reducing down the amount of information that you need. People say a design is the point where you can’t take anything else away. [Yeezus] was very, very designed. I took a departure from radio and popular music in order to get this seat here. If I hadn’t made Yeezus, I wouldn’t be sitting here with this cool font at Basel right here.

Read the full Rolling Stone interview HERE.

Eminem Covers ‘Rolling Stone’ Magazine (News)

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Em’ graces the cover of Rolling Stone magazine’s latest issue.

The cover story “Eminem Reborn,” the Detroit legend speaks on hip hop saving his life, not understand the Beastie Boys’ artistic twists until later, learning from greats like Big Daddy Kane, Tupac, Kool G Rap and more.

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap. But then you go to Tupac, and he made songs. His fucking songs felt like something — ‘Holy shit! I want to fucking punch someone in the face when I put this CD in.’ Biggie told stories. I wanted to do all that shit.

Naya Rivera Covers Rolling Stone Magazine (News)

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The beautiful Naya Rivera graced the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

Naya shared the picture on Instagram saying..

“A big thanks to @RollingStone for showing me so much love! Such an honor to be featured!” Naya tweeted later. “My @RollingStone feature hits newsstands November 8th! Can’t wait for you guys to see it – don’t forget to pick up a copy!” – See more at: http://karencivil.com/2013/11/05/naya-rivera-covers-rolling-stone/#sthash.qVtFAfW1.dpuf

Drake’s ‘Nothing Was The Same’ To Feature Jay Z, Lil Wayne, Hudson Mohawke (News)

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Rolling Stone magazine sat down with Drake and talked his highly anticipated album “Nothing Was The Same” and who will be featured on the album.

“This album is about growth,” says the Toronto MC. “When I play it for people, they ask, ‘Who’s that rapping?’ I’m like, ‘That’s me.'” The LP also features all-star guests from Jay Z to Lil Wayne, plus superhot producers like Scottish DJ Hudson Mohawke. One highlight? The emotional “Connect.” “That one hits you in the heart,” says Drake. “It’s painful and beautiful at the same time.”

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Rihanna Covers Rolling Stone Magazine

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Rihanna looks amazing on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine’s latest issue. Inside the mag Rhi opens up about her relationship with Chris Brown.

“I wasn’t going to let anybody’s opinion get in the way of that. Even if it’s a mistake, it’s my mistake. After being tormented for so many years, being angry and dark, I’d rather just live my truth and take the backlash. I can handle it. You see us walking somewhere, driving somewhere, in the studio, in the club, and you think you know. But it’s different now. We don’t have those types of arguments anymore. We talk about shit. We value each other. We know exactly what we have now, and we don’t want to lose that.

He doesn’t have the luxury of fucking up again.That’s just not an option. I can’t say that nothing else will ever go wrong. But I’m pretty solid in the knowing that he’s disgusted by that. And I wouldn’t have gone this far if I ever thought that was a possibility.”

Rick Ross X Rolling Stone Magazine

Ricky Rozay  a.k.a. “Gangster Of Love” made his debut on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, issue hits newsstands on August 17th.

For the first time, Ross talks about his past life as a corrections officer – an opportunity, he says, to “wash my hands” after his best friend was sentenced to 10 years for trafficking cocaine and heroin: “This was my best friend, who I ate peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches with, and pork and beans with, my buddy, my partner, my number-one dude. Suddenly I’m talking to him over federal phone calls. Hearing the way it was building, I knew I couldn’t take nothing for granted,” says Ross. “My homey’s father was a huge influence on my life, too . . . He was the one who was like, ‘Yo, go get a job somewhere, man. Go be a fireman. Or go be a fucking corrections officer. Just go sit down somewhere.”

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