The beautiful Jhené Aiko landed her first VIBE cover!
“I will never rush anything just to say I’m 28 with seven albums. One or a few of those albums will be crap,” she says, likening her project to a sequel of sailing soul(s), with happier songs, fewer rap collabos and more spiritual healing. “This album, from top to bottom, sounds like you’re on a journey. Once you get to the last songs with my daughter, the songs where I’m talking about what life means,” she says, “it’s just enlightenment.”
VIBE sat down with Dom Kennedy and he breaks down his key tracks on his new album ‘Get Home Safely’, which is on iTunes now!
Vibe got their hands on this picture of Drake and Ma$e in the studio. Could they be collaborating on something for Drizzy’s Nothing Was The Same? We’ll just have to wait and see.
Kanye West just recently launched his collabo line with A.P.C. for men. We all know Kanye loves basics the line consist of classic denim jeans, gray hoodie, and a white v neck. Yes it might sound boring but it’s all basic pieces that we can rock all year-long.
With that being said VIBE is reporting that Kanye was seen in Milan and that he is currently working on a 100 piece unisex collection. I’m curious to see how this line would be different from his last.
Mixed reviews from style critics won’t cap Kanye West’s creative sartorial juices. According to Page Six, the Yeezus rapper was spotted in Milan for a week, working on a 100-piece unisex collection set for a fall release. Word is ‘Ye is also being advised by a team of top designers from different brands including Nicola Formichetti from Diesel this go-round.
After showcasing his first two Donda womenswear collections in October 2011 and March of 2012 in Paris, Kim Kardashian’s baby daddy recently teamed with A.P.C. for a pricey line that included hoodies for $265 and white t-shirts made of 100% Egyptian cotton selling for $120. It proved to be a success as the items were sold out and crashed the site when it debuted Sunday (July 14).
Maybe this eponymous line will showcase a Kanye kilt for him and her. —Kandice Lawson
Kendrick Lamar and Miguel graced the cover of VIBE magazine for their upcoming “Big List” issue.
You’re both carrying the torch as the leaders of the new generation. How do you define musical genius?
KENDRICK: Somebody that don’t really have any boundaries, that’s not confined to the traditional structure of a song or traditional sounds. When you listen to “Adorn,” it feels like he’s not even trying to structure a radio joint. He just felt the music, felt the instrumentation and wrote the track.
MIGUEL: Good looks, bro. My favorite artists always took whatever they loved out of music and made it their own. It was their take on it. Kendrick is one of those people where I can hear Ice Cube’s first two albums’ influence. I get the street edge, but then I hear like the poetic player, smoothness, creativity and smart street savvy of Andre on Aquemini. That juxtaposition is what I hear in Kendrick, but it’s his own take. If you listen to my shit, you’re gonna hear Prince, Marvin Gaye, Led Zeppelin or a little bit of the Beatles. That’s where I’m pulling from.
To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Eminem’s 8 Mile movie he graced the cover of VIBE magazine.
How were the battle scenes written?
Eminem: I think Curtis had a lot of the guys write their own things, and then I would see what they were going to say. I might sit there with some of the guys and be like, “What if you changed this?” The hardest thing for me was trying to figure out what that last [rhyme] was going to be. As I was going back and forth with the other guys about what they were going to say—“Okay, if you’re going to say that, then I’ll write this”—the last one was [challenging] because I didn’t have anything to respond off of. So I had to write it myself, off what somebody could say to me.
Mackie: I’ve gotta give it to Curtis, because he challenged us. It wasn’t just, “Okay, bring us what you’ve got.” He kept you on edge, like, is this enough? Am I giving enough?
Eminem: That’s the other thing, too, with the battle scenes. I remember him saying, “This shit has gotta be flawless. [Then] Curtis would say, “Is this good enough?” I went back and rewrote a couple of lines. Curtis definitely, definitely pushed us.
VIBE recently hit road with Meek Mill on the Club Paradise tour for this new series “Road To Release” which captures behind the scenes footage of Meek Mill as he prepares for the release of his debut album “Dreams & Nightmares”. Here is episode 1.
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