Tupac Shakur & Janet Jackson Nominated For Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

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Tupac Shakur and Janet Jackson are among the 19 nominees up for the 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. Other nominees include Chaka Khan, Pearl Jam, Jane’s Addiction, Depeche Mode, MC5, and others.

For Shakur it is his first year of eligibility and first nomination. As we know aside from being one of the greatest rappers to ever step in a booth, Pac was also a great poet, actor, and activist.

Janet Jackson is up for her second nomination after not being inducted in her first go-round. On the long list of inductees you will find only 44 women, which is less than 15-percent.

Last year N.W.A. was inducted and faced a lot of backlash most notably from Gene Simmons for not being in the Rock-N-Roll genre. If Tupac is nominated he would only be the sixth hip-hop inductee. The others are the Beastie Boys, Grandmaster Flash, Run D.M.C., Public Enemy, and as mentioned, N.W.A.

All the inductees will be announced December and the ceremony will take place next April at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. HBO will broadcast the event.

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Beats By Dre Presents: “Got No Strings” AD With Several Musicians, Actors & Athletes [WATCH]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwQ9gPsmHHs

Apple has pulled the plug on the headphone jack for the new iPhone 7 and they have got DJ Khaled, Pharrell Williams, Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott, PARTYNEXTDOOR, and others to support their decision.

The Beats By Dre “Got No Strings” ad, begins with a scene from Disney’s “Pinocchio” and continues with cameos from several musicians, actors, and athletes using the new technology in their everyday life. Can you name everyone in the advertisement?

Tell us how you feel about Apple’s decision to do away with the headphone jack in the comments below.

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Will.I.Am Spoofs Donald Trump With “Grab’m By The P***y” [VIDEO]

Will.i.am teams up with Apl.de.ap and Liane V to make a mockery of Donald Trump’s vulgar comments about grabbing women by the p***y.

The Funny Or Die video shows Will rocking a toupee as MC Donald T. Rump, Liane as Hillary Clinton, and Apl as a moderator. In a very hilarious way the two are making their own push for The White House candidacy.

Watch the original leaked Donald Trump video where he makes vulgar comments on a mic that was hot below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKB92ohXn20

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Migos – “Pull Up” [LISTEN]

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Migos “Pull Up” with some more new music on this Migos Monday to follow up their last joint “Dat Way” featuring Rich The Kid.

On the new banger the Migos spit over the Helluvalife production. The trio is currently working on their new album ‘Culture’, which is currently delayed after not making it in time for the original date last month. There is no new release date set as of now.

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Gucci Mane Announces New Album

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Gucci Mane just dropped his second album of the year ‘Woptober’ last week. Today, the Atlanta rapper announced he’s readying ‘The Return of East Atlanta Santa’, which will be his third album release this year.

‘The Return of East Atlanta Santa’ is the third of a previous mixtape series. The first ‘East Atlanta Santa’ dropped in 2014, while the second followed in 2015.

Gucci said in an interview with Hot97 that he “likes the young kids” when it comes to making new music. So, we can probably expect names like “21 Savage, Young M.A. … Anything that’s hot. Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Yachty…”

Guwop has set December 16th as the release date for the new album. Keep it locked for any updates.

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DJ Esco & Future – “Check On Me” Feat. Fabolous [VIDEO]

Eif Rivera directs the latest visual off DJ Esco & Future’s ‘Project E.T.: Esco Terrestrial’.

In the video for “Check On Me” featuring Fabolous, the trio hit the strip club and turn it in to a movie with a lot of women, money, and champagne. The visuals live up to the title of the song by showing how they got a check on them.

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Travis Scott – “Swang” (Remix) [LISTEN]

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Travis Scott remakes Rae Sremmurd’s “Swang” with a remix of his own.

On the track La Flame gets his auto-tune on hitting similar notes as Rae Sremmurd’s Swae Lee on the original version of the song. DJ Chase B dropped the P-Nazty-produced track. There’s a rumor going around that Scott and Rae Sremmurd had the same beat, but the latter dropped the song first.

Since the release of ‘Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight’, several Travis Scott songs have surfaced on the Internet. Last week someone dropped a fake Trav album titled ‘Days Before Birds’, which his reps have called an “unofficial release.”

Listen below.

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Rihanna Performs “FourFiveSeconds” With Paul McCartney At “Desert Trip” Festival [VIDEO]

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Rihanna surprised the “Desert Trip” festival crowd over the weekend as she joined Paul McCartney on stage at the festival to perform “FourFiveSeconds” for the first time since last year’s “GRAMMYs.”

McCartney joked about the crowd’s demographic when he brought out RihRih by saying, “finally found someone under the age of 50, the Queen of Barbados.”

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Bruno Mars Performs “24k Magic” On “SNL” & Debuts “Chunky” [VIDEO]

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Bruno Mars made his way back to “Saturday Night Live” this weekend to perform his new single “24k Magic.” The R&B singer danced his way to the “SNL” sporting 24k gold cuban links, as he displayed his moves along with his posse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XmcX9x4OqY

Following the performance of “24k Magic,” Bruno made his way back on stage to debut a new song called “Chunky.” On “Chunky” the singer shows support to thick independent women, letting it be known he’s looking for the women with the “big ol’ hoops / that drop it down in the daisy dukes.”

Both “24k Magic” and “Chunky” will be on Mars’ forthcoming album ’24k Magic’, expected to be released November 18th. Bruno should be releasing a lot more music from now to the release of the album.
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French Montana – ‘MC4’ From “Cancelled” to “Available Now” [STREAM]

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UPDATE: French Montana’s MC4′ went from multiple release date changes, to being put on shelfs early, to being leaked, to being cancelled to now being available for purchase and streaming.

The album that wasn’t supposed to be includes 14 songs with help from Drake, Kanye West, Jeezy, Nas, A$AP Rocky, Max B, the late Chinx, and more.

Stream the full album below and purchase it HERE.

Read the original story below.


Following a release date change, a leaking fiasco, and sample clearing issues French Montana has elected to just completely cancel his ‘MC4’ album.

The album was supposed to be released August 26th, but was pushed back due to “lack of buzz” according to EPIC Records CEO, L.A. Reid. To add insult to injury the album later leaked online after several international stores put it one shelves before its release date.

French “ain’t worried ’bout nothing” as he has moved forward, telling Complex that his new project is 70% complete. Read what else French said about ‘MC4’  and also Max B’s impending release from prison in an interview with Complex below.

Can you explain the setbacks with MC4?

Songs like “I’m Heated” and “Two Times” couldn’t be cleared. By the time I got the mix how I recorded it, it wasn’t the same. I just ain’t have the same feeling for it. Everybody had to replay shit, and do all this extra shit, so I wasn’t in the mood to put it together. All the music going to come out, you know what I’m saying, just packaged differently. Plus, the album got leaked.

Do you feel like you let the fans down?

Nah, I feel like I didn’t because I’m going to still drop something.

Was it hard walking away from MC4?

Yeah, of course. [But] let me tell you something: I’m never married to a date. I got 17 mixtapes I put together, and one album—that’s 18 projects in my whole career. I’m never married to a date. I put it out whenever it’s right. You could force yourself to make it to that date, but if it’s not right, [if] it don’t come out right, you can’t force it.

Have you started working on a new project?

Yeah, I’m like 70 percent done.

What’s something you want to accomplish with the new release that you didn’t with Mac & Cheese 4?

Just make sure it don’t get leaked. That’s why I don’t want to announce the name or nothing. I just want to wait until it’s done and just drop it. Make sure it don’t leak, make sure everything is cleared before I announce anything.

You’re supposedly going to drop a mixtape in October?

Yup, a project. It’s going to be some of the best music you’ve ever heard.

You and Max B came up together, and you’ve stayed in touch with him since he was sentenced to 75 years in prison in 2009. In September, it was revealed he will be up for release in just two years. Where were you when you first heard that news?

I been knew he had an appeal, but I found out from [music executive] Frank Babar—Frank is this guy who helped me and Max out—while I was on the Bad Boy Tour. We been working trying to get him out since he got in. We had our fingers crossed, you know?

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Gucci Mane – ‘Woptober’ [STREAM]

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Gucci Mane shows his hardwork with the release of ‘Woptober’, his second album this year.

About three months ago Guwop dropped ‘Everybody Looking’ fresh from getting “out tha feds.” Now, he’s back with the followup album executive produced by Mike WILL Made-It and Zaytoven.

The 13-track album is mostly all Gucci with two features from Rick Ross on “Money Machine” and Young Dolph on “Bling Blaww Burr.”

Stream the free album below via Apple Music.

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Common – “Letter To The Free” Feat. Bilal [LISTEN]

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Last week Common debuted his new song “Letter to the Free” featuring Bilal at his “Tiny Desk Concert” with NPR at The White House.

The socially-charged track is set to be on Common’s forthcoming album ‘Black America Again’ available November 4th.

Listen to the full CDQ version of “Letter to the Free” below and watch his “Tiny Desk Concert” HERE.

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