The Big Homie Waka Flocka Flame is on the cover of Spin Magazine. Below is a hilarious video of Waka taking over Spin Magazine. Waka makes executive decisions after reading Pitchfork, makes it rain on writers, innovates their review section and herbs someone for eating his hummus. FLEX!!
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Hanni El Khatib is about to hit the studio with Dan Auerbach in the Black Keys’ Nashville Studio. But first the garage-y Rock N Roll dude will hit the road. Dates above.
Funny tidbit, Hanni El Khatib was at the infamous Vice A$ap Rocky/Trash Talk SXSW Show I was at. LA Weekly has a good story on Hanni with that riot/show as the setting,
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Bass Drum of Death are bringing their always weeded, sometimes paranoid, always blown-out rock n’ roll party around the country. The Mississippi duo are touring with DZ Death Rays who they are doing a split 7 inch with. “I Wanna Be Forgotten” is BDOD’s offering on that split.
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Domino Records announced today that Dirty Projectors will be dropping their highly anticipated 6th album, Swing Lo Magellan, on July 10th in North America/July 9th Worldwide. The album is a product of 12 months of writing & recording in Delaware County New York by David Longstreth. The rest of Dirty Projectors: Amber Coffman, Haley Dekle, Nat Baldwin, and Brian McOmber constantly joined him to rehearse and flush-out the songs in the A-Frame attic in the weird home about 4 hours Northwest of NYC.
The end result is said to be both very intimate and layered.
Listen to “Gun Has No Trigger” off Swing Lo Magellan
tracklist after the jump
MTV2 is launching a new show called Hip Hop Squares on Tuesday, May 22nd at 11pm ET/PT. Obviously its a flip of the Hollywood Squares concept. Ghostface, Mac Miller, Bam Mageria, Nick Cannon, MGK, DJ Khaled , Biz Markie, Kat Graham, Fat Joe,LaMarr Woodley and more are scheduled to participate in the human Tic- Tac-Toe game. The show will be hosted by Hot 97’s Peter Rosenberg.
Peep the trailer for Hip Hop Squares here.
Apply to be a contestant here.
Gift of Gab issued a statement today addressing health issues he is facing.
Looks like the West Coast Underground mainstay is suffering from Kidney Failure.
He does have a donor so he will live on to release his upcoming album The Next Logical Progression which is streaming on NPR. He is also working on a new Blackalicious album.
Statement below:
Peace and greetings to all. This is The Gift of Gab – one half of Blackalicious, one fifth of the original Quannum Collective. I’m here to publicly address my health to all my fans. About seven weeks ago I went into kidney failure. I hadn’t eaten in days, checked in to a hospital, and was diagnosed. I started dialysis five weeks ago. If I can leave you with a message to take away from this, it’s to take care of yourself and do not take your health for granted. We think we’re invincible but we’re all human and our actions catch up to us. The upside to this is I have a donor that has stepped up for which I am very grateful. Also I’ve had the phenomenal support of family and friends without whom I don’t know where my mind would be. I consider myself to be an extremely blessed person with a lot to be thankful for. There’s still a lot of appointments to be made and work to be done. There are still a lot of factors to be dealt with, but the dialysis center has given me the go ahead to do one off shows. My new album, entitled The Next Logical Progression, will be released March 27th on Quannum Projects. It’s some of my best work if I do say so myself. In addition to my own album, Blackalicious is working on our next full length album. So today, life is good. I wanna thank all my fans for all your support, and trust me when I say ‘the best is still yet to come.'”
I never lumped Gift of Gab in with debauchery so this is startling.
(via xxl)
Waka Flocka Flame continues his anti-bullying campaign. This time he is telling people it’s not cool to beat animals.
Destroyer Tour Dates
Apr 14 Indio CA – Coachella
Apr 21 Indio CA – Coachella
Jun 03 Seattle WA – The Showbox
Jun 04 Portland OR – Aladdin Theatre
Jun 05 San Francisco CA – The Fillmore
Jun 06 Los Angeles CA – El Rey Theatre
Jun 07 Phoenix AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
Jun 08 Albuquerque NM – Launchpad
Jun 09 Denver CO – The Bluedbird Theatre
Jun 10 Lawrence KS – The Granada
Jun 11 Iowa City IA – The Blue Moon Tap House
Jun 13 Milwaukee WI – Turner Hall
Jun 14 Grand Rapids MI – The Ladies Literary Club
Jun 15 Cleveland OH – Beachland Ballroom
Jun 16 Washington DC – 930 Club
Jun 17 Philadelphia PA – Union Transfer
Jun 18 Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn Masonic Temple
Jun 20 Boston MA – Paradise
Jun 21 Montreal QC – Rialto Theatre
Jun 23 Toronto ON – The Opera House
Jun 24 Chicago IL – Metro
Jun 25 Minneapolis MN – Cedar Cultural Center
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Every year, XXL Magazine makes a list of 10 Rappers they think are on the verge….for more info visit XXL Mag.com. Below is raw video of XXL 2012 Freshman Danny Brown discussing his approach to performing followed by some live footage from a recent Ohio Show:
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