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Waka Flocka Flame is showing an unprecedented accessibility for someone who makes such aggie music. Waka’s current campaign leading up to his new album the Triple F Life which drops June 12th has included talking to everyone from us, Spin, XXL and now GQ Magazine. FLEXXX!
Read about Waka in GQ here.
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How To Dress Well has put together a beautiful mix that flips Xiu Xiu, A$ap Rocky, Future, Hype Williams, R. Kelly, Janet Jackson and more. Everyone truely does deserve to feel real special so click and download above. Also click on the Interview Magazine link because they premiered this mix and also have a Q+A.
How To Dress Well will drop a new album called Total Loss in the fall on Acephale. Peep the first single “Ocean Floor for Everything” below.
Tour dates after the jump and a flyer for a show in New York tomorrow.
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MP3: Jay Electronica Ft Mobb Deep-Call Of Duty
When Jay Electronica rapped “Brunch With the Rothchilds” on Call of Duty last year, I thought it was a fresh lyric that was a continuation of Hip Hop’s love of conspiracy theories that present powerful British banking family the Rothchilds as key play players in the illumanati. Welp. turns out Electronica wasn’t just breaking bread with the Rothchilds. He was breaking up their marriages.
The Daily Mail Reports:
It seemed like the perfect union – a marriage that brought together two of the country’s wealthiest families.
He was the multi-millionaire son of the late financier and tycoon Jimmy Goldsmith, she a scion of the Rothschild banking dynasty.
But now Ben Goldsmith and his music producer wife Kate, who have three children, are to divorce after she embarked on a passionate love affair with an American rap singer named Jay Electronica.
Last night Mr Goldsmith confirmed the split, saying: ‘I’m pretty shell-shocked by everything. All I am thinking about now is my children.’
The marriage ended with a dramatic showdown at the family home in Notting Hill, West London, on Wednesday morning.
Mr Goldsmith, 31, confronted his 30-year-old wife over explicit text messages and emails he found on her smartphone that she had received from and sent to the New Orleans-born hip-hop artist, who now lives in London and is one of her clients.
MP3: CONFLICTED (prod. and mixed by Iyeball)
Jerreau speaks about the contradictions in life on Conflicted over a beat provided by his fellow Fly Union co-hort Iyeball.
tUnE-yArDs, ‘Questlove’, Angelique Kidjo and Akua Naru have remade Fela Kuti’s ” Lady” to help raise money and awareness for the inaugural (RED) RUSH TO ZERO which is a 10 day campaign (June 1st-June 10th) which aims to eliminate transmission of HIV from Mother’s to babies among other efforts to help deliver an AIDS Free Generation by 2015, a critical milestone in the fight against AIDS. For more info about Red Rush visit here.
The tUne-yArDs & Questlove led remake of “Lady” is the first single off of (RED) Hot + FELA, a compilation that pays tribute to Fela Kuti that will be released on Knitting Factory Records.
The track’s producer, Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs, said, “I wanted to reclaim ‘Lady’ for women in the world today, particularly African women, who will have an important role in ending the AIDS epidemic there. I was so happy to have the powerful Angelique Kidjo pour her soul into it, and then rapper Akua Naru wrote a raw, intense verse that perfectly extended and completed our vision of the song.”
OkayAfrica will have behind the scenes footage of the creation of this remake Monday.
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The Rolling Stones and Godard had Sympathy for the Devil. Beethoven has the Beethoven movies. SOOOOO it’s only right The Black Keys and Harmony Korine link up for “Gold on the Ceiling”. The Keys dress up like Adult Baby Twins and get Trash Humper treated and then the ATL Twins show up at the end..
Theophilus London is playing Columbus 6/28 at the Newport with Santigold. Above is a video of showing Mr. London’s process for recording his song Lisa at Converse Rubber Tracks . “Lisa” is off London’s upcoming mixtape Rose Island Vol. 1 which will drop next week.
Tour Dates after the jump.
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Dose vs. the Ruckus Man Scribble Jam 1999
When discussing Ohio Hip Hop, often times we forget to bring up the Dave Hammonz of Cinci, Dose One, whose creative seed in Southwest Ohio when Anticon was just burgeoning was an interesting thing to witness. Between his work with Them, and Cloud Dead also the graffiti of my dude Five it never suprises me that Marcel Duchamp’s wife was from the Nasty Nati.
(Obviously both of them dudes moved to the Bay seperately. )
Anyway, the Creators Project put together a mix of Dose One’s music throughout the ages (cLOUDDEAD, Themselves, Subtle, and 13 & God) to prime people for Mr. Drucker’s upcoming album G Is Deep.
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Connecticut emcee Illus teams up with Blueprint for “Extraordinary” off of Illus’s album Family First. Print produced this joint. Family First is co-produced by Public Enemy luminary DJ Johnny Juice and the star-studded guest emcee/producer list includes; Apathy, Ill Bill, J-Live, Erin Barra, Headsnack, Phashara, Chuuwee, Esoteric and more.
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Download P.Blackk’s new mixtape It’s Always Sunny In Columbus Vol. 2 at Live Mixtapes. the Tape is hosted by Bruni. I am keeping this short because I think y’all should be familiar with Pedro by now.
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