DJBooth.net: [Feature] Royce da 5’9” is About to Conquer Trap Music & It Sounds Amazing

DJBooth.net: [Feature] Royce da 5’9” is About to Conquer Trap Music & It Sounds Amazing

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• [Feature] Royce da 5’9” is About to Conquer Trap Music & It Sounds Amazing
• [Feature] In Search of the Modern Day Method Man & Redman
• [Feature] Defending a Masterpiece: Why Kanye’s ‘808s & Heartbreak’ Is an Amazing Album
• [Listen] Levi Carter - Waves ft. Key!
• [Listen] Kehlani - Undercover
• [Listen] NxWorries (Anderson .Paak x Knxwledge) - Sidepiece
• [Listen] Ab-Soul - Womanogamy
• [Feature] El-P’s Advice to Any Artist: “Stop Giving A F*ck ASAP”
• [Feature] TM88 Thinks I Hate Him, But I Really Just Hate “Churn & Burn” Music
• [Listen] Young Dolph - Bagg ft. Lil Yachty

[Feature] Royce da 5’9” is About to Conquer Trap Music & It Sounds Amazing Posted: 05 Jan 2017 03:30 PM PST This is no desperate attempt at relevance, but the sharpening of a sword against the latest steel.

Bonafide Magazine @ MSN: Kanye West expresses interest in Ikea collaboration; Internet trolls him

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Kanye West expresses interest in Ikea collaboration; Internet trolls him Posted: 08 Aug 2016 02:31 PM PDT Recently on Annie Mac’s Radio 1 show, Kanye West confessed that he had a burning desire to collaborate with Swedish interior design company IKEA. In his usual modest way, he explained that students would relish in "a minimalist apartment inside of a college dorm" designed by West himself. "Yo IKEA, allow Kanye to create, allow him to make this thing because you know what, I want a bed that he makes, I want a chair that he makes – I want more products from Ye," he added. Despite being "flattered by Kanye West's high interest," an IKEA representative told CNBC on Monday that they are not looking to "collaborate at this point in time." Needless to say, that didn’t stop the internet trolls from getting in on the action. Some of the best memes are below.

FACT Magazine Kanye West calls for end to ‘beef’ between Apple and Tidal @ Musique Non Stop

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• Kanye West calls for end to ‘beef’ between Apple and Tidal
• Hear ‘Preach’, the latest song from Alt-J drummer Thom Sonny Green’s debut solo LP
• Listen back to the BBC’s David Bowie Prom and ‘Starman’ audio documentary
• The land before grime: 10 tracks that accidentally predicted East London’s signature sound

Kanye West calls for end to ‘beef’ between Apple and Tidal Posted: 30 Jul 2016 10:34 AM PDT Will someone please think of the children? Kanye West fired off a series of tweet today calling for an end to the ‘beef’ between Apple Music and Tidal and pleading to the “let the kids have the music.” He also called for Apple to just “give Jay his check”. This Tidal Apple beef is fucking up the music game. — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) July 30, 2016 I need Tim Cook Jay Z Dez Jimmy Larry me and Drake Scooter on the phone or in a room this week!!! — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) July 30, 2016 Fuck all this dick swinging contest. We all gon be dead in 100 Years. Let the kids have the music. — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) July 30, 2016 Apple give Jay his check for Tidal now and stop tying to act like you Steve. — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) July 30, 2016 The rant follows from recent news that Apple may be considering a purchase of Jay-Z’s Tidal streaming service. There have been no further rumours or news since the story appeared in the Wall Street Journal on June 30. Tidal, branded as an artist-driven streaming platform, has exclusive rights to works by Beyonce, Prince’s catalogue, and Kanye West. Apple Music for its parts claims Taylor Swift and Drake and was also home to Chance The Rapper’s latest album for a few weeks before its wider release. The post Kanye West calls for end to ‘beef’ between Apple and Tidal appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..

Potholes In My Blog: Kanye Closed 2014 With One of 2014’s Best Songs

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Kanye Closed 2014 With One of 2014’s Best Songs Posted: 01 Jan 2015 08:04 PM PST And we thought A$AP Rocky was going to make the most noise New Year’s Eve. As 2014’s last hurrah approached, so did something equally powerful: Yeezy Season. Rumors swirled all day about a new track from West. With 25 minutes left to bid farewell to the ghastly year, our collective prayers were answered. First a leak and later an official release through West’s website, “Only One” floated down from hip-hop’s heavens and graced us mortals here on earth. I am absolutely reaching for low-hanging fruit right now. Guilty. But the biased response by way of religious imagery is called for because the track is (1) fantastic and (2) at long last bridges two icons from disparate eras. Yes, that is living legend Paul McCartney stroking those organ keys in yet another victory for minimalism. Ty Dolla $ign apparently contributed here (the raw backing vocals that pop up now and again), which is a plus I guess. This might be the most timeless piece of music to feature autotune since Kanye’s very own “Street Lights,” which fittingly lives on an album also inspired by West’s late mother, Donda. “Only One” harbors West’s most poignant songwriting to date, and we couldn’t be more excited to hear what he has in store. Below is a picture of West and McCartney together, as well as the handwritten lyrics to “Only One,” shared on kanyewest.com. You can stream it there, or dish out $1.29 and buy it on iTunes.

FACT Magazine Stream last week’s FACT at BBOX radio show with special guest Brenmar @ Musique Non Stop

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1. Stream last week’s FACT at BBOX radio show with special guest Brenmar
2. London dance craze shuffling is the focus of new documentary RELEASE
3. Kwaidan
4. FACT TV wants to hear your pitches
5. Gold Panda, The Field and Efterklang added to Rewire Festival lineup
6. Kanye West reveals next album could drop in September, single in two weeks
7. Tulisa cocaine deal trial thrown out of court
8. Premiere: Mighty Mark keeps Baltimore club moving with Mighty EP
9. LV and Josh Idehen announce second album Islands
10. German distributor Intergroove files for bankruptcy
11. FACT mix 451: DJ Orgasmic & Teki Latex
12. Premiere: stream Shabazz Palace’s new album Lese Majesty
13. Surgeon readies ‘Fixed Action Pattern’ for Token
14. “Oh, you’ve come crawling back, Dizz?”: Dizzee Rascal, Catey Shaw and more reviewed – well, massacred – in the FACT Singles Club
15. Teenager dies after attending Latitude Festival
16. Hear a teenage Eminem rapping on ultra-early track ‘Pooh Butt Day’
17. Goblin to perform live scores for Dawn of the Dead and Suspiria at London screenings

Stream last week’s FACT at BBOX radio show with special guest Brenmar Posted: 21 Jul 2014 01:44 PM PDT FACT's US team returns to Brooklyn. Last Friday at 3pm ET (that's 8pm for everyone in the UK), FACT's Chris Kelly and Walker Chambliss made their way to the BBOX Radio studio in Brooklyn for this week’s episode of FACT at BBOX, where they were joined by special guest Brenmar. Highlights include new material by The Bug, a Baltimore Club-influenced set and some of Brenmar’s forthcoming remixes; you can stream the episode and take a look at the extensive tracklist over at BBOX. This week, John Twells will be joining Walker Chambliss to host the show, and they'll be bringing a surprise guest familiar to anyone who’s been paying attention to London’s Boxed camp. Make sure you head to the BBOX site at 3pm ET on Friday to tune in.

DJBooth.net: [Feature] Kanye Thinks Drake is #1 Right Now - Is He Right? (Rap Power Rankings)

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1. [Feature] Kanye Thinks Drake is #1 Right Now - Is He Right? (Rap Power Rankings)
2. [Download] Pink Grenade ft. Dizzy Wright - 3 Days in L.A.
3. [Feature] Meet the New Faces on Common’s “Nobody’s Smiling” (A Guest Verse Album Review)
4. [Download] Write Brothers - Comeback
5. [Listen] August Alsina ft. Nicki Minaj - No Love
6. [Listen] QuEST - May 10th, 2012
7. [Listen] Summer Thieves - Love Is Lost
8. [Listen] Juicy J ft. Wiz Khalifa & Ty Dolla $ign - Shell Shocked
9. [Listen] Customary - Hanging On
10. [Download] Denzel White - Better Than the Last Time

[Feature] Kanye Thinks Drake is #1 Right Now - Is He Right? (Rap Power Rankings) Posted: 21 Jul 2014 02:31 PM PDT Remember when Kanye was dropping new interviews the way Lil Wayne was dropping guest verses in '08? It was kind of a whole thing. But while Yeezy's been relatively quiet lately following his nuptials, Interview Kanye is back with a new GQ feature. There are some good quotes in there - he says he's a blowfish that's often mistaken …

FACT Magazine Stream Lawrence English’s crushing new album Wilderness of Mirrors @ Musique Non Stop

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1. Stream Lawrence English’s crushing new album Wilderness of Mirrors
2. J Dilla’s Moog and MPC will be added to new Smithsonian Museum collection
3. Hear doom metal legends Sleep’s first new track in 20 years, ‘The Clarity’
4. Alabama hip-hop, Chicago acid rap, and Waka Flocka: the week’s best mixtapes
5. Plastikman shares free Sonar live mix of ‘EXhale’
6. Ekoplekz announces his second album of 2014, Four Track Mind
7. Record shopping in Montréal
8. Stream the fifth and final of FACT’s best of the 1970s list mixes
9. Lady Gaga’s former assistant to publish tell-all book
10. “We always defied expectation”: Chris & Cosey on Throbbing Gristle’s 20 Jazz Funk Greats, our #1 album of the 1970s
11. Watch a teenage Kanye West rapping at NYC’s Fat Beats store in 1996
12. Jessie Ware details second album Tough Love

Stream Lawrence English’s crushing new album Wilderness of Mirrors Posted: 18 Jul 2014 02:06 PM PDT Aussie droner Lawrence English‘s towering new tome will finally be dropping onto shelves next week, and you can hear it in full first right here. Despite what people might try and tell you, this kind of music isn’t easy to produce. The nuance that makes a drone album bad or incredibly good is complicated and confusing, but Lawrence English has absolutely nailed it with Wilderness of Mirrors, his latest full length. It’s probably because he’s been knee-deep in the scene for such a long time now – both as an artist and as the boss of the esteemed Room40 imprint, which itself is responsible for releases from Ben Frost, Grouper, John Chantler and more. Certainly, the album has a pacing that can only be attained with experience, and English allows his crushing tidal waves of noise and harmonic sound to rise and fall with either grace or knee-trembling power, depending on the mood. Wilderness of Mirrors is set to drop on July 21, but before then you can now stream the album below.

DJBooth.net: [Download] Natural ft. Dutch ReBelle - City Kids

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1. [Download] Natural ft. Dutch ReBelle - City Kids
2. [Download] 1982 (Statik Selektah & Termanology) ft. Ea$y Money - Sucker Free
3. [Listen] Atmosphere - Kanye West
4. [Album Review] Freeway x Girl Talk - Broken Ankles EP
5. [Listen] Ed Sheeran - SING
6. [Listen] Flo Rida ft. StayC Reign - Freaking Out
7. [Listen] The Roots ft. Greg Porn - When The People Cheer
8. [Listen] Pitbull ft. Jennifer Lopez & Claudia Leitte - We Are One (Ole Ola)
9. [Listen] Dizzy Wright - Everywhere I Go
10. [Listen] Future ft. Kanye West - I Won

[Download] Natural ft. Dutch ReBelle - City Kids Posted: 08 Apr 2014 01:30 PM PDT Sure, City Kids may be a few months old, as it was included on Natural‘s free, DJBooth-hosted Ways to Go LP, which dropped in November. But when a record is this dope, it could be decades old and still sound brand new. Fresh off dropping Election Day for our DJBooth Freestyle Series, Natural returns with …   Click the link for the stream and download.

Musique Non Stop - SPIN Mix

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1. Nicki Minaj Takes 'Chi-Raq' to Queens on Dazzling Heater
2. Young Galaxy Stretch Sam Roberts Band's 'Shapeshifters' Into a Smooth Banger
3. Hear tUnE-yArDs' Dreamy R&B Jam 'Wait for a Minute'
4. The Roots Herald New LP With 'When the People Cheer'
5. Scuba Takes Audion's 'Sky' to the Basement
6. Hear Future and Kanye West's Trophy Collaboration 'I Won'
7. SZA and Kendrick Lamar Are at Home in 'Babylon'

Nicki Minaj Takes 'Chi-Raq' to Queens on Dazzling Heater Posted: 08 Apr 2014 09:12 AM PDT Nicki Minaj has done everyone a huge solid by not coming back to American Idol. Instead of sitting through a Daughtry performance on a

Bonafide Magazine @ MSN: Listen: Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes’ mixtape – The Abstract And The Dragon

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Listen: Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes’ mixtape – The Abstract And The Dragon Posted: 13 Dec 2013 02:34 AM PST Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes’ mixtape The Abstract & The Dragon has finally seen the light of day. According to Rhymes, the tape is ‘basically an embodiment of our whole relationship lifeline — from the very first record we've ever recorded together to the very last records we've been recording in this last week and a half of exclusive new joints’. Featuring tracks old and new as well as some remixes, The Abstract & The Dragon features star studded guest spots from the likes of Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Raekwon, Talib Kweli, Redman and Missy Elliott among others. Stream it below and download it here.

Potholes In My Blog

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1. AbJo Flips Lauryn Hill, James Blake & More On ‘The Art of Refixing: The Reprise’; Download It Now
2. Video: Get Familiar With Seattle’s The Flavr Blue
3. Wally Left – “No Tomorrow” P. Ackryte
4. Watch Danny Brown Discuss Being An Underground King, Meeting Eminem and Visiting South Africa
5. Hot Sugar – “Mama, I’m A Man” F. Antwon, Lakutis & Big Baby Gandhi [Video]
6. Ango – “Smile XXL”
7. Hear Ta-ku’s New ‘Drive Slow, Homie Pt. II’ Mix
8. Watch “Kanye West” Make His Return to ‘South Park’ [UPDATED]
9. Watch Mac Miller Perform A Bunch of Tracks On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
10. Download Kitty Cash’s ‘Love The Free’ Mixtape Featuring Vic Mensa, Phony Ppl, Kelela and More

AbJo Flips Lauryn Hill, James Blake & More On ‘The Art of Refixing: The Reprise’; Download It Now Posted: 12 Dec 2013 11:48 AM PST As its title makes clear, The Art of Refixing: The Reprise is a sequel project for San Diego producer AbJo. The Potholes Music affiliate dropped the first installment in his Refixing series just this past July, but he’s already put together enough material for the follow-up. He’s provided his remixes of joints by James Blake, Q-Tip, Sango, and Ta-ku along with Lauryn Hill‘s hook on “If I Ruled The World”. You’ll also hear some original cuts on here, making this the very definition of a must-listen. Oh, and if you are looking for more original AbJo joints, be sure to listen to his Potholes Music EP, The Broken Synth Orchestra. You can stream and/or cop the project below. Purchase/Download: AbJo - The Art of Refixing: The Reprise [Bandcamp]