Potholes In My Blog: Ab-Soul – These Days…

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1. Ab-Soul – These Days…
2. Watch: Outkast’s Andre 3000 As Jimi Hendrix In The Movie Trailer for “Jimi: All Is By My Side”
3. Danny Atoms – “Cry Wolf”
4. Dorian Concept Announces New Album, Shares Lead Single “Draft Culture”
5. Canibus – Fait Accompli
6. Listen to Mndsgn’s Delicious New Single, “Eggs”
7. Listen: Action Bronson, Black Thought & Royce Da 5’9″ Team Up For Statik Selektah’s “The Imperial”
8. Watch BINKBEATS’ Amazing Take On Shigeto’s “Ringleader”
9. Raphael Saadiq – “Gonna Miss U” (Bobby Womack Tribute)
10. Listen To Dillon Cooper’s New Single “T.D.K.”

Ab-Soul – These Days… Posted: 04 Jul 2014 06:05 AM PDT   Ab-Soul – These Days… TDE: 2014 While many see Kendrick Lamar as the heart of Top Dawg Entertainment, fans have grown to liken his labelmate Ab-Soul to the mind. An emcee known to boast about his brain power, his incredibly cerebral album Control System showed the world the captivating nature of his intelligence in 2012; the world is apparently better seen through the third eye than his other two (having had his eyesight impaired by a bout of Stevens-Johnson syndrome at ten years old). Calling These Days… a representation of "vibes of music and life right now and the past couple of years" in conversation with HipHopDX, it seems a fair bit has changed both in the mind and life of TDE's scholarly soul. All listen long, These Days… plays to a duality that will likely catch some fans of Soulo off guard. The incredibly brainy nature of his musical output has been scaled back in places in favor of tracks of a more accessible flavor. Though he has admitted in the past that he isn't one to "wear polo drawers and put two chains on" to conform with some of rap's most recognizable figures, he's certainly well aware of his use of commercially viable sounds on the record. "Swear to god it's the only time I use this flow," he says in the soul-inspired outro section of "Just Have Fun" before launching into a delivery reminiscent of the Migos triplets. "Hunnid Stax" sees him team up with ScHoolboy Q for a competition in who can amass the most synonyms for money into their verse, with Mac Miller lazily rhyming, "I'm trying to spend a hundred stacks every day of my life" on the hook. For Ab-Soul, the man who once rapped, “If you do it for the jewels or the new tennis shoes….Then you do it to pollute], it’s a notable change over the past few years. The DJ Mustard-inspired "Twact" takes a page straight from the southern rap playbook:

FACT Magazine That photo you’re all going wild about probably isn’t Bondax after all @ Musique Non Stop

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1. That photo you’re all going wild about probably isn’t Bondax after all
2. Stream Disclosure and Friend Within’s new single, ‘The Mechanism’
3. Watch Outkast’s full Coachella performance
4. The Week’s Best Vinyl Releases
5. The FACT Playlist: our 10 picks of the week
6. Party at the end of the world: an interview with Fat White Family

That photo you’re all going wild about probably isn’t Bondax after all Posted: 12 Apr 2014 08:14 AM PDT If you were online yesterday, then you probably saw that alleged photo of UK duo Bondax playing back-to-back on a fan. It was doing the rounds pretty heavily, prompting an official statement from the duo claiming that it was “absolutely under no circumstance [them] in this picture”. Few people believed their claim – the likeness was uncanny, and one of the photographed pair even appears to own the same trainers and watch as his Bondax equivalent has worn in press shots – but a second photo of the sweaty scene, re-posted by Bondax on Twitter (NSFW, obviously) shows a different angle which appears to prove that it’s not them. Furthermore, the second image has been circulating the internet for almost a year (again, obviously, NSFW).

Potholes In My Blog: D.W – Klipse [EP]

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1. D.W – Klipse [EP]
2. OutKast To Headline Governor’s Ball
3. Hudson Mohawke Beat Originally For Drake Appears In Chanel Runway Show
4. Chance The Rapper Is Moving In With James Blake
5. Freddie Gibbs – “One Eighty Seven” F. Problem [Video]
6. Pharrell Is The MVP of 2013
7. IAMNOBODI – “Flowers + Apricots & Prunes”
8. Coachella Announces 2014 Lineup, Headlined By Outkast
9. Watch Nardwuar Interview Diplo
10. Sean Price & M-Phazes – Land of the Crooks

D.W – Klipse [EP] Posted: 09 Jan 2014 09:27 PM PST News recently broke out about brothers Pusha T and No Malice forming together once again as the group The Clipse to release a Neptunes-produced album this year around the time the London-based producer D.W planned to drop his EP Klipse. Coincidence aside, Dean really came through a jazz influence with his latest — a neat collection of  five The Clipse-inspired reworks of  popular tunes from the VA duo that we’ve known for a few years now. You can stream D.W’s Klipse EP and watch a video for the song “(whamp whamp)” below. Download: D.W - Klipse EP [Bandcamp]