Just minutes ago, Lupe Fiasco posted on his Facebook page announcing that his next and highly anticipated album, Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1, is to drop on September 25th. I’m pretty excited for this to drop and i bet most of you guys are too, his first single had a great sound, not poppy like Lasers was, so i assume it will be another classic album. We’ll have to wait and see though! Until then listen to a favorite of mine by Lupe below;
Once again, the UK dudes Disclosure make another chill ass track. This one starts out with some trippy pitchy sample pads, a fucking dope bassline and then the girl singing on this is just amazingly soothing. Her name is Ria Ritchie. I’ve never heard of her but she just sounds sexy as hell. She really takes this track to another level. Anyway, these producers are mad young and are featured on BBC Radio all the time. That’s a pretty big deal. Oh yeah, I just checked that RIa chick out on Facebook and I was right. She is sexy as hell.
The other day Avicii gave his fans a free song as a gift for reaching 2 million fans on Facebook, my guess is that this song will blow the fuck up like “Levels” did. Mainly because it is ridiculously simple, catchy, and talks about getting fucked up. The three things you need to create a total summer jam. Avicii is a third of the way through his Le7els World Arena tour, so listen to “Two Million” below now, and while your at it check out the dates as well- maybe he will be performing close to you soon enough!
“Call It What You Want To Call it I’m A Fucking Alcoholic…”
Download Avicii’s “Two Million” here
June 6 – Atlanta, GA @ The Arena At Gwinnett Center
June 7 – Tampa, FL @ Tampa Bay Times Forum
June 8 – Miami, FL @ AmericanAirlines Arena
June 14 – Pittsburgh, PA @ CONSOL Energy Center
June 15 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden
June 20 – Buffalo, NY @ First Niagara Center
June 21 – Quebec City, QB @ Colisee Pepsi
June 22 – Montreal, QB @ Bell Centre
June 26 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
June 28 – San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
July 3 – Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome
July 4 – Saskatoon @ Credit Union Centre
I personally don’t even really like The Weekend that much, they are kinda soft and slow for my taste. But this cover is pretty tight. Ellie Goulding has a mad good voice, and Xaphoon Jones is a beast at producing so when the two collaborated on a cover of “High For This” recently they cooked up a real banger. Her spacey echoing vocals fit perfectly with the hip hop felt instrumental, driven by fast hitting hi-hats, reverberated snaps, and some sick synths and pads. This song is seriously hella catchy, and i sort of feel girly bumping it constantly but thats what they made headphones for, right? Check out Mrs.Skrillex’s cover of The Weekend‘s “High For This” below;
French people make some damn good music. I first heard of M83 when that song “Midnight City” came out. Apparently they’re named after that galaxy pictured above. M83′s style is definitely chill, far out and spacey. Anyway they just came out with this new video for a song called “Reunion”. I’m mad baked right now so I didn’t catch the plot at all but what I did get was that there are some kids who go super saiyan on some fools. The kids in this video should definitely battle with that kid in that one Skrillex video. Peep the video below.
If you’re in Philadelphia this weekend, be sure to stop by this epic, annual two day festival hosted by none other then The Roots. The line up is seriously ill, don’t believe me? Check it out below:
SATURDAY JUNE 2: The Roots, De LA Soul (backed by The Roots), James Murphy (DJ Set), Tune-Yards, Flosstradamus, St. Vincent, Wale, The Hood Internet, Star Slinger, OCD: Moosh & Twist, Danny Brown, Kids These Days, Mr. MFN eXquire, and Grand Prize Winners From Last Year.
SUNDAY JUNE 3: The Roots, Kid Cudi, Major Lazer, Rakim (PAID IN FULL with The Roots), Diplo, Chill Moody, Quadron, Jessi Teich, Gianni Lee, Selah Sue, Reda
Also; DJ Low Budget, who came up as half of Philly’s Hollertronix crew with Diplo, spun this years 2012 Official Roots Picnic 2012 Mixtape. The mix features music from many of the artists on the line up, so be sure to listen to below now, and if you have the time make it out to The Roots Picnic this weekend, you won’t want to miss this!
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Smoke teams up with Odd Future member Domo Genesis and Black Hippy member Schoolboy Q for a cut off of his debut album, “Rugby Thompson”. This is definitely some smoking music; each verse is laid down perfectly over the eclectic, almost surreal sound provided by Harry Fraud. Along with Curren$y, these guys seem to be paving their own lane in rap right now; separating themselves from the generic “weed rapper” label and creating some pretty unique music in the process. On a side note, I think A$AP’s style would have made this song perfect, but we can’t win them all. Look out for Rugby Thomson, which drops on June 19th.
Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors, Big Boi‘s newest album, is 80% done and with features like Kid Cudi, Big K.R.I.T., and UGK on the record my hopes are high. The first single “She Said OK” has an old school Outkast feel to it with the funky/ soulful instrumental and extremely catchy, well put together chorus. The lyrics may be a little raunchy but the way it is sung fits perfectly with the beat to make the song an overall summer banger. Listen to / download Big Boi & Theophilus London’s “She Said OK” Feat. Tre Luce below, and be on the look out for Daddy Fat Stax new album Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors to drop in the next year!
A little late but better late then never, eh? Romain Gavras gives the visual treatment for one of the years most listened to songs. Not much else needs to be said, when your bosses like Yeezy or Hova your videos are bound to be raw. And per usual, this video exceeds in dopeness. Check out the music video for Jay-Z, Kanye West and Frank Ocean’s “No Church In The Wild” below, it is truly epic.
A new track has just been released by CT based rapper and producer who goes by the name Tedy Brew$ki. Tedy has been on his music grind for a while now, dropping beat tapes and other various mixtapes and has some new projects in the works for summer ’12. His newest track, “Workaholics” possesses straight talent between the chillaxed beat and laidback lyrics. Check out the track below and make sure to peep his soundcloud and tumblr pages to get the full Tedy experience.
