Last night Logic and Michael Christmas made a stop in Milwaukee for the Under Pressure World Tour. Performing for a sold out crowd at The Rave, Michael Christmas got the crowd hype (returning to Milwaukee for his first time since 2013). Following a half-hour set by DJ Rhetorik, Logic came on to close the night with a number of songs from his Under Pressure album, as well as a collection of his mixtape tracks for his day-one fans. Check out our photos below, as The Early Registration was there to catch some of the best moments from last night.
The best and brightest of this past week in music, as well as a throwback track! Hopefully you can bump these tracks on your way to work to brighten up your Monday mornings. This week we have new music from Big Sean, Travis Scott, Meek Mill and more! Continue reading Songs of the Week ft. Big Sean, Travis Scott, Meek Mill and More!→
Looks like drama is building up between rappers 50 Cent and A$AP Rocky. It all started as A$AP Rocky sent a direct message to 50 Cent’s girl “Tatted Up Holly” over Instagram, where Rocky messaged “HEY LUV, I REALLY LIKE UR STYLE AND WOULD LUV TO BUILD IF UR FREE.”Then after Holly sent the message 50’s way, the rapper put Rocky on blast on his Instagramby posting a screenshot of the DM and the caption “Boy of boy, last time I seen this punk he had a dress on. You cant afford holly I gave her habits, get your weight up first boy. Bentley and better over here n*gga. can you buy that? f*ck you think. I’, Kanye and you Wiz lol.” Nice jab at Wiz too, we must say.
Soon after Rocky was quick to respond on his Twitter, telling 50 that he didn’t know “she was (50’s)” and to “quit acting like a jealous sugar daddy.” Get your popcorn ready and check to see if the tension builds up. Check out the messages below.
You would think since Lil B and Lana Del Rey are so different, that the two could never be connected. Wrong. Here at The Early Registration we like to pride ourselves on our music knowledge, to stay polished on our musical expertise our new feature is a little game of musical “6 Degrees”. For those who are unfamiliar, six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone in the world is connected by six or fewer steps, so we are now taking the liberty of connecting musicians by songs and features, who you would never think could be connected. Check out first 6˚ piece below!
Big day for Chance the Rapper as his new feature with GQ was released, and to continue the momentum Chance is The Fader‘s new cover artist. The piece focuses on Chance’s Social Experiment group, which includes Chance himself, Donnie Trumpet, Peter Cottontale, and Nate Fox. The piece gives more details on the collective as well as the group’s upcoming album Surf, which The FADER explains how the project is often mislabeled as a Chance the Rapper album (while he is just one member of the group). Surf, which centers around the group’s Donnie Trumpet, is expected to release soon and is one of our Most Anticipated Albums of 2015.
Check out The FADER‘s cover shoot below, check out the full feature, and stream The Social Experiment’s Surf track ‘Sunday Candy’ below.
In his recent feature with GQ, Chicago’s Chance the Rapper spilled some awesome details about his debut LP. When speaking about Chance’s debut LP’s guest features, GQ’s Byard Duncan writes “His subsequent guest appearances—nasally breathless, startlingly precocious—gained the attention of artists like Frank Ocean, J. Cole, and André 3000, all of whom will appear on his yet to be named debut LP.” If we weren’t already, this definitely has us hype for Chance’s debut album, especially since his last mixtape Acid Rap was critically acclaimed and an excellent follow-up to his 10 Day project.
Watch Meek Mill’s new video for his Big Sean and A$AP Ferg collaboration titled ‘B-Boy’. This song and video were both recorded last year, but today we finally have the track and video (which was randomly uploaded and virtually unseen on Vimeo). Also be sure to watch out for Big Sean’s upcoming album Dark Sky Paradise, available next month! Stream the unreleased track and video below.
On Thursdays we review albums that are considered “classic”. This week we will review the classic Wu-Tang Clan LP, GZA’s Liquid Swords. Classic is a word that holds heavy weight within hip-hop music conversations. Today, it is often used as a way to describe current songs, albums and artists that will one day become a classic, or “future-classic” if you will. Yet, many fans of hip-hop will unwaveringly stand by the statement that the 90’s was the golden era for the art form, full of timeless classics. The 90’s saw the gradual movement of hip-hop into the mainstream and showed that there was a market for hip-hop outside of strictly urban communities. One of these classic groups was the infamous, Wu-Tang Clan. A group comprised of a diverse handful of New Yorkers such as: Founder RZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard and GZA or The Genius.
Big news day for Kanye West. After appearing on The Ellen Show and releasing his new music video for his Paul McCartney collaboration ‘Only One’, news has surfaced that Kanye’s upcoming line with adidas is coming very very soon. According to Daniel Lindstrom, fashion director of Swedish men’s fashion magazine “Café”, the line will be released in New York in just two weeks. Lindstrom photographed Jerry Lorenzo (founder of “Fear the God”) on Instagram, where he revealed the news. Let’s hope this is true! Check out the photo below, as well as the caption’s English translation.
Justin Bieber went on “Fahlo” last night to apologize for his arrogant behavior in the past year and a half, explaining, “I’m not who I was pretending to be.” In the dark (in lighting and in content) video, Bieber tells the world in a sincere apology, “I’m not that person to say I don’t give a f*ck. I’m not that kid.” We can’t speak for everyone, but we forgive you Bieber. Sure, the kid (man) has done some dumb stuff at times but lets not forget that anything even kind of bad that he does, every media outlet is all over it. What people also forget is all the good that Bieber does. The Biebs holds the record for granting the most wishes (all-time) for the Make a Wish Foundation. I am pretty sure that trumps all the “bad” stuff he has ever done. Check out the full apology below.
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