You didn’t like U2’s new free album showing up on your iPhone? Neither did Tyler the Creator. In a hilarious multiple tweet rant, Tyler (@fucktyler) almost singe-handedly made ‘F*ck Bono’ trending on Twitter while venting over the album’s promotion on through Apple.
Big Sean has been hinting all week that we should expect new ‘GOOD’ music. Today Sean dropped 4 new tracks, which feature production by Kanye West, Key Wane, Nate Fox, and MikeWillMadeIt. The songs, titled ‘I Don’t F*ck With You’, ‘4th Quarter’, ‘Jit/Juke’, and ‘Paradise’ were posted on the G.O.O.D. music artist’s Soundcloud.
Chance the Rapper took to his Instragram today to preview some of his new and never before heard music. However, there no details yet on the when we can expect to hear more but the snippets were tracks in collaboration with The Social Experiment (a producer group comprised of Nico Segal, Nate Fox, and Peter CottonTale). With fans hungry for an opportunity to finally buy a physical copy of a Chance the Rapper project (as he as only released free mixtapes), these snippet will have to tide us all over meanwhile.
The city of Chicago took a step towards public health and wellness Wednesday by banning smoking in public parks, a city where restaurants and bars have been smoke free for several years. Although this is the next step to making the citizens of Chicago curb their unhealthy smoking habits, will there be a negative health effect for music festival goers?
In support of her #1 album My Everything, Ariana Grande has announced her upcoming tour produced and promoted exclusively by LiveNation, titled The Honeymoon Tour. Grande will hit stops in New York, Chicago, California, Canada and many other cities near you (check out the jump for dates and ticket info).
This past summer Dave Chappelle recounted a story about a young Kanye West in which Chappelle overheard Kanye telling someone over the phone about how he was with Chappelle watching unseen clips of The Chappelle Show. Chappelle, in his interview with The Tonight Show, said that during the phone conversation, that after asked about how a young Kanye was in such a setting, West replied “Cause my life is dope, and I do dope shit.” Well in honor of that quote, we have photoshopped 5 images of Kanye doing ‘dope shit’ that he hasn’t done yet.
In promotion of his upcoming mixtape STN MTN / KAUAI, Childish Gambino sat down with Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club. During the interview Gambino spoke about his friendship with Jaden Smith, ‘Twitter activism’, white privilege and a number of topics.
British singer Sam Smith recruits A$AP Rocky to jump on his track ‘I’m Not The Only One’. The two make for an interesting contrast which works well on this song. Rocky has been on quite the hiatus as of late, so it is good to hear some new music.