Raury wasn’t the only rapper from the Stone Mountain Georgia area to deliver a great freestyle this week. When speaking with Hot 97’s Pete Rosenberg, rapper Childish Gambino spit a great freestyle with a ton of quotables, touching on many subjects (including his response to Spin‘s negative review of Because the Internet). Check out the video and some of our favorite lines (and our best Rap Genius-ish annotations) from 4-minute freestyle.
New music today from OVO’s P. Reign, along side label-mate PARTYNEXTDOOR and Maybach Music’s Meek Mill. The track is produced by Boi-1da and Koz, with co-production by Maven Boys.
No one is better at their job than interviewer, Nardwuar the Human Serviette. In his top notch and second-to-none research, the Nard will find and uncover things about an artist that even their mother doesn’t know. Throughout his extensive catalog of interviews we have learned that Chance the Rapper owns a tobacco field in North Carolina, Drake thinks about porn star Cherokee before bed, and much more. Although he certainly puts on for his city, Vancouver, Nardwuar also uncovers local joints from some of your favorite rapper’s hometowns. Here is our list of 8 local joints we need to visit and learned about from Nardwuar interviews.
If you are Kanye West, where do you store your 21 Grammys (the most for anyone that young)? An office, living room, maybe even if its own trophy room? Apparently not, according to his wife, Kim Kardashian-West, Ye stores them anyway in his sock drawer. Take that Grammys.
In our inaugural summer, we got to see, enjoy and cover a lot of great shows during the festival season. Working with Pigeons and Planes, I did their coverage at Lollapalooza and exclusively for The ER we were approved to cover Chicago’s North Coast Music Festival. Check out the best shots we took over the summer, with artists such as Eminem, Outkast, Chance the Rapper, Kid Cudi, Snoop Dogg, Childish Gambino and much more!
Today, Sway invited one of music’s top up and coming artists, who has been hitting the ground running and helping put Atlanta back on the map, rapper/singer Raury. Paying homage to his city, the ‘God’s Whisper’ rapper spit over Outkast’s hit ‘Elavators’.
Today J-Lo teased us with a sneak peak of her new video, the remix of her song ‘Booty’, that features famous booty (and its owner), Iggy Azalea. Despite what we are told, there is no way Jennifer is 45!
This past weekend Talib Kweli set us up with one of Chicago’s emerging young artists, K’Valentine. From Chicago’s South Side, K’Valentine started her rap career from her passion for poetry and has been actively committed to her music since she began rapping. While speaking with K’Valentine backstage at the North Coast Music Festival after her performance with Kweli, she told us about her journey over the past few years, how she first got in touch with Talib, and her upcoming project “Organically Earned” (you heard it here first!), due out later this year and executively produced by Talib Kweli.