Nigerian artist Wizkid’s infamous song “Ojuelegba” was discovered by many people after playing on OVO Sound’s Beats 1 radio station last Saturday. The surprise remix with Drake and Skepta premiered on OVO Sound Radio without an announcement beforehand. Today, Skepta released the official audio on his SoundCloud. Listen to the summer jam below.
New York duo, Lion Babe, has been hitting the ground running. As one of our favorite artists to watch this year, ever since their ‘Jump Hi’ single with Childish Gambino, this time singer/songwriter Jillian Hervey and producer Lucas Goodman have their brand new single, ‘Impossible’. The new song premiered on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show earlier this week, and you can pre-order the track now on iTunes, as we all patiently await their debut LP.
During a club performance for rapper Jim Jones’ birthday, Lil Wayne was a target for his former best friend, label head and mentor. While Weezy performed his version of ‘Coco’, where he takes shots at his estranged relationship with Cash Money a Records and Birdman (Baby), Birdman (who was also in attendance for Jones’ birthday) threw bottles of alcohol and water on stage at Lip Wayne. Before a fight eventually broke out, Club Liv officials shut the place down.
Check out videos (with some commentary of what happened) and tweets from some people that were there and saw it all go down first hand. Shout out to KTT for the tip.
Lol lil Wayne was performing his CoCo freestyle and birdMan threw a cup of liquor on him 😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/131VZVtthi
Tonight marked a successful end to Mamby on the Beach 2015, where fans of the Oakwood Beach festival saw performances from Passion Pit, Phantogram, Art Department, Claptone, Cut Copy, Holt, Cherub, Tanlines and more. Following Saturday’s sets from Empire of the Sun, James Murphy, My Gold Mask, Cashmere Cat, Zhu, George Fitzgerald, Felix Da Housecat, Robert Delong and more (check out our Day 1 photos here), it is hard to decide which day of the festival delivered more than the other! If you missed out this year, at least now you know not to make the same mistake in 2016.
Experience Mamby on the Beach 2015 Day 2 below, through photos from Do312and through all the fans that were there first hand.
Today kicked off the first day of Mamby on the Beach 2015, where fans of the Oakwood Beach festival saw performances from Empire of the Sun, James Murphy, My Gold Mask, Cashmere Cat, Zhu, George Fitzgerald, Felix Da Housecat, Robert Delong and many more!
If you were there and didn’t wear yourself all out on the first day, or if you don’t mind getting to the party late, Mamby will be back tomorrow with sets from Passion Pit, Phantogram, Art Department, Claptone, Cut Copy, Holt, Cherub, Tanlines and more. Oh and there are after parties too!
Experience Mamby on the Beach 2015 below, through photos from Do312and through all the fans that were there first hand.
Kickstarter has inspired a lot of strange ideas, but this one might be both the coolest and the strangest. “The Brohaus Art Collective” has launched a Kickstarter campaign to try to deliver their Kanye West lifesized body pillow (you read that correctly) to the man himself. The pillow stands at Kanye-height and is designed with a photo of Kanye. For a pledge of $200 or more, supporters in the Bay Area can spend a night with the original body pillow and for a pledge of $1,500 or more you can get a replica Kanye body pillow for your very own.
“We. Love. Kanye… more than life itself. So we made a pillow in his likeness, to lose ourselves in Yeezy’s fluffy embrace day and night. We want to actually hand-deliver the pillow to Kanye himself, but for reasons outside our control, we don’t have his address. With your help, we’re hoping to get enough attention to deliver it to him personally and send our backers updates along the way.”
Support the Kickstarter campaign here and check out photos of the pillow below.
Action Bronson paid homage and dissed the Wu Tang’s legendary Ghostface Killah at the same damn time. During his appearance on ESPN’s SportsNation, Action was asked if it has helped or hurt his career sounding like Ghostface Killah in his raps (a comparison he probably hears too much). Originally Action said the comparison is indifferent to his career, saying “I’m just glad it’s one of the greats.” However, Bronson continued saying “He’s not rapping like this no more.” Although Action said it wasn’t a shot at the Ghost and that he was just being honest, when the ESPN panel suggested that Ghostface should put out a remix, Action threw a little shade by saying “he needs something.” To be fair, Action was just being honest on this one.
Watch Action’s appearance on ESPN’s SportsNation below.
Chance The Rapper is thanking Yeezus today, as last night Kanye West, who Chance publicly been a huge fan of ever since his come up, gave a big shout-out to Chance during his performance at Ottawa’s Bluesfest. Although to two have been hanging out a good amount lately (Chance even brought out Kanye and Vic Mensa for one of his Open Mike events), this is the first time Kanye publicly gave a shout-out to the young Chicago rapper. In an Instagram video from Bob Zegler, a member of Chance’s team, Chance is ecstatic in his priceless reaction to Ye’s kind words, calling Chance one of “the most talented young new artists.” “Let’s go! That’s all I needed!”, you can hear Chance saying from the soundboard, as he realizes the Kanye-stimulus-package is incoming.
In one week, Future is releasing the sequel to his critically acclaimed 2011 mixtape, Dirty Sprite. And to promote his forthcoming Dirty Sprite 2 (DS2) album, which is set to feature Drake, Future has released the official music video for one of the album’s 18-tracks, ‘Blow a Bag’. You can get Dirty Sprite 2 on July 17th on iTunes (pre-order now).
You may anticipate a lot of different people to bring out The Weeknd during their concerts, but Taylor Swift may not be the first you’d expect. Tonight, during the first of her two East Rutherford, New Jersey stops on her “1989 World Tour”, Taylor brought out the ‘I Can’t Feel My Face’ singer out for a guest performance. The two shared the stage while The Weeknd, whose new album The Beauty Behind The Madness is coming in less than a couple months (August 28), performed his new hit single. Don’t miss Taylor when she comes to your city, you never know who she may bring out.
Check out photos and a clip of The Weeknd’s ‘I Can’t Feel My Face’ performance below.