Rumored to be the first single from Lil Wayne’s forthcoming Free Weezy Album, Weezy has released his new track, ‘Glory’. And if you couldn’t figure it out yourself, it is definitely different from John Legend and Common’s track of the same name! This is one of the biggest TIDAL (Jay-Z’s new streaming service) exclusives yet, so definitely check out the High Fidelity sound quality at Tidal.com.
Tonight, rapper Big K.R.I.T. paid a visit to young Chicago artists as part of Donda House‘s “Behind The Mic” series. With a surprise visit from Chicago’s own, Lupe Fiasco, K.R.I.T. gave some great advice to the up and coming performers. K.R.I.T. will also stick around the Windy City tomorrow, as he headlines Donda House’s spring graduation. Donda’s House is a non-profit organization that honors the educational legacy of Kanye West’s late mother, Dr. Donda West. The organization holds a number of great programs and opportunities for Chicago’s youth, providing a safe and creative environment for Chicago’s aspiring artists.
Donda House’s “Behind the Mic” series is one of our favorite community programs by the non-profit, which has invited Big Sean, No-ID and more to give unique and valuable advice to the community’s brightest. Along with their community showcase at the Common Ground Foundation’s “AAHH! Fest”, Chicago artists have the opportunity to continue the city’s legacy of being one of the world’s best music hubs.
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Don’t worry, Odd Future didn’t actually break up (well not really), and here is some new OFWGKTA for you, this time from Hodgy Beats. The new autotuned record, titled ‘ISWEARHB’ has an epic team of producers, with production from Young Chop, Metro Boomin and Sonny Digital. Check it out for yourself, you don’t need the producer tags and drops to tell that three of music’s hottest producers played a role in this beat.
One of our favorite things about Lollapalooza is its aftershows. The aftershows not only allow fans who weren’t able to score wristbands to the actual festival to also see some great sets, but it showcases the beautiful intimate local venues (Aragon, The Mid, The Riviera and more) of our nation’s Second City, Chicago. This year’s Lollapalooza Aftershows are just as great as ever, with a number of performances that we recommend catching. Performing official Lollapalooza Aftershows this year are Alesso, Tove Lo, Gary Clark Jr., The War on Drugs, Glass Animals, alt-J, SZA, Mick Jenkins, Marina and the Diamonds, Logic and many more!
Singer Corbin (formerly Spooky Black) and fellow thestand4rd member Bobby Raps have combined for a new EP, titled Couch Potato. The new surprise project was produced entirely by Bobby Raps, and in promotion of the project the two have also dropped a music video for its track ‘Welcome to the Hell Zone’ (which you can watch below). If you want to hear some of the tracks live, Wisconsin and Minnesota fans can check out Corbin and fellow thestand4rd member Allan Kingdom this summer at the Eaux Claires Music Festival (July 17-18).
Listen to Couch Potato below and download the project here.
From the official motion picture soundtrack for “Southpaw” (in theaters July 24), Eminem’s new track ‘Phenomenal’ is here. You never want to sleep on Em’s soundtrack records, this is no exception!
Despite Drake’s jab at Chance The Rapper in his 2014 track ‘Draft Day’, the two were friendly last night as they hung out backstage at the United Center in Chicago. Minutes ago, Chance’s brother (Taylor Bennett) posted a photo with Drake, which he tagged his big bro Chance for the camera credits.
“If I’d leave this shit to chance, I’da picked a name like Chance the Rapper,” rapped Drake in ‘Draft Day’. To be fair though, Drake stressed in the next bars that there was no offense as he “doesn’t know that n*gga.” Well… he knows him now, and let’s just hope that this meeting leads to an eventual collaboration. A Chance verse on Views From The 6 perhaps?
Check out Taylor’s photo with Drizzy below (took by Chance himself).
Hudson Mohawke’s forthcoming album, Lantern, officially releases in a couple weeks (June 16) and we have one of its top tracks, which features the beautiful and talented Jhene Aiko. The collaboration, titled ‘Resistance’, is just one of many great collabs on the LP, which also features appearances from Miguel, Irfane, Antony, and more!
Stream ‘Resistance’ below and pre-order Lantern now on iTunes.
Lion Babe (Jillian Hervey and Lucas Goodman) has been hitting the ground running ever since the release of their ‘Jump Hi’ with Childish Gambino. Next up though is the New York duo’s music video for their self-titled EP’s track, ‘Don’t Break My Heart’. Jillian dances seductively in this Lucas McGowan-directed video, so you definitely will want to check it out!
Watch the official video for ‘Don’t Break My Heart’ below.
Chance The Rapper shared the release of his new album Surf (with The Social Experiment) last night, but that didn’t stop him from giving back to his community less than a day later. Today Chance paid a visit to students and faculty at Chicago’s John Fiske School and Scammon Elementary School to present awards for the “Get Schooled, Get Connected” challenge. The challenge, designed to help Chicago Public School (CPS) students stay motivated to finish the school year strong, ended last Friday and Chance did his part to help reward the students’ hard work.
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