Following the release of his latest album Vibes, rapper Theophilus London has announced the dates and locations for his upcoming North American tour. Check out the dates below and get your tickets before the tour launches in Atlanta on February 13th.
Listen to Chief Keef’s new song ‘Nobody’ featuring Kanye West. The ’12 Million’ produced track features auto-tuned background vocals from Kanye and may have a familiar sounding beat for many hip-hop fans. The track, which samples Willie Hutch’s ‘Brother’s Gonna Work It Out’, sounds very similar to another recent Chicago rap track which samples the Hutch song in almost the same way, Chance The Rapper’s ‘Lost’. Compare the two tracks below.
A couple of months ago Power 105.1‘s Charlamagne Tha God reached out to us, upset about our reports on the rumor that he had been bleaching his skin. Although he denied the allegations, that didn’t stop his Power 105.1 co-host Angela Yee from joking about him bleaching his skin. In a recent video, it appears as Charlamagne has had enough of the skin jokes, aggressively cussing at Angela Yee, telling her to “get out of the f*cking car”. Check out the video and Charlagmange’s tweets to The Early Registration below. This time we did reach out for comment, however we received no response.
Atlanta producer Mike Will has had a long road to his new mixtape, Ransom. After dedicating himself to the project, fans have been able to see him change his mind on the project and it’s release daily through interviews and twitter feeds. At one point, there was an Interscope album with “Buy The World” as the lead single boasting features from Lil Wayne and Kendrick Lamar (and singing from Brandy and Future). Now, he has a mixtape to reclaim his thrown as Trap King. After a summer of Mustard and a year of other Atlanta beat wizards (Metro Boomin, Sonny Digital, 808 Mafia), it’s time for Mike to regain his position.
Check out Chicago’s own, rapper Lucki Eck$, and his new collaboration with Chance the Rapper. ‘Stevie Wonder’ is produced by Young Chop (“I Don’t Like”) and Plu2o Nash (one of Chicago’s best up-and-coming producers) and is certainly worth checking out. Find out more about Lucki Eck$ here, and look out for Chance’s upcoming album Surf, coming soon.
Listen to Waka Flocka rap over ‘Fire Squad’, one of the stand out tracks from J. Cole’s recent 2014 Forest Hills Drive Album. The remix is definitely hot (no pun intended), stream the track below.
Check out Chicago drill rapper Lil Durk’s new music video for his track ‘B.O.N.’. The Def Jam and Coke Boys rapper’s new video is directed by Rio Productions and contains references to the GBE vs. Migos rivalry. Peep the video below.
After asking fans to not share links to his new track ‘Cold Stares’ last night, Chance today took to his Twitter today to reveal more details about the track and how it should be shared. According to the Chicago rapper, a mastered version of the track will be available on electronic musician Nosaj Thing‘s (music director for Chance’s first Social Experiment Tour) upcoming album (scheduled for Spring 2015). Chance described ‘Cold Stares’ as a “broadcast song”, which listeners should experience once and for one time only, also explaining that “(Cold Stare’s) verse is a riddle and a setting and a character in itself, but Cold stares as a whole is bigger and the one they ripped wasn’t done.” Check out Chance’s full description of the song below.
Check out the visuals for Jhene Aiko’s Dot Da Genius produced track ‘Wading’, off her new album Souled Out. Peep the video below and downloaded Souled Out now on iTunes.
Hours after temporarily allowing fans to hear his track ‘Cold Stares’, which Chance has since took off the internet and asked fans to not share (which we will not), Chance the Rapper took to his Twitter to share the music of a hip-hop influenced gospel artist who he met just today. Check out the Chicago singer/producer and Chance the Rapper co-sign IsH-iLLa and his track ‘Life After Pain’ below. Sometimes it pays off to give rappers your mixtape!