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).
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.
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.
SBTRKT has been teasing listeners with tracks from his upcoming studio album Wonder Where We Land. First came the Sampha featured “Temporary View,” followed by “New Dorp, New York” which features Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig. Now the UK producer has dropped “Higher,” which notably features the rising talent Raury.