A week after Jennifer Hudson was added to the initial lineup of Common’s AAHH! Fest, another Chicago native has been added, rapper Twista. You may know him from ‘Slow Jamz’ or being one of the fastest rappers to every rap, but this Chicago legend will certainly add to the already great lineup.
Today during his Australian tour, Kanye West stopped the music to again talk about the press and address the wheelchair incident, where such sources as Fox Newsinaccurately reported that Kanye “tried to shame a man in a wheelchair to stand.” Well folks, there are a lot of good members of the press out there, but Kanye was pretty spot on today in Australia.
A few days ago we reported about Tyler the Creator’s hilarious Bono rant along with his upcoming tour. Today we checked out the new Odd Future radio station, which is not only commercial free, but pretty awesome as well.
You didn’t like U2’s new free album showing up on your iPhone? Neither did Tyler the Creator. In a hilarious multiple tweet rant, Tyler (@fucktyler) almost singe-handedly made ‘F*ck Bono’ trending on Twitter while venting over the album’s promotion on through Apple.
Canadian electro-pop singer/songwriter/producer Claire Boucher, known to most as Grimes, has officially scrapped her newest album. In an interview with The New York Times, Grimes discussed her follow-up album to 2012’s Visions and why both the project and her creative process had to be abandoned. She also discussed her boycott of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
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.