The best and brightest of this past week in music, as well as a throwback track! Hopefully you can bump these tracks on your way to work to brighten up your Monday mornings. This week we have new music from Kanye West, Chance the Rapper, G-Eazy, A$AP Rocky and more! Continue reading Songs of the Week featuring Kanye West, G-Eazy, A$AP Rocky and More!→
Stream the new project from SAVEMONEY‘s Leather Corduroys (the side-project of Joey Purp and Kami de Chukwu), titled Season. The 14-track Season contains features from Chance the Rapper and Knox Fortune, and has production from Odd Future’s The Internet (among others).
Check out the collaborative project by Wale and A-Trak, titled Festivus (staying consistent with Wale’s Seinfeld theme). The project features 11 tracks and recruits the likes of Chance The Rapper, Ab-Soul, A$AP Ferg, Pusha T and more. Festivus will certainly get fans excited for Wale’s upcoming, The Album About Nothing (coming March 31).
In 2014, we at The Early Registration have been able to cover and send our photographers to a lot of great shows throughout the country. Check out our list below (in no particular order) to see some of our favorite shows and best shots of the year.
Listen to Chief Keef’s new song ‘Nobody’ featuring Kanye West. The ’12 Million’ produced track features auto-tuned background vocals from Kanye and may have a familiar sounding beat for many hip-hop fans. The track, which samples Willie Hutch’s ‘Brother’s Gonna Work It Out’, sounds very similar to another recent Chicago rap track which samples the Hutch song in almost the same way, Chance The Rapper’s ‘Lost’. Compare the two tracks below.
Check out Chicago’s own, rapper Lucki Eck$, 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.
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.
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!