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April29th
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April26th
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According to BusinessWeek.com, Jay-Z and Rihanna are set to headline the BBC Radio Hackney Weekend a month before the Olympics begin. The Olympic committee christened the Hackney Weekend the headlining event for the Olympics, despite it not being called so originally.
The weekend festival is gong to feature British comedians Stephen Fry and Tim Minchin as well as the hip-hop giants. The Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt told media outlets, “There will be absolutely something for everyone: from Beethoven to Jay-Z, from Shakespeare to Mike Leigh.”
The organizers of the festival echoed Hunt’s statements, saying, “The London 2012 Festival will be the biggest cultural celebration in our lifetime.”
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April20th
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In Complex’s recently released list of ‘The 100 Best Songs of The Complex Decade,’ they gave the top overall spot to Kanye West’s 2007 single “Can’t Tell Me Nothing.” Serving as the lead single off West’s third studio album Graduation, and nominated for Best Rap Song at the 50th Grammy Awards, the song definitely has a place in all hip hop fan’s hearts. While the song did lose the Grammy to another song by West “Good Life,” Complex makes a case for “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” by stating:
If there were one song to describe Kanye West and his career, this would be it. A statement, a promise, and a motto, “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” set the tone for his defiant third album, Graduation, and gave West his first-ever street anthem.
Attaining the almost impossible, this track resonated with hip-hop purists, college dropouts, and trap stars alike. Recruiting the red-hot DJ Toomp to co-produce the track and inviting Jeezy to add his patented ad-libs was the icing on the cake. This was the exact moment in West’s career when he went from rapper to international superstar.
Below you can check out the Top 10 honorees, while the full list is available by clicking here.
10. Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell – Drop It Like It’s Hot
9. The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
8. Rick Ross featuring Styles P – B.M.F. (Blowin’ Money Fast)
7. Kid CuDi – Day N Nite
6. M.I.A. – Paper Planes
5. R. Kelly – Ignition (Remix)
4. Lil Wayne – A Milli
3. Eminem – Lose Yourself
2. 50 Cent – In Da Club
1. Kanye West – Can’t Tell Me NothingVia: HypeTrak
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April11th
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On Wednesday (April 11), Universal Republic chairman and CEO Barry Weiss announced that the veteran rapper and producer is the latest addition to the G.O.O.D Music family, which operates under Def Jam Recordings.
Q-Tip, who built his legacy as a member of the iconic group A Tribe Called Quest, released his last solo album, the previously shelved Kamaal/ The Abstract, in 2009. The Renaissance came out in 2008. They were released via Motown and Battery Records. Now he’s set to drop his fourth solo LP, tentatively titled The Last Zulu, under the G.O.O.D. Music/ Def Jam umbrella.
“I’m excited to be a part of the great iconic Def Jam label,” Q-Tip said in a statement. “I’m humbled to be a part of such a storied history. To reconnect with Barry Weiss is a great thing. As far as G.O.O.D. Music, I’m excited to solidify my working relationship with Kanye, and I look forward to all the opportunities that lie ahead in our partnership. I will do my best to present the most cutting-edge music I can.”
Q-Tip and Kanye have worked closely together in the past, most recently teaming up for production on West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Watch the Throne, his joint album with Jay-Z.
Weiss, who worked with Q-Tip during his tenure with A Tribe Called Quest on Jive Records in the 1990s, says that he’s “thrilled to be working with Q-Tip once again.”
With Q-Tip now on board, it’s likely that the Queens native will leave his mark on the upcoming G.O.O.D. Music album, which is set to the debut this spring. The album’s first single “Mercy” dropped last week with features from Big Sean, Pusha T and fellow Def Jam signee 2 Chainz. Q-Tip will join a label whose roster includes John Legend, Kid Cudi, Big Sean, Pusha T, Cyhi Da Prynce, Mr. Hudson and Mos Def.
Via: MTV
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April4th
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On her breakup with Chris Brown: “It gave me guns. I was like, well, fuck. They know more about me than I want them to know. It’s embarrassing. But that was my opening. That was my liberation, my moment of bring it. […] Now you know that, so you can say what you want about it. I don’t have anything to hide.”
On the backlash over their reconciliation:
“The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently. It’s very hard for me to accept, but I get it. People end up wasting their time on the blogs or whatever, ranting away, and that’s all right. Because tomorrow I’m still going to be the same person. I’m still going to do what I want to do.”On having kids: “It could be tomorrow. It could be 20 years from now. I just feel like when the time is right, God will send me a little angel. But first, of course, I have to find a man. I mean, there’s a very important missing piece to the puzzle here!”
On finding that man: “I feel like it’s hard for everybody! I don’t think it has anything to do with being famous. There’s just a major drought out there. […] But I just need to find the person who balances me out, because then things like my schedule won’t matter. I’ve done it before, so I know I can do it again.”
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March14th
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On being fascinated with her hair when she was nine:
“I was doing every- and anything to it—putting in wads of gel and brushing it to the next century, and just thinking I was so cute. I always thought I had an eye for that stuff.”On her philosophy that hair allowed you to reinvent yourself:
“I had done something I thought was really, really, really cute, and I showed my neighbor. She was like, ‘Why’d you do that to your hair?’ And I never forget what I said: ‘I’m someone new in this hair.’”On her chat with Jay-Z about world domination:
“I never thought about music as just being the end-all, be-all. I always looked at it like a business, something that I could create an empire out of. So that’s why I’m only about to put out my second album and I’m already thinking about this. I had a little conversation with Jay-Z at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show. He said, ‘Congratulations on all your success.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m coming for you. I’m coming for your spot, Mr. Mogul.’” -
March11th
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Check out this new advert released for Lil Wayne’s new campaign with beverage company Mountain Dew. More details about the partnership will emerge at this years SXSW going down next week in Austin Texas. Weezy will be starring in ads and commercials for the brand throughout the year.
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March8th
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The artists of Shady Records will being doing their best to show and prove at their SXSW showcase that was announced last night. The icing on the cake is 50 Cent will headline the show and perform his seminal debut album, Get Rich Or Die Tryin, from top to bottom. Rap fans are sure to be hyped for that performance considering most believe 50′s first album is the best work of his career.
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March5th
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Young Guru sat down with Complexto delve into two projects that are likely to keep the music industry in check, Jay-Z’s new album and the “Watch The Throne” sequel. As Mr. Carter’s sound engineer of choice he was subject to have a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process and continued evolution of the mogul. Here’s what he had to say on both projects.
On Jay-Z’s upcoming solo album:
“Jay-Z is always working on stuff, it’s a concept that I can’t talk about but I’m marveled at how smart this guy is. When he told me the concept, I was like ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ It was just so simple. It’s not a concept album though. It’s not like American Gangster, it’s not a Beatles concept album. It has a concept and a title, and the title and the concept fit him so well that people are going to be like ‘Wow.’”
“I like certain writers because it takes me 8,000 paragraphs to get my full point across. When somebody can take what I just said and condense it into two sentences and still have the same effectiveness, that’s a good writer. The simplicity of the title and the concept that it conveys is incredible.”
“I can’t tell you the title, it’s so good it’s like, ‘Oh my god why didn’t I think of that? What made you think of that and why haven’t we done that before?’ It’s just staring us in the face all these years, we could’ve been put that out as an album concept.”
On the possibility of Watch The Throne 2:
“It’s definitely a serious consideration. Hasn’t been underway yet but definitely serious consideration. Has been talked about but hasn’t been executed yet. Definitely could happen. A lot of artists just say shit too but if you think about it, this is just my opinion, the way I would like it to go-I would like Kanye to do the G.O.O.D. Music album and Jay-Z to do a solo album then they go out and tour and do all that shit and then next year, or the end of the year, we get Watch the Throne 2. To me, that would be the best thing to happen. I think the G.O.O.D. Music album is necessary for Kanye to establish that brand because they need to establish [themselves].”
Via: Hypetrak
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March1st
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Chris Brown’s fifth studio album Fortune will hit stores on May 8th of this year. Check out the album artwork above.
