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Soulja Boy, Bow Wow team up for joint album
Soulja Boy and Bow Wow haven't always been the best of friends, but the two rappers announced today that they've put the past behind them and have completed work on a joint album, which will drop tomorrow.
The new collaborative album, entitled "Ignorant Shit," will be released on iTunes this Tuesday. Soulja Boy first announced the album on his Instagram yesterday, and Bow Wow described the project on his own IG account, saying "BROKE HATING MAF***AS WON'T UNDERSTAN
Read moreA$AP Mob Drops Visual Saga with “Cozy Tapes” Singles
Social media erupted when A$AP Rocky announced that his much-awaited Cozy Tapes is “finally finished,” via Twitter post. Merely one week following, we experience the first of perhaps several aftershocks, with the most recent taking the form of a visual saga.
Created by A$AP Rocky's AWGE company, the A$AP Mob proudly presents “Money Man/Put That on my Set”, a twelve-minute visual montage depicting dark scenes in a crime-flooded urban underworld, wherein a nefarious cult stalks the young woman Rina and her little brother.
The video is directed by Pretty Flacko alongside “L$D” visual director Dexter Navy and showcases scenes taken in London. It also features two new songs from the Cozy Tapes proje
Read moreLegendary Hip-Hop Duo Eric B. and Rakim Reunite!
In what seems more like a dream than reality, legendary hip-hop duo Eric B. and Rakim have just announced they intend to renunite this year. Earlier this week, the native New Yorkers made the announcement on Twitter in a series of posts playing off the current presidential between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. Their debut album, 1987’s Paid In Full, featured “Eric B. is President” and they are asking American voters to elect him as the country’s new leader.
In one Tweet, they wrote "Vote
Read moreRun DMC's Christmas In Hollis is coming back in time for Christmas
Run DMC's classic hip hop holiday anthem, Christmas In Hollis, is being re-released in a special, limited edition vinyl package, just weeks before Christmas.
Legacy Recordings, the branch of Sony Music dedicated to preserving and re-releasing classic rock, pop, and hip hop, will be re-releasing Run DMC's seminal Christmas tune on a limited edition, 12" vinyl picture disc, which will be decorated with an image of the band on one side and will feature the group's logo on the other. The record will also feature the previously unreleased instrumental version of Christmas in Hollis.
Christmas in Hollis was originally released in 1987. The Rick Rubin produced track was reasonably popular when it was originally released,
Read moreToday in Hip-hop: Throwback Albums
This day in Hip-hop recognizes the anniversaries of three iconic albums, and if you've been keeping track with our retrospect features, you already know that this marks another installment to the perfect throwback playlist, and come on, we know we all need one.
Expansion Team (2001)
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An underground Hip-hop group kicks off this installment with the notable second studio album from West Coast's Dilated Peoples, which represents the combined talents of Evidence, Rakaa, and DJ Babu. Widely claimed as the rap group's most memorable collective, the album lists their hit-single, “Worst Comes to Worst”, as well as showcasing the production skills of DJ Premier, The Alchemist, Da Beatminerz, Questlove of The
Today In Hip-hop: The Firm presents “The Album”
Today in Hip-hop marks nineteen years of Hip-hop supergroup's The Firm's debut and only studio album, The Album.
The idea of initiating such collective originated from prominent rapper Nas, manager Steve Stoute, as well as Dr. Dre and Trackmasters. When the group assembled, the original roster featured the combined talents of Nas, AZ, Foxy Brown, and Cormega, the same artists appearing on Nas' “Affirmative Action” off his 1996 album, It Was Written. Nature was later added to the line-up as Cormega announced his exclusion.
The Album holds concepts thematic to the “mind of a mafia”, as well as “the life of a gangsta”. Produced by the likes of Dre, Chris “The Glove” Taylor, a
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