A couple days back, Chris “Drama” Pfaff co-star of the MTV show, Fantasy Factory, and creator of streetwear brand, Young & Reckless, sat down with Kendrick Lamar for a quick interview about his Coachella experience, what to expect on his major-label debut album, and the most “reckless”...
First G.O.O.D. Friday Single- “Monster” (Kanye West with J
Today, it seemed like ‘Ye wouldn’t be keeping his promise to drop a new song as part of his new “G.O.O.D. Friday” routine. Then this evening he announced something serious. He and Jay-Z will be releasing an EP called Watch The Throne. No word on when it’ll drop, but we’ll...
A couple days back, Chris “Drama” Pfaff co-star of the MTV show, Fantasy Factory, and creator of streetwear brand, Young & Reckless, sat down with Kendrick Lamar for a quick interview about his Coachella experience, what to expect on his major-label debut album, and the most “reckless” thing he’s done lately. Keep a look out for a K-Dot x Y&R collaboration snapback dropping in the near future.
Last night, Stefan and I headed over to Hunter College in Manhattan for Wale. This is the second time I’ve seen him live, and he killed it. He’s got a great mixture of bangers, RnB jams, and hits that make up a very even set. His live band did a terrific job of re-creating his instrumentals, giving some songs an edgy rock feel. Thanks to Peter Coultas of TheGoodieBag for supplying us with media passes.
We put together some compilation footage of the show below. If you embed our video on your site, please give us proper credit back to our site.
Our good friend Peter Coultas of The Goodie Bag Blog hit us up about Hunter College’s 2012 USG Spring College Extravaganza which will feature the DMV native, Maybach Music MC Wale. The show is going down this Saturday (5/12) and is being presented by Brown Robyn and D-Up Entertainment, as well as sponsors Rocksmith and Portage Chicago. Tickets are currently on sale for non-Hunter students for $15, and would be a great way to let loose after finals.
To purchase tickets, please call the Hunter College Box Office at 212-772-4448.
This unreleased Big Sean and Wale track surfaced last night. The piano riff looped behind the drum kit reminds me a lot of Common’s “Be (Intro)” produced by Kanye West. However, this beat was produced by Finally Famous’ own KeY Wane. In my opinion this was a waste of three solid verses and a dope beat that could have been placed on Sean’s upcoming album or mixtape. Take a listen and let us know what you think.
Today Meek Mill’s highly anticipated mixtape Dreamchasers 2 dropped. With features like Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Wale, Rick Ross, and Fabolous, and production by Jahlil Beats, Cardiak, and Beat Billionaire this mixtape is packed with enough hood anthems to consume your summer. If you hate DatPiff’s troll-style tagging of their mixtape releases then you will definitely enjoy our DatPiff-less download below. Insert this tape onto your iPod and proceed to dance like this:
Meek Mill recently released, “Amen” a new track featuring Drake and Jeremih, which will be on his latest mixtape, Dreamchasers 2 dropping tomorrow (May 7th). Over the past month, Meek has dropped a slew fresh material in preparation for Dreamchasers 2 and his debut LP, Dreams & Nightmares, set to release on August 21st. A few weeks a back he dropped a supposed album single, entitled “Flexin’ On Em“ produced by Jahlil Beats. On Friday, Meek and Big Sean dropped the energetic back-and-forth heater “Burn”, also produced by Jahlil. Last night he hit us with “Amen”, which is by far my favorite of the three.
Besides the Drake and Jeremih features, a prominent feature of “Amen” is the soulful piano riff smoothly looped by KeY Wane (a producer in Big Sean’s Finally Famous camp). Of course Jahlil was included in this production, integrating some of his signature drum kits. With the success of his last mixtape, Dreamchasers, which took 2011 by storm, my expectations are high for tomorrow’s follow-up release.
I LOVE the original version of this song. It’s straight ignorance—the kind of song you hit the climax of your night to. Genius ignorance. Unlike the “Slight Work” remix, I really like this remix. Between “Theraflu,” “Mercy” and this remix, I’m getting arrested this summer.
A one note though:
-Young Chop, the producer of the OG cut, doesn’t like the remix at all, since Kanye added lots of little bells and whistles to the overall production. He wants to “sue the shit out of Kanye West,” since all of the additional production was done without his permission. Welp.
I haven’t listened to this remix yet because I don’t listen to tagged music, but I’ve heard from friends that it’s pure fire. Only the tagged version has been released, but Splash has liberated the CDQ version this morning. Do you think that this remix is hotter than the original?
Loving the cover artwork. After a little delay, the first song from Voli’s The Wall has arrived. Expect to see that project this summer. I’ve said this time and time again: Voli is the most talented unsigned artist I continuously feature on the site. Expecting big things from The Wall. Says Voli of the track:
We’ve all heard the story before…Irresponsible teenage girl who wants to grow up impossibly fast, parent that has to slow them down. I wanted to give a respectful, relatable look at a concept not touched that often in music. As usual, my guitar man Gavidia brings the realness out. This is the first leak off The Wall, due later this summer.
Last night, The Weeknd played his first headlining U.S. show in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. J.D. of jdotshots.com and myself were on hand to snag some overdosed fan interviews and show footage. Security was tight though—fans were constantly ushered to put down their cameras during the show. Personally, I’ve never seen cameras policed like this at a concert. Apparently the no photo-no video policy came straight from The Weeknd himself, and not the venue (Williamsburg Music hall).
If you watched the Lil B NYU Lecture mini-documentary we put together a few weeks ago, then you know the drill. If you embed this video on your site, then please link back to this post and www.jdotshots.com. Thank you. See our The Weeknd mini-doc below.
ANOTHER J. DOT X J. BLOCK PRODUCTION.
Head over to www.jdotshots.com for a gallery of the concert. He’s got some amazing photos.
See our The Weeknd mini-doc below.
