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Smokey Robotic ft. Redman – No Reality (Remix)

Smokey Robotic releases the official remix of their single “No Reality” featuring Redman. Sure to get you off your feet, the song was remixed by Smokey Robotic’s producing duo of Konrad OldMoney and !llmind.

Snoop Dogg’s Expert Advice for Kris Humphries


Well said, Snoop.

David Guetta ft Nicki Minaj – Turn Me On (Teaser)


Guetta and Nicki back together again for their latest banger. Expect this video to drop early next week.

ASAP Rocky Feature in Interview Magazine

Via Interview:

A$AP Rocky’s ferociously energetic mix tape Live.Love.A$AP quickly caught fire with hip-hop heads, music bloggers, and nominal tastemakers when he unleashed it on the world via the Internet last fall. In fact, the furor was so great that large numbers of those most standoffish of record-industry gatekeepers—A&R people—soon found themselves frothed up and in a tizzy over the 23-year-old Harlem-bred rapper’s peculiar blend of influences, which include Southern regional hip-hop styles (like the slowed-down, doped-out beats of the Houston subgenre of screw music) and the world of high fashion (who was the last rapper to name-check Rick Owens?).

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The Weeknd & Drake Creating Music Video for “The Zone”

There was talk about this earlier in the week, but the source articles didn’t point to any definitive proof that it was going down. Well, now here we go. Production company Vision Entertainment updated their site with this “In Production” log.

Directors include The Weeknd, Lamar and DropxLife.

Stalley – Cash and My Cutty (Prod. Ski Beatz)

Today Stalley offers another one of his favorite songs from his back catalog. Produced by Ski Beatz, “Cash and My Cutty” finds Stalley back in his 87’ Cutty Supreme and ready to ride.

Azealia Banks – Bambi (CDQ)

This is the exclusive Azealia Banks track, recorded for the MUGLER Mens FW 2012 runway show. Premiered at the runway show in Paris. Keep in mind this was made for the runway not the radio, so the rapping doesn’t start until about two minutes in.

Iggy Azalea Signs to Interscope

Australian rapper Iggy Azalea logged on to twitter just now to tell the people that she has joined the fine folks at Interscope to drop her album, The New Classic, this June (tentatively, of course). No other details at the moment, but it looks like another product of the viral world will have her chance at mainstream success. Jimmy Iovine and Iggy:

 

Red Cafe – Shakedown House Party (Music Video)


Looks like Red Cafe took the party overseas for a visual to his “Shakedown House Party” freestyle. Females at the beginning of the vid are heinous.

Mac Miller – Death of the Emcee

Our friend Zeke just passed along this Mac Miller cut that will be included on Mr. Peter Parker and Whoo Kid’s upcoming Frat Rap mixtape, dropping on the 2nd. Frat Rap features records from T Mills, FlyRydaz, Sam Adams, G Beck, KidDricc, Huey Mack and more. I, for one, hate the classification of “frat rap.” Let the kids just make their music. Photo via JDS.

Terry Richardson Photographs Odd Future

This is the second round of pictures renowned photographer Terry Richardson has shot of the Odd Future collective. Click below for the gallery:

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Songwriter Wants Royalty Payments for B.o.B.’s “Airplanes”

B.O.B.’s hit single Airplanes is the subject of a lawsuit from a songwriter who claims she helped write the track but failed to receive a credit.

Songwriter Christine Dominguez has now filed suit against the song’s producers, Jeremy Dussolliet and Tim Sommers, who work under the names Kinetics and One Love, suggesting she contributed to the song but was not given any recognition.

She filed papers in court in New York on 23 January (12) alleging Dussolliet and Sommers asked her to help create the melody for Airplanes but cut her out of subsequent royalty payments.

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Maino ft. PUSH! Montana – Last of the Mohicans (Music Video)


With the release of I Am Who I Am yesterday, Maino provides us with a first visual from the project.

Big Sean – Rising Icons (Documentary)


Grey Goose has been doing this “Rising Icons” series for a little while now and their latest subject is Big Sean. In this three part documentary-style series, check out the moves Sean made throughout 2011. Click below for the other two parts:

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Jay-Z, Pharrell, Lana Del Rey – Allure (OTTR) (Urban Noize Remix)

Urban Noize provides us with a unique mashup of Lana Del Rey’s “Off to the Races” combined with Jay & P’s “Allure.”

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