Exclusive Interview with one of the West Coast's most talented up and comers - Nipsey Hussle.
A HipHopUpdate and DCtoBC collabo mixtape right here. We took a sampling of Wale tracks from the beginning of his career up until March '09 and will continue to follow the road up until he drops his major debut - "Attention:Deficit"****NEW DOWNLOAD LINK ADDED*****
13,700!!!!+ Downloads of the Kid Cudi Compilation mixtape, "The Moon Man." Have you checked it out yet?
BFOCHS Interview with J.D. of HipHopUpdate. Check out why I started the blog and my views on various subjects.
Wale, Kid Cudi, Mark Ronson, Colin Munroe Highline Ballroom Show Recap + Videos
"The Sole of Hip Hop" - The MOST COMPLETE and only sneaker-dedicated mixtape on the internet. Volume II coming soon!
Wale (Washington D.C.) - My MTV.com Feature
Interviewed Wale & Mark Ronson For On-Air News Brief I Also Produced/Edited for MTV, MTV2, MTVu
Swizz Beatz MTV News Brief I Co-Produced/Edited
MTV's Hottest MC's in the Game Vol.2007 - Assisted in Production/Editing
Interviews
Kid Cudi - Unique, Cleveland-born, Brooklyn-based MC that raps, sings and is signed to Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music Label.
Ryan West - Grammy Nominated studio engineer/mixer who is partners with the likes of Just Blaze and Dr.Dre
Osinachi - Up and Coming Producer who was just signed by famed producer Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins
DJBooth gets West Coast's Knoc to give up a record for their freestyle series. This one is called "So Cold" and is produced by Dae One.
Featuring brand new material from Memphis Bleek. Thanks to Tapemasters Inc for passing this through.
I believe this is a new single off of Loso's Way, since Fab, Keri and Ryan Leslie recently shot the video. I can foresee this doing well. We'll see. Also, Fab snags Leslie for another track, called "The Fabolous Life." Check these out now thanks to TeamSupreme:
Kweli lends two verses to Chico DeBarge's "Math." Sounding real smooth on this track. DeBarge's album, Addiction, drops next week so be on the lookout for that. Thanks to BMF for the track.
Treadmillin interviews Dan Weisman, who is both Wale and Mike Posner's manager. Interesting guy.
Oh, and Soulja Boy too.
10 bucks for a good show. It's in NYC...at Webster Hall...expect some G.O.O.D. unannounced guests to show up and support GLC...
"The balance of singing and rapping has been blurred ever since I did So Far Gone," he said of his breakthrough mixtape. "I mean, I don't really have a formula for that. I don't say, like, 'OK, I can only sing this hook or I want to rap this.' I just really hear a beat, and it's like, 'If I can write to it on a hip-hop level, if I can pen some raps to it, then that will work.' And then maybe after I do that, I'll get in the booth and sing a little part of the verse.
"I like to do that," he continued. "I like to incorporate singing into my verses. And then I feel like it allows people a break from just constant rapping, rapping, rapping, you know? I think it's great to incorporate melodies into the songs that I write. And yeah, my goal is just really to make a song that after I listen to it, I'll just be like, 'Man, people are going to know the words to that.' That's the best thing. I think I'm doing it right, 'cause when I go to the shows, people know the words to the songs, and that's good."
Drake has the video for "Best I Ever Had" out right now and says he'll probably be appearing in front of the cameras for more clips soon.
"There's talk to do a 'Successful' video," Drake said. "Also, you know, I'm shooting the video to 'Digital Girl' with Jamie Foxx and Kanye West and The-Dream. And then there is another song that we have that we might shoot a video for, for the album. So as far as videos go, there is some more potential chances to see [me]."
This was previously just a 3OH!3 and Cudi production, but Mike Posner jumped on it to remix the song. Thanks to Elitaste.
01. Show Time*I know you sent me the lion picture but umm, yeah. Heart of A Lion coming soon though*
G.o.D. Jewels-L.A. To Chicago ft. DOM. Kennedy
*Normally, one picture is enough, but G.o.D. Jewels stay killing it with the artwork, so I had to show love.*
Here's some more heat from Two chicago artists, Kamilah Summer and G.o.D. Jewels (with the assist of cali's own Dom. Kennedy). Check em out, let me know what you think...
Peace,
Clif Soulo
Jay-Z - $35Mil
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Spotted this over on Hooked On That:
The Florida boys are at it again.
I've been bummed out about something personal since earlier in the week. Nothing major. But just something that bothers me. I've been vibing to this since Monday. Makes me sit back and reflect. Sometimes spoken word and a simple piano instrumental is the best medicine. This is the intro to J.Cole's "The Warmup" mixtape:
Just an FYI. I remember a TON of people mentioning HBO's Eastbound and Down when it was on during the 1st season both on here and twitter. Just realized the DVD of the 1st season came out. You can buy it via HBO HERE or at like your local Best Buy or something.
I was listening to this track and thinking to myself...where have I heard this snap, kick, hit pattern before with some of these additional percussion elements? BOOM. Twista and Do or Die bit their own song and came up with "Yo Body," off Twista's upcoming album, Category F5.
I'm not really up on Dorrough, but apparently he's been doin it big out in Dallas for a little while now (y'all can clarify, if you want). Here, he recruits a whole slew of artists to remix his single, Ice Cream Paint Job. 
Wow...this came out of nowhere, but I'm not mad at this at all. Just didn't see this coming. I'll have to check this out later at some point, although I don't have iTunes because I do not own an ipod. From the press release:
Some new Yayo, provided by ThisisCurtis.com. G-Unit seems to be back on the mixtape grind, just like how they started. Just press the Download MP3 button, if interested. Jay-Z Intro Blueprint 3 in Chicago from Superfun on Vimeo.
A nice track from Starlito dedicated to those who have passed away recently. Starlito is a Nashville native and was a big a fan of McNair - so this is fitting. Nice use of the instrumental as well.
Today we are happy to announce some very important news regarding Crooked I's upcoming EP titled "Mr. Pig Face Weapon Waist". We have recently received the feature appearances and production credits for the project and fans are going to be quite surprised at some of the names mentioned. As far as feature appearances are concerned, fans can look forward to hearing The Horse Shoe Gang, K-Young, Raekwon, Edi and of course Slaughterhouse.
However, there is one name that you will certainly not be expecting to hear on the project and that name is Snoop Dogg. Readers may remember our April Fools Day joke stating that Snoop Dogg and Crooked I had recorded a track together. We assure you that this is not an April Fools Day joke and that Snoop Dogg is definitely making an appearance on the EP. When it comes to production credits, fans can expect to hear beats from Komplex, Scram Jones, Street Runner, Frequency & P. Silva.
New Chip by way of TKO and Ram Beatz. I'm liking this one. Definitely check this out. Look out for additional Chip Tha Ripper in the near future. Thanks to Slab Up.
