March 18, 2012

Frank Ocean – Whip Appeal

Frank Ocean releases Whip Appeal, a track which was meant to be on Nostalgia, Ultra. He talks about a pretty lady that has him hooked and he lets drives his sports car

March 18, 2012

Ryan Leslie x Fabolous “Beautiful Lie” (Remix) – Backstage

Ryan Leslie debuts his remix to Beautiful Lie with frequent collaborator Fabolous to Tank, Teyana Taylor, Def Jam A&R Lenny S and of course Fabolous too. This will be on Ryan Leslie’s Les Is More upcoming LP.

March 16, 2012

Exclusive Dot Rotten interview with channel aka!

Check out my interview with Dot Rotten for Channel AKA.

March 15, 2012

Wiz Khalifa – Taylor Allderdice

The mixtape release crashed Dat Piff where it went up for free download yesterday, so I thought I’d leave it a day to put it up. Get Wiz Khalifa’s new mixtape Taylor Allderdice below.

Download Wiz Khalifa – Taylor Allderdice here

March 15, 2012

2 Chainz Ft. The Weeknd – Like Me

Def Jam’s recent signee 2 Chainz releases Like Me track which samples The Weeknd’s The Birds Part 1. The track is produced by Kanye West’s DJ Mano.

March 15, 2012

Machines Don’t Care – Beat Dun Drop ft. Meleka

Featuring some of underground clubland’s hottest producers, DJs and artists, creative collective MDC kick off 2012 with ‘Beat Dun Drop’, one of the most exciting new tracks of the year featuring the vocals of rising star, MTV award-winner Meleka.

Premiered by Radio 1’s Mistajam who correctly predicted that “I’m predicting massive things for this tune, you just cannot go wrong with steel drums, a bit of bass and Meleka’s vocals“, ‘Beat Dun Drop’ is a wonderful fusion of bass heavy club music and neon lit pop.

Already a club smash, ‘Beat Dun Drop’ comes backed with remixes from the likes of Stanton Warriors,WideboysFireFlowerz and Housquare, delivering a truly heavyweight package.

Out 29th April 2012

March 15, 2012

Drake On The Cover Of GQ Magazine

Drake hits the style bible issue for the cover of GQ magazine.

Drake lets GQ into his mansion giving them a tour and an intimate interview. He talks about his family, especially his dad, Take Care and his love life.

“Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along. We laugh. We have drinks together. But I spent too many nights looking by the window, seeing if the car was going to pull up. And the car never came.”

“He had a spell there when he was fucking tons of girls…but that just wasn’t right for him: “There’s just a time where it was like, just getting pussy. Where I was in that sort of ‘I’m young, I’m going to disconnect from my emotions and just do what everyone else tells me I should do and just be a rapper and have my fun.’ And for me as a person, it just doesn’t work. I just need something else. The seconds after a man reaches climax, that’s like the realest moment of your life. If I don’t want you next to me in that fifteen, twenty seconds, then there’s something wrong.”

“I’m actually really happy,” the fame dome has its challenges, and much of the music on his latest album, Take Care, reveals a conflicted soul. “I’m trying to find the same feelings that I had for women when I had very little going on, which is tough,” he says. “When I was in my mom’s house, I had nowhere to go, no real obligations. My girlfriend at the time, if she was mad at me, my day was all fucked-up. I didn’t have anything else. And that made for some of the best music, I think, to date. Records where I felt small. That feeling is hard to capture when you’re sitting out here in a space like this.” He gestures to the pool, the tennis court, the volleyball court, the stables. “It’s really difficult for me to find something that makes me feel small.

Read the full interview here 

March 15, 2012

J. Cole – Nobody’s Perfect ft. Missy Elliott

J Cole releases the video for Nobody’s Perfect off his debut album Cole World: The Sideline Story featuring Missy Elliott on the hook.

Check out my interview with J Cole here

March 14, 2012

Ashanti – The Woman You Love ft Busta Rhymes

Ashanti drops the video for The Woman You Love feauting Busta Rhymes.

March 14, 2012

B.Traits – Fever ft Elisabeth Troy

B.Traits releases the video for Fever featuring Elisabeth Troy.

Currently on the Radio 1 B-List, Kiss playlist and enjoying huge specialist support across radio, Fever is a sure-fire Summer 90s-tinged rave anthem that is released on 25th March on Digital Soundboy.
B.Traits aka Bri Price has just been announced as one of four new DJs to take over the coveted ‘In New DJs We Trust’ slot on Radio 1, once populated by the likes of Toddla T and Skream & Benga. She will host her own monthly show in rotation with Julio Bashmore, Mosca and Jordan.