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Bankhead meets Campbellton Road as Clifford “T.I.” Harris and Monica’s ex-fiance’/baby daddy Rocko Da Don join forces on “I Can’t Help It”…
Check out the official video for “I Can’t Help It” under the cut: Continue Reading…
I got a chance to get up close and personal with Lupe Fiasco last night as Atlantic Records held a private dinner reception/listening session for his upcoming “Lasers” project.
The event, hosted by Tree Sound Studios, was an intimate affair that allowed Lupe to discuss his vision amongst his A-town “family and friends”.
Lupe’s 3rd solo project,”Lasers,” is set to be released March 8, 2011 and Lupe is hot on the promo trail.
Lu admits that his music isn’t meant to be played in the club and that he actually seeks to inspire people and create thought provoking music… but sometimes smart doesn’t sell.
It’s like a revolutionary album. I was really inspired by inspiring social activism. So a lot of the music has a social kind of awareness edge to it… a social justice edge to it.
It’s less about making songs to make songs but making songs with a purpose. I actually tried to challenge myself on this album — compared to my last album — to make music that was a little more popular… not pop! but a little more “popular,” so that I can engage a wider audience with my music…
I agree. Sometimes you’ve gotta “dumb it down” to get people to pay attention… such is life.
Check out more of what Lupe has to say below PLUS listen to his first single “The Show Goes On”: Continue Reading…
Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges pays homage to his ?godfather? Quincy Jones on the Naturally 7-produced ?Soul Bossa Nostra,? the title track off Jones? star-studded tribute album Q: Soul Bossa Nostra.
I posted the track for you last month and now the official video for the song has been released.
In the recently released video, Quincey Jones joins Luda for a bit of his signature Conjure cognac as the two “bosses” toast to the good life.
If the tune sounds familiar, it?s because Jones? original “Soul Bossa Nova?was sampled on Luda?s 2005 single ?Number One Spot?
Watch the official video for “Soul Bossa Nostra” below: Continue Reading…
Fresh off the heels of his hot new “Don’t let me fall” video, B.o.B. goes into certified “Beast Mode” in his new promo video for his upcoming “No Genre” mixtape.
Check out B.o.B.’s “Beast Mode” Video below: Continue Reading…
Kandi Burruss held a private listening session recently where she shared the vision behind her upcoming “Kandi Koated” project.
She also gave me a lil one on one where we spoke about her plans to make Lawrence Washington an international superstar with “Closet Freak” the song she penned for him on RHOA.
VIDEO: One on One with Kandi Burruss
Kandi has a lot of great tracks on her new album. The first being a ballad called “Haven’t Loved Right,” a song Kandi wrote after the untimely death of her ex-fiance’ Ashley “AJ” Jewell.
Kandi revealed how she drew from that painful period in her life and you could hear the emotion in the lyrics and Kandi belted out the chorus as we were previewing the song.
Video from the “Kandi Koated” listening session (including song previews) +? photos below: Continue Reading…
You heard it first on the “A” pod, now the official video for Keyshia Cole’s hot new single “I Ain’t Thru,” featuring Nicki Minaj has finally been released.
[PHOTOS: Keyshia Cole & Nicki Minaj on the Set of “I Ain’t Thru]
The Benny Boom-directed clip features Keyshia cruising the streets of downtown L.A. in a drop top Rolls Royce Phantom, while Young Money?s First Lady Nicki Minaj, rides shotgun throwing deuces to the haters.
Watch Keyshia’s new video for “I Ain’t Thru” feat. Nicki Minaj below: Continue Reading…
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