Yasiin Bey fka Mos Def has formed the group December 99th with producer Ferrari Sheppard Today the pair released their self-titled debut album as a Tidal exclusive. You can stream it here or below.
December 99th Tracklist:
01. N.A.W.
02. Blade In The Pocket
03. SPESH
04. Local Time
05. Tall Sleeves
06. Seaside Panic Room
07. Shadow In the Dark
08. IT GOES
09. Special Dedication
10. Heri
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Kanye West has officially pulled the plug on the European leg of his Saint Pablo Tour.. The news isn't totally unexpected given the fact that the rapper had to cancel the remaining dates of the U.S. leg after suffering a mental health crisis in November.
West spent over a week at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, getting treatment, before being released into the care of his personal physician.
The G.O.O.D. Music CEO has been seen out in public several times since he's been out of the hospital, including a visit with president-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday, December 13, at Trump Tower in New York City.
However, he's still not ready for the rigors of a tour.
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The rap game's "Baddest Bitch," Trina, drops off a new remix. Listen to the Miami, Florida native go in over the instrumental to Aminé’s song titled "Caroline."
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Check out Nef The Pharaoh's official music video for his single titled "Born Leader" featuring G-Eazy. It's available now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/born-leader-feat.-g-eazy-single/id1188140701
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Rich Homie Quan is back on the music scene with a new single. He calls this one "Ya Ya" and it features YFN Lucci. Give it a listen up top and let us know what you think.
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Southside englewood native Boi Floyd drops debut street single “Maserati Dreams”. Sampled by famous throwback “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore,” By Rose Royce, the catchy, nod-worthy release showcases the effortless rhyme ability of Boi Floyd, with a unique tone and his distinctive stand-out voice. “Maserati Dreams” tells of how Floyd has gone from days of dope dealing, hustling, and living the street life, dreaming of better days, to making his dreams a reality and taking time to appreciate the fruit of his labor. With lines like “I don’t waste time putting money down” and “They worry i’m like Curry, i’m a f*****g shooter”, Boi Floyd paints a vivid picture throughout the single, knowing the worth of how hard he worked, flipping his hustle from the streets to dope hooks and verses.
Listen to "Maserati Dreams" Below:
https://soundcloud.com/boi-floyd/maserati-dreams
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BSB Records CEO Troy Ave is closing out 2016 in a big way. Today he drops an official music video for "Appreciate Me." This is off of his "Roland Collins" album, available now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/roland-collins/id1142036098
On December 23, Troy will release the fourth installment of his "White Christmas" mixtape series.
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Original Block Hustlaz CEO and Cash Money Records/Rich Gang recording artist, Ar-Ab, teams up once again with Dark Lo to deliver the fourth effort in their "Blow" song series.
Stay connected with Ar-Ab online:
https://www.instagram.com/ar_ab_32/
https://twitter.com/assaultrifleab
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Christmas will be here in just a few days. For the kids that believe in Santa Clause it's time to make wishes for the gifts they would like to receive.
Watch Lil Yachty sit on Saint Nick's lap to ask for a few stocking stuffers in this parody by FILNOBEP.
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Manolo Rose is closing out 2016 with some real heat. Check out his new song titled "Ball Drop." The song was produced by Mekado.
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The music industry's queen of beefs is back it.
Azealia Banks lobbed verbal shots at Nicki Minaj after apparently being dissed in the new mobile game "Nicki Minaj: The Empire."
In the game a character describes an album called "Fan2Sea" as "obnoxious screech that goes on for hours." Since her 2012 mixtape is called "Fantasea," the "212" rapper took offense. She wrote a lengthy response via Facebook, criticizing everything from Nicki's looks to her taste in clothes.
Read below:
“Nicki girl….. now listen. Don’t start throwing shade cause you miss safaree and know that I’ve actually made a BANGER with him.
Don’t get mad, get even. Slim down a bit (especially in your neck and arms). Decrease the butt just a bit (I’ve seen your butt make some really expensive dresses look really cheap) and STOP WEARING SPANDEX AS AN OUTFIT FOR FUCKS SAKE.
Also stop calling yourself the queen of rap. Queens don’t wear spandex sweety. Marketing genius yes, but your cheap made in China perfume smells like car freshener and your beverage tastes like kitchen cleaner.
McDonalds sells a lot of burgers but no one is telling McDonald’s that they’re the pinnacle of cuisine and taste. This is true of you.
You run around the meadow collecting all the low hanging fruit so you may turn around and congratulate yourself for having the most fruit, but all of the fruit is mealy and mushy.
I don’t understand why you are so impressed with yourself.
Do yourself a favor and image search gaga 2011 and pick that back up! This “real” Nicki is not as interesting as Gaga-knock off Nicki.
GIVE THE GIRLS WHAT THEY WANT. And stay tuned for my joint with your man. I really think you’re gonna love it!
In 2017 I hope you find some new inspiration and decrease your butt implants you would honestly look SOOOOO much better if they were just 150cc smaller.
Cheers to female rap!
Happy Holidays!
-Azealia"
Nicki doesn't back down from a challenge. It will be interesting to see how she decides to respond.
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Check out A$AP Ferg's new music video for "Uzi Gang" featuring Lil Uzi Vert and Marty Baller. This is off of Ferg's latest album titled "Always Strive and Prosper," available now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/always-strive-and-prosper/id1126433123
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Oscar Award-winning actor Denzel Washington was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Monday, December 19.
Watch below as he and Jimmy dramatically read greeting cards.
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Tupac Shakur was only 25-years old at the time of his death, but his impact on the music industry and it's artists and fans is still being felt two decades later.
On Tuesday, December 20, it was announced that he had been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, according to the Associated Press.
The music icon released four studio albums between 1991-1996. Those albums produced the hit songs included "Dear Mama," "California Love," "I Get Around," "Brenda's Got a Baby," "Changes," "So Many Tears," "Keep Ya Head Up," "Holler If Ya Hear Me," "How Do U Want It," "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted," "I Ain't Mad Atcha" and many more.
Tupac adopted the moniker Makaveli for his fifth album titled "The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory." The project was famously recorded in just seven days. It was released posthumously on November 5, 1996, less than two months after his death.
Notable records on the album included "Hail Mary," "Against All Odds," "To Live & Die in L.A." and "Toss It Up."
It was the first of six posthumous solo Tupac albums to be released.
"Still I Rise," a collaborative album with his group, Outlawz, was released in 1999. Two live albums saw the light of day in 2004 and 2005.
Tupac's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame comes in his first year on the ballot
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Other inductees into the 2017 class include Yes, Pearl Jam, Electric Light Orchestra and Joan Baez.
The hall's 32nd annual induction ceremony will take place on April 7 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. HBO will show highlights later, with SiriusXM doing a radio broadcast.
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(Reuters) A truck plowed into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin on Monday evening, killing nine people and injuring up to 50 others, police said, in what appeared to be one of the deadliest attacks in Germany in decades.
Police said on Twitter that they had taken one suspect into custody and that another passenger from the truck had died as it crashed into people gathered around the wooden huts serving mulled wine and sausages at the foot of the Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church in the heart of west Berlin.
Breaking: A suspect has been apprehended in Berlin truck incident, according to police https://t.co/yjdcLDMi2K https://t.co/NNlgMKFFjq
— CNN (@CNN) December 19, 2016
"We heard a loud bang," Emma Rushton, a tourist, told CNN. "We started to see the top of an articulated truck, a lorry ... just crashing through the stalls, through people."
The incident evoked memories of an attack in Nice, France in July when a Tunisian-born man drove a 19-tonne truck along the beach front, mowing down people who had gathered to watch the fireworks on Bastille Day, killing 86 people. That attack was claimed by Islamic State.
UPDATE ... #ISIS takes credit for fatal truck attack on #Berlin Christmas market - https://t.co/6G23PZnm3B - @washtimes
— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) December 19, 2016
Police at the scene told German media that the crash appeared to be a deliberate act.
PEOPLE URGED TO STAY AWAY
A government spokesman said Chancellor Angela Merkel was being briefed by her interior minister and the Berlin mayor on the situation. Police said there were no indications of further dangerous situations in the area and urged people to stay away from scene.
"I'm deeply shaken about the horrible news of what occurred at the memorial church in Berlin," Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said. "Many people who visited the Christmas market today have died and even more are injured."
The truck veered into the market at what would have been one of the most crowded times, when adults and children would be gathering in the traditional cluster of wooden huts that sell food and Christmas goods in an annual celebration replicated across Germany and much of Central Europe.
Police cars and ambulances converged quickly on the scene.
Rushton told CNN the truck seemed to be traveling at about 40 mph (65 Kmh). Asked how many were injured, she said that as she walked back to her hotel, she saw at least 10.
Julian Reichelt, editor in chief of Bild Berlin, said that there was currently a massive security operation under way.
"The scene certainly looks like a reminder of what we have seen in Nice," Reichelt said.
(Reporting by Michael Nienaber; Writing by Robin Pomeroy and Ralph Boulton)
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(Reuters) The Russian ambassador to Turkey was shot in the back and killed as he gave a speech at an Ankara art gallery on Monday by an off-duty police officer who shouted "Don't forget Aleppo" and "Allahu Akbar" as he opened fire.
The Russian foreign ministry confirmed the death of envoy Andrei Karlov, calling it a "terrorist act". Relations between Moscow and Ankara have long been strained over the conflict in Syria, with the two support opposing sides in the war.
Russia is an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and its air strikes helped Syrian forces end rebel resistance last week in the northern city of Aleppo. Turkey, which seeks Assad's ouster, has been repairing ties with Moscow after shooting down a Russian warplane over Syria last year.
The Ankara mayor said on Twitter the gunman as a 22-year-old police officer. Two security sources told Reuters he was not on duty at the time.
The attacker was smartly dressed in black suit and tie and stood, alone, behind the ambassador as he made a speech at the art exhibition, a person at the scene told Reuters.
The Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov speaks a gallery in Ankara Monday Dec. 19, 2016. A gunman opened fire on Russia's ambassador to Turkey Karlov at a photo exhibition on Monday.
"He took out his gun and shot the ambassador from behind. We saw him lying on the floor and then we ran out," said the witness, who asked not to be identified. People took refuge in adjoining rooms as the shooting continued.
A video showed the attacker shouting: "Don't forget Aleppo, don't forget Syria!" and "Allahu Akbar (God is Greatest) as screams rang out. He paced about and shouted as he held the gun in one hand and waved the other in the air.
A Reuters cameraman at the scene said gunfire rang out for some time after the attack. Turkey's Anadolu news agency said the gunman had been "neutralized", apparently killed.
The unnamed gunman lies dead following a shootout, after he killed Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, at a photo gallery in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016
Another photograph showed four people the ambassador lying on the floor.
"We regard this as a terrorist act," said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. "Terrorism will not win and we will fight against it decisively."
Pepole react after the the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, was shot at a photo gallery in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016.
It was not clear whether the gunman was a lone operator, driven perhaps by popular discontent over Russian action in Syria or affiliated to a group like Islamic State, which has carried out a string of bomb attacks in Turkey in the last year.
Since a failed coup in July, President Tayyip Erdogan has been purging the police of supporters of an exiled cleric and former ally, Fethullah Gulen, whom he characterizes as the chief terrorist threat to Turkey.
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Erdogan contacted Russian President Vladimir Putin to brief him on the shooting, a Turkish official said. It was not immediately clear if Erdogan would release a statement later.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was due to meet with his Russian and Iranian counterparts in Russia on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Syria. Officials said the meeting would still go on, despite the attack.
Turkey's foreign ministry said it would not allow the attack to cast a shadow over Ankara's relations with Moscow.
"The attack comes at a bad time: Moscow and Ankara have only recently restored diplomatic ties after Turkey downed a Russian aircraft in November 2015," the Stratfor think-tank said.
"Though the attack will strain relations between the two countries, it is not likely to rupture them altogether."
The U.S. State Department, involved in diplomatic contacts with Russia in an attempt to resolve a refugee crisis unfolding around the city of Aleppo, condemned the attack.
Tensions have escalated in recent weeks as Russian-backed Syrian forces have fought for control of the eastern part of Aleppo, triggering a stream of refugees.
Turkey has been hit by multiple bomb attacks that have been claimed by Kurdish militants, and beat back an attempted coup in July, where rogue soldiers commandeered tanks, warplanes and helicopters in attempt to overthrow the parliament.
Since then, the government has launched a sweeping crackdown on the judiciary, police and civil service in attempt to root out the coup plotters. The involvement of a police officer in Monday's attack could raise questions for Ereogan about a force denuded now of a number of senior and rank-and-file officers.
(Additional reporting by Orhan Coskun, Nevzat Devranoglu, Tulay Karadeniz, Ercan Gurses and Gulsen Solaker in Ankara; Humeyra Pamuk and Ece Toksabay in Istanbul; Andrew Osborn and Andrey Ostroukh in Moscow; Writing by Daren Butler and David Dolan; editing by Ralph Boulton and Mark Trevelyan)
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Oun-P calls on 2016 XXL Freshman emcee Dave East and and Rey Beats for his single titled "Running Through 'Em." Check out the Jayonez-directed official music video below.
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J. Cole's latest album "4 Your Eyez Only" made a huge impact during it's first week out. The project sold 492,000 units. 363,000 of those were from traditional sales, according to Nielsen Music.
Those numbers were good enough to place "4 Your Eyez Only" at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. It's also the third biggest debut album of 2016, trailing only Drake’s "Views" (1.04 million units, 852,000 traditional) and Beyonce's "LEMONADE" (653,000 units, 485,000 traditional).
Post Malone’s debut album "Stoney" comes in at No. 6 with 58,000 sold.
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Young Thug will probably think twice before crowd surfing again because his last attempt didn't end up well.
Thugger was performing at Terminal 5 in New York City on Sunday, December 18, when he jumped off the stage into the packed crowd. It was during the last song of the night, so maybe the fans were too tired or drunk to hold the rail thin rapper up.
One minute he was upright, the next he wasn't. Peep the footage below.
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