Artist: blakroc

This may be a weird article. Perhaps the first thing you may notice is that Aerosmith/Run DMC's "Walk This Way" collab is not on the list. This is because I think Aerosmith is garbage and Run DMC is outdated. I'm sorry, but both statements are true. This is not to say I don't appreciate what Run DMC has done for hip hop, because I most definitely respect the greats, but in this modern era we have better genre-crossing tracks that are far less gimmicky. Again I apologize to any Run DMC fanatics. I'm not [...]

Blakroc is a rap/rock collab album by The Black Keys and several hip-hop and R&B artists. The whole album is pretty great and is definitely worth checking out if you like this song. They also put out an 11-part video of the process of making the album which you can find below on their website. The Black Keys are definitely one of my favorite rock bands and hearing them team up with top rappers is pretty awesome to listen to. www.blakroc.com Blakroc ft. Jim Jones & Mos Def - "Ain't [...]

• Blakroc - Ain't Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo) ft. Jim Jones & Mos Def

Earlier this month, a trailer for Blakroc 2 hit the internet, advising us that another batch of music combining the fury of The Black Keys with the rhymes of hip hop's most elite emcees was coming soon. But now, Done Waiting points us to a recent interview with The Black Keys' Patrick Carney in which he reveals that said trailer was an unauthorized leak and that there are in fact no plans for a second Blakroc album. "Blakroc 2 is not coming out soon, although somehow a trailer that was made two years ago without [...]

Click here to view the embedded video. Patrick Carney , the drummer of the Black Keys is asked about Blakroc 2 in this interview with an Atlanta radio station. There were 8 songs, and a trailer were made in October of 2009 . But there are no current plans to release those 8 songs, and why the trailer was leaked is uncertain. This video was spotted at the Black Keys Fan Lounge, . Click the previous link for more info. Keys fans can be stoked though, because [...]

Back in 2009, The Black Keys teamed up with producer Damon Dash and a slew of hip-hops best MCs for a collaborative project dubbed Blakroc . The blues-rockers have once again recruited an impressive list of talent - Talib Kweli, Sean Price, Wiz Khalifa, Curren$y, U-God, Jim Jones, the Cool Kids and Jay Electronica - for a second go-around. Let's check out this teaser trailer for the their sophomore release, which features some heavy blues riffing, but mostly reveals that rappers like to smoke a lot of pot... Click [...]

The Black Keys are to return to the world of hip-hop with a second record from their acclaimed BlakRoc project. Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, along with Damon Dash, have recruited another impressive list of collaborators - including Talib Kweli, Curren$y, Wiz Khalifa, the Cool Kids and Jim Jones. No release date has been set as of yet but you can see them at work below...

I've been a little slow to post this up the new Blakroc trailer due difficulties technical and otherwise (technical: new laptop shopping and set up time; otherwise: waiting for my child to be born... where you at bubba?!) But you don't want excuses... you want results (I could be a politician). So here we go. As a recap for the slow ones, Blakroc is the side project of The Black Keys, a rather excellent swamp rock (I don't know what else to call it, [...]

De la nouvelle bien lourde, bien fraiche, comme on l'aime. C'est bien évidemment le cas à chaque actualité autour du projet Blakroc rassemblant les excellents Black Keys et des grands noms du rap. Pas la peine de vous faire un dessin, ils sont bel et bien de retour avec une toute nouvelle équipe qui va faire tourner la tête des adeptes. En effet, la liste est longue encore une fois, et après Mos Def, Raekwon, Q-Tip, ODB, RZA, Jim Jones, Nicole Wray, Ludacris, Noe, Pharoahe Monch et Billy Danze la [...]

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Como adelantamos a principios de julio , The Black Keys regresará con su nuevo álbum y sucesor de Brothers (2010) a fines de 2011; sin embargo aún hay más buenas nuevas para los seguidores de Dan Auerbach y Patrick Carney . En este sentido, el dúo anunció a través de un trailer que lanzará "muy pronto" su segundo álbum como Blakroc , su proyecto colaborativo junto a destacados artistas provenientes del hip hop [...]

Filed under: News Jason Merritt, Getty Images Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney of the Black Keys aren't resting on their laurels after the success of last year's 'Brothers.' In addition to having already recorded the Danger Mouse -produced follow-up to their last album, the duo is back to work on their BlakRoc project. Working once again with producer Damon Dash, the second BlakRoc offering will feature a [...]

Blakroc 2 is coming, and now we have some solid evidence to silence the speculation. Two years after releasing Blakroc , The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney (in partnership with Dame Dash) are back in the studio recording a follow-up to their first rock/rap collaboration. Aside from the Keys, Jim Jones is the only returning cast member to make an appearance in this sequel, the rest are fresh faces to the Blakroc roster. More may be added before it goes in the can, but for now we can expect BR2 to host [...]

So, hopefully you are familiar with the original BLAKROC project and if not; it basically involves The Black Keys and Damon Dash coming together to create a perfect hip-hop/rock fusion sound. The original project was a huge success and featured many talented hip-hop artists spittin over soulful rock beats which The Black Keys know how to deliver. Now, they've come together again and assembled a new batch of hip-hop artists for the project. This new album will feature: Talib Kweli , U God, Jay Electronica (yes!), OC , Curren$y , Wiz Khalifa (dont hate!), [...]

Oh joy of joys! It looks like the sequel to the amazing album, Blakroc , which featured the Black Keys providing beats to artists like Mos Def, Jim Jones, RZA and more, is on its way soon. Up top is a trailer for Blakroc 2 (thanks to Consequence of Sound ) which features Grammy winners Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney laying down some new blues-rock beats for rappers including Talib Kweli, Jay Electronica, U God, Currren$y, Wiz Khalifa, The Cool Kids, Sean Price, Jim Jones and a whole bunch of some fine reefer. [...]

Click here to view the embedded video. A trailer popped up on the internet for to announce that Blakroc 2 exists in some form. As far as the release date, or even a plan to release it. The Black Keys are currently in the process of gearing up for the follow-up to Brothers so it doesn't look like releasing a side-project before that would make very much sense: The Key's drummer Patrick Carney joked on his twitter about the BlakRoc [...]

Looks like there will be a follow-up to the critically acclaimed Blakroc project after all. The collaborative project, which saw blues-rock revivalists The Black Keys and Roc-A-Fella co-creator Damon Dash bringing together a wide range of established emcees to the booth for the 2009 self-titled studio album, will bring in some newer heads for the upcoming sequel including Curren$y, Wiz Khalifa, The Cool Kids, Jay Electronica and more. Watch the teaser video below:

• BlakRoc - Ain't Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo)

Drop what you're doing. I loved Blakroc . It was awesome. Blakroc 2 has new details surfacing and a preview video that'll have you shaking the monitor, 'coming soon? Coming soon? What does that mean?' Blakroc is the Black Keys ' hip-hop, rock experiment that produced beautiful, smoky, soulful results. Their second album is going to feature Talib Kweli, Jay Electronica , Sean Price, Jim Jones, Wiz Khalifa and U God. The video has several artists who love smoking and its creative effects, but I'm most excited about Jay Electronica. The lineup [...]

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MP3:Curren$y & the Alchemist "Covert Coup" EP Curren$y teamed up with the Alchemist to make easily one of the coldest releases of the year. I don't even smoke and I feel like I stepped into one of those money cash grab booths and instead of air propelling the money, a straight gush of kush is making them dollar fly. Successs in my cologne in deed. Diamond Supply also got some "Covert Coup" shirts you can cop here. And the Well-Versed has a pretty good Curren$y interview [...]

A new music video from the Black Keys collaborative Blakroc release.