This summer, Kendrick Lamar will embark on the good kid, m.A.A.d city world tour. Spanning 60 shows across 15 countries, the massive jaunt includes a great number of festival appearances on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as a U.S. headlining tour in June. He'll be joined on the road by the rest of the Black Hippy collective ( ScHoolboy Q , Ab-Soul , and Jay Rock) . Prior to the good kid, m.A.A.d city world tour, Lamar will perform a string of shows at [...]
Wednesday this week, the TDE crew released this rare and exclusive Cribs episode of the fellas' digs from SXSW 2013, and its hilarious. Good thing these dudes are 80s babies, otherwise these minor innuendos ("hard work", Q's "kids", Kendrick's face, etc) would be lost and unappreciated forever. No offense to the youngins, but Joey Bada$$ would have no idea what's going on here. The post Video: TDE Cribs - SXSW Edition appeared first on Vibe To This .
The Best MTV cribs that will never air.Schoolboy walks us thruthe TDE compound for SXSW. In Case You Wanna Play a Little Wii, I got The Shit"
Last week, Schoolboy Q stopped over in support of his upcoming third LP, Oxymoron, due out next fall. After dumping the contents of his kangaroo pocket on our conference table, he talked about copying Kendrick, ... read more
This summer, Downtown Records will stage several music festivals across the U.S., each featuring a unique lineup. The first one takes place in New York City's Lower East Side on May 10th and 11th, and features such acts as Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, and Jay Rock, AKA Black Hippy, along with Earl Sweatshirt, Purity Ring, Sky Ferriera, DIIV, Trash Talk, Palma Violets, Beach Fossils, Ducktails, Teengirl Fantasy, and more to be announced. Early-bird priced GA and VIP tickets for the New York festival are now available via Ticketweb . The lineups for festivals in [...]
Without speaking for the congregation, Terrace Martin's 3 Chord Fold is a 2013 must-have. "Why" featuring Jay Rock and Wendi Vaughn is set not to appear on said project, yet [...] The post Terrace Martin Ft. Jay Rock & Wendi Vaughn - "Why" appeared first on The Smoking Section .
The yearly hip hop festival that has helped jumpstart the careers of many underground hip hop acts returns in full form. Black Hippy, Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, Jay Rock will be gracing the stage along with Joey Badass and legendary groups like De La Soul and Grouch & Eligh. General tickets are available now and the eight annual event will take place on March 30, 2013 at NOS Event Center in San Bernardino, CA. Hop on to the Paid Dues Festival website for tickets and more info. - Conrad
We already knew that all four members of Black Hippy— Kendrick Lamar , Ab-Soul , Jay Rock and Schoolboy Q —were set to headline this year's Paid Dues Festival in San Bernardino, Calif. Other acts, including De La Soul and Dom Kennedy , were revealed earlier, too. But now we have the whole damn thing to ogle. The event features everyone from Madlib and Freddie Gibbs , to Souls of Mischief , to Killer Mike . There are plenty more—what up Jansport J !—so why don't you click the [...]
Day 4 of our 4-day countdown of the best of the year. Part 1 (80-61) can be found here . Part 2 (60-41) can be found here . Part 3 (40-21) can be found here . To recap: AlbatRoss and I had 2 guidelines that we stuck to in compiling this list: 1) it had to be rap (meaning no R&B - Frank Ocean and Miguel had killer years but they won't be found on this list) and 2) one song per project on the list. We did this (including honorable mentions, of course) to make sure we brought a [...]
Download: ¡MAYDAY! "Smash & Grab" Mixtape Miami live hip-hop crew ¡MAYDAY! have come together with The DJBooth, Strange Music and Monster Energy to bring listeners their latest mixtape, Smash & Grab. Clocking in at 78 minutes in total, the DJ Green Lantern-hosted project features 25 tracks' worth of original material, remixes and exclusive freestyles from the group. Included are previously-featured cuts "Sinister Kids" "Internal Wars" "Death March" (featuring Pharoahe Monch and Stat Quo) and "Thanksgiving (Remix)" (featuring Kendrick Lamar and Blood Type). Also appearing as guests are [...]
On March 30th, the hip-hop centric Paid Dues Festival will return to the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, CA with a lineup topped by the Black Hippy collective, aka Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Jay Rock. Also playing are Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Dom Kennedy, Tech N9ne, Immortal Technique, and Joey Bada$$ with more names to be revealed in January. A pre-sale is now ongoing for General Admission and VIP tickets; click here for more information.
The producer is one of the most crucial yet anonymous figures in all of music. Every now and again we aim to illuminate these under-heralded artists with Beat Construction, an extension of our column in ... read more
Jay Rock's Folow Me Home may not be as "out there" as recent TDE releases. Yet sometimes that straightforward, hard hitting rap is all you need to get your fix. [...] The post The iPod Shuffle - Jay Rock's "No Joke" appeared first on The Smoking Section .
I’m a fan of Danny Brown’s music and his feature on this song is what brought me to tune into Ab-Soul, who is linked with Kendrick Lamar and Jay Rock in the group Black Hippy. The first time I heard “Terrorists Threats” I loved it. The wordplay with “Babylon/babble on” and “Selassie I/Eye” really drew me in and I was surprised to hear him talk about gang solidarity in defense against US government systems of oppression. Ab-Soul raps about the dichotomy of being exposed to violence and discrimination despite living in the [...]
In By The Numbers, FADER looks at a big record release and breaks it down in basic digits. This week, we tackle Kendrick Lamar’s strong contender for rap album of the year, good kid, m.A.A.d ... read more
If you've gone on the internet in the past two years, I'm sure you've at least heard the name Kendrick Lamar. Last week his much anticipated major debut was released and has been talked about over and over while receiving critical acclaim. good kid, m.A.A.d city is Kendrick's sophomore album, and it's a follow up to his independent release Section.80 which dropped in the summer of 2011. I was a huge fan of Section.80,and it wasn't long after I started listening to it that I realized Kendrick's lyrical ability - especially when it comes to storytelling. Section.80 was [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. Yesterday Kendrick Lamar held his second album signing in Best Buy at Union Square, NYC and started off by performing "Swimming Pools (DRANK)", "Backseat Freestyle" & brought out his TDE mate Jay Rock for their new track "Money Trees". S/O DealWithNoDeal
“I’m the incredible, gargantuo/Crack competition like pistachios/I got in on lock, can’t crack the code/Streets know I’m hot, you catch a cold” Jay Rock is a member of hip hop supergroup Black Hippy (fellow members include Kendrick Lamar , Schoolboy Q , and Ab-Soul ) from Los Angeles. His style isn’t necessarily as distinctive as the fellow members of his crew, but it’s certainly as hard-hitting. His gritty new set of visuals, the video for coke anthem “Yola” released for TDE appreciation week, pushes his lyrics to the next [...]
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Kendrick Lamar 's stellar debut album, good kid m.A.A.D. city , dropped today, and if you haven't picked it up yet then you're missing out on excellent tracks like this one right here. While many fans complained about the lack of Black Hippy members on the album when the tracklist was released, those who decided to cop the deluxe version were pleasantly surprised to find a remix to the album's first single, featuring fellow TDE associates Jay Rock , Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul . If you needed any more reasons to keep this song [...]
If you've had even a passing interest in hip hop, chances are you're interested in checking out Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid M.A.A.D. City , which has finally seen the light of day. But while my first spin has shown a lot of quality on Good Kid (not really a surprise), I've been bumping one of the bonus cuts for the last half hour. Kendrick has called in his Black Hippy Crew cohorts Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock and Ab-Soul to rock over early single 'Swimming Pools', with all the crew putting in [...]
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