Blog: Beats & Bombs

As part of TDE Fam Appreciation Week, Kendrick follows the lead of his TDE and Black Hippy teammates and drops a new track. Kendrick has been riding high following the success of Section.80, the Dre cosign, signing to Aftermath and then the critical success of his singles "The Recipe" (featuring his label-head) and "Swimming Pools [...]

Straightfromthea.com is reporting that the newest lady on The Real Housewives of Atlanta is Louisiana born actress and singer Nicole Porche. Porche is a 40 year old who will replace Sheree Whitfield on RHOA. Not much is known yet about Nicole, other than she acted in a movie called The Paperboy recently and before that [...]

With this new track from the $3 million man, A$AP enlists the usual suspects, such as fellow up-and-comer, Spaceghost Purrp, to deliver the usual "dark, almost horror-core, production that makes the track bang hard but also captivates hip-hop heads around the world and gets their heads bobbin' along. While his subject matter and lyrics are [...]

Wow.  It's been a minute, but we're back here at B&B with a new year. To kick it off, here's a new joint from the Top Dawg all-star and member of Black Hippy (along with Jay Rock and Kendrick Lamar), ScHoolboy Q. Dave Free goes in on the boards and produces a sort of melancholy [...]

Since joining MMG, Wale's lyrical content and style have noticeably changed, mainly due to the grittier beat patterns of MMG artists. However, while tracks like "Bait" (prod.: Tone P.) and "Tats On My Arm" (prod. by Southside, one half of 808 Mafia with Lex Luger) play into this new style, Wale comes back to his [...]

.....And we're back in the game. It has been a minute since my last update but I have been wondering the worth of continuing the blog for sometime, so I have been getting to it when I feel like it instead of allotting 2 hours a day to doing it with few positive responses or [...]

A buzz track for Gerald Walker's upcoming mixtape, The Other Half of Letting Go, "Recluse" shows a mixture of new school and old school elements, a rising trend amongst many newcomers like, most recently, Kendrick Lamar. While it will not be featured on the tape, many believe it will be hard for Walker to top what [...]

We told you this tape was coming and it still blindsided us here at B&B faster than we expected. We have been very supportive of Darren for a few years now (and vice versa) and with each passing tape it gets more fun to see how he has evolved as an artist while still staying [...]

I had the pleasure of seeing Kendrick in Brooklyn about 2 weeks ago with Corey (Mr. B&B himself); and he killed it.  He knew how to get the crowd hype and ran through a great set.  Unfortunately, the concert came pre-#Section 80 announcement so we didn't get to here "Ronald Reagan" or "Hol' Up", his [...]

With just two weeks left before the drop of one of the most highly anticipated albums in the past five years (but still not Detoxlevel...wtf), Finally Famous, I feel its our job at B&B to get you all hype.  While I initially thought that the material released on Finally Famous, Vol.1 (one of the better [...]

Darren hit me up with this joint the other night and it has been stuck in my head ever since. "Higher" has a dreamier aspect to it with a slow, rolling piano loop and sung chorus which, despite the title, serves as more than a call to smoke weed. At B&B we have chronicled his [...]

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Mayer Hawthorne - "A Long Time"  Mayer has been on his grind lately giving us a FreEP full of covers a few weeks ago and now the this single which may or may not be from his next album. "A Long Time" still has his retro feel to it although it is more 702s [...]

For those who are late to the game, Bad Meets Evil is the name of the group which consists of Royce Da 5'93 and Eminem who are both lyrical heavyweights. "I'm On Everything" delivers with a playful melody on the bass that give the two spitters plenty of opportunity to trade bars and switch flows [...]

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Oddisee hits us with another single from his latest, and really dope, album called Odd Seasons. You Don’t Close Your Eyes is about the dynamics of a relationship turned cold. Clever wordplay and an effortless cadence propel this insightful tale of domestic apathy, which finds Oddisee questioning what changed in his relationship: “restaurant parking lots [...]

"Sunlight" displays Tabi's artistic side as he both sings/raps the song and directs the video for it. Make no mistake about it, this is a summer jam and the video emphasizes that with different beautiful women and Tabi playing around having water gun fights outside. I want to go to a BBQ after this one [...]

Chiddy Bang hasn't been up on the site in a while and it is time to change that with "When You've Got Music". The duo continue in their tradition of sample heavy beats with a hard hitting bass and any true fan wont be disappointed in this one. The bass synth and sample predominate the [...]

I haven't heard from Thad in a minute and when I looked him up I realized I missed this single which released almost a month ago. Instead of adding it to the bottom of his next single I decided to throw it up on B&B because it is dope and we need more DMV love [...]

Tags: Theophilus London, Music, More Music Videos Theophilus is back with his second single off of Lovers Holiday and it was my jam for a couple months. Sara Quin, from Sara & Tegan, helps out on the vocals for the chorus and a little more throughout and adds nicely to the bass heavy beat. The [...]

Black Sunn & 810 make their debut on B&B with this jazz infused jam chronicling life in B-More. Baltimore MCs The Black Sunn & 810 are back with “Ghost Town” the 2nd offering from their anticipated group debut, United Division, as premiered on Potholes in My Blog. Dressed as a newspaper salesman and a construction [...]

I could see this on MTV if they still played videos. Coming off of last months debut of his new album, The Proven Theory, Bronx, New York emcee YONAS is releasing his latest video, this one for the album's new single "Shy Kidz." It's a dizzying, conceptual video that offers visuals as striking as the [...]