G.O.O.D Music - Cruel Summer (Review) The last two years we have definitely witnessing the rebirth of Hip Hop groups such as “Odd Future”, “Asap Mob”, “Black Hippy” and even “YMCMB” could be considered as an hip hop group. I am in no means comparing these outfits to the greatest rap group of all time “Wu-tang Clan”, because no one will ever be able to impact the hip hop world as much as the Clan did. However if there is one group that has the ability to pull off an outstanding group album, look no further than the G.O.O.D Music family. [...]
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A few of my favorite new releases this week, including new stuff from Dinosaur Jr. , Grizzly Bear , Menomena , The Sea and Cake , and more. As always, be sure to check out Largehearted Boy for the rest of this week's new releases. Allah-Las// Allah-Las [...]
G.O.O.D. Music's collective project is easily one of the more anticipated albums of 2012, and it was released across the country today. As soon as Kanye starts repeating "Mitt Romney ain't pay no tax" on the first track, you know shit's about to get interesting. First impressions: Mitt Romney ain't ... Read More
We’re back with The Drop , our Soundbytes segment where we rate the week’s hottest releases in pop. This Tuesday, however, we're doing a super special, extended episode. For reasons still unknown, September 18 suddenly became the date virtually every artist under the sun decided to claim for their musical offerings. Today's releases include everything from first studio efforts like Kreayshawn 's Somethin' 'Bout Kreay to long awaited returns from The Killers ' [...]
Kanye West has a God complex (turns out you can’t spell G.O.O.D. Music without G-O-D), and with Cruel Summer out today ( September 18 ), he actually got to live out the fantasy. It's not surprising that giving one Kanye all that power results in a generally successful album. What's surprising is the way Cruel Summer succeeds. On My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Watch The Throne , bigger was always better. Here, the most entertaining tracks are the [...]
Don't even talk to Slava P about fashion. He wrote the entire third season of Project Runway. In Sao Paolo, Brazil, there exists a luxury fashion emporium called Daslu. In 1979, the founder of Daslu, Eliana Tranchesi, began making and selling clothes from home, eventually going on to rent out the neighboring houses to keep up with growing interest from locals. In the mid-nineties, Eliana brokered a deal with Chanel that allowed them to display and sell goods in her store, leading to interest from brands like Gucci and Prada to set up similar [...]
Love ( My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ) or loathe ( 808s & Heartbreak ), G.O.O.D. Music head honcho Kanye West is, absolutely indubitably, the mercurial hip hop mastermind he unendingly proclaims himself to be. Blazoned as such across the entirety of this here universe, he's The One; the Champion; the Runaway; the Monster: all of the above, and all at once. And in being this polymathic jack of all trades and master of but one, he debatably has less of a clue as to who he really is than we do. Here, in [...]
While the masses were quick to jump on the leak of Cruel Summer last week, the real G.O.O.D. Music diehards knew to wait, as Ye’ again fooled us all. The leaked version of “New God Flow” was apparently not finished, as we can now hear the completed track featuring an additional verse from Ghostface Killah . Hear the tagged version below: Pusha T x Kanye West x Ghostface Killah - New God Flow (Tagged Remix) by thedopesteez [...]
G.O.O.D. Music - Cruel Summer G.O.O.D. Music: 2012 The idea of a “Kanye West posse album” is a preposterous one. Since Kanye was signed as a rapper to Roc-A-Fella not for his rapping skills but because Dame and Jay wanted to keep their beatsman happy, he’s spent all his time yelling “Look at me!” and doing a Rob Van Dam pose . It’s his greatest character flaw, and also his greatest artistic asset. His insistence on talking about himself has allowed us to follow him from unappreciated Jay-Z lackey (“Big Brother”) to doing songs about being richer [...]
Counting down the days until Kanye & Co.'s Cruel Summer is released? This should hold you over until September 18th. Head on over to fistintheair to stream the album in its entirety. Kanye, you had me at R. Kelly.
Kanye West ' s G.O.O.D. Music Cruel Summer leaked this week — bringing a litany of high-profile collaborators like Jay-Z , Big Sean , R. Kelly , Pusha T , 2 Chainz , John Legend , The-Dream , Kid Cudi and more to the masses early. (The compilation doesn't officially go on sale until Sep. 18.) But even though we've all already heard it, leave it to 'Ye to pull no promotional punches and release a commercial for the upcoming LP anyway. The clip [...]
B. Michael Payne steps into the arena. It must feel weird being even a relatively old-school hip-hop head. Back in the late 90s and early 00s, you only knew Kanye West as a Roc-a-Fella producer with occasional placements on semi-underrated Jay-Z projects. The College Dropout leak and College Dropout album were game changers, but for critics, they often had more to do with music geekery - i.e. making the leap from producer to rapper and bringing together backpacks and Bentleys. A decade later, it's illegal in Dubai to stare directly into [...]
Kanye West was impressively secretive with the release of Watch The Throne , implementing a number of security measures to ensure there were no leaks ahead of its release. When it finally hit iTunes, nobody had heard the album yet, making its release one of those collective moments that music fans so rarely get to share these days. We thought the same thing would happen with G.O.O.D. Music's Cruel Summer compilation on September 18, but instead of release day we got leak night . It's unclear at this point [...]
Kanye West has unveiled "To The World" to the world, the first track off the forthcoming G.O.O.D. Music compilation Cruel Summer (Sep. 18). It's a sprawling scene-setter which finds R. Kelly doing all the heavy lifting (Ye is nowhere to be found for the first two minutes). The R&B enigma mainly chirps about running the world and throwing his middle fingers to the sky — standard hip-hop fare. But THEN, Kelly delivers what could be the best line of 2012 (and maybe ever?): [...]
After getting our hands on the snippets , it appears the entire Cruel Summer is now available for streaming. While some of the snippets were underwhelming, perhaps a full listen will do a better job of winning us over. The opening track with R. Kelly is rather lovely, for example. I just wish some of these singles hadn't been floating around the radio for such a long time, it would have made for a fresher sounding release. Anyway, there it is, ready for you to tear apart and critique until the end of time. Did the G.O.O.D. [...]
By now, most people are either a full way through their first listen to Cruel Summer or firing up their mobile device and seeing the news that the album sprung [...] The post Kanye West, Big Sean, 2 Chainz & Marsha Ambrosius - "The One" appeared first on The Smoking Section .
Somebody call a plumber, because Cruel Summer has been leaking all over the web and the itsy bitsy spider is pissed. But fuck that spider because these tracks are dope as hell. The first song on the album is one of my personal favorites called To The World by Kanye West and R. Kelly . I haven’t been this excited for an R. Kelly project since Chapter 9 of Trapped in the Closet back in ‘05, you know the one where the midget is hiding in the cabinet. Anyways, [...]
Chitown heavyweights deliver something fresh on the latest leak (full) from Ye's forthcoming Cruel Summer release expected September 18th. Kanye West - To the World (ft. R. Kelly) Kanye West ( Official ) R Kelly ( Official ) Rating 8
The G.O.O.D. Music collaborative album Cruel Summer is less than a week away from hitting stores, and lucky for us iTunes released a pre-order for the album which conveniently came with a 9 0 second preview of each song on the album . The official tracklist was released last week confirming 12 songs are on the album, all but two of which are collaborations featuring an array of artists from R. Kelly to Jadakiss , and of course all the usual G.O.O.D . suspects ( Kanye, Pusha T, Big [...]
As the release of G.O.O.D. Music's Cruel Summer approaches, it appears snippets of each track have materialized on iTunes. Someone took it upon themselves to compile each track and throw it on Soundcloud, and now we get a sneak peek at what this album is going to sound like. We don't really know what to expect from this album, but the features list is quite impressive. The only question that remains is whether or not the execution will be at the same level as we hope. With that said, after skimming through the snippets, [...]
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