It was 6:30 a.m. on a Friday. Any self-respecting human being should have been hitting snooze, squeezing nine more blissful minutes of sleep before building the courage to get out of bed and put in the last eight hours that stand between them and the criminally insufficient 64 hours of free time before they slump back into their desk chair. But self-respecting humans are in short supply here. Instead of the shrill blaring of an alarm clock, I was being woken by Don Ricardo, the godfather of Coachella trips, handing out Jager bombs to the poor souls in my tent. [...]
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Bangladesh brings the heat in his brand new Ponzi Scheme mixtape, with 15 exclusive tracks by the likes of 2 Chainz, Future, Pusha T, Gucci Mane, Trinidad James, Cihy Tha Prince and more. The hit-maker is working on his debut album Flowers & Candy , and while we wait for it to drop, this project should hold you over.
N.O.R.E. drops a new video for "Tadow" featuring French Montana, 2 Chainz & Pusha T off his upcoming album "Student Of The Game". The post Video: N.O.R.E. Ft. French Montana, 2 Chainz & Pusha T – Tadow appeared first on Traps N Trunks // Hood Certified Gangsta Music Added Daily! .
Day 3 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 . To recap: AlbatRoss and I had 2 guidelines 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 good variety from the list and not to [...]
The G.O.O.D. Music crew had a huge year with the release of Cruel Summer . This record top to bottom has some of the best production in hip hop along with some of hip hops biggest names. "Mercy" is the standout track in my opinion, especially the verses from Pusha T and 2 Chainz . Pusha T has emerged as the stand out lyricist of the entire crew, combining clever quips with street credibility. Kanye West - Mercy (feat. Big Sean, Pusha T, & 2 Chainz) [from Cruel Summer ] [...]
It would stand to reason that of all the heavyweight rap collectives that exist in 2012, Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music would have as good a chance as any to transcend [...] The post "To The World" - Review Of G.O.O.D. Music's Cruel Summer appeared first on The Smoking Section .
Common Mos-def Kanye West Q-tip Kid Cudi Pusha T Cyhi the Prynce Big Sean 2 Chainz Hit Boy Who Is The Best Rapper In G.O.O.D Music (Top Tens) With [...]
Well, G.O.O.D. Music 's debut album as a crew, Cruel Summer , has officially been out for a week. And if you're a nerd/music head, you know what that means: the first-week sales numbers are and ... well, they're not that pretty. The project sold less than P!nk's latest album, Truth About Love , which moved 280,960 units and debuted at number one. As for Kanye West and his crew? Well, they moved a total of 216,115 copies. That's a shitload more than their competitors in 2012, aka Maybach Music Group, who [...]
Kanye West acts as the ringleader for Cruel Summer , rapping in the album opener “To The World,” sticking around until the album feels too disjointed, and becoming less involved than one might imagine, considering he’s the keystone to this particular rap clique. Cruel Summer also seems centered around promoting ass-obsessed young-gun Big Sean , the newly rebranded 2 Chainz , and the gruff OG Pusha T since [...]
On BET's 106 & Park , assorted members of the G.O.O.D. Music clique (including Big Sean, Pusha T, Common, Teyana Taylor and 2 Chainz) were featured guests, sitting down for an interview and a blinding performance - primarily because they were decked out in all white everything, ripping through tracks like "Mercy", "Clique" , "Birthday Song" , "New God Flow" and "Don't Like" for the packed house. No Kanye, though. [ Complex ]
Shortly after video of Kanye's commentary on Cruel Summer hit the web, clips of G.O.O.D. Music up on 106 & Park starting buzzing as well. Big Sean, Common, Pusha T, 2 Chainz, Teyana Taylor, CyHi The Prynce, and Travis $cott donned all-white apparel and sat on their own custom stage for this interview, check it out above. Hit the jump to see more of the interview and video of the label performing "I Don't Like", "New God Flow", "Birthday Song", "Mercy", and "Clique".
While the rest of the G.O.O.D. roster has made the rounds this week, Kanye West has been noticeably absent. Until today, when Yeezy updated his YouTube channel with a clip [...] The post Kanye West & The G.O.O.D. Music Family Talk "Cruel Summer" appeared first on The Smoking Section .
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kanye West and his G.O.O.D. Music clique are gearing up for the release of their hotly-anticipated compilation album, Cruel Summer, in less than a week. Before you break open the piggy bank to hear what Ye and Co., including Big Sean, Pusha T, Kid Cudi, CyHi Da Prynce, John Legend, Common , and Teyana Taylor , are offering on the set, you cam sample the album by listening to preview snippets of all 12 tracks. A number of guests join the crew, like Jay-Z, 2 Chainz, R. Kelly, The Dream , and Marsha Ambrosius , [...]
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 [...]
There are few albums due out this fall that are more hotly anticipated than Kanye West 's G.O.O.D. Music label compilation album, Cruel Summer , which promises collaborations from Kanye and all his famous friends: Jay-Z , Big Sean , R. Kelly , Pusha T , 2 Chainz , John Legend , The-Dream , Kid Cudi and more. (No big deal or anything.) The tracklist is a veritable who's who of everybody who matters in rap — and [...]
A day after Kanye and Co. dropped " Clique ," the G.O.O.D. Music crew is back with the tracklist for the forthcoming Cruel Summer , a record that's out in a couple of weeks. Personally, I didn't need to read past the first track to feel completely amped about the release. Head below to scope it. Read More...
"Don’t call it a comeback, I’ve been here for years." LL Cool J famously opened his 1991 hit-record, “ Mama Said Knock You Out ,” with these words—signaling to his critics that he was still a force to be reckoned with in the rap arena. Fast-forward 21 years and those words ring true for a few of Hip-Hop’s biggest artists in 2012, who just so happen to be on the second and third winds of their career. The way that Pusha T, Juicy J and 2 Chainz have been able [...]
"Don’t call it a comeback, I’ve been here for years." LL Cool J famously opened his 1991 hit-record, “ Mama Said Knock You Out ,” with these words—signaling to his critics that he was still a force to be reckoned with in the rap arena. Fast-forward 21 years and those words ring true for several of Hip-Hop’s biggest artists in 2012, who just so happen to be on the second and third winds of their career. At the top of that list are Pusha T, Juicy J and 2 Chainz. [...]
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