• Beyonce's 'Lemonade' Collaborators Speak Out: Just Blaze, Big Freedia, Malik Yusef & More

    Beyoncé took the world by storm when she surprised fans with her sixth studio album, 'Lemonade,' on Apr. 23 right after debuting her television special of the same name on HBO. The body of work is comprised of vulnerable tracks and images of social justice, all tightly packaged together with the essence of black girl magic. In a recent interview with Billboard, producer Just Blaze, songwriter Malik Yusef, and artist Big Freedia opened up about their experience collaborating with Beyoncé on the album.

  • Diplo and Skrillex Drop New Jack U Tracks At Lollapalooza Brazil, Stream Full Set [WATCH]

    During a riotous set at Lollapalooza 2016 in Brazil this past weekend, Jack U, the EDM production super-duo of Diplo and Skrillex, dropped several new tracks including ID remixes of "Roses" by The Chainsmokers featuring vocals from Rozes and Valentino Khan's "Lunchbox." Thanks to some of the over 80,000 attendees, fans around the world can stream audio and video footage of the full bass-driven live set online.

  • Just Blaze Keeps His 'Meow The Jewels' Kickstarter Promise, Shares Early 2000s Drum Samples

    Run The Jewels hit new heights of critical and commercial success with last year's Run The Jewels II.In the months before the album's release, members El-P and Killer Mike began a kickstarter for a remix album entitled Meow The Jewels. The two planned to raise funds as a parody of both the "kitten culture" of the Internet, and the recent phenomenon of pre-ordering albums to create hype. However, what began as a joke morphed into a very real album with contributions from heavyweight producers like Prince Paul and the Alchemist. Although the band only asked for $40,000 to remix their entire sophomore effort with cat noises, they raised $66,000 and released the album in late September, prompting El-P to tweet, "did we make the silliest, occasionally most grating possible remix album? of course. and we did it for you, mike brown and eric garner." As part of the promises attached to donations from the kickstarter, producer Just Blaze said he would release the drum samples he used during a particularly fruitful period from 2001-2005. As it appears, the man behind hits from artists such as Jay Z, Kanye West, and more, has fulfilled his promise.

  • A3C Festival 2015 Lineup: De La Soul, Curren$y, Rakim Headline

    Atlanta has been a bed of hip-hop for a long time so it is fitting that the city has a well-established festival devoted to the genre. The five-day A3C Festival is one of the city's biggest events.The first wave of acts slated to perform at A3C including De La Soul, Rakim, Cyhi Da Prynce, Cam'ron, Curren$y and his Jet Life crew, and others.

  • Kanye West, Dr. Dre, Timbaland Producing The Game's 'The Documentary 2'

    The Game offered a few details about his upcoming album 'The Documentary 2' yesterday, March 11, on Power 106's 'The Cruz Show.' The rapper said he is about 90 percent done with the effort, which is due out sometime this summer. Producers for the album include Kanye West, Timbaland and Swizz Beatz as well as Dr. Dre, who The Game is waiting for to get back from vacation to finish the album.

  • Run The Jewels' Cat Remix Of 'RTJ2,' 'Meow The Jewels,' Officially Funded On Kickstarter

    Last month, El-P and Killer Mike's Run The Jewels announced a number of ridiculous fake pre-order packages for their upcoming album RTJ2. One of them was a package called "Meow the Jewels," which was described as a remixed version of RTJ2 "using nothing but cat sounds for music." One fan decided he would make a Kickstarter to raise the $40,000 needed to purchase the package, and because El-P has a sense of humor, he agreed to take on the project if it got funded. Surprisingly, it actually did reach its funding goal, and El-P has kept his word.

  • Producer Attempts to Extort Jay Z with Master Tapes

    Jay Z and Roc-A-Fella Records thought that they had lost four years worth of master tapes a decade ago, but it turns out they lucked out: The tapes were actually stolen by an idiot. Chauncey Mahan, a producer who had worked with Jay at the time, made off with the recordings and recently made a less-than-skillful attempt to extort the rapper.
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