• Power 106's Powerhouse '15 Lineup: Kanye West, Ludacris, Tinashe

    Los Angeles hip-hop station Power 106 FM has announced the lineup for its annual Powerhouse concert at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The 2015 edition will be headlined by Kanye West with supporting performances from Ludacris, Kid Ink, Tinashe, B.o.B., Ty Dolla $ign, Nipsey Hustle, G-Eazy, Logic, Tech N9ne and Casey Veggies.

  • Rich Homie Quan, Young Thug Guest on Nipsey Hussle's "Choke" [LISTEN]

    Nipsey Hussle's new mixtape, 'Mailbox Money,' is set to drop tomorrow, Dec. 31, but if that's too long for you to wait for new music, Nipsey has shared a new song titled "Choke" featuring Young Thug and Rich Homie Quan, which you can check out here. The song features some heavy-hitting, dramatic production from London On Da Track and opens with a lengthy sample of Samuel L. Jackson's climactic speech from "Pulp Fiction." The vocals don't seem to be mixed very well though and often rise uncomfortably far above the beat.

  • Nipsey Hussle Shares Tracklist For 'Mailbox Money' Mixtape, Featuring Rick Ross, DJ Mustard

    Nipsey Hussle's upcoming Mailbox Money mixtape drops tomorrow, Dec. 31, but today, the Los Angeles rapper has revealed the tracklist, which you can check out below. Mailbox Money will feature guest appearances by Rick Ross, K Camp, Buddy, G.I. Joe, Conrad, Pacman, Dom Kennedy, J Stone, Trae Tha Truth, and Vernardo, as well as production work by DJ Mustard, DJ Khalil, and THC, among others.

  • Chris Brown Guests On TeeFLii's "Blue Lipstick" [LISTEN]

    Los Angeles singer/rapper TeeFLii has shared a new track titled "Blue Lipstick," a collaboration with Chris Brown, which you can check out below. The track has some refreshingly unique production, with some slinky guitars and funky synths anchored by a hard-hitting boom bap beat. TeeFLii and Chris Brown trade lines, and though the overtly sexual lyrics are the song's weakest spot, the production more than makes up for it.

  • Killer Mike, Young Thug, 34 Others Featured On 42-Minute Track "The Rap Monument" [WATCH]

    Have you ever listened to a rap song and found yourself wishing that it was about 40 minutes longer and had a thousand guest verses? If you have, then you're in luck, because Noisey has released its massive, Hudson Mohawke-produced "The Rap Monument," which features 36 rappers doing what they do best (rapping) for 42 minutes, more than twice as long as Eminem's 16-minute "Detroit vs. Everybody" remix. If you'd like some context, it's about two minutes longer than the entirety of Illmatic.

  • YG Shares Minimalist '2015 Flow' Music Vid [WATCH]

    Compton rapper YG has shared the music video for his recent single "2015 Flow," which you can check out below. The refreshingly minimalist video features YG in a dark room with red and black walls, simply rapping to the camera in a single, unbroken take. As the camera gradually zooms back, it is revealed that DJ Mustard, the track's producer, is sitting on a couch throwing cash around — because this is a rap video, after all. You can check out YG's "2015 Flow" music video here:

  • Nipsey Hussle Dominates Capitalism With $100 'Crenshaw' Mixtape

    A recent conversation with one of Music Times' office neighbors got into the economics of releasing hip-hop music. The curious conversation partner asked why rappers were always releasing mixtapes, which were typically available for free and often featured rhymes better than what one hears on an official LP. The only answers we had was that rappers wanted to create buzz and perhaps they just enjoyed making music too much to take breaks. Nipsey Hussle seems to have found a profitable method of mixtape deployment however.
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