• Music Times' Wishes for New Hip-Hop in 2014

    Pepsi Pulse, a sub-site within pepsi.com dedicated to music, has listed five hip-hop albums that it wants to hear during 2014 (which is odd...based on what Pusha T tells us, hip hope is more of a Coke genre...sorry, bad joke). The list includes fairly stellar choices, but Music Times had a few others in mind we're more interested in. Our suggestions for three replacements:
  • Kanye West Talks 'Yeezus' Follow-Up for Summer 2014

    If you're tired of Kanye West being at the fore of every hip-hop discussion, then you better sit down for this one. It looks like the rapper will be resurrecting Yeezus for a follow-up album to debut next year.
  • Jay-Z (Whoops...We Mean Jay Z): 'Magna Carta Holy Grail Rapper' Is Getting Rid of The Hyphen

    Jay Z has been all over the news recently for his work musically (new album "Magna Carta Holy Grail"), his work cinematically (producing the soundtrack for "The Great Gatsby"), and his work athletically (becoming a sports agent and signing Robinson Cano and Kevin Durant). Thursday's headline deals with his work grammatically however. Word has gotten round that the rapper would prefer to go by the name "Jay Z," dropping the hyphen previously included in his alias.
  • Jay-Z Discusses Fallout With Timbaland Following 'The Blueprint 3'

    Producer Timbaland had a big hand in crafting beats for Jay-Z's recent release "Magna Carta Holy Grail," as can be seen in the series of Samsung commercials that show clips of Hova and friends in the studio. But the pair's ability to work together has only just recently come back into being. Jay explained his fall out with Timbaland on BBC Radio on Monday.
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