Meet KiD CuDi, a fresh, innovative artist who hails from Cleveland. His undergound track “Day N Nite” has created buzz for him over the past couple of months, and his mixtape A Kid Named Cudi (download link inside) landed him a deal with Good Music and two a features on Kanye West’s 808’s & Heartbreak LP.
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NextUp: KiD CuDi
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Categories : Hip Hop, Mixtapes/EP's
Album Review: Q-Tip – The Renaissance
6 11 2008
A Tribe Called Quest front man Q-Tip, is back with his second solo LP The Renaissance. In the 90’s, the hip hop audience loved Tribe’s jazzy style of rap music. While hip hop continues to change musically, will Q-Tip be able to revive the art with The Renaissance?
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Categories : Hip Hop, Reviews
Seeing is Believing 11/05: New Luda & Jadakiss R&B Collabo’s
5 11 2008On today’s edition of Seeing is Believing…
Ludacris & T-Pain need “One More Drink”, Jadakiss & Ne-Yo like ladies “By Their Sides”
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Tags: Jadakiss, Ludacris, Ne-Yo, T-Pain
Categories : Hip Hop, Music Videos
Dope or Nope 11/4 – New Jay Elect
5 11 2008
A fresh, new track from Jay Electronica produced by Just Blaze. Weeks ago there was streaming footage online of Jay & Just Blaze working in the studio and it resulted in dope music. Still no word on when Jay Elect will drop his debut album, but it should be nice.
If you missed my NextUp blog on Jay Electronica, click here to peep it.
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Tags: Jay Electronica, Just Blaze
Categories : Hip Hop
The Big Day is Here – Election Day ’08!
4 11 2008
After months of hype, propaganda, and debates, election day is finally here. I strongly encourage all registered voters to go out and vote today. This is a historical election with potentially the first black president. Let your opinion be heard and remember every vote counts.
“America surprise us, and let a black man guide us” – Nas
UPDATE: Speaking of Nas, 2dopeboyz up’ed this joint “Election Night” which is another dedication to Barack Obama and this exciting day.
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Categories : Hip Hop, Politics
Dope or Nope 11/03- Another 808 Track
4 11 2008Kanye West feat. KiD CuDi – Anyway
This is the fifth joint to leak off the 808’s & Heartbreak album by Mr. West. I heard that he was salty about the leak of Robocop which was unfinished. I say he push the album up to stop tracks from leaking on a weekly basis. I’m not listening to this joint because I don’t want to spoil the album (gotta keep it exclusive).
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Categories : Hip Hop
Lupe’s Special Announcement…
1 11 2008
For over a week there’s been a rumor that Lupe Fiasco will have an announcement on Halloween. Right when Halloween hit, many people (including myself) waited patiently for the big announcement, and the news is…
LupEND will be a 3-disk album! It’s 3 albums in one and the END in LupEND is an acronym for the disk titles Everywhere, Nowhere, Down Here. I guess that’s what Lu meant when I asked him if it’s his final album and he said “we’ll see” since its a 3 for 1. Peep the video below of his announcement of LupE.N.D.:
I must admit this is risky seeing that some of the greatest hip hop artist (Nas and Jay-z) created double albums and it turned out to be one of their least favorable albums. On the other hand, a real artist takes risks and tries new things. If this is Lupe’s final album I’m sure he will make a dope lasting impression.
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Mixtape Madness: New Lloyd Banks Mixtape!
1 11 2008Lloyd Banks – Halloween Havoc Mixtapes
All week there’s been a buzz behind Bank’s latest mixtape that dropped today as promised. Halloween Havoc is the second installment of the 5 or better series (Click here to get the first one)and it features Fabolous, Prodigy and 50’s latest single “Get Up”.
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Dope or Nope 10/31 – New Ghostface!
31 10 2008Happy Halloween! I’m kicking things off with some new GFK!
Ghostface Killah – Computer Love
New joint from one of my most favorite MC’s Ghostface Killah. Surprisingly, I noticed he’s dropping an album titled Ghostdeini the Great which will feature remixes and unreleased tracks that will drop later this month. “Computer Love” is not included on the (rumored) tracklist, which means that Toney Starks has another project in the works. Ghost has put out 3 albums in the past 2 years, makes me wonder what’s going on at Def Jam?
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Tags: Ghostface Killah, Wu-Tang Clan
Categories : Hip Hop
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