G-Eazy These Things Happen stream G-Eazy These Things Happen music video G-Eazy interviews+performance on Sway in the Morning G-Eazy talks about Bay Area Hip-Hop and his about his music on HOT97 – G-Eazy is an up and coming artist out of the Bay Area, North Oakland to be exact, who dropped his new album recently called These Things Happen. G-Eazy is no fly by overnight sensation, with 10 years of indie albums and mixtapes under his belt. Still on the indie tip, G-Eazy has …
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When you think of Brazilian music; Samba, and Bossa Nova may come to mind, but there are other sounds like candomblé, capoeira music, choro, MPB (Música popular brasileira), music of the Tropicalia movement, rock, psychedelic, funk, Afro-Reggae, mangue bit or beat, Brazilian Hip-Hop, Baile funk/Funk carioca, and axé to name a few from the plethora of genres that exist in Brazil. There, people take sports (Football) and music with equal levels of seriousness and passion. You can learn a lot about a country’s history …
– The Roots recently released another concept album And Then You Shoot Your Cousin following the previous concept album 2011’s Undun. The concept of this new album is made up of characters, stories, satirical commentary on violence in Hip-Hop and American society in general. In an interview with Sway, Questlove and Black Thought reveal the name of the album And Then You Shoot Cousin was inspired by a line from a KRS One song. MC’s more worried about their financial backin’ Steady packin a gat as if …
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib Cocaine Piñata Spotify Stream Music Videos from Cocaine Piñata – Rapper Freddie Gibbs (Gray, Indiana/ L.A.) teams up with L.A. producer-rapper Madlib, creating that next level gangsta blaxploitation rap sound on the collaborative album Cocaine Piñata. Folks have mined blaxploitation soundtracks in Hip-Hop before (Dr Dre, Snoop, Ice Cube, Ice-T, Too $hort, and etc) but Madlib dug deep in his crates for this, putting the quirky Madlib touch to the style. Mix Madlib’s beats with Freddie Gibbs’ lyrics gives us …
20 Feet From Stardom (2013) is a documentary about the often-overlooked backup singers. They don’t often get the shine they deserve, because of the role they play. Take backup singers out of the songs, and then your favorite songs don’t sound the same. Backup singers are the glue in the construction of songs. The casual listening public does not often know backup singers’ names, but you’ll recognize their voices from your favorite songs. 20 Feet From Stardom explores the ups and downs of …
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