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Watch DJ Khaled and Nas Team Up for ‘Done’

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Good news: Nas and DJ Khaled weren’t just trolling us with “Nas Album Done,” the standout collab from Khaled’s Major Key album. Teasing us, sure. But not trolling.

It turns out Nas’s next album is, in fact, finished: “All we’re doing now is plotting when we’re dropping,” he told Complex, adding that he has a title and timetable, but wasn’t going to let us in on those quite yet.

As for how the hype-building song itself came about — that was largely the work of the album’s architect, DJ Khaled, despite the fact that it plays like a solo Esco track.

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Rub Radio for July 2016 is Out!

The latest upload by Rub Radio features tracks from KAYTRANADA ft. Syd the Kid, Travis Scott ft. Young Thug & Quavo, Chance the Rapper ft. Saba, Desiigner, Boys Noize ft. Hudson Mohawke & Spankrock and more.

DJ Eleven and DJ Ayres bring out fresh tunes by Desiigner, Jeremih, Chance the Rapper, KAYTRANADA, Flume and more – this month on Rub Radio!

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WATCH THE NEW ‘JOHN MUIR’ VIDEO BY ScHOOLBOY Q

Via Rolling Stone:

Schoolboy Q has unveiled his new video for “John Muir,” which hails from his recently released Blank Face LP. While the rapper doesn’t appear in the clip, it’s shot in a car and gives a passenger-side perspective that juxtaposes harrowing and chilled-out moments in an affectingly jarring way.

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Stream ScHoolboy Q’s New Album ‘Blank Face’

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Coming off the highly acclaimed acclaimed LP Oxymoron, ScHoolboy Q is set to drop his second album, Blank Face. The album features 17 tracks, with pairings from such artists like Kanye West, Miguel, Vince Staples, Jadakiss, and SZa, just to name a few.

Have a listen to the full album below.

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Jamie xx Releases a New Amazingly Visual Version of Gosh

Filmed in China’s creepy Tianducheng — an exact replica of Paris boasting a scale replica of the Eiffel Tower — “Gosh” features 400 actors and, according to a press release, not a single drop of CGI or 3D modeling. That means they gave all those Chinese kids the exact same blonde-dyed bowl cut so they could worship at the feet of the albinos. Okay, so that sounds a bit strange, but just watch the video above and you’ll get it.

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Tom Sachs Brings Boombox Culture Back to the Brooklyn Museum

VIA HypeBeast

The Brooklyn retrospective covers 17 years of the artist’s career, but he has been making boomboxes for much longer; the New York creative warmly recalls trading his sister’s boyfriend a copy of Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti for a stolen car stereo. If you’re feeling adventurous, you can purchase a DIY zine from an ATM attached to Sach’s Bodega that dates the beginning of his obsession to 1981: “I hooked my Sony Walkman up to a set of mini speakers and Velcroed them to a block of plywood. It was a clusterfuck of wires.” The Bodega is a boombox too, of course.

The collection showcases Sachs’ balance of obsessive attention to detail and an irreverent sense of humor: one speaker has a perfect recreation of the Chanel monogram alongside the word “Pussy” written in Sachs’ signature scrawl; a Courvoisier bottle in Presidential Vampire Booth ‘s bar has been Wited-Out to read Corbusier.

Interesting retrospective, considering the resurgence of boombox culture, and innovative boombox technology like HI-RO.

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Joe Budden Releases Another Drake Diss Titled Wake

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Joe Budden took to Twitter to drop a new Drake diss titled “Wake”. Joe seems to reinforce the notion that Drake likes to jack other rapper’s lyrics, on top of not manning-up to Joe’s initial diss.

Have a listen below. Joe goes in.

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A$AP FERG FEAT. SCHOOLBOY Q – ‘LET IT BANG’

A$AP FERG FEAT. SCHOOLBOY Q – ‘LET IT BANG’

Dropping more tracks from his upcoming album, Always Strive and Prosper, A$AP Ferg brings the heat again. This time with “Let it Bang” featuring Schoolboy Q.

via rap-up.com: The Trap Lord kicks off the first two verses over high-energy production, focusing on his uncle Psycho, a Wu-Tang Clan fan with an Ol’ Dirty Bastard persona who handles beef with “no prob.” Then ScHoolboy Q delivers an autobiographical verse. “I ain’t talking about my uncle,” the TDE spitter raps. “This me.”

Ferg’s new album, Always Strive and Prosper, is set to drop April 22, but you can preoder March 24 on iTunes.

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A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg Has Died

A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg Has Died

The music industry, Tribe fans, and music fans alike are all stunned this morning with the new that a piece of the legendary hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest has passed away.

Phife Dawg, only 45, was an integral component of the historic hip-hop group. Diagnosed with Type-I diabetes back in 1990, the ultimate cause of death is still unknown.  However, it was well known that the Five Foot Assassin was battling this disease for many recent years.

Rest in peace to one of hip-hop’s kings.