J. Cole will be looking his very best when he heads to the Grammys next weekend. The Roc Nation rapper, who will compete for Greatest New Artist against Nicki Minaj, The Band Perry, Bon Iver, and Skrillex, spoke to USA These days about his nomination for his debut Cole World: The Sideline Story, and in which he was when he first received the very good news.

“I’m really joyful just to be nominated. If I do not win, it’s Okay,” said a humble Cole. “Now really don’t get me incorrect, I would enjoy to win.”

He previously has his outfit picked out. “I’m going to be searching extremely good in a very good suit,” he explained. “I’m going to bring my family members and friends and celebrate. I really don’t know how likely it is that I’ll win, but I’ve discovered that anything at all is achievable.”

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Willow Smith had everyone whipping their hair to her 2010 hit single, but she’s on to the up coming. The pint-sized trendsetter, acknowledged for her wild style, created an additional bold picture adjust, trading her long locks for a shaved head. Willow, whose Roc Nation debut Knees and Elbows is due this spring, when once more proves she is not your common 11-12 months-old. Will her youthful followers comply with suit?

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Iggy Azalea is acquiring a co-sign from the King. The Atlanta rapper will executive produce the Aussie newcomer’s upcoming debut.

“I’m working with a distinct production business for my album than what I did for my mixtape [Ignorant Art], and I really don’t know who but,” Iggy informed MTV News. “I’m nevertheless looking. T.I.’s gonna be assisting me with it, kinda like A&ampRing, kinda like executive-making.”

The 21-year-outdated rapper, who not too long ago signed to Interscope Records, explained how she linked up with Tip. “He known as me up and was like, ‘Please.’ And I was like, ‘Definitely. You are Tip. I really like you, of program.’ So he’s gonna be kinda helping me out, like just kinda reaching out to individuals and assisting me discover production and pointing me in the route of issues that I may like.”

They plan to get in the studio subsequent week. “We’re gonna start on that subsequent week together. I’ll most likely fly out to Atlanta and we’ll do it in in between there simply because he’s weird with traveling and things. I comprehend. We’re in touch with every other. I have legal issues, he has legal troubles. I get it. So hopefully that will be genuinely dynamic and it’ll assist speed factors along.”

Iggy is eyeing a summer season release for her debut The New Classic. “Hopefully if all goes to strategy, my album will be out in June and I’ll have it recorded by the end of the month.”

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Brianna proves that blondes have a lot more entertaining in the video for “Marilyn Monroe,” the ladies’ anthem off her mixtape Encounter Off. The 19-12 months-old Miami raptress, who cites Trina and Missy Elliott as influences, primps and pouts even though channeling the blonde Hollywood starlet in the clip.

“My music is distinctive and matchless. I have my personal lane and I’m going total throttle,” mentioned Brianna, who was formerly signed to Missy’s Goldmind label and appeared on her Tv display “Road to Stardom.” “My brand is a breath of fresh air and I’m right here to attack the game from each and every angle I perhaps can.”

Brianna is prepping her debut for release on Poe Boy/Atlantic.

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With the Grammys significantly less than two weeks away, Greatest New Artist nominee J. Cole hit up “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” on Tuesday. Sporting a Black Apple denim/leather jacket and backwards fitted cap, the Roc Nation star joined The Roots to carry out “Can’t Get Enough,” the second single off his debut Cole Planet: The Sideline Story. Following up, Cole will shoot a video with Missy Elliott for “Nobody’s Ideal.”

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Bow Wow celebrates new beginnings in the futuristic video for “Sweat,” the first single from his Money Income debut Underrated, due March 13. The 24-year-old rapper is joined by his YMCMB family including Lil Wayne and Birdman in the CGI visuals. He rides by way of in a Bugatti, while his female co-star requires a guitar and smashes his plaques.

“Each of these plaques resembles my old albums,” explained Bow Weezy. “She gonna take the guitar and she gon’ smash all of ‘em. It is representing a new starting, my coming up with YMCMB. Out with the old, in with the new plaques.”

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The White Stripes man’s debut is called Blunderbuss – hear the initial taste…

He’s releasing it via his Third Guy record label on April 23rd.

The initial single from it is referred to as Really like Interruption.

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It is about time: Jack White has announced his first-ever solo album. As his new site factors out, Blunderbuss will arrive April 24th through 3rd Man Records/Columbia.

Developed by White and recorded at Third Guy Studio in Nashville, Blunderbuss has been described by White as “an album I couldn’t have released until finally now. I’ve put off making records below my own name for a extended time but these songs truly feel like they could only be presented under my title. These songs were written from scratch, had nothing to do with anybody or anything else but my own expression, my very own colors on my own canvas,” according to an issued press release.

The album’s lead single, “Love Interruption”, will be accessible to stream at some point right now (members of Third Man’s Vault can hear it now.) Update: Stream it under! It will be released digitally tomorrow and on 7″ vinyl on February 7th (pre-orders are ongoing). The single is backed by a non-album track referred to as “Machine Gun Silhouette”.

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As Busta Rhymes readies his Cash Funds debut, he has dropped off a hugely animated visual for his new motormouth single, ‘Why Quit Now’ featuring Chris Brown.

Hooking up with longtime collaborator Hype Williams, Busta flips his “lyrical acrobatics” in a selection of costumes, while a shirtless Breezy dances with a wall in the dark video.

“I indicate, I knew he was gonna do his thing, ’cause he constantly does, but I did not assume that he would be undertaking the s— that he’s undertaking at this dynamic. He’s losing his f—in’ thoughts correct now,” Busta mentioned of Brown’s theatrics. “I can not do that s— that he do. All of that acrobatic, bouncing and flipping all over the f—in’ walls. I ain’t doin’t that s—! I do that s— with my lyrics.”

Busta’s ‘E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event) 2: End Of The World’ will be released solely via the newly launched Google Music platform.