Rap-Up TV: Rye Rye Goes Hard on New Mixtape, Calls for Unity in Female Rap
Rye Rye makes her long-awaited debut with her album Go! Pop! Bang!, which lands in stores today. “There’s a lot of mainstream producers, but it’s my flavor,” said the Baltimore MC, who worked with Pharrell, Bangladesh, and Egyptian Lover. “Everything sounds refreshing.”
After nearly two years of delays, she is relieved to finally deliver the project to her fans. “I never was frustrated about it not coming out,” she told Rap-Up TV. “I thought it was a good thing that it got pushed back. I’m not gonna deliver something unless it’s ready.”
Now that her album is out, she is working on a new mixtape, the follow-up to last year’s RYEotpowRR. “My first mixtape was all party,” said the 21-year-old, who sampled Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “Ni**as in Paris” on one of the new cuts. “But this one I’m going into a vibe where it’s just straight hard. It’s just me killin’ straight hard hip-hop beats.”
M.I.A.’s protégée has no beef with her fellow femcees and called for unity in female rap. “I support every female artist in the industry. I feel like if the guys can get along, why can’t the girls? Girls tend to look at everything as a competition,” she said, adding, “I like Azealia [Banks'] movement, I support it 100 percent, and I think everybody’s doing their thing.”
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Jay-Z Voices Support for Gay Marriage
Jay-Z is speaking out in support of gay marriage. Following President Obama’s endorsement of very same-sex marriage final week, the Roc Nation mogul has weighed in on the hot topic.
“I’ve usually thought it as some thing that’s nonetheless holding the nation back,” the rapper informed CNN for the duration of a press conference for his “Made in America” festival in Philadelphia. “What men and women do in their very own houses is their enterprise. You can pick to love whoever you love. It is no different than discriminating against blacks. It’s discrimination plain and basic.”
He responded to critics who claim it will expense Obama votes in the upcoming election. “I believe it is the correct point to do, so regardless of whether it fees him votes or not… Once again, it is not about votes, it’s about people,” he explained. “I think it’s the proper thing to do as a human currently being.”
When it comes to his music, Mr. Carter does not have any instant plans to head back into the studio following the birth of his daughter Blue Ivy Carter. “I thought that I would immediately after my daughter was born. I believed I would be far more inspired with all the new emotions and every little thing that I’d have to create about, but it really happened the other way,” he told MTV News. “I just genuinely wanna hang out with her. I just wanna get pleasure from people moments for a bit and I’m positive that feeling of music will come back to me.”
Jay-Z will join Kanye West on the European leg of the “Watch the Throne” tour, which kicks off May 18 in London.
Album review: Best Coast’s ‘The Only Place’
Followers concerned that Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno, who execute beneath the moniker Very best Coast, would succumb to the pressure of higher expectations can unwind. On their sparkling 2nd album, the Los Angeles duo, whose 2010 debut, “Crazy for You,” brought them international sing-along acclaim, offers very little evidence that they care about impressing critics or alienating the significantly less commercially-attuned. Personalized expectations, nevertheless, are one more story, as Cosentino throughout the new album dives into hopes the two dashed and fulfilled involving enjoy, existence and her future with both.
Unlike “Crazy for You,” which was buried underneath a protective layer of distortion, on “The Only Place” a confident Cosentino stands at the front of the stage, seemingly unconcerned with judgment or ambivalence while she sings. With a voice that strives to hit Neko Case and Martha Reeves territory but which a lot more usually than not is in the Belinda Carlysle and Suzanna Hoffs range, Cosentino’s strength as a vocalist doesn’t come from pitch-excellent vocal tone, but rather, it lies in how she and Bruno craft sound, three and 4 minute pop songs that recommend everyone from Buddy Holly to the Crystals to the Bangles with out sounding like any of them. Best, there’s a uniquely Californian really feel to the album, a gloss that is not so much of the business assortment as of the really feel-very good sort.
Component of that vibe arrives courtesy of producer Jon Brion, whose operate in Los Angeles above the past two decades has added a new branch to the archetypical “west coast sound” family tree. Brion, best recognized for his operate with Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, Kanye West, Brad Mehldau, and dozens of other people – as nicely as the music for Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic ode to the San Fernando Valley, “Magnolia” — sequestered the band in Capitol Studios on Vine more than the fall and early winter to make “The Only Place,” and you can hear his influence in the album’s cohesion. There, in the exact same room where the Seashore Boys, Frank Sinatra, and Green Day made some of their classics, Cosentino, Bruno and Brion set to operate making magnetic – and targeted — new songs.
Teyana Taylor Signs to Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music
Teyana Taylor is feeling G.O.O.D. Right after months of rumors, the Harlem singer has officially signed a deal with Kanye West’s label in conjunction Island Def Jam, it was announced nowadays.
She joins a roster that incorporates Huge Sean, Pusha T, Kid Cudi, John Legend, Q-Tip, and a lot more. Her G.O.O.D. Music/Island Def Jam debut is due later on this year. More specifics will be revealed in the weeks and months ahead.
The 21-year-old was featured on Kanye’s critically-acclaimed album My Gorgeous Dark Twisted Fantasy and released her totally free EP The Misunderstanding of Teyana Taylor in March, with appearances from Wale, Jadakiss, and Fabolous.
Teyana, who starred in Madea’s Large Happy Family, was previously signed to Pharrell’s Star Trak label and parted methods earlier this year. Her debut single “Google Me” was released in 2008, but her album From a Planet Named Harlem by no means saw the light of day.
Kanye West – “Lost In This World (Tiësto Remix)”
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A lot more than a year ago, the Dutch large-area dance DJ Tiësto remixed Kanye West’s “Lost In The Globe,” the My Stunning Dark Twisted Fantasy closing track that prominently samples Bon Iver’s “Woods.” The song has apparently been sitting close to Tiësto’s difficult drive for the past year, and he just now got the all-clear to play it on his podcast. It is seven minutes of ridiculously above-the-top thumpage, and it has the exciting consequence of transforming Justin Vernon’s solo Vehicle-Tune experiment into total Electric Zoo fare. Listen to a radio rip (or, I guess, podcast rip) of it below.
We are all now lost in the world.
New Music: Kanye West – ‘Lost in the World (Tiësto Remix)’
A year-and-a-half right after releasing his Grammy-winning album My Lovely Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West unleashed the video for “Lost in the World” and now comes a remix by Tiësto. The 7-minute electro-dance track was recorded more than a year ago, but the Dutch DJ was ultimately offered permission to play it in the course of his podcast. Relive Yeezy’s Dark days with the previously unreleased combine.
[Thanks, Yeezy Dude]
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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian Couple Up Courtside at Lakers Game
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian cozied up courtside at the Los Angeles Lakers vs. Denver Nuggets game at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Saturday. The couple wasn’t shy with the PDA, locking hands and whispering in each and every other’s ears as photographers snapped away. Yeezy was grinning from ear to ear the entire night.
The kiss cam caught celebrity couple Justin Timberlake and fiancée Jessica Biel locking lips. The pop superstar jammed with the Lakers band and high-fived Kobe Bryant on the court.
Game brought his grandmother to the game to celebrate her 77th birthday and launched her to his popular close friends including Kanye and Justin. “My grandma brought a date to the game & kicked me to the curb til 4th quarter,” joked the Compton rapper, who took a picture of grandma with ‘Ye.