Left To Right (clockwise): Lil’ Wayne, DJ Quik, Freeway, Mr. Robotic, Brisco
Each day Complex scours the music blogs for 5 fresh songs that you should listen to in our 5 O’Clock Shuffle post. Instead of going crazy trying to keep up with your RSS feeds everyday, just head over to Complex.com to stay up-to-date on important leaks and releases.
You know how it goes. Five o’clock rolls around and we hit you with five new songs. Today we have a hilarious but surprisingly dope mash-up of Lil’ Wayne and The Office theme song. We got our hands on hot new tracks from favorites like DJ Quik and Freeway too. Stream and download everything below…
There’s no day more amazingly judgment-free than March 17th. When else can you throw on a skinned Gumby, chug morning stouts with a sesame bagel and not even be Irish? Only on St. Patrick’s Day. To help keep the celebration live, we compiled a countdown of our 25 favorite alcohol-related rap songs that are fit for pre-gaming, boozing and tonguing the pub toilet. Let us know in the comments if we forgot your favorite joint, because—full disclosure—we were drunk as fuck when we made this list. Party, party, party let’s all get wasted!!!
Left To Right (clockwise): Lil’ Wayne, Asher Roth, DOM, R. Kelly, Ghost/Rae/Meth
Each day Complex scours the music blogs for 5 fresh songs that you should listen to in our 5 O’Clock Shuffle post. Instead of going crazy trying to keep up with your RSS feeds everyday, just head over to Complex.com to stay up-to-date on important leaks and releases.
It’s been a good day for new music. Gudda Gudda dropped something from his next project that’s totally worth listening to because of Wayne. We got the first leak from Asher’s upcoming mixtape. Then there’s the ’80s-inspired synthpop of New England band DOM. Hit the jump to check out those songs and a couple more…
Left To Right (clockwise): B.o.B, Theophilus London, Kisses, Shawty Lo, Consequence
Each day Complex scours the music blogs for 5 fresh songs that you should listen to in our 5 O’Clock Shuffle post. Instead of going crazy trying to keep up with your RSS feeds everyday, just head over to Complex.com to stay up-to-date on important leaks and releases.
The weekend and its slow stream of new music is over. Today we got our hands on new joints from guys like B.o.B and Theophilus London. L.A. band Kisses surprised us with their latest record. Shawty Lo and Birdman have a dope collab on deck too. Stream and download everything after the jump…
We’ve been waiting for Consequence to drop his Cons TV album for a minute now, but he’s holding us over with the “Movies On Demand” mixtape, which just dropped over at Nah Right. It has more guest appearances than an entire season of Curb—featuring Asher Roth, Rick Ross, Pharoahe Monch, Styles P, Common, Talib Kweli, Q-Tip, Kanye, Diddy, KiD CuDi, The LOX, John Legend & more.
ARTIST: Consequence MIXTAPE:Movies On Demand WHY IT’S WORTH THE DL: Cons keeps G.O.O.D. company—getting down with ATCQ since the age of 16, collaborating with Kanye and influencing his label-head’s flow. He’s delivered solid verses on tracks leaked last year like “Buggin Out 09′” and his “Whatever You Want” single.
Since getting his monumental “Exhibit C” record played on Hot 97 and enduring all of the accompanying challenger freestyles, Jay Electronica’s probably been collecting more industry contacts than Superhead at a DJ Khaled video shoot. The New Orleans rapper, who’s never applied to the industry’s standards of music release and promotion, has also managed to break new ground in fan-artist interaction, repeatedly posting his personal Blackberry Messenger (BBM) pin number to twitter (@JayElectronica), giving his Blackberry wielding followers, and the world at large, a way to contact him wherever he is, whenever they feel like it.
The idea seemed noble, if not masochistic, until Jay “Telephonica” began posting mystery pin numbers, alluding to posting the contacts of other celebs including Talib Kweli, famed music scribe Dream Hampton and even Diddy. The latest of these even came with a warning to “hurry and add because when they realize i did this they are gonna shut phone down.” Check out some of the incriminating tweets below, and let us know if you’ve successfully added him and actually conversed over BBM…
Left To Right (clockwise): Young Jeezy, Jim Jones, Cults, Freddie Gibbs, Lloyd
Each day Complex scours the music blogs for 5 fresh songs that you should listen to in our 5 O’Clock Shuffle post. Instead of going crazy trying to keep up with your RSS feeds everyday, just head over to Complex.com to stay up-to-date on important leaks and releases.
It’s Friday folks. We know you’re ready to get crazy for the weekend, and here’s a solid line-up of new music to enjoy on your days off that’ll make it even sweeter. Shuffle regulars like Jeezy and Jim Jones dropped new tracks today. We discovered some awesome, obscure NYC band named Cults. Then there’s a hot new joint from Freddie Gibbs. Check everything out after the jump…
Your first reaction when you heard his name was probably similar to ours. What the fuck is a Waka Flocka Flame? Now we know that 23-year-old Juaquin Malphurs is the newest artist in Gucci Mane’s burgeoning So Icey camp, and definitely is full of youthful and rowdy exuberance. The New York-born MC has already proven himself to be more than a weed carrier showing out on Gucci’s single, “Bingo,” as well providing arguably the biggest trap anthem in the last year with his breakout single, “O Let’s Do It.” Diddy even shouts him out on the remix.
Unfortunately, at a time when he should be celebrating knowing way too many people right now that he didn’t know last year, trouble has been tracking him like its got a GPS. In January, he was shot during an armed robbery. In the last two weeks alone, Waka was involved in a brawl with a group of Young Jeezy’s associates at the Atlanta sneaker spot, Walter’s, as well as eight teenagers being shot at a concert he performed at in Gary, Indiana. Complex caught up with Waka while he was on road doing shows and preparing his debut, Flockavelli, to see how Gucci is doing, find out about the scrap at Walter’s, and whether slowing down a little is something that’s crossed his mind.
With the upcoming rain hitting the East Coast this weekend whatever hopes you had of playing ball or spending time outdoors is crushed. There’s only so much you can do indoors before you’re driven insane. Watching back-to-back-to-back games of March Madness will literally drive you mad. Instead of the channel surfing or the physical activity, with the music side of SXSW coming up next weekend you might as well get warmed up now. With good reason to—there’s plenty of shows to hit. Catch the last Tri-state date of Jay-Z’s Blueprint III tour, B.o.B and Rick Ross and some Southern hip-hop all stars in Miami, and you’d be crazy not to check one half of Gnarls Barkley, Dangermouse, rocking with his new group Broken Bells in LA. Check the Complex co-signed shows going down this weekend…
On Tuesday, ’90s alt-rock heroes Pavement released their greatest hits compilation Quarantine the Past, a rich double disc that’s 23 tracks deep with hits and fans favorites spanning the the band’s 10-year history. Devoted fans will surely have all the songs spread out among albums and re-issues, but the compilation works just as well as a highlight reel as it does a Pavement starter kit. And for those not as familiar with the Stockton, CA natives as they’d like to be, it couldn’t have come at a better time.
The band, who has not performed together since 1999, lit up music blogs across the web back in September when they announced they’d be reuniting for a handful of shows in NYC’s Central Park later this year. The shows reportedly sold out within minutes, prompting the group to expand the reunion to a full-on tour. While the anticipation for their NYC shows builds, we put together a beginner’s guide to the 7 Pavement songs you need to know…
Left To Right (clockwise): Nicki Minaj, Usher, Jim Jones, Wale
Each day Complex scours the music blogs for 5 fresh songs that you should listen to in our 5 O’Clock Shuffle post. Instead of going crazy trying to keep up with your RSS feeds everyday, just head over to Complex.com to stay up-to-date on important leaks and releases.
Lots of new music hit the blogs today. Our girl Nicki Minaj hopped on Jason DeRulo’s latest hit and Usher’s collab with T.I. from his album leaked too. Jim Jones and friends go in over “O Let’s Do It” on their new joint, and ironically, Wale just dropped a track sampling Wayne’s freestyle from the same beat. Sounds like a good line-up, right? Stream and download these songs and more after the jump…
As one of the most anticipated albums of 2010, for many it would seem like Young Jeezy’s Thug Motivation 103 just can’t come soon enough. Though currently slated for a June release, the album’s already endured repeated push-backs and the suspicious absence of an equally anticipated Trap or Die 2 mixtape with DJ Drama has only served to further the restlessness. There was a time, however, when our favorite trapper’s favorite trapper was releasing music to little to no acclaim as an independent artist.
Back in the summer of 2001, under the name “Lil’ J,” Young Jeezy released T.U.I.:Thuggin Under The Influence. The cover image, which shows a 23 year-old Jeezy modeling an oversized Rocawear polo and fitted over the du-rag in front of some luxury cars, is a fitting impression of the era and forthright rendering of someone who would grow into one of rap’s most credible voices. The project boasts production from Lil Jon as well as a rudimentary Shawty Redd, but Jeezy persists as a boy from Macon, Georgia trying his hardest to be heard over crunk’s deafening ascent. Hard copies, if they even exist, are few and far between, but the album is widely available through sketchier electronic measures. Listen to some tracks below to get a sense of what the Snowman sounded like before he blew up…
Left To Right (clockwise): Cam’ron, Jae Millz, Bone Thugs, Travie McCoy, Cassidy
Each day Complex scours the music blogs for 5 fresh songs that you should listen to in our 5 O’Clock Shuffle post. Instead of going crazy trying to keep up with your RSS feeds everyday, just head over to Complex.com to stay up-to-date on important leaks and releases.
Even on the slowest days for new music, you can always count on some rappers to release new joints. That was the story of the day with guys like Cam’ron and Jae Millz dropping mixtape tracks. Then Cassidy and Travie McCoy actually put out singles. Give everything a listen and maybe even a download after the jump…
There are a handful of artists—the Beatles, Tupac, Biggie—for whom the phrase “unreleased recordings” automatically elicits intense anticipation (ok, so maybe we’ve learned our lesson with ‘Pac by now). By virtue of being a) a confirmed studio rat, and b) having a career that only lasted four years and just three (!) studio albums, James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix appears at or near the top of that list. Now the fiends will be sated (for the time being at least) with the latest Hendrix “album” Valleys of Neptune.
Twelve tracks long, Valleys features all unreleased music (albeit a few reworked versions of previously released tunes), primarily recorded in the first half of 1969 when Hendrix was grappling with the splintering of his first group, the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In addition, Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings are releasing deluxe reissues of the studio albums released in Jimi’s lifetime (Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland, as well as the posthumous First Rays of the New Rising Sun), replete with the requisite turgid liner notes (”the unquenchable creative fire burning within the belly of the Experience…”), as well as much cooler “Making Of” DVDs. Had your fix? Get the Buy It Now links below…
Yesterday, March 9th, marked the anniversary of the late great Notorious B.I.G.’s death. Twitter was full of fans and industry heads alike paying their homage; quoting verses, dropping the #ripbig hashtag, and sharing their favorite Biggie related memories.
Last night, former Editor-in-Chief of The SourceJonathan Schecter (@SheckyGreen) tweeted the story of the Source offices coming across Big Poppa’s Unsigned Hype demo to watching his rise to stardom. The man had a story to tell, and if you followed him, you were in for a treat. If you missed it though, we thought it was so ill we re-capped the story right here for you. Read below for a wrap-up of his detailed tweets that give behind-the-scenes info on hearing “Juicy” for the first time, introducing him to Diddy, and Big’s hesitation on signing to Bad Boy.
We’ve been waiting for Consequence to drop his Cons TV album for a minute now, but he’s holding us over with the “Movies On Demand” mixtape, which just dropped over at 
