Teyana Taylor looks lovely within her Edge Magazine spread where she discusses how she feels about the standard of beauty, how she does not care that people believe she is famous for no reason, and her evolving style.
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In this clip, Black Thought talks about making “grown man hip hop” with his last two albums “WakeUp!” and “How I Got Over.” The Roots may have a summer album release as well as a solo project from Black Thought. He also mentioned that he is working with the great Danger Mouse! Sounds like its going to be a great summer.
Complex mag recently did an interview with Lupe to talk about his upcoming album Lasers. Although the project has a release date of March 8, the album has already been leaked online. Lupe was asked about his single “The Show Goes On” and how he felt about the album and here is what he had to say…
Why He Hates Lasers:
“One thing I try to stress about this project is, I love and hate this album. I listen to it and I’ll like some of the songs. But when I think about what it took to actually get the record together and everything that I went through on this record—which is something I can’t separate—I hate this album. A lot of the songs that are on the album, I’m kinda neutral to. Not that I don’t like them, or that I hate them, it’s just I know the process that went behind it. I know the sneaky business deal that went down behind this song, or the artist or singer or songwriter who wrote this hook and didn’t want to give me this song in the first place. So when I have that kind of knowledge behind it, I’m just kind of neutral to it like, ‘Another day, another dollar.’ As opposed something like The Cool, which is more of my own blood, sweat, and tears, and my own control. With this record, I’m little bit more neutral as to the love for the record.
When I think about everything that I went through on this record, I hate this album.
“I don’t like the process behind Lasers. The music is dope but I just don’t like the process. We were literally at the point where all this music was done except for a couple songs that we did after the protest. So the bulk of the album was done. And we were talking about shelving the album and going to another label, that’s where we were like, ‘If you put the record out, put it out. Either move on to another album or can it and we’ll do other records at another label.’ The business of it got solved. I’m happy for the fans, this is their album. This is the album that they fought for and that’s what made me do songs like ‘Words I Never Said’ and ‘All Black Everything.”
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Check out this interview where Jay-Z discusses how his style has evolved over the years. For those of you that purchased his book Decoded you may have already seen this. In addition, this video can be found on the Decoded iPhone application.
Check out this engaging interview with Chelsea Lately and Adele where she describes that her most recent album 21 is about her past relationship. For those of you that have not copped this album, you need to because it’s fantastic.
Check out this in depth video where Raphael Saadiq gives us an update on the inspiration about his upcoming album Stone Rolling. I am a huge fan of Saadiq and I am looking forward to this album. Judging from this video he is going for an old school sound on this album as well, similar to what he did on The Way I See It.
Raphael Saadiq EPK from Columbia Records on Vimeo.
Adele has been doing heavy promo for her upcoming album 21. Check her out on the latest cover of Billboard Magazine where she discusses the motivation behind her most recent project. Within the cover story she states the following….
“As much as I love ’19′ — and I do — this is a giant leap forward for her,” says Tedder, the OneRepublic frontman who’s written and produced hits for Beyoncé (“Halo”) and Leona Lewis (“Bleeding Love”), among others. “With a couple of exceptions, “19″ was very subdued,” Tedder continues. ” ’21′ isn’t.”
Adele’s album has already went UK Platinum selling over 200,000 copies in the first week it was released. You can purchase the album in the US on February 22nd.
Check out this in depth interview where Adele breaks down every track in detail from her upcoming album 21. Her current single Rolling in the Deep has already received rave reviews.
Shout-out to 4NB UK for conducting a dope interview with Nicki Minaj when she took over London last week. Check out the footage below.
4NB present Nicki Minaj’s first UK interview from 4NB on Vimeo.
Miguel stopped by 106th and Park to talk about his recent tour with Usher and Trey Songz. He also talked about his own upcoming tour. He gave some insight behind the new hit single, “Sure Thing.”
Check out the teaser for Melanie Fiona’s upcoming album The MF Life, which is scheduled to be released later this year. I am truly looking forward to the release of this project because this girl can ACTUALLY sing.
Check out this documentary featuring Alcia Keys and Eve, where she discusses the meaning behind her latest track entitled Speechless. I think these two make a great duo.
OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) premiered this weekend. For one of the first series, OWN featured Jay-Z in “Oprah Presents Master Class.” I really enjoyed this interview/feature, check it out and let u sknow if you feel the same.
Keyshia Cole stopped by Chelsea Handler to discuss her upcoming nuptials and her new baby boy. She also spoke about her newly released album, “Calling All Hearts” in stores now.
Willow Smith recently sat down with Yahoo Music where she explains the meaning behind her Whip My Hair video and how she plans to remake her dad’s Parents Just Don’t Understand. She also announced that she will be appearing on Justin Beiber’s European tour starting in March Next year. The young artist is following in her parents footsteps on the path to success and one thing is for sure — she is not shy.
