Drake & Lil Wayne Appear in FIFA 12 Teaser Video
Who would have picked Drake and Lil Wayne as FIFA fanatics? Well, the Young Money cohorts made an appearance in the FIFA 12 teaser video debuted by EA Sports at the Electronic Entertainment Expo [E3] in Los Angeles yesterday.
“I truly love the game of soccer and I live my passion for it through FIFA. I often play a game before I go to the studio, just to stimulate the mind,” reveals Drake in the promotional video. “This game, it actually takes skill and technique,” adds Wayne.
Drake and Weezy appear alongside professional footballers including Wayne Rooney [Manchester United] and Kaka [Real Madrid] in the FIFA 12 teaser video. Watch the clip after the jump: Continue reading »
Audio: Damien Fernandez – “Somebody Like You”
Aussie artist Damien Fernandez – who recently inked a deal with Hed Kandi and Ministry of Sound UK for the worldwide release of “Dying” – returns with a fresh new track titled “Somebody Like You” from his upcoming Dirty Sex and Misery mixtape.
The Adelaide based musician/songwriter/producer/singer croons about his relationship woes over a driving house beat and bouncy piano chords on “Somebody Like You”, although he evokes little sympathy with lines like: “That’s when she call me in the night and say she lonely / I know better, she only call me when she horny.”
Fernandez has indicated his Dirty Sex and Money mixtape will be made available as a free download – featuring remixes, original music and snippets from his debut album – although an official release date is yet to be confirmed.
Video: Tyler x Frank Ocean – “She”
Following his successful directorial debut with “Yonkers”, Tyler returns to the director’s chair for the second music video from his recently released Goblin album.
“She” features Tyler and his Odd Future brethren Frank Ocean in a twisted tale where Tyler – an ominous stalker type – is infatuated with Ocean’s girlfriend and breaks into her bedroom as she sleeps, sniffing her panties and scrawling a luring message on her mirror.
Frank Ocean also pulls double-duty in the clip, donning a ridiculous wig and moustache to play the father of his love interest. Twisted.
Watch the creepy music video for “She” after the jump: Continue reading »
Eminem Takes Shots at Lady GaGa on “A Kiss”
Eminem is up to his old tricks again. Just as he did with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera in the noughties, Slim Shady takes aim at Pop’s reigning princess Lady GaGa on “A Kiss” – the latest song to leak from the upcoming Bad Meets Evil EP.
“Tell Lady Gaga she can quit her job at the post office / She’s still a male lady,” raps Eminem on the Bangladesh-produced “A Kiss”, renewing transgender rumours that plagued GaGa earlier in her career. Katy Perry also rates a [considerably more favourable] mention in the song as Em fawns over the recently married singer, asking listeners to inform Perry that he is now dating.
Eminem and Royce Da 5’9′s collaborative Bad Meets Evil EP, Hell: The Sequel, is scheduled for release on June 17th.
Video: Kanye West x Rick Ross x Jay-Z x Nicki Minaj – “Monster”
Months after an unfinished version of his ghoulish “Monster” music video first hit the internet, Kanye West finally debuts the clip in all its intended morbidness.
Not for the feint-hearted, “Monster” plays like a Dolce & Gabbana commercial cast with model zombies and decapitated corpses – equal parts stylish and shocking. From West laying in bed with two expired females to a schizophrenic Nicki Minaj torturing her own alter-ego, the “Monster” music video is difficult viewing, although very well executed [no pun intended].
Watch Kanye West, Rick Ross, Jay-Z and Nicki Minaj get gory in the horror-chic “Monster” video after the jump: Continue reading »
Birdman Bets $2 Million On Miami Heat
Bryan ‘Birdman’ Williams is wagering $2 million on the Miami Heat trumping the Dallas Mavericks in the 2011 NBA Finals Series. As co-founder of Cash Money Records – home to Lil Wayne, Drake and Nicki Minaj – Birdman has an estimated net worth of $100 million. The Heat and Mavericks are currently tied at one-game-a-piece in the best-of-seven series.
This is not the first time Birdman has bet seven-figures on a sporting contest. In February, the rapper backed the Green Bay Packers over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Superbowl XLV to the tune of $1 million. The Packers were victorious and Birdman used his winnings to purchase a 2011 Maybach 62S Drop-Top Landaulet. Watch video of Birdman taking delivery of the luxury vehicle after the jump.
And back in May 2010, the entrepreneur bet a whopping $4 million on Floyd Mayweather Jr. in his bout against Sugar Shane Mosley. Both Mayweather and Birdman walked away winners on the night. Stunt! Continue reading »
Music Dump: Bad Meets Evil x Bruno Mars / Tech N9ne x Lil Wayne x T-Pain / Asher Roth x Akon
Bad Meets Evil featuring Bruno Mars – “Lighters”
Eminem and Royce Da 5’9 tap Bruno Mars for what is a surprisingly fluffy offering from their Hell: The Sequel EP. The Detroit duo get reflective and slightly sentimental on “Lighters” as they remind us of how far they have come – with Royce even managing to take a swipe at T-Pain: “I remember when T-Pain ain’t wanna work with me / [Now] my car starts itself, parks itself and auto-tunes.”
Tech N9ne featuring Lil Wayne & T-Pain – “Fuck Food”
The much talked-about collaboration between Tech N9ne and Lil Wayne finally surfaces as Tech’s All 6′s & 7′s album springs a leak. T-Pain makes it a menage trois [pause], commanding the chorus while Tech and Wayne trade sex stories over choir strains and frenetic percussion.
Asher Roth featuring Akon – “Last Man Standing”
Asher Roth is joined by label mate Akon on the rousing “Last Man Standing” as fuzzy guitars, tumbling drums and bouncing piano chords provide a fitting soundbed for Roth’s impressive wordplay. Although unconfirmed, “Last Man Standing” is most likely taken from the Pennsylvania native’s forthcoming sophomore album.
Exclusive: Inside RNB Superclub
It is the largest urban clubbing brand in the southern hemisphere, playing host to tens-of-thousands of party-goers in over 20 venues across the country and spawning a music compilation series accounting for almost 500,000 in CD sales.
RNB Superclub is arguably the greatest commercial exploitation – and we use that term with affection – of R&B Australia has ever witnessed.
In anticipation of Superclub’s 10th anniversary and the recent release of its RNB Superclub Volume 11 album, Rhyme & Reason speaks with brand manager John Senakis about the inception, challenges and processes behind operating Australia’s premium urban clubbing brand. Continue reading »
Sean Kingston Expected To Fully Recover
Sean Kingston is expected to fully recover following a jet ski accident on Sunday in which the 21 year-old suffered a fractured wrist, broken jaw and water in his lungs. Insiders say the singer should be healed within six weeks.
One of his rescuers, Carmen Rivera, told WSVN-TV that an unconscious Kingston was in danger of drowning immediately after the crash. “They were calling us over, telling us, ‘He’s drowning, he’s drowning’. We jumped in the water to help him keep his head above water.” Rivera’s husband Jonathan added; “I pushed him up, and he was vomiting what seemed like water, and then there was some blood coming out.” Continue reading »
Audio Snippets: Bad Meets Evil – ‘Hell: The Sequel’
Eminem and Royce Da 5’9 have liberated snippets of every track from their forthcoming Bad Meets Evil EP, Hell: The Sequel, due in stores June 17th.
The EP is driven largely by the hard, menacing sounds expected from the Detroit duo, although these short previews also reveal a possible radio smash in the form of their piano-laced Bruno Mars collaboration “Lighters”.
Meanwhile, Eminem has praised hip-hop upstarts Odd Future in an interview with MTV, likening the collective’s shock-and-awe lyrics to his own early catalogue: “I think that from the stuff that I’ve heard — I haven’t heard a lot from them, I still have to go check out everything that they’re doing — but I’ve heard enough to know that it feels like they’re pushing boundaries and buttons, and that’s definitely one of the things that I’m familiar with, especially when I first came out. I love it. I love the fact that they’re doing that. And the dudes can rhyme.”
