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After his meteoric rise to the top, first with Odd Future, then as a solo artist guesting on Jay Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne, Frank Ocean has been leaking tracks on the Internet that may perhaps hint at something more. With his debut album, the indie-rap Nostalgia Ultra, pending major label release, Ocean is doing what he does best, taking his PR into his own hands. Check out Let Me over at Soul Culture and Thinking About You over at Pitchfork.
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The website for Jay Z and Kanye West’s long awaited collaboration Watch the Throne now lists that the album will be released on August 2nd, 2011. Mark your calendars.
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Alicia Keys’ husband and the beat-making producer behind big tracks by Lil Wayne, Kanye West and Jay Z, Swizz Beatz is the behind-the-scenes mastermind propelling smooth rides and getting bodies on the dance floor all over the world. Now he’s put together a mixtape called Monster Mondays that’s available now over at Vibe.
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The long wait is almost over. With the slow trickle of information leaking out it’s possible that Watch the Throne will be in our hands within weeks. The tracklist for the album surfaced today and so far the only track we’ve heard, the over the top H.A.M., has been pushed off to a bonus disc, which hopefully means the album will have a different vibe. Check out the tracklist featuring Beyonce, Frank Ocean and Otis Redding (?) below:
01 No Church in the Wild (ft. Frank Ocean)
02 Lift Off (ft. Beyoncé)
03 Niggas in Paris
04 Otis (ft. Otis Redding)
05 Gotta Have It
06 New Day
07 Prime Time
08 Who Gon Stop Me
09 Murder to Excellence
10 Welcome to the Jungle
11 Sweet Baby Jesus (ft. Frank Ocean)
12 Why I Love You (ft. Mr Hudson)
Bonus tracks:
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Rumors that Jay Z and Kanye West were going to drop their latest album on July 4th were just that…rumors. They did drop the Givenchy-designed cover of the album which looks like a gold-embossed box of chocolate. Pre-order for the album also became available from the Watch the Throne website and the tracklist below surfaced:
1. Lift Off (Feat. Beyonce & Bruno Mars)
2. Murder To Excellence
3. Illest Mother Alive
4. Why I Love You So (Guilt Trip)
5. That Shit Crazy
6. Living So Italian
7. Who Gonna Stop Me
8. Whole Lifetime
9. We Are Young
10. Anthem
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Odd Future breakout star Frank Ocean tumbled that he’ll be working on material with Kanye West and Jay Z. From 0 – 60 in no time. Wonder if he’ll be on Watch the Throne…?
It’s about freaking time Kanye! Look out because Jay Z and Kanye are about to finally announce the release of the long-awaited Watch the Throne on July 4th, 2011. After months of speculation we’ll finally get to hear the album in its entirety and see if it lives up to the hype. Rumor has it Kanye’s going to make the announcement from an undisclosed location…tonight.
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John Legend and Sade have teamed up for an R&B supershow combining years of experience and expert songwriting for a tour that promises concerts full of deep, sexy soul. John Legend isn’t known as a hip hop artist but he has appeared on a number of hip hop tracks, most notably playing piano on Lauryn Hill‘s debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill‘s standout track, Everything Is Everything. Legend also appeared on Jay Z‘s Encore and Kanye West’s Never Let Me Down. Sade meanwhile has released a greatest hits album called The Moon and the Sky which features a remix by none other than Jay Z and Dirty-Diddy Money sampled Sade classic No Ordinary Love on a recent track.
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The Eminem Jay Z concert event of the summer just got even bigger with the duo adding two additional dates to their upcoming concerts, bringing the grand total of Jay Z Eminem concerts to four. This is likely going to add to the hype, and make Jay Z Eminem tickets even more in demand. Already announced were September dates for joint Jay Z and Eminem concerts at the New Yankee Stadium in New York and Comerica Park in Detroit, and the team recently announced an additional show at each venue. So if you want to get Eminem Jay Z tickets you can see them at Comerica Park on September 2 and 3, with Eminem as the headliner. And for those who want Jay Z Eminem Yankee Stadium tickets, the dates for the shows are on September 13 and 14. The Home and Home Tour has been drawing a ton of attention so far and as the summer heats up and more fans get their hands on Recovery, Eminem’s most recent album, the excitement is sure to grow. So if you want to be at the summer hottest concert now you have even more choice as to what Eminem and Jay tickets you want. Stay tuned to hip hop concerts for all the latest Eminem Jay Z concert news, as well as any other rap happenings.
See Eminem and Jay Z at Yankee Stadium and Comerica Park
The hip hop world is buzzing about recent news of a pair of Eminem Jay Z concerts at Yankee Stadium and Comerica Park. The two-part concert will see tow of the biggest stars in the world get together for what is going to be two of the biggest hip hop concerts of the decade! Fans are going bananas and Eminem Jay Z tickets are in high demand. Jay Z was on tour not so long ago on the Blueprint 3 Tour, which made Jay Z tickets the hottest of the spring. Eminem however has been away from the limelight aside from a few appearances here and there, most notably with Lil Wayne and Drake. The last full-stadium tour was the Up in Smoke Tour with Dr. Dre, when Eminem tickets were by far the hottest in the world. The first Eminem Jay Z concert is on Thursday, September 2 at Comerica Park in Detroit. The New York Jay Z Eminem concert is on September 13 at Yankee Stadium. With two of the biggest stars in all of hip hop, Jay Z Eminem tickets will definitely be the hottest hip hop ticket of the summer. This will be the first concert at the New Yankee Stadium, making an already historic performance even more so.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime set of shows, and I know we’re both really going to bring it to our hometowns” said Eminem. “We just tried to come up with the best way and biggest way to do it. The fans are going to love this and so am I. It’s going to be historic.”
And Jay Z is also eager to be working with an artists as talented as Eminem, “I look for opportunities to work with Em’, any time we get a chance to collaborate on things,” said Jay Z.
Hip hop fans know that Jay Z and Eminem teamed up for one of the hardest-hitting hip hop songs of the decade on Renegade off Jay Z the first Blueprint album. Chances are the duo will perform the song during their set. Also a likely candidate to be heard if you have Eminem Jay Z Yankee Stadium tickets is Empire State of Mind, the unofficial anthem of the New York Yankees team. No matter what jams Jay Z and Eminem kick out you know its going to be an incredible event, so don’t miss out.
