by Brian Gabriel

The Jessie Ware has been flying left and right in front of our eyes for quite some time now and over the last few month’s, her voice has been easing its way into our playlist from her debut album, Devotion. Even still, with the record not being released in North America but Interscope is set to drop it on April 16th in addition to two new tracks with this being one of them, featuring A$AP Rocky. Listen Up!

by Brian Gabriel

Here’s the official release for Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience  2nd single, where he’s taken the opportunity to share the surprisingly morose, two-part clip for “Mirrors,” directed by Floria Sigismondi. The video’s rife with mirrors, both literal and metaphorical, as it follows a series of love stories through good times and bad, then moves into a carnival fun house of mirrors where Justin himself gets personal. Check it out below.

by Brian Gabriel

The TDE camp is one of the few that gets our attention and it’s well deserved if you know anything about the flow and verbal assault that any of the four members deliver with their eyes closed. Now that the whole globe knows who Kendrick Lamar is, it’s time that Schoolboy Q takes helm at the TDE forefront and continues to let us all have faith in the better days to come in Hip Hop.

Showing approval and admiration for his brethren, this is the Kendrick Lamar approved first single from Schoolboy Q‘s new album, OxyMoron, produced by Drake’s go-to guy Boi-1da, here’s “Yay Yay”.

OxyMoron follows up Q’s acclaimed Habits & Contraditions from 2012, and it will be be the rapper’s first album out on a major label.

by Tyler Durden

Not bad for a Friday huh! Let’s get it started with some new music from Matt Pond. Debuting this week is his latest video, “Love To Get Used”, directed by John Deeb and the first to set off a series of videos for the new album.

Matt Pond said, “True love can be both transcendent and torturous. Open, exposed, interrogated and consumed, ‘Love To Get Used’ runs down the road of dark passion, all the way through to rapturous release.” “Love To Get Used” is the lead single from Matt Pond’s album The Lives Inside The Lines In Your Hand out now.

by Peter Tabakis

Early last January, Justin Timberlake teased his return to pop music on a one-minute video that instantly went viral. Shot in black and white for full dramatic flair, the video shows Timberlake making his way into a recording studio while in voice-over he wrestles with the question everyone’s been asking during his seven-year sabbatical: “So are you just done with music?” His reply:

[Music] means more to me than to anybody else in the world. Look, I’ve only done two albums in ten years. That’s the way I really look at it. What does the next decade mean for me? I’m the one who sits and is obsessive about it before you even get to hear it. As close as I get to it, I don’t know that I can physically torture myself that much year in and year out and expect it to fulfill me the way that it does and the way that it is right now. I don’t want to put anything out that I feel like is something I…I…I don’t love. You just don’t get that every day. You have to wait for it.

What a jumbled and oddly defensive response to a question he’s surely answered countless times in private on film sets, at fashion shows, and on putting greens. The video ends with JT putting on headphones and speaking two words into a microphone: I’m ready. The implied question for the rest of humanity is: Are you? Finally! Some bravado from the guy who once sang of his tremendous allure with a rare, perfectly worded lyric: “Is it really cocky if you know that it’s true?”

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by Tyler Durden

Kendrick Lamar has brought Jay-Z on for the remix of “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe” and that serves two apparent purposes. First and foremost, we all pretty much knew a collaboration between this two was bound to happen. Second, Kendrick does have the ability to fill the shoes as the next King Of Hip Hop and kinda makes us forget that Jay is even on the track. Check it out below.

We haven’t let Aailyah leave our thoughts since her days as a beautiful and talented songstress. Audio Doughnuts latest signing, Debian Black prepares for his anticipated ‘Six Months From Mars EP‘ for them featuring four original tracks with vocal collaborations from Neo Joshua and Mt. Wolf’s lead vocalist Kate Wolf.  To celebrate his partnership with the label he is giving away his three track concept EP – ‘Debian Blak x Aaliyah’.

The three songs are a bootleg rework project dedicated to one of his favorite 90’s musicians, Aaliyah. Re-interpreting her music, Debian set out to re-build her songs as if he had originally produced the material today, taking them in a new previously unheard direction.

It looks like Major Lazer’s highly anticipated second album, FREE THE UNIVERSE won’t be coming out this month, like we all hoped. Diplo issued the following statement:

“Our fans are the most important part of what makes Major Lazer what it is. It is with that consideration that “FREE THE UNIVERSE” will not be released this month as previously scheduled. We never want to disappoint our supporters but circumstances out of our control have made us unable to keep the intended date. For anyone disappointed, we are truly apologetic and we promise that this hiccup has only made what we have planned for the album stronger. We tried extremely hard to keep the date but it was ultimately decided that rushing the album would have been unfair to you and everyone who worked so hard on it.”

In lieu of a new album, Lazer decided to take out a free, four track collection of rare/unreleased remixes of FREE THE UNIVERSE tracks “Get Free,” “Original Don” and “Jah No Partial,” as well as an extended version of Major Lazer’s remix of Hot Chip’s “Look At Where We Are.” If you’re interested in a consolation prize, download it here.

Lazer Strikes Back Vol. 1:
01 Major Lazer & Flux Pavilion: “Jah No Partial” (Jack Beats Remix)
02 Major Lazer: “Get Free” [feat. Amber of Dirty Projectors] (Yellow Claw Get Free Money Remix)
03 Major Lazer: “Original Don” [feat. The Partysquad] (DGRC Remix)
04 Hot Chip: “Look At Where We Are” (Major Lazer Extended Remix)

Dropping the next visual from his debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d city comes “Poetic Justice” featuring Drake. Sticking with his thought provoking videos, Lamar takes us on night out on a Crenshaw Square street party where the night’s possibilities are endless from finding love to sacrificing your life for another. We’ll let you enjoy the video and take it how you see it.

During our late night edit sessions, we came across Black Scale‘s site and their audio player kicked in and before we knew it, we left their page open and let the tunes flare in the air. For this month, they collaborated with DJ Ant-1 of San Fransisco”s RI$KY BIZNE$$ CREW & Wild’N’Krazy Kids, the mix is as dark, smooth, uptempo and soulful as it sounds. Download it here and add it whatever playlist you enjoy the most. Check the track-listing after the link.

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Download Here: Black Scale x Dj Ant-1 | AFTRHRS (Mixtape)

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