If you love hip-hop like I love hip hop, you will be excited for the release of anything Kid Capri. To our surprise, the Legendary dj will release an album purely based off of URLTV’s Battle rappers. Top Tier is the name of the Kid Capri Battle Rap Album. He put together a compilation of different rounds and classic bars from a list of battle rappers, and turned it into a hit album. Will it be released by the summer?
Questlove Says Iggy Azalea’s ‘Fancy’ Was A Game Changer!
Questlove has discussed the criticism behind Iggy Azalea’s rising success, and has said that her hit ‘Fancy’ is a game changer, whether acknowledged or not. Questlove went into detailing Hip Hop culture’s appeal, stating that we have to come to terms with the fact that ‘Hip Hop is contagious’. Check out his full response here!
Nas, Mainstream?
What was it like to be accepted by the mainstream via the film fest, moderator Gayle King asked Nasir Jones about his up-coming documentary, Time Is Illmatic making its debut during April’s TriBeCa Film Festival. Last evening, the Tanning Of America: One Nation Under Hip-Hop premiere took place and along with King were panelists Nas, Al Sharpton, Fab 5 Freddy, Daymond John and Steve Stoute, author of he Tanning Of America: How Hip-Hop Created A Culture That Rewrote The Rules Of The New Economy. While Sharpten thinks that mainstream fell upon Nas, Nas doesn’t doesn’t think that he’a mainstream at all. “Nas never wanted to go mainstream,” Sharpton said during the discussion. “Instead, the mainstream went to Nas.” Find out the “Nasty” rapper’s response to the question, after the jump.
