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Santigold unveiled the cover art for her new album “Master of My Make-Believe” out May 1st exclusively to The New York Times. For this show she enlisted the help of photographer Jason Schmidt to shoot her three ways portrait as the first one is attendants wearing custom “Bond Girl” bodysuits designed by Alexander Wang, the second as a distinguished Cavalier in a painting created by the artist Kehinde Wiley and the finale to our opinion Tony Montana, Check out below the visuals
Last night Melanie Fiona stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! and graced the audience and television viewers with a performance of her hit single “4 AM” and “This Time” off her sophomore album The MF Life set to hit stores on March 20th. In case you missed Melanie’s performance, watch her performance of “4 AM” below
Latest video from ScHoolboy Q’s track “Druggs Wit Hoes Again” featuring Ab-Soul. This is the visual in support for his doper than cream sophomore album “Habits & Contradictions”.
Miguel releases a three tracks EP for his fans features songs such as “Adorn,” “That I Do (FTRMX)” and “Gravity”. His debut album (All I Want Is You) is severely underrated and I enjoy his music. If you enjoy some R&B music in your life, I highly recommend downloading this if you want to start getting in him. The Follow up projects will be entitled Art Dealer Chic Vol 2. and Volume 3 will be released March 27 and April 27 2012. Also check R&B star Miguel answers 3 questions about his new 3-track EP Art Dealer Chic Vol. 1
Freida Pinto cover the Esquire April issue, The star reveals a whole new side in these exclusive pictures. She was the Indian girl with the faraway eyes in Slumdog Millionaire, the best-supporting hottie in Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
What British audiences perhaps don’t yet know about Freida is that she’s also a funny, no-nonsense, fast-talking Anglophile who loves London almost as much as her home town. “Even though it’s so dreadful in the winter, I still think it’s beautiful,” she says. “So much culture and history. Like Bombay!”. The Photo-Shoot is directed by Photographer Yu Tsai as the Styling by David Thomas.
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Yesterday, Plan B aka Ben Drew released a new single that comes off the soundtrack for his upcoming directoral debut film, iLL Manors. The track shares the same title as the film and it shows a strong departure from Plan B’s previous efforts on The Defamation of Strickland Banks and instead sees the singer return to his rap-roots in an oh-so-delicious way. He’s back to taking jabs at politics and the working classes, spitting out some pretty solid verses on top of a really wonderful violin-infused dance beat. It’s a return to the Plan B I loved on Who Needs Actions When You Got Words. Take a listen to the single “iLL Manors” below, which will be on the soundtrack for Drew’s film, out May 4th.
In the past five years that XXL has been picking Freshman classes, never once has making the list been easy. This year included. Similar to 2011, the hype around the Freshmen Class has continued to grow by leaps and bounds, surprising even us with its popularity. For this class the buzz began earlier than ever, four months before the cover was even shot. And it seemed like everyone had a list. From subdued music fans to diehard rap junkies, from Twitter stalkers to industry heavies and featherweight, folks wanted their list to be the XXL list.
Here are the static images of individual pieces from Freshjive. Products included range from shirts to pants and tank-tops to shorts. As a whole, the line maintains an air of mystery thanks to the colors employed while making use of a range of staple items such as T-shirts, tanks, and button-ups.
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The video for “Round of Applause,” The visual for Waka Flocka Flame Round of Applause, the video which also features appearances from Drake and the lovely Draya and the Twerk Team is available Below
Check out exclusive behind the scenes footage of Rita Ora as iHeartRadio’s Z100 and KTU radio stations world premiered ‘Party and Bulls**t’