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“Pour It Up.” vocalist Rihanna goes gothic and releases the video for “What Now.” The last single to be released from Barbados next top, model with a mic Robyn Fenti’s seventh studio album “Unapologetic.” era which lasted approximately 9 months. Watch the emotive video in full below.
“Twenty years after releasing ‘Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers,’ Method Man returns to Staten Island’s Park Hill Projects to detail how he became known as a rapper, the recording of the legendary album, and his special technique of serving drugs to customers in automobiles.”
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The life of Solomon Northup—the free, black, middle-class, violin-playing New Yorker who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841—lives on in his memoir, 12 Years a Slave, one of the most vivid accounts of human bondage in American history. He is passed from one plantation to the next as property. He is whipped after underperforming in the cotton fields. And he is forced to lash the plantation owner’s slave-mistress nearly to death under the psychotic gaze of Master Epps. But with the film-adaptation by director Steve McQueen, Northrup’s legacy has inherited a new memorial vessel: Chiwetel Ejiofor, the film’s Nigerian-English breakout star (seen previously on the cover of FADER’s 2006 film issue, and in smaller roles in Amistad and Children of Men). Even when it’s painful, it’s impossible not to watch the way Ejiofor’s Northup tells the story with his eyes: moist, heavy-lidded, and focused on survival. It’s the gaze of a man whose mind is drifting away from the hell he’s been banished to, toward somewhere more pleasant. It’s the perspective of someone who knows he should not be in the place where he is, and that the system of dehumanization, perpetuated with an indignant logic everywhere he looks, should never have existed in the first place.
McQueen’s visually stunning treatment of a historic moment is generating Oscar buzz, and will surely propel Ejiofor to more leading roles. The London-based actor spoke with The FADER about his process, the legacy of slavery in today’s society and happy endings.
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There’s not much more that can be said about Pete Rock that hasn’t already. A cornerstone in the game, the legendary producer has been at it for over 20 years when some of your favorite rappers now weren’t even born yet. Amazingly, he’s still going strong, as evident from his latest musical masterpiece 80 Blocks From Tiffany’s Part 2 featuring Talib Kweli, M.O.P., Uncle Murda, Mac Miller and Ab-Soul just to name a few, flexing the notion that his crafts transcends any era, old school or new school.
Pete invited Hypetrak to his residence in New York where inside laid his studio that’s responsible for some of hip-hop’s greatest cuts. They had a opportunity to discuss with Pete the contrast of generations in hip-hop and reminisce over some of his favorite memories in the music game. You can listen to 80 Blocks From Tiffany’s Pt. 2 here and get more on PeteRock.com
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YMCMB Female Rapper turned mogul Nicki Minaj talks, American Idol, Performing Arts School, Inspiring Female role model and promotes her debut Kmart clothing line at Veteran female rapper turned actress/ television personality Queen Latifah’s show. Watch the insightful interview below.
Rapper A$AP Rocky enlists the help of international pop star/style icon Rihanna who plays the role of leading lady in the visuals for “Fashion Killa.” Lifted from A$AP Rock’s debut album “Long Live A$AP.” See Photogenic on camera couple A$AP and Riri flaunt their love of art, fashion and each other in the full video below.
Justin Timberlake visits the Breakfast Club in NYC to talk 20/20 experience part two and more. Get into the insightful interview in full below.
“Body Party.” singer Ciara stopped by 106& Park to promote current album project “Ciara.” which is released worldwide today. Check out Ciara’s interview, hot performance of “Body Party.” (Rich Mix ft. BOB) and sultry end of show performance of “DUI.” an r’n’b flavoured cut lifted from her fourth studio album below. Want to win a physical copy of Ciara’s excellent new album? Click here to enter our Ciara album giveaway competition.
The World’s Most Dangerous Morning Show received Wale ta talked about his new album “The Gifted”, the #OldRapperTweets, Tiara Thomas, his relationship with Jay-z and where his heading to as an Artist and much more
Swizz Beatz is bringing reebok back and by the same occasion Shaquille o’neal with the retro’s Reebok Shaq Attaq, check out the press conference where they talk about their relationship between reebok and Shaquille, the pump and more
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