I love how the Strizzzy cam slowly keeps inching over to that girl’s bum then quickly moves away, lmao. More Strizzzyness under the hood!

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SonReal performs “Haunted” at the Shambhala Music Festival.

Official visuals for this joint should be out real soon!

Previously: NEW MUSIC: SonReal & Quake Matthews “Obnoxious” (Prod. Memorex)

Via MWP!

Drizzy comes through with a memorable skit and performances for his SNL debut.

(starts counting down how long it’ll be before the links get pulled)

More after the jump!

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This is a must read. Shouts to 40 mang!

Toronto’s 
Noah “40” Shebib 
is the one producer Drake can’t do 
without.

If you want a laugh, pull up the music video for Drake’s “Replacement Girl.” It’s 2007. The Toronto rapper is wearing a leather baseball cap, backwards, with enormous designer sunglasses and his necktie above the belly button—not unlike how Fred Flintstone does his. He double-time raps in front of a crudely drawn world map while women of various tint and confusion dance close by; at the video’s climax, Drake leans on the hood of an expensive car the director rented for the shoot. It’s not a bad R&B-cum-rap song. And the video went on to play on BET, a first for an unsigned Canadian rapper. But this Drake was, to put it kindly, not the cool, introspective, self-deprecating one we now know.

Something else happened at the “Replacement Girl” shoot. During a break, a wiry, white Toronto native named Noah Shebib showed up and played Drake ten beats. Shebib and Drake are both former child actors from the same hometown, but they were only meeting now, at the behest of a mutual friend. Drake didn’t buy any of Shebib’s beats that day, but he liked what he heard. He booked two days of studio time with Shebib at two hundred dollars a day, strictly to track new songs. Drake would rap, Shebib would hit record.

The session worked out better than either expected. By day three, Shebib told Drake he wasn’t going to charge him. Drake brought Shebib onto his team, first as an engineer and later as musical director for his live shows. As Shebib watched Drake going through the motions of the industry—listening to beats from top and up-and-coming producers that were never to the rapper’s full satisfaction—he slowly figured out, by process of elimination, what Drake really wanted in his music. “That was the first time as a producer I ever felt like I had a reason to do something,” Shebib says. “I wasn’t just sitting down to make music for no apparent reason.”

READ FULL FEATURE HERE

So I was creeping Tanika Charles on FB and this was her profile pic. Lineup looks kinda epic. Get caught up with The Get By on their blog.

Previous: NEW MUSIC: The Get By “Wonder Years” ( Prod. Mantis)

Previous: NEW MUSIC: The Get By “On The Rocks” (Prod. Mantis)

If you haven’t been to one of Tara Muldoon’s “F-You” events, this would definitely be a good time to start. Not only will there be a very frank discussion revolving around the lives of some extremely brave members of our community – Ayah will be debuting the visuals for her latest single “Forgive Me Love” off her “Back For More” collabo project with DJ Jazzy Jeff.

Should be a great, inspiring and empowering evening.

Full details after the jump!

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Reema Major chops it up with the fellas over at Royalty Radio.

Previously: NEW VIDEO: Reema Major – I’m The One (Directed by Mike Portoghese)

Via OVO!

H-Town’s DJ Ron C on the remix.

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Previously: NEW MUSIC: The Weeknd “Initiation”

Directed by Justin Agustin.

R.I.P.!

This is a tribute video to our fallen brother/mentor Bad News Brown. His name and music will live on forever through everyone that he’s ever inspired. This song appears on Magnum’s new project “I’m G.O.O.D”. Please Help share this amazing record and let’s keep BNB’s legacy alive FOREVER! #BNB4LIFE

Please Go and Support the BNB foundation by purchasing the “Born To Sin” Album
http://www.badnewsbrown.com/

Song Produced By Dirtwork
Video Directed By Justin Agustin

FREE DOWNLOAD
http://magnum357.bandcamp.com/album/im-g-o-o-d

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Previously: NEW MIXTAPE: Magnum 357 “I’m G.O.O.D. (Getting Out Of Dodge)”

Previously: NEW VIDEO: Bad News Brown – Reign

OVO lets off the second single off “Take Care”, out November 15th.

Produced by T-Minus.

Previously: NEW VIDEO: Drake – Headlines (Directed by Lamar Taylro & Hyghly Alleyne)