Donnis – “Southern Lights” Mixtape

Here finally goes the latest in line of highly anticipated mixtapes from the ATL Brave Donnis. The “Southern Lights” project is mixed by Nick Catchdubs, presented by Karmaloop & The Academy and has been providing the world with some pretty nice cuts the past months. Some of them are in fact too good to be [...]

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2011 XXL Freshman Cover

Yet again, XXL’s 4th annual Freshman Cover features only men. Seriously. How can a respectable magazine act this way? That’s bad journalism, plain and simple. Can we please raise the bar in urban media over all? At least try not to be stuck in ancient time. The editor in chief of XXL is a woman, [...]

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KanYe West ft. Cam’ron, Jim Jones, Vado, CyHi Da Prynce, Pusha T, Musiq Soulchild, Teyana Taylor & Big Sean – ‘Christmas In Harlem’ (Final)

Feeling the Christmas spirit yet? I’m sadly not, since I’ve been down with the flu this week, which explains the heavy silence on the site. But well, here’s a good step on the way, the proper CDQ, sans tags, non radio-rip version of ‘Christmas In Harlem’ (in which Yeezy brings peace between GOOD Music and [...]

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B.o.B – “No Genre” Mixtape

>Bobby Ray has unleashed a early Christmas gift to the fans in the form of his “No Genre” mixtape, 16 tracks featuring everyone from Donnis to KanYe West. Peep the full tracklist below: 1. ‘Beast Mode’ (prod. by Infinity)2. ‘So So’ (prod. by Jim Jonsin)3. ‘How U Do That’ (prod. by Kutta)4. ‘Feet Don’t Fail [...]

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KanYe West ft. Pusha T, Big Sean, CyHi da Prynce & J. Cole – ‘Looking For Trouble’ #GOODFridays

The 22nd and the release of KanYe West’s fifth album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” just keeps getting closer and closer, now it’s only three #GOODFridays left ’til the album hit the stores. Or wait, it’s actually not since KanYe has decided to extend the successful weekly give-aways until January 2011 which he revealed when [...]

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G.O.O.D. Music: KanYe West, Pusha T, CyHi Da Prynce, Big Sean & Common – 2010 BET Hip-Hop Awards Cipher (Dirty/CDQ)

Let’s be real, Diamond’s effort aside, the only cipher that stood out during this years BET Hip Hop Awards was the one from the G.O.O.D. Music camp ft. KanYe West, Pusha T, CyHi Da Prynce, Big Sean & Common. Here’s finally the dirty, CDQ version without all annoying clutter like claps etc. G.O.O.D. Music: KanYe [...]

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KanYe West – “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” Official Covers & Tracklist

While we wait for KanYe West to unleash this weeks edition of the #GOODFridays, let’s take a look at the official covers and tracklist (confirmed by iTunes-store) of Mr. West’s upcoming album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” that drops the 22nd on November. The album will feature five different covers, among them the “banned” one [...]

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KanYe West’s “Runaway” Movie Set to Premire the 23rd

KanYe West who today is putting the finishing touches to his upcoming album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” has the past weeks been travelling across the globe from Paris to London, Tokyo and Sydney, for screenings of his film “Runaway”. It’s now official that the 35 minutes long piece will premiere next week on October [...]

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KanYe West ft. Keri Hilson, Pusha T & CyHi the Prynce – ‘Take One For The Team’ #GOODFriday

Yeah, you who actually are able to access First Up! right now might be wondering about this thing Google warning that pops up as you try to enter the site? For those who doesn’t follow me on Twitter (I advice you all to do that @First_Up) doesn’t know that I’ve been dealing with this “blacklisted [...]

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BET Hip Hop Awards 2010: All Ciphers & Performances

So, due to the fact that my poor laptop only has one (yeah 1) GB of ram and is un-respondent 70% of the time when it’s on, I was not able to watch the BET Hip Hop Awards when it was finally aired last night/early this morning. If any sponsors are interested to supply me [...]

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