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Chance the Rapper performed a new song at a show in Austin, Texas on Saturday night (October 10). The name of the song is currently unknown, but as it came to an end, Chance muttered the words “"hid mixture", suggesting that it may be part of a yet to be announced project. The past few months have been busy for the Chicago MC, 'Surf', a jazz fusion album that featured collaborations with Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment was released in May. In August he released 'Free (Based Freestyles Mixtape)', a joint mixtape with Lil B, as well as the song 'Israel (Sparring)' featuring Noname Gypsy. Chance was also invited to give a guest lecture at Harvard University's Hiphop Archive & Research Institute in April. He then took the opportunity to sit for a Q&A to answer questions about pr

Janet Jackson has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, with her new album Unbreakable. It's her seventh chart topping album, and just the third act to achieve No. 1 albums in each of the last four decades. Unbreakable, which was released on October 2nd arrived at the top of the chart with 116,000 equivalent album units earned in the week. The project is Jackson's first studio album since 2008's Discipline, which also debuted at No. 1. Jackson previously led the list with All For You (2001), The Velvet Rope (1997), janet. (1993), Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989) and Control (1986). Unbreakable also happens to be Jackson's first independently distributed album, and it was released o

Kendrick Lamar has written an open letter to late rapper and N.W.A. member, Eazy-E. Kendrick was only seven years old in 1995 when Eazy-E, another Compton native, passed away. Writing in Paper Magazine, Lamar said: "I remember when I was five or six years old, waking up one morning and seeing this guy bust through the TV screen.. I remember looking at that video and just feeling like, 'Man, this dude feels like an action superhero'. Little did I know, Eazy-E came from my same neighborhood in Compton. But as a kid, I really couldn't grasp the idea that the world knew about what we're going through in my neighborhood. I didn't get that idea until my debut album, 'good kid, mAAd city', came out and that's when I truly understood how NWA felt, coming from this small neighborhood but goi

Far too often, the producers who really deserve the attention for making incredible, mind-boogling beats don't get the shine they should. Bubbling beneath the surface is a plethora of untapped talent the entire music loving world should know about. Ethan "Headnodic" Parsonage not only has the talent, but also an established career. As a member of the Crown City Rockers hip-hop collective, he's been pumping out high quality beats since the late '90s. Along with fellow members Woodstock, Raashan Ahmad, Max MacVeety and Kat Ouano, Headnodic released three albums and several EPs. Although the group isn't active anymore, they recently reunited at Hiero Day on September 7 in Oakland. Headnodic also caught up with Raashan Ahmad and recored the second volume of Low Fidelity, High Quality, which is

Kanye West has been very vocal in the past about how the fashion world has discriminated against him for being black, and is now saying that he also feels discriminated against for being heterosexual. The rapper made the comments in a two hour-long live interview with Show Studio earlier this week (October 6). "I feel like I got discriminated in fashion for not being gay," West said. "In music, you definitely get discriminated in music if you are gay. It takes amazing talents to break down barriers. Everyone thought that when Frank Ocean dropped that it was going to be bad for his career (Ocean came out in 2012). I feel like it's so cliche to speak about him as it relates to this subject, but there are people who broke the ground and he broke the ground. The people that bre

A young fan was given one of Travi$ Scott's chains, by the rapper himself, after he showed him a tattoo he had that was inspired by Scott. The Kanye West protege and Houston native recently posted a photo of the moment on Instagram, the caption read: "Gave this kid my chain cause he has a rodeo tat at 14. Ur my idol kiddo". 'Rodeo' is the name of Scott's debut album that was released in September. It spawned the singles '3500' and 'Antidote' and featured guest appearances by Kanye West, The Weeknd, Justin Bieber, Toro Y Moi, and others. Previously, Scott was seen fighting a fan who tried to steal his chain. During Lollapalooza, Scott's set was shut down after he encouraging fans to jump a security barrier and rush the stage. The performer played one song and then began t