Kanye West Announced as X Games Austin Headliner
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UPDATE: Tickets for X Games Austin are now available here, along with a full lineup that includes The Flaming Lips, Slightly Stoopid, Mayer Hawthorne, Gary Clark Jr., Wavves, Bad Religion, Cash Cash, Candyland & FMLYBND, along with the previously announced headliners.
The 2014 installment of the annual X Games competition was sure to be a little more weird this time around as the yearly action sports festival lands in Austin, Tx. Things may prove to get even more strange after 'Yeezus' himself, Kanye West, was announced as this year's headlining music act yesterday. The larger-than-life Chicago hip-hop star who took to wearing leather kilts and gaudy gold chain masks onstage during his three-month long Yeezus tour in support of his most recent album, was added to the event along with Mac Miller, Dillon Francis and Pretty Lights. It seems as though there is a perpetual festival always happening in Austin, regardless of day or time, and they just keep getting bigger. Adding West is a great move, too, for X Games organizers as their big-air and death-defying tricks seem to have lost the hold they had over the country less than a decade ago. The influx of the arguably the world's largest star should prove to help ratings a bit. The games will pitthe best in RallyCross, BMX, Skateboarding, Moto X, and now, Stadium Super Trucks against each other from June 5 -8 in Austin, Texas, information available here.
[Mixtape] Clams Casino: "Instrumentals Vol. 3"
Clams Casino has been busy working with just about everyone in hip-hop since coming up with A$AP Rocky a couple years ago. Yesterday, the busy producer released his final, annual, year-end recap of work he's done with different artists. Kind of like his own personal, best-of list. The project is jam-packed with a slew of solid beats that littered the end of 2012 and early 2013, including tracks for Mac Miller, Rocky, Santigold, MF Doom and Jim Jones, along with several unreleased beats that found their way on the tape. Clams latest project was the HP "2-day Beat" project with Vic Mensa and several other artists that shows his rise into the corporate side of the music industry. Good for him. Anyway, check out some hot beats below.
1. Crystals
2. Hell (A$AP Rocky instrumental)
3. Cry For Me (unreleased)
4. Pull Me Down (Mikky Ekko instrumental)
5. LVL (A$AP Rocky instrumental)
6. Bird Call (Mac Miller instrumental)
7. Freeze (A$AP Rocky instrumental)
8. Haunt (unreleased)
9. Melthru (unreleased)
10. Bookfiend (DOOM instrumental)
11. Cold Feet (Mac Miller instrumental)
12. Wizard (remix)
13. Youforia (Mac Miller instrumental)
[Album] Mac Miller: "Live From Space"
Mac Miller has been pumping out music all throughout 2013. On the heels of his critically-acclaimed Watching Movies With The Sound Off, he dropped a project under his high-pitched alter-ego Delusional Thomas, and today he dropped a collection of unreleased songs and live recordings of tracks from WMWSO, from this summer's "Space Migration Tour" that featured Chance The Rapper, Action Bronson, The Internet and Earl Sweatshirt. Included on the tape is "Earth" featuring Future and "In The Morning" with Syd and Thundercat. After an exhausting year, this is a fitting way for the Pittsburgh MC to close out a very successful 2013 campaign. You can pick up the latest from Mac, Live From Space via iTunes, or listen below.
1. ‘S.D.S.’
2. ‘The Star Room / Killin’ Time’
3. ‘BDE (Best Day Ever)’
4. ‘Bird Call’
5. ‘Watching Movies’
6. ‘REMember’
7. ‘The Question’
8. ‘Objects in the Mirror’
9. ‘Youforia’
10. ‘Eggs Aisle’
11. ‘Earth f. Future’
12. ‘Life’
13. ‘Black Bush’
14. ‘In the Morning’ feat. Syd & Thundercat
[Mixtape] Mac Miller: "Delusional Thomas"
Mac Miller slipped one by me last Friday, releasing a new mixtape under his latest moniker, Delusional Thomas. The tape is nice and has features from Earl Sweatshirt and Da$h, with production coming exclusively from Larry Fisherman. . . yet another Miller alter-ego. Apparently, the character of Delusional Thomas employs a more nasally sound to the rhymes. Honestly, I'm cool with the character changes as long as Mac keeps doing his thing. Say what you want about the Pittsburgh MC but he has never strayed from being himself and making that money while staying independent. More power to him. Check out his eponymous release, Delusional Thomas below.
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[Video] Action Bronson Announces "Blue Chips 2"
Action Bronson has officially signed off on plans for a new installment of his seminal Blue Chips mixtape he dropped in early 2012 with up and coming production team Party Supplies. Today he announced the new via a video that is as Bronson as it gets. Also released were the tracklisting and features list which includes Mac Miller and Ab-Soul, all of which followed the hint earlier this week in his single "Practice". Watch Bronson cook here and check it all out here below.
Blue Chips 2:
01 Silverado
02 Intro feat. Big Body Bes
03 Pepe Lopez
04 The Don's Cheek
05 It Concerns Me
06 Practice
07 Jackson & Travolta feat. Meyhem Lauren
08 Through The Eyes Of A G feat. Ab-Soul
09 Contemporary Man
10 Twin Peugots feat Big Body Bes & Mac Miller
11 Man & The Mirror
12 Midget Cough
13 It's Me
14 Flip Ya feat. Retchy P
15 9.24.13 feat. Big Body Bes
16 Rolling Thunder feat. Action Bronson
17 Amadu Diablo
18 In The City feat. Jeff Woods
19 I Adore You
[Video] Chuck Inglish: “Came Thru/Easily” (feat. Mac Miller & Ab-Soul)
Chuck Inglish's latest EP Easily, can now be found on iTunes as an official digital release. The Detroit emcee/producer decided to give the project a little promotional push on its release date by also dropping the video for “Came Thru/Easily”, his collaboration with Mac Miller and TDE's Ab-Soul. Easily features this record plus guest-appearances from A$ton Matthews, Sulaiman and Polyester the Sain. Go cop the EP here.
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Chuck Inglish: "Came Thru/Easily" (feat. Mac Miller & Ab-Soul)
For those Chuck Inglish fans out there that are impatiently waiting on his solo debut LP Convertibles, don't fret. The project is coming out in early February and he also has yet another EP dropping before that. Easily is set to host five new records from the Detroit native, including the quasi-title track "Came Thru/Easily," which features Mac Miller and Ab-Soul and it's available to stream below. The production on this joint is amazing and each emcee did their thing behind the mic.
https://soundcloud.com/fuckyourcat420/chuck-inglish-feat-mac-miller
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[Video] Mac Miller: "The Star Room" (feat. Delusional Thomas)
After a very successful North American summer tour alongside Chance The Rapper and The Internet, Mac Miller is back with a brand new visual off his latest full-length effort Watching Movies With The Sound Off. "The Star Room" features the same room filled with light-bulbs as “I Am Who Am (Killin Time)”, plus a guest-appearance by Mac's alter-ego, Delusional Thomas. The indie emcee has been taking a more artistic approach in his latest videos, and "The Star Room" continues the trend.
http://youtu.be/Mos8UiWV6_g