Drake - "Headlines"

Drakes latest single "Headlines" which dropped on July 30th. Listen and download below.

Jay-Z & Kanye West - "Otis"

Jigga & Yeezy drop another track titled "Otis"off of their upcoming album "Watch The Throne", officially released tonight by Funkmaster Flex on Hot 97

Listen and download below.

NBA 2011-2012 Schedule

So today the NBA released the 2011-2012 schedule. Why in the hell would they do this? Right now they are in the midst of what looks to be longest lock out in NBA history. The Owners and The Players Association are MILES apart. Talks of top tier players looking to go across the pond to Europe just to get a run is getting louder with each passing day.

Who cares when the Mavs and Heat will play there first rematch game? Who cares about LeBron going back to Cleveland the city is beyond dead anyways. Who cares about who's playing in the Primtime game against the Lakers, most times I can't even enjoy it in peace with all the noise from my family. What I care about most is will we even have a season.. The Players Association knows they got hosed the last time around in 98-99 when they were on strike. This time they're more than determined not to let that happen again.

For now I don't want to hear NOTHING concerning the NBA unless it has something to do with them coming to an agreement.

For those interested you can see the full schedule here: NBA 2011-2012 Schedule

Jack Flawless - "The Flawless Files" Mixtape

The Flawless Files is a collection of Jack Flawless' brightest and best work to date. If you’ve been riding with the Toronto MC since ’04 when he dropped “Here We Go,” or just discovered him after the mainstream airplay of “Found A Girl” last year, everything you need is here - with some new tracks as well. The Flawless Files charts the path of a rapper fresh on the scene to an MC finding his voice. Featuring collaborations with Boi-1da (Drake, Eminem) and Rich Kidd (k-os, Saukrates), this is the first act that bridges this body of work to the greatness to come. Download the Flawless Files, share the free download as you like and let everyone know what you’ve been up on.

DOWNLOAD: Flawless Files

Melanie Fiona - "Like I Love You"

Melanie Fiona drops "Like I Love You" off of her upcoming "The MF" mixtape.. Listen and download below.

"Boyz N the Hood" 20 Years Later

July 2011 marks the 20th anniversary of the film classic "Boyz N the Hood". This movie directed by John Singleton jump started several acting careers including Morris Chesnut, Nia Long, Ice Cube and Oscar Award Winning Cuba Gooding Jr

The film had a major impact in the motion picture world by portraying violence and coming of age for a group of friends living in South Central L.A. While many urban movies at that time focused on drugs and murder in the streets, Singleton chose a slightly different direction. He showed a single father trying to raise a young man while protecting him from the dangers that surrounded him. A single mother with 2 teenage boys on 2 seperate paths, one an aspiring Pro Football player looking to get a scholarship to major College. The other who succumbed to the evils of drugs and violence which resulted in him being  in and out of jail, nonetheless always playing the protector to his younger brother.  John Singleton was offered a $100,000 not to do the movie, to which he obviously declined.

What I remember most about this movie was being in Gr 8 and having the opportunity to be 1 of 2 students chosen in the school for a private screening of the film. Plenty of times during the movie my mouth dropped, especially the part when the grandmother comes running upstairs almost catching Tre in the bedroom.

So tell me, what do you remember most about Boyz N the Hood? Where did you first see the movie and what did you think of it after watching it for the first time? 

Shaq joins Tuner Sports

Shaquille O'Neal has agreed upon a multiyear deal with Turner Sports to be an analyst for it's NBA Coverage. Shaq now joins Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley in the TNT Studios. The 3 of them alone is definitely the best NBA Pre/Post game coverage around. Having Shaq joining them on the set can only make viewing more enjoyable. I'll be looking forward to seeing them on Thursday nights thru the NBA Season and Playoffs, of course that's if the NBA even has a season.

Source: ESPN Los Angeles

DJ Lissa Monet & ThoseGirlsAreWild.com Present - "4 Beyonce" Mixtape

DJ Lissa Monet and ThoseGirlsAreWild.com bring to you a mixtape of ALL Beyonce. 62 tracks of bass thumping, mirror singing, hairbrush holding, girl power music. DJ Lissa Monet also added some excerpts of songs performed from Beyonce's Live Tours. Download from the link below.

Download: 4 Beyonce

Lil Wayne - "Sorry 4 The Wait" Mixtape

Lil Wayne drops a new mixtape to tide everyone over until the release of "The Carter IV". Tracklisting and download link below.

1. Tunechi’s Back
2. Rollin’ (Freestyle)
3. Throwed Off (Freestyle) feat. Gudda Gudda
4. Gucci Gucci (Freestyle)
5. Marvin’s Room (Freeestyle)
6. Sure Thing (Freestyle)
7. Grove St. Party (Freestyle) feat. Lil B
8. Racks (Freestyle)
9. Hands Up (Freestyle)
10. Sorry 4 The Wait
11. Inkredible Remix (Freestyle)
12. IDK (Freestyle)

Download: Sorry 4 The Wait

DJ Jazzy Jeff & Ayah - "Back For More" Album

Here's something for music lovers all around. DJ Jazzy Jeff teams up with Canadian Songtress Ayah to grace us with  "Back For More".. Good soul music, listen to and download below.

Kanye West & Jay-Z - "H.A.M."

At "VEVO Presents Kanye West & G.O.O.D. Music" Jay-Z joins Kanye on stage to perform "H.A.M." from their upcoming album "Watch The Throne" set to be released on August 2nd.

Beyoncé - "Best Thing I Never Had"

Beyonce gets into a wedding dress for her new video "Best Thing I Never had"

Common feat Nas - "Ghetto Dreams"

Here is the first single "Ghetto Dreams" feat Nas off of Common's 9th studio album titled "The Dreamer, The Believer"  set to drop in November. Track produced by NO I.D.

Common - Ghetto Dreams feat NAS by Nasir Jones

Teedra Moses - Luxurious Undergrind Mixtape

The lady of Maybach Music Group Teedra Moses released a mixtape on July 4th titled "Luxurious Undergrind.. This is just a little something to hold us over till her album drops.. Download from the link below.

Luxurious Undergrind

Drake - "Marvins Room"

New video release by OVO  "Marvins Room"

DJ Khaled Feat Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne - "I'm On One"

Here is the new video for DJ Khaled's "I'm On One" feat Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne. Definitely one of this Summers biggest tracks

Shout out to the homie Philly for this one.

Source: Rapdose

Mary J. Blige Feat Nicki Minaj - "Feel Inside"

Mary J. Blige is back again with a 2nd single titled "Feel Inside" feat Nicki Minaj. This will be on her 10th studio album "My Life 2, The Journey Continues" set to be released in Sept 2011.

Andreena Mill - "Key To Your Heart"

One of my favourite R&B artists, Toronto's own Andreena Mill dropped a new single titled "Key To Your Heart". This track is powerful, good to hear and know that great music is continuing to be made.

Congrats Tristan & Cory

When Toronto's Tristan Thompson and Cory Joseph declared for the NBA Draft in April, a lot of people (including myself) thought that they were making a big mistake. Granted they both had a "good" year at Texas, but many thought they were just not ready for the NBA. On many of the mock draft boards Tristan was predicted to go anywhere from 12-16 and Cory early to mid 2nd round. By the time they were done going thru the NBA Combine in Chicago and then all of the team work outs, both their draft stocks had risen.

Last night was the NBA Draft in New Jersey. With the 4th pick of the draft, the Cleveland Cavaliers selected Tristan Thompson (the highest drafted Canadian ever). With the 29th pick of the draft, the San Antonio Spurs selected Cory Joseph (which earlier they got rid of back up PG George Hill).

Congrats to you both on turning your dreams into a reality. Good luck and may you both have long successful careers.

NBA Draft 2011

The 2011 NBA Draft all goes down tomorrow night in New York City. Once again the Class of 2011 is loaded with a ton of Underclassmen, sprinkled with some Seniors and International players. Highlighted by the likes of Kyrie Irving from Duke, Derrick Williams of Arizona, Ernest Kanter from Turkey, Jimmer Fredette of BYU  and Kemba Walker from the National Champs the University of Connecticut. Although this draft is really lacking on "Superstar" talent, it may still turn out to be one of the more interesting ones. A lot of big names have been rumoured to be a part of "Draft Day" trades. Players such as Pau Gasol, Steve Nash, Josh Smith, Tony Parker and Kevin Love have all been mentioned in talks amongst teams trying to get a higher pick or unload heavy contracts. Without any big time trades during the draft, I don't see many of the bad teams really improving too much thru the draft. I know i'll be interested to see what my Lakers will be doing with their 4 picks in the 2nd round, it's like they're picking from a "Dollar Menu" and McDonalds.

This will be the last bit of NBA action that we'll see for a long while. With NBA Owners and Players Association being miles apart on the upcoming new Collective Bargaining Agreement (supposedly even further apart than the NFL), we may not be seeing any NBA games till the earliest January 2012. Which means there will be no Summer Leagues in Orlando or Las Vegas, all players will be locked out of team facilities and more importantly  no one will be getting paid. It's definitely going to suck for the Class of 2011 rookies, to be drafted and not get paid. Many of them may have been better off staying in school.

So soak it ALL in tomorrow night because it looks like it's going to be a LONG offseason full of NBA Games reruns on NBA TV.

Offshoot Sample Sale

On Saturday June 25th, Offshoot Communications is having a 1 Day Last Chance Blowout Sale. All the details are below. Arrive early to avoid disappointment, you've been warned...

EVERYTHING IS $5, $10 & $20... NO EXCEPTIONS!

LRG, FRESHJIVE, THE HUNDREDS, SUPREMEBEING, FAMOUS STARS & STRAPS

ONE DAY ONLY!!!

CASH ONLY!!!!

Drake - "Trust Issues"

Drake dropped another new track this morning entitled "Trust Issues". Drake said "Did my own little thing using some other thing I did. You know."


Take a listen below




Source: Rapdose

What If???

It's been about a week now since Dexter Isaac has confessed that he was hired by James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemund in the involvement of shooting Tupac Shakur in Nov 1994 at Quad Studios in New York City. Click "Confession of Shooting Tupac" for the full story. After hearing this news it has it only leaves you to wonder "What If??"

What if this never happened? Would there ever have been a East Coast/West Coast beef or do you feel that it may have happened anyways. Do Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. still end up losing thier lives over something that they loved "Hip Hop"

What if they were both still alive? Is Jay-Z still "The King of New York" and would he have had that 11yr run of albums with the succession that he did. Does West Coast music fall off like it did with and the emergence of the Dirty South and Bling Bling..  Those were the first few "What If's" that came to my mind.

So what are some your "What If's" after hearing thew news. Would the culture of hip hop music be drastically different now?


Leave them all in the comments below.

Frank Ocean - "Novacane"

The highly talented Frank Ocean has released a video for "Novacane", undoubtedly the most popular track from his mixtape "Nostalgia/Ultra".

J. Cole - "Work Out"

The official debut single for J Cole's debut album was releassed today entitled "Work Out" using a sample from Kanye West's "Work Out Plan" .. Take a listen, let me know what your thoughts about the track.

2011 NBA Champions

Congrats to the Dallas Mavericks for winning this years NBA Championship.

When the Playoffs began NO ONE (unless you were from Dallas) had the Mavs in the NBA Finals let alone making past the 2nd round in the Western Conference. Many analyst that cover the NBA on TV, internet and sports radio had the Mavs losing the Blazers in the 1st round and should they have passed them to be crushed by the Lakers in the 2nd round. Now given the Mavs recent Playoff success since they lost to the Heat in 2006 you can fully understand why. In 3 of the last 4 years the Mavs failed to advance past the 1st round.

In the 2011 Playoffs, the Mavs have had one of the most impressive runs to the title in a long time. Not necessarily record wise but by the way they won games. After getting torched by Brandon Roy and the Blazers in the 4th qtr of Game 4, where the Mavs up by 23 late in the 3rd qtr ultimately losing the game. Mavs went back home in Game 5, took care of business on their homecourt and finished off the Blazers in 6 games in Portland.

From there Mavs started to roll, they went on to meet the defending champs Los Angles Lakers where they took care of them in an impressive 4-0 sweep. Continuously exposing the Lakers lack of defense against quicker PG's and 3pt shooters. Everything the Lakers tried couldn't slow down the Mavs, they were just the better, more complete team 1 thru 12 and it showed. 

Off to the Western Conference Finals where they were met by the Oklahoma City Thunder, unfortunately for the Thunder this is when Dirk took it to another level. With numerous memorable late 4th qtr comebacks, Dirk showed the world an array of fade ways off one leg and off balanced making clutch shots one after the other. Mavs beat the Thunder in 5 games advancing to the NBA Finals

In a rematch of the 2006 NBA Finals, it was pretty much the Mavs vs the so called "Big 3" of Wade, James and Bosh. No else on the Heat is so much worth mentioning. Needless to say the Mavs showed the Heat that it's a TOTAL team effort to win an NBA Title. Mavs defeated the Heat in 6 games with contributions from Dirk, Jason Terry, Tyson Chandler, Shawn Marion and a host of others.

Just like that the 2010-2011 NBA Season has ended.

So who's looking forward to the NBA Lockout? Word is that the NBA is further apart in their labour talks than the NFL is.. NO GOOD!!!! Hopefully the NBA will have something in place for the season to start by Jan 2012, yeah you heard me. It's going to be a LONG offseason.

Darkness Shines...

I couldn't have thought of a better way to kick off this blog than this....

By now i'm pretty sure you might have heard and already seen the footage. On Wednesday June 8th, American Idol and Pop Superstar Jordin Sparks visited the Muchmusic studios for an interview on "New Music Live". During the interview, our boy "Floor Director" Kwame Hills was called out and  let's just say he certainly didn't disappoint.

Kwame took up Jordin Sparks on the offer to join her live on stage as part of the opening act for the NKOTBSB Concert last night at the ACC. Together they sang the hit song "No Air" a duet with Jordin Sparks originally featuring Chris Brown. Here's video of last nights performance.. Great job Kwame!