After ‘Ye performed this at the Facebook headquarters last summer, we later learned that it unfortunately didn’t make the cut for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and now I understand why. “Mama’s Boyfriend” sounds like a leftover from The College Dropout, and I don’t give one fuck because this shit is DOPE! Shouts to all the fellas who are their mama’s little boys.
DOWNLOAD: Kanye West – Mama’s Boyfriend
After having a HUGE summer single last summer, with the Bruno Mars-assisted, “Billionaire,” Travie teams back up with the Gym Class Heroes for their upcoming The Papercut Chronicles II, which is slated to drop before year’s end. The first single is the Benny Blanco-produced “Stereo Hearts,” which so happens to feature Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine on the hook. This will definitely get a lot of poolside, margarita play.
DOWNLOAD: Gym Class Heroes – Stereo Hearts (feat. Adam Levine)
The Queen B aint letting the fact that her album leaked over 3 weeks before it’s release date get her down. Sooo, if she doesn’t care, then I don’t care. Having had time to sit with the album, I originally wanted to say that it wasn’t her strongest, which I still stand by, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t tracks that I don’t mess with. “I Care” is one of those tracks.
Beyonce had said that she was integrated so many different sounds into this album, and “I Care” is one of those tracks that is still a total R&B track, while still having the noticeable influences of sounds of other genres. B’s 4 officially drops on June 28th.
DOWNLOAD: Beyonce – I Care
Some new shit from Gavin DeGraw. When I’m in my white-music mode, this song will get played non-stop, but I have a few qualms about the song. It was co-produced by Ryan Tedder, which I could have told you before I even knew that, which is also why I’m going to say that this isn’t a “Gavin DeGraw song.”
The words and melodies are very Gavin, but the production is much poppier and higher-produced than a lot of Gavin’s previous material, which I attribute to Ryan Tedder, who is the lead singer of One Republic and has also penned hits for everyone from Beyonce to Cobra Starship to Chris Brown. Good to finally have some new music from Gavin DeGraw…his new album Sweeter hits stores August 9th.
DOWNLOAD: Gavin DeGraw – Not Over You
According to Aubrey, this is just another piece of the story. I’m not going to lie, even though I was feelin’ this track from jump street, it took me two spins to REALLY say, “Oh, now Drake’s got one!” After all, hasn’t every guy been asked, “Are you drunk right now?” by a girl?
Drizzy also revealed that his sophomore effort, Take Care, will be released October 24th. If things go the same as they did for Thank Me Later, we’ll be expecting this album to sit on shelves a week later (well now ya’ll know what to get me for my birthday…just saying). And of course, Take Care will hit the interwebs earlier than expected…ha!
DOWNLOAD: Drake – Marvin’s Room
Maybe 2011 will be the year of the remix, not the blend. Either way, SWV added their flavor to Breezy’s “She Aint You,” which samples their hit, “Right Here,” which samples MJ’s, “Human Nature.” Follow that? I’ve probably listened to this song more times than normally acceptable, but I don’t care because this is that wavy summer, “drink in ya hand,” watch me dougie type of track. And as long as I can wear white, I’ll be rockin’ with this track.
This could have been the longest week that I’ve had in a minute, but it was once again, amazing. Trying to figure out how to take things to the next level, but I swear by September I’ll show the few tricks that I have up my sleeve. Shouts to the homie Steve P at Team Epiphany for hookin’ ya boy up for the Kanye/Heineken event (more on that later.) Imma go get my Rip Van Winkle on and sleep until tomorrow.
