Thursday, November 18, 2010
Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday Leaks Online
Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday Leaks Online
Pink Friday came even earlier than expected.
Nicki Minaj's debut album leaked online on Wednesday (November 17), less than a week before its scheduled release date. The project was originally slated to arrive on Friday (November 19) before shifting to November 23 and then finally settling on November 22.
The Pink Friday tracks floating on the Web include collaborations between Nicki Minaj and A-list artists like Kanye West, Rihanna and Drake.
On "Fly," featuring Rihanna and produced by J.R. Rotem (Sean Kingston, Nicole Scherzinger), Nicki Minaj rhymes about chasing dreams over the slow, tickling number.
"Such a heavy burden placed upon me," Nicki raps. "But when you go hard, your name becomes yays, Yankee Stadium with Jays and Kanyes."
"This song is a female empowerment song," the female lyricist wrote earlier this week in her Pink Friday Diaries Facebook journal. "But then again, it's not specific to just women. It speaks about flying, soaring high in the face of every single solitary adversity that comes your way. I speak about how the media has attempted to box me in and how that has made me feel suffocated."
The Harajuku Barbie and new GQ Man of the Year Drake trade rhymes on "Moment 4 Life," where the Toronto lyricist continues to stoke the flames of the two Lil Wayne protégés' online romance.
"F--- it, me and Nicki getting married today," Drake raps. "And all you bitches hating can catch the bouquet."
The collection ends with the Natasha Bedingfield-assisted "Last Chance," on which Nicki raps and sings over a rock-tinged production.
"This is my last chance, I'm ready to shoot / I'm ready to shoot," she sings. "Of all of the days in my life/ I been waiting for this time/ Would you believe it's right before my eyes?/ Anybody trying to stop me, better not f--- with me this time/ I'm ready to shoot into the sky."
CHRIS BROWN:IN MY ZONE 2
Prepare to re-enter Chris Brown’s zone. The R&B hunk has unveiled the cover art for his upcoming mixtape In My Zone 2, hosted by DJ Drama and DJ Babey Drew, and set for release on Black Friday. Posing on a dock overlooking the ocean, Breezy looks down at the ground in the sepia-toned pic, rocking a baseball cap and “Army vs. Army” tee.
The mixtape, the follow-up to February’s In My Zone, has already spawned the tracks “Between the Lines” featuring Kevin McCall and “Boing.” The 21-year-old singer recently found success with his joint mixtape Fan of a Fan with Tyga, scoring the chart-topping hit “Deuces.” http://www.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/12689/chris_brown_in_my_zone_2.html
J.Cole x Friday Night Lights
While it may seem like every other piece of music released this November lives in Kanye West's shadow, J. Cole's most recent mixtape, "Friday Night Lights," is garnering sunlight of its own.
J. Cole, the first artist signed to Jay-Z's label Roc Nation, started rapping when he was just 12-years-old.
Inspired by many of his generation's most well-known rappers, such as Eminem and Nas, Cole was making his own beats and posting his songs and freestyles on the internet at 17-years-old under the moniker Therapist.
It was not until the release of his second mixtape in 2009 that J. Cole was discovered and signed to a record deal by Jay-Z as a talented new artist in the hip-hop game.
His exposure took flight in late 2009 after he was featured on Jay-Z's album, "The Blueprint 3," on the song "A Star Is Born."
XXL Magazine then named J. Cole to their "Top Ten Freshmen of 2010" edition, where they ranked the top ten up-and-coming rappers in hip-hop in a given year, while Beyond Race Magazine listed him on their Top 50 Emerging Artists.
"Friday Night Lights," which features artists such as Drake, Wale and Omen, is J. Cole's third mixtape since 2007.
For fans of true hip-hop, Cole's smooth sound and clever verses are sure to delight. His delivery is precisely on point, and like fellow artists such as Wale and Kanye West, his hooks boast a catchiness that will keep songs on the brain for days.
Surprisingly, the one track on the mixtape which seems to leave much to be desired is a collaboration with Drake called "In the Morning."
While each rapper holds their own lyrically, the highly anticipated collaboration between the two artists is not as captivating as fans might have hoped. Drake made it clear, however, that this will not be their only chance to rhyme together, nor will it be their last chance to battle.
"Me and him will probably have many opportunities to rap and try and out-rap each other." Drake said in an interview with MTV.
J. Cole's debut LP, entitled "Cole World," is set for a Dec. 2010 release date and will feature production credits by Jay-Z, No I.D. and Pharrell.
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