• Paul McCartney, Lenny Kravitz, Ringo Starr and More Respond to Joe Cocker's Death on Twitter

    Soulful rock icon Joe Cocker died yesterday, Dec. 22, at the age of 70. The singer had been battling lung cancer. Tributes began flooding in from Cocker's contemporaries: Paul McCartney, The Doobie Brothers and Ringo Starr all paid their respects on Twitter. Some of today's artists like Lupe Fiasco, Lady Antebellum and Lenny Kravitz also showed love for the legendary performer.McCartney recalled Cocker's brilliance on The Beatles's "With a Little Help from My Friends," which the singer recorded in the late 1960s and eventually became the theme song for "The Wonder Years":"It's really sad to hear about Joe's passing. He was a lovely northern lad who I loved a lot and like many people I loved his singing. I was especially pleased when he decided to cover 'With a Little Help from My Friends' and I remember him and Denny Cordell coming round to the studio in Saville Row and playing me what they'd recorded and it was just mind blowing, totally turned the song into a soul anthem and I was forever grateful to him for doing that."

  • Iggy Azalea Responds To Q-Tip's History Lesson; Lupe Fiasco & Azealia Banks Counter

    The hip-hop family is not a happy bunch during this holiday season. Practically on Christmas Eve, Iggy Azalea and her many detractors are still waging their war of words on social media. The most poignant salvo came from hip-hop legend, A Tribe Called Quest member, Q-Tip who gave Azalea a brief history of hip hop in 140 character intervals. Will.i.am and Lupe Fiasco also came out in support of the "Fancy" rapper and her craft.

  • Lupe Fiasco Releases 'Deliver' Music Video Ft. Ty Dolla $ign [WATCH]

    Lupe Fiasco finally has a release date for his upcoming album "Tetsuo & Youth" after close to two years of waiting on the label. He has released the powerful video for the first official single from the album "Deliver" featuring frequent collaborator, Ty Dolla $ign. Directed by Alex Nazari, the video follows a young boy traveling quite a distance to get out of the "no delivery" zone of Chicago just to get two boxes of pizza. It portrays the harsh reality of where Lupe Fiasco grew up on the West Side of Chicago with gangs, drugs and prostitution and how it becomes a ghetto to the outside world who have no desire to enter the neighborhood.

  • Lupe Fiasco 'Tetsuo & Youth' Tracklist, Album Cover Unveiled on Twitter

    Atlantic Records finally gave Lupe Fiasco a release date for his new album Tetsuo & Youth after much struggle from the rapper, and now, the album finally has some artwork and a tracklist. Today (Dec. 1), Fiasco unveiled the 16-song tracklist and acrylic painted cover for his fifth LP, featuring Ab-Soul, Trae Tha Truth and several appearances from Nikki Jean.

  • Nicki Minaj Drops 'Bed of Lies' Featuring Skylar Grey: New Track from 'The Pink Print' Is a Slow Burner [LISTEN]

    Nicki Minaj shared her next single, "Bed of Lies," from her upcoming album "The Pink Print." The slow burner features singer-songwriter Skylar Grey on piano as well as taking the vocal duties during the chorus. Minaj and Grey premiered the song live at the 2014 MTV EMAs a week ago, and now the track is available to stream online or download from iTunes.The song marks the first time Grey and Minaj have joined forces. It sounds like Minaj is working through some stuff on the track, seemingly rapping about an ex-lover."I just figured if you saw me, if you looked in my eyes," she raps. "You'd remember our connection and be freed from the lies / I just figured I was something that you couldn't replace / But there was just a blank stare and I couldn't relate."Listen to the emotional anthem below, via "MTV News."

  • Fall Out Boy, Lupe Fiasco Release Chicago Bulls Anthem "Only the Bulls" [LISTEN]

    Fall Out Boy really loves it Chicago hometown. After featuring the city heavily in a recent video for "Centuries," the alt-rock band is celebrating the Windy City in another way... by championing the Chicago Bulls. Today (Nov. 7), FoB teamed up with fellow Chicago native Lupe Fiasco for a new Bulls theme song "Only the Bulls."

  • Lupe Fiasco Announces New Mixtape 'Lost in the Atlantic,' Blames Atlantic Records for Album Delay [WATCH]

    Lupe Fiasco’s upcoming studio album "Tetsuo & Youth" has been delayed for a while — there were rumors of an August release date, which obviously did not happen — but today we learned he is not the one to blame. In an Instagram post from earlier today, Oct. 14, via radio.com, the Chicago rapper claimed his label Atlantic Records is holding back the release of "Tetsuo & Youth" until he gives them “a pop single,” and said that in the meantime he is "putting together a mini-project while they find one for me." This “mini-project” Fiasco is referring to is a new mixtape cleverly titled "Lost in the Atlantic," which he says was recorded “with a bunch of my friends to stay active and happy.”

  • Lupe Fiasco Shares New Song "Pu$$y" Featuring Billy Blue [LISTEN]

    We may not have a release date yet for Lupe Fiasco's next album Tetsuo & Youth, but today the Chicago rapper dropped a new single to tide us over. "Pu$$y" features production by MoeZ'art and a hook from Miami rapper Billy Blue, with cover artwork featuring a photograph of Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who I'm sure will love being associated with a song like this.
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