• Snoop Dogg To Guest Star On Upcoming Episode Of Fox's 'Empire'

    The new Fox television series Empire, a soap opera about the hip-hop industry created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong, has just closed a deal with Snoop Dogg for an upcoming episode. The rapper will play himself in a guest starring role on Episode 11, which will air in late February or early March, The Wrap reports. The show premiered last week to positive reviews.

  • Snoop Dogg Announces 'Bush' As Title Of New Pharrell-Produced Album, "Peaches N Cream" As First Single

    Back in September, Snoop Dogg revealed that he had been collaborating with Pharrell on a new album, and in October he announced that he'd be dropping the record via Pharrell's I Am Other label and Columbia Records. New details have now emerged about the effort. During a panel hosted by Omnicom Media Group at CES in Las Vegas yesterday, Snoop confirmed Bush as the album title and "Peaches N Cream" as the first single. The effort is due out sometime in mid-March, Rap-Up reports.

  • Wiz Khalifa Shares Chaotic 'Raw' Music Video [WATCH]

    Wiz Khalifa has shared the music video for his "Blacc Hollywood" track "Raw," which you can check out below. The Gerard Victor-directed clip features extensive use of negative black-and-white photography and flicker film techniques, so much so that the video opens with a trigger warning for those who suffer from seizures — do not watch this video if you have epilepsy. There is not much of a story, but there does not really need to be one with such complicated and fascinating visuals.You can check out Wiz Khalifa's "Raw" music video here, but again, do not watch it if you are prone to seizures:

  • Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign Share Trippy New Song 'Refresh/Say No More' [LISTEN]

    Wiz Khalifa and Ty Dolla $ign have shared a trippy new collaborative track titled "Refresh/Say No More," which you can check out below. Being almost nine minutes long, this is really two tracks in one, and if the cover art is any indication (which you can check out up above), this is some really spacy, psychedelic stuff, even moreso than Wiz usually gets. It's not clear who the producer is on this track, though the Soundcloud page says it was "engineered" by Drew Drucker and Ricky P, so maybe they should be getting the credit for this one.

  • See How Drake Celebrated New Year's Eve At Marquee Las Vegas [WATCH]

    If you wanted star power for your New Year's Eve parties, Las Vegas had it. With Iggy Azalea, Alesso, Calvin Harris, Drake, Snoop Dogg, Steve Angello and others in town, any venue across town was going to have something everyone. As Calvin Harris took over mega-club Hakkasan and Iggy Azalea headlines new club, Drai's, Drake was at Marquee doing his thing in a tux leading clubbers into 2015. It was caught on camera and put into an official recap where you can see the highlights of the night including a short performance of several big tracks from Drake's landmark 2014.

  • Classic Hip-Hop Formats Playing Tupac Shakur, Public Enemy and Snoop Dogg Are Saving Commercial Radio Stations

    Commercial radio is suffering. Satellite and streaming options that link directly to mobile devices are becoming increasingly popular because of the diversity and lack of commercial interruptions. According to The New York Times, one format is incredibly hot right now - classic hip-hop. Stations championing Tupac Shakur, Public Enemy and Snoop Dogg are sprouting up all over the country. Radio One, Cummulus Media and iHeartMedia are all jumping at the opportunity.

  • Chris Brown Guests On TeeFLii's "Blue Lipstick" [LISTEN]

    Los Angeles singer/rapper TeeFLii has shared a new track titled "Blue Lipstick," a collaboration with Chris Brown, which you can check out below. The track has some refreshingly unique production, with some slinky guitars and funky synths anchored by a hard-hitting boom bap beat. TeeFLii and Chris Brown trade lines, and though the overtly sexual lyrics are the song's weakest spot, the production more than makes up for it.

  • Wiz Khalifa Drops "You And Your Friends" Video Featuring Ty Dollar $ign, Snoop Dogg [WATCH]

    A few days ago, Wiz Khalifa teased the video for his DJ Mustard-produced club banger "You And Your Friends" off his latest album Blacc Hollywood, which was nominated by the Grammys for Best Rap Album. The intro clip he teased featured Khalifa smoking a blunt inside a marijuana grow house while talking on the phone to Ty Dolla $ign who is in his car, trying to flirt his way out of a ticket with two female cops. The full video, however, has a different theme.

  • Snoop Dogg and Son Cordell Broadus to Star in ESPN's High School Football Reality Show [WATCH]

    In case you didn't know, Snoop Dogg's son, Cordell Broadus, is a solid football player. He's actually one of he top college prospects in the nation at wide receiver. ESPN jumped at the opportunity to document the whole process recently in a a new reality show 'Snoop & Son: A Dad's Dream,' Vibe notes. A trailer for the series dropped today (Dec. 19) and it doesn't look half bad.

  • Wiz Khalifa Samples Mac DeMarco For "Smoke Chambers" [LISTEN]

    asdEven though he has no upcoming album or mixtape projects that we know about, Wiz Khalifa keeps dropping new songs, his latest being the exceptionally trippy and laidback "Smoke Chambers," which you can check out below. The song heavily samples fellow stoner Mac DeMarco's synthpop number "Chamber of Reflection" from his latest album Salad Days, even keeping DeMarco's original "alone again" vocal hook, which ties in to Khalifa's theme of the alienation his fame has brought him. This is the sort of hazy production that Khalifa should be using more often.
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