This is it! The hits keep coming from GOOD Music & Kanye West on this collaborative studio album Cruel Summer for 2012. By the way. Ma$e is back! Email for password.

Drops tonight, via Livemixtapes.com.

Black Cradles Tracklist:

1. Mussolini (prod. by Max Berry)
2. The Fly feat. Benjamin Starr (prod. by Max Berry)
3. Still Ridin (prod. by Clams Casino)
4. Look Out Below feat. Vinny Cha$e & Benjamin Starr (prod. by Johnny Juliano)
5. Calculators feat. Kodak & aColorWar (prod. by Sam King)
6. Bossin’ (prod. by Johnny Juliano)
7. Campaign feat. Kodak & Lexa L’Terra (prod. by Sam King)
8. Been Gone feat. warrenJae, Jus Nice & Stranger Day (prod. by Djay Cas)
9. Sanctuary (prod. by Max Berry)
10. F.O.O. (prod. by Djay Cas)
11. Strokers Row (prod. by Max Berry)
12. The Life feat. Ben Fagan (prod. by Mykal Star)
13. PluTOH (Trayvon Oscar Henry) feat. aColorWar (prod. by Sam King)

Executive Producers: Righchus & Benjamin “Max” Berry
A&R: Randy Roper
Mix/Master: Benjamin “Max”Berry, Stefan “Euphoria Musik” Wallace
PR: Tawana Tolbert
Marketing/Promotions: S.W.I.M. Team/Million Dollar Dreamz.

Preview

Righchus – Still Ridin Video

As Seen On: Writer’s Block Media

Look Out Below

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Just as Muhammad Ali’s professional boxing career has transcended generations to impact their view of the sport and competition, so has Ali’s actions and words as his life has transformed through his social activism. In an effort to both capture his outstanding personality and the ideas Ali works to bestow on the next generation, high-fashion label Louis Vuitton is preparing to release a new brand campaign entitled, “Core Values.” In addition to the website launched ahead of its release, Louis Vuitton now presents a trailer previewing more details on what we can expect in July 2012. Featuring famed calligrapher Niels Shoe Meulman, MC Mos Def, and lyricist Yasiin Bey, Ali’s words will be transformed into a digital experience celebrating and illustrating the inspiration and power behind them. Check out the trailer for the upcoming project after the jump and make sure to bookmark the project’s homepage to stay on top of the latest information. The Greatest Words.

Our friends over at Pigtail Brands are doing a bbq sauce giveaway contest with bbqsaucereviews.com for some Big Ed’s Heirloom BBQ Sauce. The time for a robust, tangy, gluten free, preservative free & all natural vinegar based BBQ sauce for all of you eastern NC style lovers out there. They gave us 4/5 stars in a review a while back and they just love the vintage label we have along with the perfect consistency, taste, & plethora of uses. You can also always get Big Ed’s Heirloom BBQ Sauce here. You can check out some retail outlets where Big Ed’s Heirloom is sold over here.

Today they are going to have 5 WINNERS!   Yes, 5 people win a bottle of sauce!   

To win, just complete the two tasks below:

1. Comment on the blog post below – use the words “Big Ed” in a sentence so we know you’re paying attention
2. Like the creator of this sauce Pigtail Brands on Facebook and (tell em BBQ Sauce Reviews sent you)!

Contest ends Sunday night 6/17/12 (Winners posted Monday)

You may as well follow Pigtail Brands & BBQ Sauce Reviews on twitter as well.

Local Since Forever! That pretty much sums it up. Heads up if you haven’t been to your local Piggly Wiggly lately! Big Ed’s Heirloom has been on a sale price of $3.99 with “The Pig Card” since May 1st and you will be able to get Big Ed’s Heirloom BBQ Sauce & Marinade from Pigtail Brands at this unheard of price until May 29th so make sure to stop by your local Piggly Wiggly and get saucy. Big Ed’s is the only robust, tangy vinegar based heirloom barbecue sauce & marinade with just the perfect hint of pepper & a slight sweet undertone produced in beautiful Charleston, South Carolina. A 30+ year family recipe to perfectly accent and bring out, not overpower, the flavor of your pork, steak, poultry, seafood, wild game, tofu, vegetables and everything in between. Gluten, Fat, Preservative, Cholesterol free & All-Natural.

You know the Memorial Day weekend is coming up so you better be getting the grill ready as well as stocking up on your other supplies such as beer, soda, meats, sauces & whatever it takes for you to really bring it home as the grillmaster this Memorial Day Holiday. You can head over here for some the best Boston Butt & Grilled BBQ Chicken Recipes. Don’t forget about what the holiday is actualy about as well!

Here is a list of most of the local Piggly Wiggly Carolina Company store’s currently carrying Big Ed’s Heirloom if you are in South Carolina or more specifically the Charleston area.

Be sure to follow Mr. Pig on Twitter & check them out on Facebook as well. Get Saucy!

How awesome are these photos from McMurdo Station, Antarctica taken by my good friend Mark Walsh. Now he has returned to the States but Mark is a friend I met from college hailing from Mississippi who for the last couple of years has been holding down the fort at McMurdo Station. I sent some Big Ed’s Heirloom BBQ Sauce to him not long ago to try and warm up the crew & he came back with these. Enjoy.

How awesome are these photos from McMurdo Station, Antarctica taken by my good friend Mark Walsh. Now he has returned to the States but Mark is a friend I met from college hailing from Mississippi who for the last couple of years has been holding down the fort at McMurdo Station. I sent some Big Ed’s Heirloom BBQ Sauce to him not long ago to try and warm up the crew & he came back with these. Enjoy.

Also check out his new venture Barefoot Wallets which began in 2004 when his wallet went overboard while sailing in Key West, FL. He had learned to sew while working as a sailmaker & would eventually make himself a new wallet – the first BFW. For the past two seasons he has disassembled his industrial sewing machine, packed it in a carry-on suitcase, and have flew it down to Antarctica. There, he would use his bed for cutting, his desk for sewing, and would sell these wallets around McMurdo. They’ve become a popular item down at the bottom of the world, and they are now ready (enough) to see how these “Adventure-Travel” wallets will fare at home.

Get a wallet here & pick up some Big Ed’s Heirloom here.

There are many of you who have been lucky enough to get your hands on a bottle of Big Ed’s Heirloom BBQ Sauce & Marinade & most likely the vast majority to date have been in the Southeast(Feel free to request it where you shop). We like spreading the love & lucky enough for us Fab.com feels the same way towards us. I just wanted to give everyone a little heads up that Big Ed’s Heirloom BBQ Sauce & Marinade curated by their umbrella brands Pigtail Brands is currently a featured item on Fab.com in their Foodie Shop enabling us to get everyone else in the continental US just a bit more saucy. Not to worry as you will see Big Ed’s in your favorite locations state to state in a short time, but in the meantime you can purchase some Big Ed’s at about a 28% discount here on the Fab website until Friday @ 7pm so be sure to get a taste of The Specialty Of The South. Also check out their blog. A wonderful chance for for all of the Pigtail Brands fans nationwide to take advantage of a great deal on the best barbecue & sauce & marinade in the land to hit your lips. The versatility is unmatched. Also, it’s delicious served as an appetizer drizzled on cream cheese, goat cheese or that of your liking paired with a cracker, simply as a salad dressing vinaigrette as well as a beautiful bloody mary addition. So until you can find it in your local grocer & high end specialty or gourmet shop take advantage & get a little taste of how a bbq sauce & marinade should taste.

This is nothing like your heavy sauces that drown out the flavor of all of that food you prepared. Big Ed’s acts more as an accent to bring out the natural flavors of your meat, seafood, eggs, tofu, vegetables & pretty much everything in between. I use it on just about anything. We have a few recipes up if anyone is interested to check out & many more we have not had time to post due to the fact of getting the sauce in everyone’s hands & on their dinner tables across the United States.

If you are familiar & a member of Fab.com already just head over here to check out the deal on Fab.com’s Foodie Shop. If you have yet to join, don’t fret & click here for a free invite. Our last sale with them was awesome, but there is even a slight bit more of a discount this time around. The sale features the option of purchasing 1 bottle, 3 bottles or 6 bottles. You can also just click on each respective photo below to take you directly to each site. After the photos you can check out some pretty awesome background information on Fab.com.

If you would like a quick rundown on what Big Ed’s Heirloom is all about check this out & if you just happen to live in South Carolina or the Charleston area you can see here some of the retail locations for Big Ed’s Heirloom & there’s a little press over here. You can always purchase Big Ed’s from our online store as well which you will find here. Gluten, Preservative, Fat & cholesterol free. We are also very proud to announce that we are expanding our product line to include an all natural version of Big Ed’s Heirloom BBQ Sauce & Marinade which just went into production. Sign up here to our newsletter to receive all of the latest updates, happenings & discounts or sales.

Stay Saucy!!! Get two people to retweet on twitter or comment, share or like this on facebook for a free bottle of Big Ed’s Heirloom.

Click Here To Retweet.

Fab.com is a great site of which I have personally purchased many high end & and hard to find items and would highly recommend you becoming a member and taking advantage of the great prices and awesome, hard to find products that they scour the United States for. The main premise of Fab is to provide daily design inspirations at up to 70% off. Fab has been doing amazing since it’s inception into the market on June 9th, 2011 so I wanted to share some of the numbers that they have accomplished since the launch date that I thought were significant.

In 7 months time since Fab.com has been in business they average over 4 million monthly website visits and growing and also have 1 million members (these numbers are from june) (probably double at least by now) already which see their daily product emails.

Positive word-of-mouth from their members and an extraordinary high rate of social sharing on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest has been fueling their growth. That, and their commitment to presenting daily “wow” products that people get excited about and want to tell their friends about, are the reasons behind our hitting 1 million members in just 5 months. They can directly trace 50% of their membership back to social sharing. (proof that facebook and twitter work)

Feel free to Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. And of course if you dig it please share to all of your friends & family below.

Since the launch of Fab.com on June 9, 2011:

+ More than 25,000 products have been purchased.
+ And more than 350 purchases of $500 or more.
+ They average 250,000 new members every 30 days.
+ Since July 1 they have had more than 1000 purchases per day.
+ About 20% of all of their users are now using our mobile apps.
+ Their site has had 1.4M total visits, so nearly $1 value per visit.
+ They achieved more than $1.3 million of revenue in our first 30 days.
+ Their members have made more than 100 purchases of $1000 or more.
+ Their company was profitable in their first month, with 45 team members.
+ 50% of the 200 3-day sales they have run so far on Fab.com sold more than 100 units per sale.
+ 20% of sales was from users of their mobile apps, with iPhone purchases accounting for about 12%, iPad 6%, and Android the remainder.
+ Their conversion rate of website visitors to purchasers keeps getting better and better, even as they layer on more members and more traffic.
+ By their 15th week on Fab.com, 20% of every cohort of members has made a purchase. Extraordinary. Meanwhile, they are seeing 33% monthly revenue growth.
+ Their members purchased more than 1500 each of: Out of Print T-Shirts and Melissa & Doug Toys.
+ And more than 1000: subscriptions to Dwell Magazine and KidRobot toys.
+ Half of the 300,000 members have come from viral invites — typically from email, Facebook, or Twitter shares.
+ And more than 500: Bedol Water-Powered Clocks, TIVI Wood & Metal Jewelry, Declaration T-shirts, Design Glut Conversation Pieces, Ogon Metal Wallets, Black & Blum Cutting Edge Kitchen Items, and Knork Modern Flatware.
+ More than 10,000 of their 300,000 members have made at least 1 purchase (3.3%), many of them more than 1.

Directed by Jeff Scott. An inside, behind the scenes look into the private obsessions and notebooks of today’s most renowned chefs, Sean Brock of Husk Restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina & McCrady’s. Provocative artist, filmmaker and photographer Jeff Scott and chef Blake Beshore have created the total reinvention of the modern American cookbook. Notes from a Kitchen redefines the cookbook genre in a spectacular 2-Volume 932 page cloth covered collection (which you can purchase here on Amazon.com or here) that feels more like a rare museum artifact and private chefs’ journal than a traditional cookbook. These note books & sketches are pretty awesome.

Notebook Obsession: The Private Obsessions of Sean Brock. Directed by Jeff Christopher Scott from jeff scott on Vimeo.

Here we have it from Kanye & Jay Z Watch The Throne Tour. Jay-Z & Kanye West finally dropped the much-anticipated hit single “N**as in Paris” video on the the official youtube VEVO page. As predicted, it highlights throw-down footage of them performing the track at live shows during the Watch The Throne Tour. It just doesn’t get old this one from Hova & Yeezy. Check it out below

You may ask, why am I posting something about backpacks when I run a bbq sauce brand & company? Well, #1 I can do that, #2 we have a great deal of pride in America where we live & American made products while inducing money back into our system domestically, #3 this is a product I can use that very well leads to me getting many of the aspects done in my life related to my business & industry. I ride my bike a lot during the day running errands for the business, exercising etc. and I must have something to protect my laptop and goods while doing that and this would sure fit the bill. So you see, it does relate. Also, I love design so you can see here below why this product hits me as well.

I have been known to go through some backpacks in my time as I am always on the move working, going to the gym riding my bike somewhere etc. and this one looks pretty awesome. What drew me into the brand moreso was the story behind the company & their “rucks”. It’s a great example of building a brand in my opinion having known a thing or two about the subject at hand. Let’s not forget that these are 100% American-made products made on American soil by American hands. Yes, that means you are pumping money back into this thing we have here and fueling progression of us as companies and citizens of the United States.

The company was started by ex Green Beret Jason McCarthy about 5 years ago who states he started GORUCK after his tour of duty was over & after realizing two things: “There’s power in the team, and a good piece of gear makes all the difference.” He also is in charge of the GORUCK Challenge, an 8 to 10 hour, 15 to 20 mile, Green Beret team event that takes place in cities around the world.

The Bags
Minimalist. Black. All Black Everything and made out of 1000 Denier Cordura meaning you are not going to tear or break these bags, it’s also water resistant. Plenty of publications are already on board to tout it such as Men’s Health, Huffington Post, High Snobiety & more.

Let’s not forget that it’s very functional, it would have to be right, to be in the fields of Afghanistan etc. and respected so much by the US Military & Special Forces. Also note that it’s components are top notch as well like the YKK zippers which Jason states he trusts as they have held up fine and worked well in Middle Eastern sandstorms. The G1, or the cadillac, was two years in the making between design changes, testing & more redesign to get it right.

How to build a brand. See how they did that?

Highest quality products check. Simple, yet clean check. Functional check. Lifetime warranty check. Anyone & their mother can attempt to build a brand but it can be much harder than you may think and take much more time than you think, but to do it all the while in our current economical state of affairs whilst keeping all production in the United States and using American products now that’s something to be proud of.

Whether intentional or not what they have done here with GORUCK & the implementation of the GORUCK Challenge. They have created quite a business branding model. You can plan well, do proper research to brand a product in the early stages based on design, functionality & something that will catch the eye of the consumer and really suck them in to purchase, this is standard procedure. You can get a Madison Avenue marketing firm to place you in the proper movie & entertainment outlets & have some awesome print & television adverts as well but that’s about where most people stop. These things have all been done. They have built a product & brand out of engagement with the GORUCK Challenge. An event that will constantly be touted right along with the GORUCK packs and cross branding each other consistently. Think about the reach of that and throw in some viral social sharing and it’s to the moon.

“We’re just American guys running an American company who want to do right by people and have fun doing it,” says McCarthy. “I believe that the shining star of the U.S. is that we have, by far, the best quality labor and products. We’re a team, and we have to do things the right way.” Below you will find some photos of some different models of the packs & can click into the link if you are interested in purchasing one.

It’s pretty nice to have a brand where America has it’s back….And they have yours, Quite Literally!

The GR1 $295

The GR2 $395

Radio Ruck $245

Echo $175

I just wanted to give a heads up to everyone Big Ed’s Heirloom BBQ Sauce & Marinade, The Specialty of the South, will be a featured sale this Friday 1.6.2012 on Fab.com starting at 11 am (EST). A wonderful chance for for all of the Pigtail Brands fans nationwide to take advantage of a great deal. The sale will last for 72 hours so don’t miss out. You may not be able to log in if you have yet to get your invite to be a member of Fab.com, here is your free invite to become a member. Just hit the link and you can join: http://fab.com/qeo2zi.

Fab.com is a great site of which I have personally purchased many high end & and hard to find items and would highly recommend you becoming a member and taking advantage of the great prices and awesome, hard to find products that they scour the United States for. The main premise of Fab is to provide daily design inspirations at up to 70% off. Fab has been doing amazing since it’s inception into the market on June 9th, 2011 so I wanted to share some of the numbers that they have accomplished since the launch date that I thought were significant.

Since the launch of Fab.com on June 9, 2011:

+ More than 25,000 products have been purchased.
+ And more than 350 purchases of $500 or more.
+ They average 250,000 new members every 30 days.
+ Since July 1 they have had more than 1000 purchases per day.
+ About 20% of all of their users are now using our mobile apps.
+ Their site has had 1.4M total visits, so nearly $1 value per visit.
+ They achieved more than $1.3 million of revenue in our first 30 days.
+ Their members have made more than 100 purchases of $1000 or more.
+ Their company was profitable in their first month, with 45 team members.
+ 50% of the 200 3-day sales they have run so far on Fab.com sold more than 100 units per sale.
+ 20% of sales was from users of their mobile apps, with iPhone purchases accounting for about 12%, iPad 6%, and Android the remainder.
+ Their conversion rate of website visitors to purchasers keeps getting better and better, even as they layer on more members and more traffic.
+ By their 15th week on Fab.com, 20% of every cohort of members has made a purchase. Extraordinary. Meanwhile, they are seeing 33% monthly revenue growth.
+ Their members purchased more than 1500 each of: Out of Print T-Shirts and Melissa & Doug Toys.
+ And more than 1000: subscriptions to Dwell Magazine and KidRobot toys.
+ Half of the 300,000 members have come from viral invites — typically from email, Facebook, or Twitter shares.
+ And more than 500: Bedol Water-Powered Clocks, TIVI Wood & Metal Jewelry, Declaration T-shirts, Design Glut Conversation PIeces, Ogon Metal Wallets, Black & Blum Cutting Edge Kitchen Items, and Knork Modern Flatware.
+ More than 10,000 of their 300,000 members have made at least 1 purchase (3.3%), many of them more than 1.

Fab.com’s Black Friday 2011 Numbers:

Whoever said that Black Friday is an offline retail holiday, not an online shopping holiday, surely hasn’t spent much time on Fab.com. They did more than $1.1 million in sales over the 4 day period for black friday and cyber monday & placed more than 18,000 orders which happened to be the single largest sales day in their 5 month history – by far.

+ Nearly half of all orders were from first-time Fab purchasers.
+ More than 5 orders per minute.
+ 3,000 first time purchasers.
+ 5,000 repeat purchasers.

Where do their visitors come from?

In 7 months time since Fab.com has been in business they average over 4 million monthly website visits and growing and also have 1 million members (these numbers are from june) (probably double at least by now) already which see their daily product emails.

Positive word-of-mouth from their members and an extraordinary high rate of social sharing on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest has been fueling their growth. That, and their commitment to presenting daily “wow” products that people get excited about and want to tell their friends about, are the reasons behind our hitting 1 million members in just 5 months. They can directly trace 50% of their membership back to social sharing. (proof that facebook and twitter work)

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Heirloom Book Co. and Jack Rudy Cocktail Co. have decided to throw a Holiday Happy Hour! Heirloom is actually the first account that picked our friends with Big Ed’s Heirloom from Pigtail Brands as well.

This Thursday, December 22nd from 5-8pm at 123 King Street.

Come do your last minute Christmas shopping, have a cocktail and get into the holiday spirit!

Finally we get a bit lengthier look at the last installment of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight films featuring Christian Bale & Anne Hathaway. The Dark Knight Rises. Indeed! Damn if Anne Hathaway isn’t doing the damn sexy thing!

Rolling Stone offers the full album stream of Pusha T’s Fear of God II: Let Us Pray today which has us excited being huge fans of Malice and Pusha T of The Clipse since they first hit the scene with Lord Willin’ in 2002. The G.O.O.D. Music representative also sat down with the magazine in order to answer a few questions. Here are some excerpts of the conversation. You can find the full length interview here and the live full new album release audio stream of the mixtape here. For previous Clipse downloads you can head over here or get the old ‘I Got It For Leaks’ over here.

Fear of God 2 builds pretty naturally on the mixtape you put out earlier this year. What was your goal for the follow-up?
My goal was actually just to put the body of work together. The new record was going to be just things that I leaked to the Internet, but I figured that the fans should get it in a better way, rather than just having to download the whole record from off of HulkShare. This is just street music. It’s for the street, it’s for the fans. As soon as the records are done, I usually just give them out anyway, to keep the energy and the intensity going.

One of the standouts is definitely “Amen” with Kanye and Jeezy. How did that track come together?
It was something that Jeezy had. These collaborations had a lot to do with fans and fan demand. Everybody, for some reason, wants to hear Clipse and Jeezy. Everyone wants to hear Clipse and Rick Ross. Who knows why? I’m gonna say I don’t know, actually. [laughs] But everybody wants to hear the spin on it, man. This project was so much about me giving people what they wanted and showing people the alliances and the affiliations. I’ve never been a solo artist, so I sort of felt like I needed to be ushered into the solo realm of music and compete with the best. These guys really came through for me.

Any idea when your full-length will come out next year? Are you done with it?
No, no, I’m not done with it. I’m definitely not done with it, but what we’re dropping first is the G.O.O.D. Music compilation. I’ve done at least seven songs for my full-length, and for the G.O.O.D. Music record, I’ve done four. I don’t know what’s going to land and what’s not going to make it on, I’ve done four thus far, and I’m pretty sure I’m doing more. Fear of God Part I and Fear of God Part II, is just the prelude.

Listen to Pusha T – Amen Feat. Kanye West and Jeezy.
Pusha T – Amen f. Kanye West & Young Jeezy by pimpdaddykp

Pusha T ft. Tyler, The Creator ‘Trouble On My Mind’ Official Video

This is a classic video from Clipse and a favorite of mine from way back. Check it!

Jay-Z and Kanye West invite the world to their upcoming Watch the Throne Tour with a special trailer – not as if this needs any more anticipation. The Throne takes the viewer down memory lane highlighting some special moments from their respective careers. Press play above and check out the dates below. And I am still jealous!!! WTT on the way.

‘Watch the Throne’ Tour

10/28/11 – Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
10/29/11 – Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
10/30/11 – Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum
11/1/11 – Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena
11/2/11 – Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
11/3/11 – Washington, DC Verizon Center
11/5/11 – East Rutherford, NJ IZOD Center
11/6/11 – East Rutherford, NJ IZOD Center
11/7/11 – New York, NY Madison Square Garden
11/8/11 – New York, NY Madison Square Garden
11/14/11 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL Bank Atlantic Center
11/15/11 – Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
11/18/11 – Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
11/19/11 – Atlantic City, NJ Boardwalk Hall
11/21/11 – Boston, MA TD Garden
11/22/11 – Montreal, QC Bell Centre
11/23/11 – Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
11/24/11 – Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
11/26/11 – Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills
11/27/11 – Pittsburgh, PA Consol Energy Center
11/29/11 – Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
11/30/11 – Chicago, IL United Center
12/1/11 – Chicago, IL United Center
12/3/11 – New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena
12/5/11 – Houston, TX Toyota Center
12/6/11 – Dallas, TX American Airlines Arena
12/9/11 – Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena
12/10/11 – San Jose, CA HP Pavilion
12/12/11 – Los Angeles, CA STAPLES Center
12/13/11 – Los Angeles, CA STAPLES Center
12/16/11 – Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome
12/17/11 – Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
12/18/11 – Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena

More event and tour info here via livenation.

Childish Gambino—the rap alter-ego of comedian/actor Donald Glover—will release his debut album Camp on November 15 and this is apparently the lead single off the project titled, “Bonfire.”  You can stream the CDQ version below as well as the radio rip of the already popular new song Bonfire.

Childish Gambino’s new album Camp will drop on November 15 and nowthe official tracklist of the album and an early demo version of one of the album cut, titled “All The Shine”, have emerged. Read and listen below. Also pre-order here and check out this MTV article.

Childish Gambino – Camp (Tracklist)

1. Outside
2. Fire Fly
3. Bonfire
4. All The Shine
5. Letter Home
6. Heartbeat
7. Backpackers
8. L.E.S.
9. Hold You Down
10. Kids (Keep Up)
11. You See Me
12. Sunrise
13. That Power

Bonfire by Childish Gambino

Childish Gambino – All the Shine by OMGosh!

Check out this little video where Lil Wayne gets deep and personal talking about Apple & Steve Jobs’ death, why he drank syrup, why he tattooed his whole body, why he bought a Bugatti, why he learned how to play a guitar and put out a rock album, and why he learned how to skateboard. Tunechi also shows us a little bit of his mansion, starts to skateboard on his roof, and tells us about how he was considered a “Chief Blood” in Rikers Island. What doesn’t he do?

WEEZY F BABY PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT from DERICK G on Vimeo.

If you are not familiar with the show you can catch up here and I suggest you start watching as this could be what will fill the Entourage void. Listen and download the new mixtape today and you can head over here  and see what people are saying about the first episode of season 2. More information on Facebook.

Tracklist

1. Kid Cudi – The New York Intro
2. Future Islands – Balance
3. Theophilus London – I Stand Alone
4. Mugison – I Want You
5. Blood Orange – Sutphin Boulevard
6. M83 – Midnight City
7. Soul Searcher – Can’t Get Enough (DJ Theory Remix)
8. Agoria – Heart Beating (feat. Kid A)
9. Avicii – Levels (Original Mix)
10. Oliver Koletzki & Fran – Hypnotized
11. The Joy Formidable – Austere
12. Little Dragon – Crystalfilm
13. Meek Mill – House Party (feat. Young Chris)
14. Buddy – Awesome, Awesome
15. Summer Camp – I Want You
16. Duck Tails – Killin’ The Vibe
17. Catcall – Swimming Pool

Download & listen to the live stream below.

The Mixtape: Volume 2 by HowToMakeItInAmerica

Check out Method Man’s latest hit, “World Gone Sour (The Lost Kids),” featuring a few of his sour & sweet friends The Sour Patch Kids Crew. Interesting collaboration to say the least.

The Struggle! Great song and video from a fantastic album. I love this track which is a constant on my gym playlist.

If you youtube the music this sweet live video from The Temper Trap it’s up on the list for me. This is probably my second favorite track “Fools” off The Temper Trap’s first album “Conditions.” I recently came across the album and somehow had not known about it which is a bit odd as I am pretty into music. This guy’s voice is just so distinctive and awesome. It is what I would call a let it run album. Every track is worthy of listening to and you do not come across that much anymore this day in time.

As seen on Life+Times Wale has let loose a new mixtape for the fans. The name of the tape, The Eleven One Eleven Theory, promotes the as-of-now release date for Mr. Folarin’s sophomore solo album Ambition out November with production from the likes of Hit-Boy and DJ Toomp. Download here or sign up for his email news list and get it here.

Is this music? Why quite the best. One of the only artists I have been listening to lately AND I do not generally like R & B. Here is a live recording of The Weeknd’s first performance in the Mod Club that took place about a week ago in Toronto. Enjoy The Weeknd’s first ever live show below and also check out the House Of Balloon’s mixtape here and you can download or even live stream the whole mixtape.

The Weeknd – Live at the Mod Club by GertJan

Via: KanyeToThe.com Contributors

In a few days the Jay-Z x Kanye West album Watch The Throne will release on August 1st, 2011 digitally & August 5, 2011 physically. They have offered up a mini-documentary revealing some of the behind the scenes work from the album. Check it out below. I really enjoyed this. 

via: Idolator