Ed Sheeran's producer, Jake Gosling, says he and the songwriter knew they had to keep his music sounding natural, even if that meant including the imperfections Eight months ago, the songwriter and record producer Jake Gosling emailed all his friends begging us to buy a copy of The A Team , the first single by an artist he'd been working with for a while, in the hope it would go to No 1. It didn't and, at the time, little did he expect the album it was taken from, +, would end up in the top 10 albums of ...

Far East Movement recently unleashed a Behind the Scenes footage from the making of the video for their latest single, "Jello" featuring Rye Rye. "It's a real fun, corky music video," says director Matt Alonzo. "It's kind of like a mixture of Eminem and Beastie Boys." The energetic video for "Jello" shows the group crashing a political event and partying it up with Tiger Woods, Oprah, and others. The track will appear on the group's upcoming album, Dirty Bass (due later this year via Cherrytree/Interscope), and is available now on iTunes . For more on Far East ...

A lot has happened in the world of Hip Hop since the last Missy Elliott album: Dr Dre was going to release ‘Detox’ then he didn’t, Eminem had a ‘Relapse’ and forgot how to rap, then he had a ‘Recovery’ and remembered again, Snoop Dogg got banned from the UK, then we let him back in again, Mos Def turned his hand to acting, changed his name to Yasiin Bey, then reformed Black Star with Talib Kweli, Oukast didn’t split up but they kind of have really, and the new king of controversy is the skateboarding Odd Future ...

Far East Movement recently unleashed a Behind the Scenes footage from the making of the video for their latest single, “Jello” featuring Rye Rye. “It’s a real fun, corky music video,” says director Matt Alonzo. “It’s kind of like a mixture of Eminem and Beastie Boys.” The energetic video for “Jello” shows the group crashing

Far East Movement recently unleashed a Behind the Scenes footage from the making of the video for their latest single, “Jello” featuring Rye Rye. “It’s a real fun, corky music video,” says director Matt Alonzo. “It’s kind of like a mixture of Eminem and Beastie Boys.” The energetic video for “Jello” shows the group crashing [...]

Toronto rapper Church! This man can flow. What do you think? Church Chizzle – Fast Lane Freestyle is a post from: 100 Best Rap Songs Related posts:Bad Meets Evil – Fast Lane ft. Eminem & Royce da 5’9 Video Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – D.O.A Freestyle Odizzle Man – Bout to Set it Off Church Chizzle – Fast Lane Freestyle is a post from: 100 Best Rap Songs Related posts: Bad Meets Evil – Fast Lane ft. Eminem & Royce da 5’9 Video Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – D.O.A Freestyle Odizzle Man – Bout to Set it Off

Love or hate Lil B, he’s definitely made his mark on mainstream hip hop. Little known producer Stan Lane graced Lil B’s most recent mixtape, White Flame, on the track ‘Surrender to Me’. It turns out this beat is absolute sickness as are some of  the other beats found on Stan’s facebook page. A lot [...] Related posts: Facebook! Eminem and Royce Da 5 9- Fast Lane Laidback Luke – Natural Disaster (Instrumental Extended Mix)

In September 2009, Madonna played the final show on her recording-demolishing 85-date Sticky & Sweet Tour at Israel's Yehoshua Gardens. On May 29, she'll launch a new world tour — her ninth — in Tel Aviv, beginning a nearly 90-date international jaunt that stretches into early 2013. Live Nation confirmed 51 of the shows in an announcement today, which means there are close to 39 more on the way — the current itinerary does not include South America and Australia, and Madonna will be making her way to both continents. (She'll be performing her first shows Down Under in 20 years ...

On February 19th, MTV will launch the seventh installment of their controversial Hottest MCs in the Game series. Until then, hit the jump for the 25 artists in contention. 2 Chainz 50 Cent Big Sean Common Drake Eminem Fabolous French Montana Jadakiss JAY-Z Jim Jones Kanye West Lil Wayne Lloyd Banks Maino Meek Mill Nas [...]

Jimmy Fallon impersonations can brighten up any day, and last night brought out a whole pop-heavy assortment of them. During his post-Super Bowl special, Jimmy auditioned for the halftime show while dressed up as Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, Eminem, Josh Groban, LMFAO’s RedFoo and Shufflebot, of course, his own hybrid creation, Tebowie. Even ... More »

The 54th Annual Grammy Awards are almost upon us! Hey, we'd love to help you with your office pools and living room side-bets with some sure-thing Vegas-ready odds. However, we always seem to be dead wrong (fucking Esperanza Spalding). So here are some completely arbitrary, critical decisions on who should win the nine biggest categories, just in case you want to know who we're rooting for on the SPIN couch. Everything You Need to Know About the 54th Grammy Awards Nominations Record of the Year Adele - "Rolling in the Deep" Bon Iver - "Holocene" Bruno Mars - "Grenade" Mumford & Sons - "The Cave" Katy Perry - "Firework" Who Should Win: Adele Why: This one goes to the producers, engineers, and performer for making the total pop package. Bon Iver and Mumford are a little to insular, Bruno and Katy a little too eager. Adele somehow lives right in between, both muted and bombastic, rockist-pleasing "authentic" and poptimist-pleasing immediate. It’s the "Heart Shaped Box" of a new generation. We had it all! Album of the Year Adele - 21 Foo Fighters - Wasting Light Lady Gaga - Born This Way Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans Rihanna - Loud Who Should Win: Lady Gaga Why: It did rank the highest of these five albums on our Top 50 Albums of 2011 list , and we can’t exactly give the award to Fucked Up, can we? Writes our own Mikael Wood: "Beneath the hair and makeup and arena-razing disco-metal grooves, Born This Way delivers a message that old glamazon Pete Seeger could dig: She thinks pop can still move policy, and she might be right." Song of the Year Kanye West - “All of the Lights” (songwriters: Kanye West, Jeff Bhasker, Really Doe, & Malik Yusef) Mumford & Sons - “The Cave” (songwriters: Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford & Country Winston) Bruno Mars - “Grenade” (songwriters: Brody Brown, Claude Kelly, The Smeezingtons & Andrew Wyatt) Bon Iver - “Holocene” (songwriter: Justin Vernon) Adele - "Rolling in the Deep" (songwriters: Adele & Paul Epworth) Who Should Win: Adele Why: This one goes to the songwriter, and naturally we'd want to give it to the co-writer of our No. 1 single of 2011 , a blown-out blowback of relationship bluster and that high D that can drown out car alarms. Best New Artist The Band Perry Bon Iver J. Cole Nicki Minaj Skrillex Who Should Win: Skrillex Why: Before you Bon Iver fans tear us limb from limb in the comments section, let us clarify. Although we clearly love Bon Iver's extra-naked, sensitive, '80s AM gold take on folk rock, our guyliner-and-glasses pal is essentially helping reinvent a new musical language of bowel-busting bass and whirring industrial noise. Bon Iver's forbear Bruce Hornsby already won this very award in 1987, while an electronic artist has never taken one home. Let's hear it for drawing new blood. Best Rock Album Jeff Beck - Rock ‘n’ Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul) Foo Fighters - Wasting Light Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown Red Hot Chili Peppers - I’m With You Wilco - The Whole Love Who Should Win: Foo Fighters Why: Because exactly one album on this list actually "rocks." Best R&B; Album ...

For the seventh time, the folks at MTV are again looking to figure out who they think is the  Hottest MC ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/kanye-west-drake-eminem-compete-for-mtvs-hottest-m/61516/

A new Nicki Minaj track has materialized out of thin air, to coincide seamlessly with her Super Bowl halftime show appearance with Madonna last night. No one seems to know anything about it — namely where it came from and whether it will be on Roman Reloaded in April — but it's a far cry from the foul-mouthedness of "Stupid Hoe" (you're welcome, BET) . We can't help humming B.o.B's "Airplanes" and Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie" (not to mention a few Something Corporate songs ) over the repetitive piano riff. Ingenuity, or lack thereof, aside ...

1. Madonna's Halftime Show Whether you loved it or hated it, Madge's extravaganza — complete with M.I.A.'s flip-off — was pure entertainment spectacle. 2. Kelly Clarkson Singing the National Anthem She nailed it. Beautiful. 3. The Darkness Believe in a Thing Called Samsung With a new album finally on the way, the Darkness surely consider this Samsung commercial, which featured a unitard-clad Justin Hawkins blasting out "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" as a high-profile step in a long-awaited comeback. 4. Echo & the Bunnymen, Vampires, and Audi This ad was awesomely weird. Set to Echo & the ...

*Eminem* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/eminem)'s Recovery has gone four times platinum (http://allhiphop.com/2012/02/03/eminems-grammy-winning-album-recovery-goes-4x-platinum/). Submitted by pbuedd