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Now Listening To: Pink Sweat$ - Debut Album "PINK PLANET"

By Nefertiti Jenkins

Crooning with soulful vocals, singer Pink Sweat$ released his full-length debut album "PINK PLANET" on February 12. The 18-track project includes rhythmic melodies of love. The album follows his 2020 "The Prelude" EP, and his 2018 hit breakthrough single "Honesty." The new music features R&B singer Kehlani on the track "At My Worst." Check it out below.



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B Young drops hot visual for new song "OCEAN" ft. BNXN

By Nefertiti Jenkins
London artist B Young has returned with a hot new single. The rapper/singer dropped his new song "OCEAN" featuring Nigerian singer BNXN, with an official music video on June 30.  The visual includes beautiful scenes on a beach with a beautiful model. The song produced by AymixBeats is B Young's first release since his 2021 debut album "Differences."
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New Music & MV: FANXY CHILD - "Y" featuring Zico, Crush, Dean, Penomeco, Millic & Staytuned

By Nefertiti Jenkins
Perhaps one of the best known hip-hop and R&B crews in South Korea, members of FANXY CHILD have teamed up once again to drop a new single and visual titled "Y." The track hit streaming sites on August 9th featuring ZICO, CRUSH, DEAN, PENOMECO and producers MILLIC and STAYTUNED. Previously we've seen them collaborate on such hits and music videos like Millic's "Paradise" and Zico's "Fanxy Child" and "Bermuda Triangle." FANXY CHILD will hold their first concert as a crew on August 10 and 11. Check out their new music below.
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Rapper Dok2 talks about working with Jay Park and G-Dragon (from BIGBANG) in Ep. 31 of "Fun With Dumb"

By Nefertiti Jenkins
Illionaire Records co-founder Dok2 is a pioneer in the South Korean hip-hop industry, but he rarely gives interviews. Lucky for fans, the rapper sat down on two separate occasions recently to talk about his life and the rise of hip-hop in South Korea. The first interview was for the March 7th face to face with rapper Snacky Chan for Chan's YouTube series - "Undergod."   The second was for American rapper Dumbfoundead's March 20th (ep. 31) podcast of "Fun With Dumb." During the podcast, Dok2 provided a mini-history lesson for anyone interested in South Korean hip-hop. Beginning with his early rise, the rapper says he's been making moves in the industry since 2002 when he was 12-years-old. He told Dumbfoundead that he used to attend a school for foreigners in Busan (because of his mixed Korean, Spanish and Filipino heritage), but after 6th grade he moved to Seoul and did not return back to school (due to family financial reasons). He says he started...
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Choreographer Parris Goebel's New Sexy Dance "Film" to Justin Bieber's new song is "YUMMY"

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Showcasing a new "film" version with beautiful women-- hard-hitting signature dance moves, and body-rolling on a wall. Parris Goebel delivers an impressive display of powerful dynamics and versatility of art and movement--in her new choreography "film," to singer Justin Bieber's new song "YUMMY." Bieber released his official music video for "YUMMY" on January 4th. World-renowned choreographer and director from New Zealand, Goebel, dropped her cinematic-like dance cover-video of it, featuring her dancers, on January 9th. The drop, just days after issuing a #YUMMYWALLCHALLENGE and releasing a rehearsal video from a Los Angeles studio with her "Sorry Girls" and friends (some of the crew- the same dancers from Bieber's 2015's "Sorry" music video, which was directed and choreographed by Goebel). View this post on Instagram #YUMMY A FILM BY PAR...
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Rapper Shotta Spence Shares his Mother's Story

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Shotta Spence, the 21-year-old up and coming rapper from New Jersey, shared part of his mother's journey from Vietnam, on Instagram, on Monday, September 4, as he wished her a Happy Birthday, and thanked her for supporting him as an artist. In his post, Shotta Spence (Spence Lee) wrote that when his mother was a little girl in Vietnam,  "the communist North had taken everything from her family. During the war, her parents and siblings had to escape further south in a TANK. The South Vietnamese and the Americans were losing the war, and she got separated from her family in the chaos. U.S. soldiers evacuated her via "Operation Babylift" ... on the LAST flight out." Shotta Spence goes on to say that the flight his mother was originally supposed to be on, had gotten shot down.  "But by the grace of God she wound up in Ohio, then Washington Heights (NY) and got into fashion.. and the streets."  Shotta also adds that his mother didn't ...
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When Asian and Black make Hip Hop

By Nefertiti Jenkins
                      Asian artists and Black artists are collaborating more often on music projects now, more than ever before. You may not hear the music played yet on mainstream radio, but as our global culture shifts to more inclusiveness, you'll find these collaborations trending on social media, especially YouTube and SoundCloud. For example, Too $hort and Dumbfoundead on "Cochino," and Jay Park and Raz Simone on "Afraid of Me." Back in November (2016), World Star Hip Hop uploaded "Dirty Jersey" from Asian-American rapper Shotta Spence (Spence Lee) featuring 732 Cash (Ear Drummers). The music video has more than a million views on YouTube. Check it out below.  The 21-year-old is from New Jersey and is associated with Rae Sremmurd and Mike WiLL Made-It. The young artist with the deep soulful voice, dropped his debut album "Upfall" in 2016. Lyrically in rap and s...
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ONE (Jung Jae Won) Returns With Debut Album - "PRVT 01"

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Following his announced departure from YG Entertainment in July-- South Korean rapper/actor ONE (Jung Jae Won) is now back with a debut album titled "PRVT 01" under his PRIVATE ONLY independent company. The release hit streaming sites on November 11. It includes alt-rock/hip-hop, R&B and trap. Check it out below. 1. Hard to Love (Prod. @ianpurp) 2. Nineteen (Prod. @saintleonard_) 3. You Love It (Prod. @ianpurp) 4. Victoria (Prod. @Vangdale) 5. GZB (Prod. @Vangdale) 6. 존나 멋진 밤 (What a Night) (Prod. @ianpurp , @saintleonard_) 7. Instinct (Prod. @saintleonard_) 8. Night Time Ride (Prod. @ianpurp) 9. Angel (Prod. @Vangdale) 10. Who (Prod. @saintleonard_) 11. 나는 아직 아무것도 몰라 (I Don't Know Anything) (Prod. @Saintleonard_) 12. 솔직 (Soljik) (Prod. @ianpurp @saintleonard_) 13. Alive (Prod. @Vangdale) 14. Swift (Prod. @ianpurp) 15. Stone (Prod. @Vangdale) 16. Last Cigarette (Prod. @saintleonard_) View this post on Instagram ...
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NEW MUSIC & MV: JMIN and Lo-g - "Don't Trip"

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JMIN is back with a new banger. This time, the young rapper has linked up with Lo-g for their track "Don't Trip." The Bruno produced single hit streaming sites on August 29, with an official music video on YouTube, directed and edited by Sandwich. Check it out below.
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Jay Park Dropping Remix of "Birthday"

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The original was already a nice feel good song, but now Jay Park is teasing on his Instagram Story, a remix of the track "Birthday." "Birthday" aired originally on SMTM6, episode 3 with Ja Mezz, Jay Park and Dok2 in August, 2017. On his Instagram Story on Nov. 28, Park writes that the remix is coming soon. Meanwhile Jay Park, as fans know, the rapper/singer/model, goes non-stop from project to project, and recently was featured in "Cosmopolitan Korea's COSMO Men." Park and Roc Nation shared photos from Cosmopolitan on Instagram. ICYMI: @JParkitrighthere is on the cover of this month's issue of #CosmoManKorea A post shared by Roc Nation (@rocnation) on Nov 27, 2017 at 10:28am PST
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Mural of Rapper Dumbfoundead Vandalized

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The iconic mural of rapper Dumbfoundead painted on the side of Catalina Liquor in Koreatown in Los Angeles, has been vandalized-- that's according to a social media post from the artist. A picture of the vandalism, shows letters spray painted across it. On July 16th, Dumbfoundead thanked painter Joseph Yun Lee and Catalina Liquor on Instagram for "wanting to keep the mural up as long as they did."  The mural was originally painted for the rapper's 2016 music video "Murals," a visual off his "We Might Die" album. Last year, he tweeted that he was getting a least one tagged photo a day from fans who had taken a picture in front of it. Dumbfoundead is now asking fans to send pictures or videos they had taken in front of the mural to muralsforever@gmail.com or tag him, so he can use the images in a video. View this post on Instagram [🚨UPDATE: Send any pictures or video of you w...
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