A Villainous Adventure w/ DOOM [Video]

For fans who’ve been wondering where DOOM has been, well, we have some exclusive footage for you from the beloved masked musician himself. In this new three-minute video interview, cameras followed DOOM around a very remote island where he sailed the seas and and filled us in on his whereabouts and of course his music. He didn’t say much about his the fabled DOOMSTARKS album but we’re told the music playing in background is in fact an instrumental for an upcoming single called “Livelyhood” from the long awaited DOOMSTARKS album. You’ll also notice him rocking his latest hat collab with New Era which are currently sold out online but will be releasing at select New Era retail locations globally on December 4. via Hypetrak

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Ja Rule On Drake Ghostwriting Rumors: “We’re In A New Era” [Video]

Slim Jesus has garnered a lot of attention in the hip-hop world and Ja Rule weighed in on the Ohio rapper telling VladTV that he doesn’t live the life that he raps about. The Queens artist told us that he thinks people should just focus on the “Drill Time” rapper’s music and not his street cred, adding, “What difference does it make if Slim Jesus busts his gun?” During the conversation the “Follow the Rules” star also spoke about another controversial moment in hip-hop this year as he weighed in on Meek Mill claiming that Drake uses a ghostwriter. After agreeing with DJ Vlad that “nobody cared” about the situation, Ja Rule added that “it’s a new era” in hip-hop today. Check out more of what Ja Rule had to say in the above clip, including how he thinks MTV turned rap into a business.

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Red Pill – Day Drunk [EP]

Detroit’s Red Pill released his solo Mello Music debut album “Look What This World Did To Us” earlier this year. The record was striking because of it’s straight-forward, intellectually broken, Bukowski-like realism. The photos were serious, brooding, and the lyrics were heavy and genuine. Enter the Day Drunk EP. Red Pill starts on top of a clock-ticking, mind-mesmerizing, introductory track from UK producer Paul White. After a philosopher-king monologue, the Zen Buddhist meditative chant begins – “Don’t work, just party – you’ll be alright. Don’t try so hard. Just live your life.” But Pill never leaves you insightfully dumb, with lines like “I think we need a new religion / wound up, bound up in submission / getting lost in the mission / false definitions/ be causing derision / all these people talkin’ competition / all these people talkin’ is division…” And then the record gets green lit. You may recognize the next Alex Goose-produced track from Silicon Valley. Red Pill lays hardworking slacker ambition bare in one dumb, drunk, punch over the energetic beat. The song is as ludicrously lavish as Scorsese’s “Wolf Of Wall Street.” The album moves into happy-hour heartstrings unfurling with a song for those who’d rather stay inside, those who, “outside of their mind, don’t know what’s real.” This is for those who can never fall asleep without a helper, “a little gin and seltzer,” as Red Pill puts it. Blu joins the 3 o’clock session, laying bars over an Oddisee-produced, rainy kitchen window thought

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