Kendrick Lamar feat. Lady Gaga – PARTYNAUSEOUS [Stream]

Back in May of 2012, Lady Gaga tweeted that she and Kendrick Lamar had recorded a record for “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City”. For whatever reason (Gaga insisted the reason was due to creative differences), the record wasn’t selected for the LP and was left on the cutting room floor… until now. On Wednesday evening, PARTYNAUSEOUS finally made it’s way onto the net in, what sounds like, almost-completed form. The irony, of course, is that the unreleased track finally popped up the same week that Kendrick’s collaboration with the preeminent female star of today, Taylor Swift, premiered on the web. There are so many questions, but so few answers. If PARTYNAUSEOUS had been included on GKMC, would it have been a hit? Would it have fit into the sequencing of the album? We have e-mailed TDE for further information, but thus far have received no response.

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Rugz D. Bewler – Higher & Higher [Stream x Download]

Frustrated with the recent deaths of Freddie Gray, Walter Scott, Akai Gurley, Eric Garner, and Michael Brown, due to excessive force at the hands of aggressive police officers, Rugz D. Bewler expresses his anger and disdain for those tragedies in his new song “Higher & Higher” (produced by Buda & Grandz Production). Despite the tension between minority communities and the police, Rugz D. Bewler believes a simple truth: All Lives Matter.

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