Anderson .Paak On GGN w/ Snoop Dogg [Video]

Snoop Dogg has one of hip hop’s most popular up-and-coming singers Anderson .Paak. For those who don’t know much about Anderson .Paak, he is the most featured artist on Dr. Dre’s album Compton which is pretty insane considering he was rapping Dr. Dre and Snoop’s songs for show and tell in second grade. Snoop says that Anderson .Paak’s voice is like the old timers who used to leave it all out when singing, which true hip-hop fans know is hard to come by in the new age of hip-hop. Maybe we should all take Uncle Snoop’s opinion into consideration and start following Anderson .Paak. Not only do the two reminisce on how Anderson .Paak got to where he is today, Snoop and Anderson .Paak also vibe out to Superfly, and even go on to say that Superfly was their version of Star Wars. And get this, Snoop says he’s never seen an episode of Star Wars—so for those that have never seen Superfly, maybe this is your chance to discover another galaxy far, far away.

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Pro Era’s Joey Bada$$ & Nyck Caution Have Big Plans For 2016 [Video]

Joey Bada$$ and Nyck Caution have big plans for Pro Era in 2016. Pro Era homies Joey Bada$$ and Nyck Caution chilled in the studio with us to discuss the evolution of Pro Era and the crew’s plans for 2016. The group started with just a crew rapping every day in a cipher, and they have carried that competitive mentality into the larger rap game. Joey teases a number of projects coming this year, including Nyck Caution, CJ Fly and a group project that is still under wraps. Nyck’s project is coming “real, real soon.” A hilarious story involves Joey and Nyck meeting each other in high school theater class, and the two challenge views to find a supposed video on Facebook of Joey acting as a freshman. Y’all internet denizens are pretty good at unearthing that kind of stuff, right? Listen to the three songs Nyck mentions in the video: “Nycktophilia” feat. Dyemond Lewis & Denzel Curry, “What’s Understood” feat. Joey Bada$$ and “Light Through The Cracks (Oh My Freestyle).”

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