SZA Rides Horses & Shares The Inspiration Behind “CTRL” [Video]

Maplewood, N.J. native SZA took three years to record and release her debut album “CTRL”, but now that the project is out, it feels like she never left. The first singer to sign with TDE, SZA rose to fame off the strength of her mixtapes “See.SZA.Run”, “S” and “Z”. She linked up with Genius’ own Rob Markman at GallopNYC in Brooklyn to chat about working with Rihanna, loving animals, and coming up with her stage name.

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Public Enemy – Nothing Is Quick In The Desert [Album]

Public Enemy hits us with a new LP, called “Nothing Is Quick In The Desert”. “After 30 years, 106 tours across 105 countries and countless records, thank you. This one is on Public Enemy. Get it while it’s free. ‘Nothing Is Quick In The Desert’ is a saying I use when the average person looks at the record industry. It looks dead like a desert. But there’s plenty of life in the desert when one is educated on what they see and hear. There, a cactus absorbs and stores water deep in its root, taken from the air itself and certain creatures thrive in that dry heat whereas the average cannot. It pays to be above average (or well below it) in the desert for survival. The music industry is similar in that analogy. It’s still in motion, it just needs redefinition.” – Chuck D Stream or download “Nothing Is Quick In The Desert” below. Nothing Is Quick In The Desert by Public Enemy

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INeedARaze feat. Alena Williams – Silent Night [Audio x Download]

“Silent Night” is the jazzy, bedroom-ready new single from Washington Heights, NY emcee INeedARaze, who delivers some of his filthiest and most clever rhymes to date over Rusty Mack’s silky production. In the build up to the release of his upcoming project, “Please”, Raze has been on a seemingly never-ending creative streak. He’s dropped one standout track after the other, and they’ve all showcased different sides of his artistry. And on “Silent Night”, he makes it clear that he’s more than capable of rocking some extra scandalous bars about his game between the sheets. Throughout the track, Raze delivers quotables showcasing his sense of humor as he outlines a particularly lively friends-with-benefits scenario. For instance, peep how he closes the second verse: “Rock solid personality, I happen to be bolder/ Met on the red carpet, dress could barely hold her/ Said ‘I love your shoes, but they look better on my shoulders.’” Those rhymes segue perfectly into guest vocalist Alena Williams’s smooth vocals on the hook, which adds more jazziness to the already dimly-lit flavor. You can also thank producer Rusty Mack, of Harry Fraud’s SRFSCL for that quality, because the melody provided by those horns is bound to get stuck in your head. Go ahead and press play, and mark your calendars for the August 3rd release of “Please”, which is set to be available through all major digital retailers and streaming platforms.

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