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The LA Leakers drop a new cut by Top Dawg Entertainment lyricists Kendrick Lamar and Ab-Soul, who go jacking for beats on a track titled “Sail.” You may recognize the tune, which is a hypnotic jam by electronic rock band Awolnation that sounds like it would be played during an uprising.

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Ab-Soul has sought advice from his higher power: Jay Electronica. Ab appeared on MTV’s RapFix Live alongside Reakwon, yesterday, and talked about how Electronica’s influence has inspired him to make some life changes.

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With Spring just around the corner, musical festival lineups are starting to take shape and the first domino to fall is the lineup for the annual Paid Dues festival.

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Even though Ab-Soul swears he’s “not eating,” he is looking to change that in 2013 by getting off on the right foot with a new project. 

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One of the best yearly musical events is the Hip-Hop focused Paid Dues Festival. 2013’s lineup was just announced and it includes De La Soul, Immortal Technique and Dom Kennedy, and more, and is headlined by Cali rhyme collective Black Hippy. 

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Schoolboy Q had a little fun during an interview with Jack Thriller while taking some down time from touring with A$AP Rocky and Danny Brown.

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The release and recording of a Black Hippy album has been up in the air for a while now, and even though Ab-Soul told us that the project is “never coming out,” Kendrick Lamar tells a different story. While speaking to Lamar at the Samsung Galaxy Note II  launch party in Los Angeles, last week, he explained […]

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Jay Rock and the entire Top Dawg Entertainment group are having a pretty good summer. Powered by the anticipation behind crew member Kendrick Lamar’s good kid m.A.A.d city debut, Rock couldn’t be more proud of his friend. The two are set to embark on the BET Music Matters Tour next month, which will lead into Lamar’s […]

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The existence of a Black Hippy album will never come into fruition, according to Ab-Soul. The Carson, Calif. rapper, and member of the Black Hippy crew (comprised of Ab, Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, and Schoolboy Q), reveals to Hip-Hop Wired that the project will never see the light of day. “No, never, ever!” he says. […]

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Schoolboy Q and his TDE homies drop another record to celebrate TDE’s Fan Appreciation week. “Party,” which is produced by Kenny Beats, has the real Puff Daddy acting a fool on this trippy new record. This record drops right on time for the weekend and features a small sample from Uncle Luke’s most famous record. […]

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This past year and change, Hip-Hop became acquainted with a diverse group of West Coast MCs who with their powers combined are known as Black Hippy. XXL Magazine recently caught up with the crew, which is comprised of  Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, ScHoolboy Q and Ab-Soul for a photo shoot. Luckily for us, XXL provided us with some behind the scenes […]

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The buzz behind Kendrick Lamar’s debut album has been bubbling over for a while now, and since we’ll have to wait until the fall to take a full listen, the rapper refuses to give away too many details. Late last week, rather than let the chatter behind the album persist, Lamar took to Twitter to […]