XXL has an interview with Cassie talking about "Rock a Bye Baby," the mixtape she will release on Thursday, how she first felt about "Me & U" and more.
I remember when you were recording your first album at 18 or 19 that you were going through a process of sounds. What can you tell me about the direction of this tape?
It’s completely different than the beginning. I think that honestly. It’s been seven years later and going through making all of these different records and trying all of these different things that got me to this point. I am experimenting with sounds was experimenting with my voice and how far I wanted to take things and how minimal I wanna keep it. That’s kind of the quality of my work is in the simplicity of it. I don’t think I overdo anything. I leave it so DJs can remix it and it not be complicated. It’s creative. It’s made for the DJ. It’s made for people who wanna listen to music and vibe out, but it’s just a new sound.
It’s fun on it too because I experimented with sampling records that I personally really like. So I did a remix to “M.A.A.d City.” Kendrick Lamar’s “M.A.A.d City.” I’m actually singing on it, but its dope. I did a record with Too $hort and it’s a sample from the Tyga record “Do My Dance.” It’s all over the place and it’s really cool that we got people from all genres and walks of life, like Too $hort being from out here, Jeremih is from Chicago, everybody else is from New York, we got little pieces of everything on the tape.
AllHipHop.com reports that Trena Steward and Lorenzo Pryor are suing Kanye West, Bad Boy Records, Roc-A-Fella Records, Activision, Island Def Jam and others for copyright infringement.
The suit is tied to West's alleged sampling of "Bumpin' Bus Stop" by the father of Steward Pryor, David Pryor. TMZ has an audio breakdown.
What is unclear, at this time, is why Bad Boy was mentioned at all. Stay tuned.
Following the 106 & Park premiere, Cassie has released the music video for "Paradise" online. The song features Wiz Khalifa and the video was directed by Alex Nazari. Watch below.
On KarmaloopTV's That Life, Machine Gun Kelly said that his new mixtape "Black Flag" would be released around his birthday, which is April 22. He also revealed some new collaborators for the set, including Wiz Khalifa, French Montana, Meek Mill, Pusha T. Watch below.
In an interview with Vibe (watch below), French Montana revealed a few new collaborators for his upcoming album, "Excuse My French."
This includes Ne-Yo, Scarface and DJ Khaled. The latter two will appear on "I Got My Gun On Me" alongside Movado and Snoop Dogg. Montana also mentioned that Diddy and Jeremih will appear on a track together.
Cassie has released a trailer for the music video to a brand new song: "Paradise" featuring Wiz Khalifa." According to a message posted on Instagram, the song was produced by Kosine of Da Internz and written by James Fauntleroy of Cocaine 80s. Meanwhile, the music video was directed by Alex Nazari. Watch the trailer below.