NEWS
Hip-hop fans have been anticipating the first new Clipse album in 15 years, Let God Sort 'Em Out. Singles like "Ace Trumpets" and "So Be It" were huge crowdpleasers, and with a Kendrick Lamar feature on the way, fans have every right to be excited. Furthermore, Pharrell is on the production, and from what we've heard, he's back in his prime.
Unfortunately, there are some nefarious people online who are willing to spoil the party. As reported by Kurrco on Tuesday night, the new Clipse project was leaked online. Don't expect to find a link or an embed to the album here. We don't do that. It ruins the fun, and is extremely disrespectful to the artist.
Having said that, the leak probably isn't worthy of your time. We say that because there are missing songs, and the ones that are present are not CDQ quality. Therefore, you won't actually be listening to a final version of the project.
Regardless, one has to wonder how this project got leaked, and why someone would do such a thing.
Clipse fans are not going to have to wait very long for this album. It is set to be released on Friday, July 11th. Overall, this is promising to be one of the biggest and best projects of the entire year.
Pusha T and Malice have numerous classics to their name, and this could very well be a modern classic. Although these are lofty expectations, the hype for the project has been simmering for well over a year. With the star-studded features on this album, we are certainly in for high quality raps and incredible production.
Whether or not the album does live up to the hype, is totally up to the audience. Unfortunately, Pusha T's beef with Drake might muddy the waters, especially on social media. Some fans will hate no matter what. But the real fans will tell the truth.
Reneé Rapp is seen as a “huge inspiration” by SZA.
The 25-year-old artist performed SZA’s Good Days in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, accompanied by two acoustic guitarists and a harp player. SZA, 35, was deeply moved by the rendition.
She posted a short video of the moment on Instagram Stories and wrote: “Renee is a HUGE inspiration, energy, voice spirit.”
During her chat with the BBC, Renee shared her thoughts about the track. She said: “I mean, I love SZA. I mean, she was one of my favorite artists in high school. And she's remained one of my favorite artists to this day. I think she's amazing. She's also, I mean, she's an incredible songwriter, but I think because she has so much swag. People don't realize how good of a singer she is. She's a fantastic vocalist and is really, really, really articulate. And I don't cover a lot of songs anymore. So I wanted to cover something that was, like, slightly challenging and also really vocally impressive, and frankly, hard for me to do.”
Renee is currently in the middle of promoting her second album, Bite Me, and opened up about how much more enjoyable it was to create compared to her first project.
She explained: “I mean, I feel like everything was incredibly different. I stopped listening to people that don't make music, because if you don't make music, then why the hell am I listening to you. And I also think the biggest difference, I think I just got a lot better. I think I have just become a better songwriter. I think I understand how to make pop music now in a way that I didn't really before. And I was very sure about what this album was and thematically, what it needed.
“So I felt like I was quite like, headstrong in like, what was gonna work and what wasn't. Because, nobody knows something better than yourself. I think a lot of things were different. I also just, like, had a lot of fun making it, like, I made it with like, three people, mostly, like, it was always like, four of us in the studio all the time, and we got so close, and some of us were already so close. So it was also just like a mess. It was such a mess, like we were just tweaking every day. It was so fun. And I don't think I enjoyed making the first one as much.”
