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Killer Mike & T.I. Join New Atlanta Mayor’s Transition Team

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Congratulations to Killer Mike & T.I. who have been nominated by the city of Atlanta’s new mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, to join her transition team which represents “the best and the brightest in the city of Atlanta”

The new Atlanta mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, who won the mayoral election in December, has elected Killer Mike of “Run The Jewels” and T.I. to be apart of her transition team, per Pitchfork. The rappers will be included with people such as executives like David Apney, the CEO of UPS, and Edward Bastian, CEO of Delta Airlines. The team’s role is to consult with the mayor on carrying out policy agenda items, the mayor was quoted at the press conference saying:

“I am grateful to announce this 38-strong transition team,”. “It represents a tremendous amount of diversity and depth, and really the best and the brightest in the city of Atlanta.”

Here is the full video of the press conference with Keisha Bottoms:

Even Killer Mike took to his Instagram page to make an announcement about such an honor!

 

Offset Releases “Violation Freestyle” Video

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Offset shared the video to “Violation Freestyle” which proves that Culture 2 is in the works, per Complex

King Content, who previously did the Migos “Get Right Witcha” video, is the key director for this one also!

VIOLATION FREESTYLE OUT NOW @offsetyrn 📸: @rivetingentertainment

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According to Complex, as of Monday, Culture 2 sessions had wrapped up and tracks have been forwarded for mixing. No mention of the track list yet, but we can assume that “Motorsport” featuring Nicki Minaj & Cardi B, and the new club single produced by Pharrell “Stir Fry” will be included on the album.

As for who will be producing the album we will have to wait patiently for that until then Quavo did deny rumors of Kanye West being a guest producer. Well, I am so proud of the Migos, they also are nominated for “Best Rap Album of The Year” catagory for the 2018 60th Grammy awards which will airing live on January 28th at 7:30pm eastern. I also had the pleasure of interviewing hot producer Cash Clay Beats in December regarding being Grammy nominated for his contribution to the album on the single “Kelly Price“.

Make sure to keep up with the station blog to watch out for Culture 2 updates!!!

21 Savage & Metro Boomin Collab “Pause” Surfaces Online

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21 Savage and Metro Boomin collab “Pause” surfaced online yesterday!

Well….back in 2015, 21 Savage premiered a snippet of the song “Pause” on his Instagram page for we thought back then the song was going to be included on his and Metro Boomin collab album “Savage Mode”, but unfortunately it was not included. Thankfully, World Star Hip Hop decided to post the full version of the song yesterday on its website. I can expect all 21 Savage fans to be excited about this leak due to him sounding like the old Savage fans got know prior to his superstar status. I think it will be another hit for the “Bank Account” rapper who also recently did a collab album with OffSet & Metro Boomin called “Without Warning” back in October 2017. Click here to read more!

Xscape Dropping New EP Without Kandi Burress

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Xscape will be dropping a new EP without member Kandi Burress

Per Ebony, the group Xscape will be coming out with a new EP without Kandi Burress. Even though Kandi wrapped up the tour with the group, she opted to not record any new music with them. The new EP which is titled, Here For It,is due to be released on February 14th and will only feature the remaining members Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, LaTocha Scott, and Tamika Scott. The EP will include six tracks including the two tracks the group released late last year while on tour called “Wifed Up” and “Dream Killa”.


The song “Wifed Up” is a song directed towards telling males that if they have a good woman to wife her up!


“Dream Killa” is about the idea of being in love with someone who keeps doing you wrong therefore killing the dream of being in a happy relationship.

I personally love the song “Dream Killa” and I am overly excited for the group EP to be released. Even without member, Kandi Burress, the remaining three’s vocals are good enough to keep me satisfied with their work.

Now, Kandi did opt to not record any new music with Xscape, but it was not due to any negative drama, its due to her starring as Matron “Mama” Morton in the Broadway play, Chicago that will be running from January 15th to March 11th at the Ambassador Theatre in New York City.

The production will star Tony award nominee, Charlotte D’Amboise as Roxie Hart, original cast member, Leigh Zimmerman as Velma Kelly, YouTube sensation and Broadway star, Todrick Hall as Billy Flynn, Raymond Bokhour as Amos Hart, LaVon Fisher-Wilson as Matron “Mama” Morton, and R. Lowe as Mary Sunshine.

Make sure to purchase a ticket to the play if in New York City to support Kandi for her first Broadway play performance now!! Click here to read more of the article.

Checking In With Grammy Nominated Producer Cash Clay Beats!

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I had the pleasure to do a phone interview with Grammy nominated producer, Cash Clay Beats, a couple days prior to Christmas. Being this was my very first interview, I admit I was very nervous, but with the help of Cash Clay Beats positive energy, the vibe during the interview was overall great!

Cash Clay Beats is being nominated for producing the single, Kelly Price, off the The Migos album, The Culture. This will be the producer’s first time ever being nominated for a grammy! According to Cash Clay Beats, he has been doing music for quite some time now, first starting off as just an artist then switching to doing productions only, and shopping his beats around to those he was networking with.

An original St. Louis native, Cash Clay Beats has also produced a couple of songs for K Camp titled “Racks Like This” & “Rob Kardashian”, a single for YFN Lucci that features Trouble that just came out early December, and other songs for Boosie, & even R. Kelly! Cash Clay Beats started off as a barber, which is how he met K Camp! From being a barber is how he learned to network & promote himself. The producer advises up n coming producers to learn how to network! He states ” Sometimes you may have to network with people who are not on the 2 Chainz level, network with anyone who is involved in the music game for you never know who they might know.”

One of Cash Clay Beats goals is to produce movie soundtracks or to even work with artist as such as Katy Perry. Since he originally came from hair cutting, he will like to open up more barber shops & selling merchandise by branding his production company called Street Certified Beat Cartel.

Cash Clay Beats said to be looking out for him in 2018! He has a TV show on Comcast coming out called “The Drop”, three documentaries he is in,a compilation CD with TIG, Think Of The Game Records coming out soon, and to check out his website http://www.cashclaybeats.com for any further ventures or new music.

I know I will definitely be watching the Grammy’s this year especially since this will be the first time no Caucasian artists were nominated for “Album of the Year”, which includes Jay-Z’s the “4:44” album & Kendrick Lamar’s “DAMN”. I wish Cash Clay Beats much blessings & I hope to be writing about his Grammy win!

N.E.R.D – No_One Ever Really Dies

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Back in October I made a blog post on the 216 The Beat station blog revealing the track list which had me anticipating the release!! Well….It’s here! My favorite group N.E.R.D. cool ass album “No_one Ever Really Dies” with hot collabs with Gucci Mane, Rihanna n more! Click here to listen or download!

Zenith Watches & Swizz Beatz Joined Together For New Product

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Julian Tornare, the CEO of Zenith, and Grammy winning producer, Swizz Beatz, came together to present the Defy El Primero 21 and the Defy Lab!

Zenith help the official launch for the Defy Collection in New York recently with a focus on innovation & performance. The goal was to help attendees gain a better understanding thats involved into the craftmanship behind a Zenith watch. The main highklight of the night was the release of the state of the art DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone, from above the attendees head, delivering a one of a kind, version of the Defy El Primo 21 Swizz Beatz Edition Unique.

 On this one of a kind time piece, is bright orange strap
On this unique timepiece, the vibrant orange of the strap is echoed by the use of orange accents on the gleaming white dial, nestled in a 44 mm white gold case fully set with a spectacular 288 round diamonds, and complemented by 44 baguette – cut counterparts on the bezel. Both strap and bezel are inscribed with an inspirational quote from the music visionary: “Never let people tell you what you can’t do, because sky’s not the limit, it’s just the view”.

A subtly modified version of this statement piece – the Defy El Primero 21 Swizz Beatz Edition – has been issued in a five pieces limited edition, of which the No.1 sat proudly on the wrist of Swizz Beatz himself.

http://en.worldtempus.com/article/events/arts-and-culture/zenith-official-launch-for-new-defy-collection-in-new-york-25112.html

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