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DJ Drama Says He Brought Mixtapes Back; The Culture Agrees
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Radio One / Radio One Digital DJ Drama is talking his talk. He recently said he brought mixtapes back, and the culture agreed wholeheartedly. As per Complex, the record executive took to social media to give himself some flowers. On Monday (Jan. 9), DJ Drama posted a photo while at the studio that read “I Brought The Mixtape Game Back 2 Life.” Drama wrote in the IG caption, adding in a “Thanks Tyler” with a winking face emoji. “If You Can Think It, You Can Achieve It.” The post also mentions he is in “album mode” which points to his I’m Really Like That project. Naturally, his claim quickly picked up traction throughout Hip-Hop circles and he was met with validation from only from rap fans but also some of his peers. Funkmaster Flex commented “10X” under ...
Tyler, The Creator Tells Fans To “Study” Missy Elliott’s Catalog
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Winter / Getty Two-time Grammy Award winner Tyler, The Creator has long been a music aficionado. He recently chimed in on a thread on Twitter where he encouraged the young fans among his 9.7 million followers to study the music of Missy Elliott. Missy Elliott, herself a four-time Grammy winner, recently shared some insight into the processes behind her critically-acclaimed catalog. She wrote on Twitter, “My 1st album was stressfree because I didn’t have any expectations. My label told me they would give me my own label if I did 1 album so me & @Timbaland completed this album in 2 weeks not knowing this would be the beginning of many more to come.” A day after the tweet, Tyler, the Creator jumped into the dialogue saying, “...
Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw Festival Will Not Return for 2022
Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw festival in Los Angeles is skipping 2022, his manager Chris Clancy tells Billboard, and is planning to bring the festival back next year. “It’s really not that deep,” says Clancy of the Goldenvoice-produced event. “Tyler toured all year and was busy with a number of projects. Reading the tea leaves and what’s happening with festivals coming out of the pandemic, we thought it would be best to come back next year.” This has been an unusual year for festivals, as large-scale events largely returned from the pandemic. The festival space was more crowded and oversaturated in 2022 than many expected as promoters created new events to take advantage of an uptick in ticket buying and fan demand at the beginning of the year for events like Coachella and Outside L...
Tyler, The Creator & Bad Bunny To Headline ‘Made In America’ Festival
Source: The Washington Post / Getty The Made In America Festival is set to hit the City of Brotherly Love for its 10th annual event this September. We’ve gotten confirmation that the headliners will be none other than Tyler, The Creator and Reggaeton’s biggest artist, Bad Bunny. Taking to Instagram to make the exciting announcement, Roc Nation revealed that the Grammy Award-winning rapper and the current King of Reggaeton would be headlining the two-day weekend event that’s scheduled to go down on September 3rd and September 4th at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia this coming Labor Day weekend. Bad Bunny’s really coming up in the Hip-Hop world, huh? Also scheduled to take the stage on Labor Day weekend are the likes of Lil Uzi Vert, Pusha T, Kodak Black...
Tyler, The Creator & Bad Bunny To Headline ‘Made In America’ Festival
Source: The Washington Post / Getty The Made In America Festival is set to hit the City of Brotherly Love for its 10th annual event this September. We’ve gotten confirmation that the headliners will be none other than Tyler, The Creator and Reggaeton’s biggest artist, Bad Bunny. Taking to Instagram to make the exciting announcement, Roc Nation revealed that the Grammy Award-winning rapper and the current King of Reggaeton would be headlining the two-day weekend event that’s scheduled to go down on September 3rd and September 4th at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia this coming Labor Day weekend. Bad Bunny’s really coming up in the Hip-Hop world, huh? Also scheduled to take the stage on Labor Day weekend are the likes of Lil Uzi Vert, Pusha T, Kodak Black...
Tyler, The Creator & Bad Bunny To Headline ‘Made In America’ Festival
Source: The Washington Post / Getty The Made In America Festival is set to hit the City of Brotherly Love for its 10th annual event this September. We’ve gotten confirmation that the headliners will be none other than Tyler, The Creator and Reggaeton’s biggest artist, Bad Bunny. Taking to Instagram to make the exciting announcement, Roc Nation revealed that the Grammy Award-winning rapper and the current King of Reggaeton would be headlining the two-day weekend event that’s scheduled to go down on September 3rd and September 4th at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia this coming Labor Day weekend. Bad Bunny’s really coming up in the Hip-Hop world, huh? Also scheduled to take the stage on Labor Day weekend are the likes of Lil Uzi Vert, Pusha T, Kodak Black...
Tyler, The Creator & Nardwuar the Human Serviette Kick It At Beat Street In Vancouver
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nardwuar / Nardwuar Fresh off his latest Grammy Award win for Best Rap Album, Tyler, The Creator is on top of the world right now and is still out here making time for a pretty entertaining interview with non other than the hilarious Nardwuar the Human Serviette. Linking up at a Beat Street Records in Nardwuar’s hometown of Vancouver, Canada for their fifth interview, Tyler and Nardwuar once again get familiar while strolling through the store’s impressive inventory (must-have items for Hip-Hop heads). After marveling at some of the rap themed action figures on the shelves and whatnot, Tyler opens about the importance of DJ Drama’s Gangsta Grillz mixtape catalogue saying they “really helped shape how a lot of people make music — including me.” Relate...
Tyler, the Creator Wins The Grammy Award for Best Rap Album
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Getty As DJ Khaled would say: “another one.” Well, another Grammy Award for Tyler, the Creator that is. Almost a year after beating out DJ Khaled for the number one spot on the Billboard Charts with his album, Call Me If You Get Lost, Tyler, the Creator took home the ultimate gold when he won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, beating out his legendary peers such as Nas (King’s Disease II), J. Cole (The Off-Season), and Kanye West (Donda). Khaled’s album, Khaled Khaled didn’t even get nominated. Tyler stays getting the last laugh in these situations. This marks Tyler, the Creator’s second Grammy Award for Best Rap Album as he took home the award back in 2019 for his previous album, IGOR. Taking to Instagram to drop his accept...
Tyler The Creator’s Golf le Fleur* Luggage Is Handmade By Globe-Trotter And Cost A Grip
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Adriana M. Barraza/WENN / WENN Whether you like his style or not, Tyler, The Creator’s eye for quality can’t be denied. His preference in suitcases isn’t cheap and we finally find out why. As spotted on Complex the Odd Future front man has been sporting luggage in conjunction with his critically acclaimed effort Call Me If You Get Lost. But the pieces he has been spotted with on several red carpets are far from your average carries. Each of the cases are handmade by Globe-Trotter. For those not in the know the British manufacturer of luxury luggage patented the use of vulcanized fiberboard in their suitcases, a material consisting of paper, cotton and wood pulp. Apparently Tyler had long been a fan of their signature line and incorporated those ...
Porter Robinson, REZZ, Alison Wonderland, More to Play BUKU Music + Art Project 2022
After taking two years off, BUKU Music + Art Project is back with a bang for their 10-anniversary event. Since being forced to cancel two consecutive years due to the impact of COVID-19, organizers have finally revealed the lineup for the first BUKU since 2019. Headlining each night of the event are the international superstars Tyler, The Creator and Tame Impala. Joining them are electronic favorites Porter Robinson, Alison Wonderland, REZZ, Liquid Stranger, TroyBoi, SVDDEN DEATH, Amelie Lens, Sullivan King, and more. Outside of the dance music world, attendees will get to catch sets from Glass Animals, Kali Uchis, 100 Gecs, $uicideboy$, Taking Back Sunday, Vince Staples, Trippie Redd, and Baby Keem, among others. With an eclectic lineup , BUKU 2022 will serve fans of c...
The 30 Best Albums of 2021
Back in June, SPIN published The 30 Best Albums of 2021 (So Far), rounding up everything from mainstream rock to experimental hip-hop. Six months later, we’re back with our year-end recap — and it’s interesting how, even though the stylistic balance has stayed consistent, the picks themselves haven’t. While this list also covers a lot of ground, only six of those earlier records wound up in our final tally. Below, you’ll find massive R&B collaborations (Silk Sonic), trendy pop breakouts (Olivia Rodrigo), big-ticket indie-rock (The War on Drugs), prog-metal giants (Mastodon), and acclaimed indie-rap (Benny the Butcher & Harry Fraud). Looking back at Pandemic Year Number Two, when the music industry forecast seemed to shift on a daily basis, perhaps these changes are only fittin...
