“Mind blown, got me on freeze, Plus everybody got they own trees, It’s a personal party.”

DZA & Spitta together? You already know there was a lot of dope on the damn table © Lt. Cedric Daniels. Off George Kush’s Rolling Stoned, Read the rest of this entry »

Smoke DZA’s making the rounds through boroughs and linking with other notable New York City rappers. Fresh off collaborations with The Kid Daytona {“Cool Shit”) and ASAP Rocky (“4 Loko”), he’s come through with a track featuring the pride of Flushing, Queens, Action Bronson. Read the rest of this entry »

Harlemites Smoke DZA & ASAP Rocky get together on DZA’s single to Rolling Stoned, out Aug. 30th. Read the rest of this entry »

Somehow, someway, Cool Is In Session is the fourth tape Fiend’s managed to put out this year. The amount of music he’s created in 2011 is pretty impressive but that means nothing if the music isn’t quality. Read the rest of this entry »

Chuene’e

Rihanna: ‘Women Are Dominating Pop Music’ [WENN]

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Spotify Getting Sued for Patent Infringement [DMN]

DJ Drama On Drake x Gucci Tape That Almost Happened [Sermon's Domain] Read the rest of this entry »

Without a doubt, DZA comes up with the game’s best pairings of album titles and artwork. Read the rest of this entry »

Now that Steve Williams is in the unemployment line, he may find work in Harlem and the Bronx, where Smoke DZA and The Kid Daytona hold council. If their putting game turns out to be as nice as their rhyming abilities, Tiger will have double the Black competition come the next PGA Tour. Read the rest of this entry »

Emilio Sparks gets paid to be a professional cretin.

As if his dream job isn’t great enough, he mostly likely has your favorite rapper on speed dial for prank calls because he’s the spontaneous type. While you can catch the shameless disc jockey weekly on WSIA 88.9FM and his iTunes podcast, “The Emilio Experience,” he’s contributing to Hip-Hop in a major way with his 2nd compilation of beats-n-rhymes in Scumbino’s Way. Read the rest of this entry »

So what do you do when there’s two artists on tour together, who have recorded songs together in the past and found a sliver of free time? Besides smoking and drinking, you shoot a video, of course. And that’s exactly what Smoke DZA and Big K.R.I.T. happened to do. Read the rest of this entry »

Having had the pleasure of knowing Freddie Gibbs for coming up on two years now, the one aspect about Gary’s favorite rebel I have grown to marvel more and more is his uncanny ability not to bite his tongue. At some point in most of our lives, whether it be school or work, exercising restraint in what you say is imperative. Not for Fred. Read the rest of this entry »

DZA invites in Odd Future member Domo Genesis for the remix of “Loaded,” the Lex Luger produced track off THC.

Smoke DZA Feat. Domo Genesis – “Loaded (Remix)”

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Fiend, like his brother in the Jet Life Curren$y, never seems to stop dropping music. However, with his ability to seemingly sprinkle tracks like “Type Of Cat,” off like shake, that’s a joy, not a sin. This is a sleepy-eyed posse cut, with the scent of the finest trees wafting through the screen. Read the rest of this entry »

Before the roaches of George Kush da Button could cool off, Smoke DZA — Hip-Hop’s beloved, chain-smoking Harlemnite — has sparked the next one, The Hustler’s Catalog. It’s another adventure filled with head thumping production, several stellar guest features and of course endless tales of the friendliest of leaves. Read the rest of this entry »

Inspired by their “Brain Candy” series and most likely plenty of wild, drunken nights, Naledge and Double O have embarked on another international adventure in between projects. Semester Abroad highlights the Kidz’ fantastic G.P.A. over the past few months and few of the classmates (Curren$y, Smoke DZA, tabi Bonney, The Kid Daytona, etc.) helping them cheat through language arts class. Read the rest of this entry »

Lauren Speed

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January Jones is Pregnant [Vulture]

Zoe Kravitz Poses for Wonderland Magazine [GOT]

TSA Molests Miss USA, Makes Her Cry…For Your Safety [Techdirt] Read the rest of this entry »