Dirty Money f. Drake, “Hurt (Loving You No More)” MP3
- story Peter Macia
Listen, we didn’t title our Drake cover story “Drake’s Rise to Fame and Fortune” because he’s our cousin. We’re sure in the time leading up to his debut album, Drizzy will bless many a major song with stellar guest verses, but this one is particularly good, even if it’s on a song where Diddy uses Auto-Tune to sound like T-Pain if he was really depressed and on a ton of Xanax. Like dude, cheer up, let someone else sing and Drake go bananas—it’s still money in your pocket.
Download: Dirty Money f. Drake, “Hurt (Loving You No More)” *Removed by request of Bad Boy Entertainment
Kidd Kidd, New Kidd On The Block Mixtape
- story Felipe Delerme
Young Money Stanleys (read: us) remember Kidd Kidd from his days anchoring Wayne’s very first Young Money endeavor, Sqad Up. That group, however, has long since disbanded, leaving Gutta still holding the inside of Wayne’s pocket, Supe and Young Yo missing in action, and Kidd Kidd finally making power moves on his own. This New Kidd On The Block tape contains brand new material as well as a bunch of songs featuring both Wayne and Drake, like the original version of “Forever.” The three wrote together regularly before Kidd Kidd parted ways with the label earlier this year and this coming-out-party of a mixtape is as good a place as any to showcase the rest of the songs his scene-stealing verses will probably just get edited out of. Check out Kidd Kidd airing out Mario’s “Break Up” instrumental and download New Kidd On The Block below.
Kidd Kidd, “Break Up Freestyle”
Download: Kidd Kidd, New Kidd On Da Block Mixtape
Timbaland f. Drake, “Say Something” MP3
- story Matthew Schnipper
- photo Jonathan Mannion (F63)
If only he were a few years older, Drake could have been Magoo. Imagine that dude on “Indian Flute”! Ain’t nothing smoother than a Timbaland beat circa 2003. Meeting Drake during his Southeast Asian phase would not have been a bad look for Tim or anyone else for that matter. “Say Something,” located thoroughly within the making beats with video games period still knocks, just in the way that sounds like they both should be guesting on Entourage. Now I’m at the 40/40 getting bitches tipsy Drake says, not even bragging, just saying. Yeah, Turtle would love this.
Download: Timbaland f. Drake, “Say Something”
Video: Baby f. Drake & Lil Wayne, “Money to Blow”
It feels marginally significant that this is essentially a Drake song—he raps first and does the hook anyway—but if we were Baby we’d definitely position ourselves in the middle between Drizzy and Weezy, too. Even if people snooze during your part they still wanna see how it ends. It’s interesting to see such a classic pre-recession type of video with cars and cascading waterfalls of cash raining down upon Baby’s delicate bald head, but for some reason this is less annoying than hearing about Jay-Z’s Tribeca loft, maybe because we are easily irritated New Yorkers and this is a cartoony video set resembling The Price is Right.
Young Money f. Lloyd, “Bed Rock” MP3
- story Peter Macia
“Bed Rock” doesn’t quite have the same magic as “Every Girl,” even though it’s rumored to be the first official single from the Young Money album, but having Minaj on here putting all these boys in their places is definitely something that was missing on its Young Money predecessor. As FADER editor Felipe Delerme learned recently, Nikki Nicki has a knack for making grown men nervous. If anyone knows the producer of the beat, drop the name in the comments.
Download: Young Money f. Lloyd, “Bed Rock” (via Nah Right)
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posted on Sep 24, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Drake, Gudda Gudda, hip hop, jae millz, Lil Wayne, Lloyd, Nikki Minaj, Tyga, Young Money
Video: Drake f. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem, “Forever”
- story Peter Macia
This is about as much of an event in the music video world as it gets these days. And it premiered on the internet as far as we’re concerned. Still can’t decide who has the best verse. Let us know in the comments.
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posted on Sep 22, 2009 in MUSIC VIDEO tags Drake, Eminem, hip hop, Kanye West, Lebron James, Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne f. Drake, “My Darlin Baby” MP3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
- photo Jonathan Mannion (F63)
At the speed these dudes record, we wouldn’t be surprised if they wheeled Drake to the studio immediately following his operation, shoved a mic in front of him and then like three minutes later this song was on the internet. This is probably as good a time as any to read our Drake cover story, because by the time you finish there’ll be another couple thousand new Drake songs to check out.
Download: Lil Wayne f. Drake, “My Darlin Baby” (via New Music Cartel)
Drake, “Fear” MP3
- story Peter Macia
When we decided to put Drake on the cover, we’d only heard rumors of the So Far Gone mixtape being released as an EP on whatever label he signed with. That EP is now definitely coming out next week, and this is a brand new track added to it so people don’t feel like they’re just buying something they already got. Oddly, “Fear” is almost entirely themed around Drake being bummed about everything that’s changed since he released the mixtape, got the megadeal and became a star. Hopefully, his bummer styles are as temporary bum knee, which he’s getting surgery on right now. Send dude some flowers!
Download: Drake, “Fear”
FEATURE: Drake’s Rise to Fame and Fortune
- story Edwin "Stats" Houghton
- photo Jonathan Mannion
On September 7, 2008, Lil Wayne stepped onstage at the MTV Video Music Awards and then stepped decisively away from the words on the lyric sheet circulating in the audience with the following lines…
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posted on Sep 1, 2009 in FEATURES tags Boi 1da, Drake, F63, hip hop, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Young Money
Video: Drake f. Trey Songz, “Successful”
- story Peter Macia
On Friday it was decided that Trey Songz’ YUUUP is the best adlib in music right now, mostly because it sounds like Hank Williams Jr and has absolutely nothing to do with how Songz sings. Regardless, a billion teenage girls’ iPhones just blew up from repeated streams of this so Apple is psyched obviously.
