Two of Atlanta’s most prolific weirdos, Future and Young Thug, have recently teamed up on surprise full-length mixtape Super Slimey. The fiery, fast paced project – released as a tribute to Future’s late studio engineer Seth Firkins – is hinted at being the first in a series of mixtapes from the pair.
Footage has emerged via Instagram of Chance the Rapper, Childish Gambino and Lil Yachty in the recording studio with Migos, fresh off the back of their Australian tour. With rumours floating around that the sequel to this year’s hit-spawning Culture is set to be executively produced by Kanye West, it’s definitely worth keeping an eye on Quavo and co. as they continue to dominate the game.
Golden Plains has blessed us with an absolutely stellar lineup for 2018, topped off with the late announcement that the festival will be headlined by none other than Outkast’s god MC Big Boi. The lineup also boasts new jazz giant Kamasi Washington and bass extraordinaire Thundercat, both of whom played instrumental roles on Kendrick’s 2015 opus To Pimp a Butterfly. While it’s a bit futile to wish for a live collaboration at this stage, it’d be absolutely wild to see the two pull together to knock out a rendition of ‘These Walls’ or ‘Alright’ in the Victorian bush. A man can only dream.
With festival season fast approaching, sideshow announcements keep dropping left and right, and it looks like Laneway’s got some of the best of the bunch. The Internet are booked to get groovy at the Forum on Wednesday 31 January, while Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals have locked in an intimate one night exclusive at 170 Russell on Wednesday 7 February. This one is set to be extra sweaty.
In one of the oddest lawsuits of the year, Eminem has successfully sued the conservative New Zealand National Party for the unlawful use of ‘Lose Yourself’ in an advertising campaign. While the New Zealand National Party claim their use of the blatantly inspired track ‘Eminem Esque’ didn’t breach any copyright laws, the New Zealand High Court found otherwise, awarding Eminem‘s publishing company, 8 Mile Style, up to $600,000 in damages. However, there’s a plus side to this bizarre legal development, with Eminem reportedly planning to donate his winnings from the case to hurricane relief foundations in Florida and Puerto Rico, so I guess it’s a win-win after all.
