"We are proud to present an hour-long, Canadian broadcast exclusive interview with hip-hop superstar, Drake. The critically acclaimed emcee joins Jian to talk about growing up in Toronto, what he wants to achieve with his music, and what kind of legacy he hopes to leave behind." 

Drake gets his turn to sit down with this interviewer, following in the footsteps of many other prominent artists in music, such as Adele. Enjoy!

The Traplord sits down with Pitchfork Tv reps to discuss what he feels is overrated and underrated in modern day society. Take a look inside & Enjoy!

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In this interview with Montreality B.o.B speaks on Starting His Own Label "Ham Squad" & "Underground Luxury" Release Date.

 

Kendrick sits down with reps over at Hypbeast to talk about style, fashion, and all it's history as it relates to him. Take a look inside. Enjoy!

Big Sean sits down with the Power 105.1 morning crew to chit chat about things, including his album "Hall Of Fame" which is out now. Enjoy!

While in NY last night doing the promo run for A$AP Ferg's new album, "Trap Lord," the Mob stopped by to parlay with Funk Flex. Take a look inside as they rap debate the internet buzz worthy "Control" verses, the state of hip hop and where NY is headed in this rap game. They also do their thing on a few beats. A couple jabs at Kendrick Lamar from the Trap Lord himself as well. Enjoy!

Take a look as Miss Info gets to sit down with the new Def Jam signee in the park to talk, Tour, Fashion, Joey Bada$$, and more. "10 Piece Mild" drops on Aug.13th. Enjoy!

Fergenstein sits down with the Hot 97 crew to discuss his upcoming album "Trap Lord," the sound he's going for, and everything that is Harlem. Check out the conversation inside. Make sure to go get his album when it drop on Aug.20th as well.

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With the projected #1 album in the country, "Magna Carta Holy Grail" being released yesterday. Jay made a few stops. He slid over to HOT 97 to talk with DJ Enuff & Angie Martinez to talk about the album and other human/inhumane things. Take a look at the interview after the jump.

Big Sean talks to Ebro, Peter & Laura Stylez about being in Love, Recording with Eminem & More!

VIBE: I know there was some hesitation from you guys to do a Clipse cover, but the people needed to see this. 

No Malice: I thought it was a great idea from the beginning. I think it ends a lot of the rumors that have been going around. A lot of people might have thought there was some kind of dysfunction between Pusha and myself, which has never been the case. I know the fans wanted to see us together publicly over the past couple of years, but we still work together. You guys both always said there was never beef, but you know how rumors go. 


No Malice: I don’t even get where a beef would come from, or how that was perceived in anyone’s minds. There could never be beef.  

Pusha T: Clipse rumors? Everything we’ve done has been so on front street, I don’t even know where rumors come from. Malice, you know of any?  

No Malice: I’m so distant from what’s going on in the music world. Pusha T: I don’t know, Mikey, you got any Clipse rumors? I mean, there’s everything from Malice doesn’t mess with Pusha anymore because he sins on records [Laughs].  

Pusha T: [Laughs] Listen, I don’t even hear that. I may have seen some comments, but I don’t know about that.  

No Malice: I’m a sinner [Laughs], so I don’t know about that. I think the real fans know what’s up. I’ve also heard that you guys still owe Columbia another album as a group. 

No Malice: We don’t owe anybody anything.  

Pusha T: Nothing. So at this point, is there definitely going to be another Clipse album? 

No Malice: We’re going to continue to talk amongst ourselves and work on putting something together. Whatever we decide, we’ll let the fans know when we’re ready. At this time, it’s still between us. There was an alleged album title thrown out there last year, As God Is My Witness. Was that from you guys?  

No Malice: Like I always say, there’s nothing that I want more than to put an album together with my brother. Pusha has been doing the solo thing for a few years so I’m wondering why all the Clipse questions are coming now. We’ve always supported each other in everything that we’ve done. Right now, we’re doing two different things. I get it. Was there a duo that you guys tried to emulate or mimic when you were first coming up together?  

No Malice: Nah. First, it was just me rhyming, and then one day my brother wrote a verse for this song called “Thief in the Night.” It was the first verse that he ever wrote, but it was so perfect and seamless. Right then and there, we became a group. We didn’t even think about it. Push, I know you said when you first started recording solo you were almost scared at how much more work it was from doing songs with your brother. 

Pusha T: I’m very comfortable now with the whole process. I think it was so much easier as a group because you have someone to take that slack. I can cheat and give you a cheap line knowing that he’s going to come with a fire verse afterwards for the greatness of the song. You can do that in a group. You don’t have to go crazy over every word.  

No Malice: Right now, I just have such a different message. I have so much to say, where I don’t only want to write one verse. Now I feel like how I did when I first got into rhyming when it was so new and enjoyable. Honestly, for a while I wasn’t even sure if I was going to rapping anymore. I’m finally just having fun again. Are you a born-again MC, so to speak [Laughs]? 

No Malice: That’s safe to say. That’s definitely safe to say. Where do you guys see the Re-Up gang in five years, as a group, as a label and an entity?  

Pusha T: I don’t really know. I mean, Re-Up was born from the Clipse, so without us recording together, I don’t see Re-Up gang as a whole recording together. Everybody as their own respective entity is going to carry on the same criteria to be under the name. It’s one thing at a time.  

No Malice: I will say this. I don’t like no other rappers. The only rappers I like is Re-Up gang. I don’t think there’s no better writer than Ab-Liva. I don’t think there’s no better writer than my brother, and I don’t think there’s no better writer than myself. I don’t enjoy none of that stuff that’s going on out there. The kind of rap I like comes from the Re-Up Gang, lyrically. The kind of rappers I like come from the Re-Up Gang. One thing you can count on from the Re-Up Gang is the realness. We come from an era where you had to really be living the life that you were rapping about. Even though my content and Pusha’s content is different now, everything we’re saying is still true. To me, that’s the hip-hop that I enjoy. What’s each of your favorite Clipse albums?  

Pusha T: Hell Hath Have Fury 

No Malice: Lord Willin’ Would you guys ever entertain doing a Lord Willin 2? No Malice: Nah, I tend to think the sequels never come out as good.  

Pusha T: Nah, I think Lord Willin might be easier than Hell Hath No Fury, but I wouldn’t even want to go that route. 

No Malice: It was two different kinds of emotions. The first one, you’re hungry and you know you’re about this get a record deal. You got these rhymes saved up and everything. But Hell Hath No Fury was built on a completely different energy. It was anger, frustration, the label let down, personal stuff, everything. It wasn’t just sitting back being creative. It was real life. When and if you guys do get back in the studio, will the creative process be a lot different?  

No Malice: We never wrote our rhymes together or anything like that. We would call each other a lot of the phone and say our verses, but the rhymes were written in our comfort zones, so no. Pusha T: That’s how we did it every time, song for song. We would get the beat, write to them separately. Are there any Clipse songs that you guys really regret releasing?  

No Malice: I can’t think of any… 

Pusha T: Uh, yeah there’s a few on Til The Casket Drops that I wouldn’t have dropped [Laughs]. Which ones specifically? 

Pusha T: The joint with Keri Hilson…  

No Malice: There isn’t a record that we put out that I didn’t like, but that was one of those records where we were trying to cater to what we thought fans would want to hear or a specific audience wanted. The recipe has always been doing what we felt. I guess Til The Casket Drops, we were trying to reach something. Lyrically, I love it, but that record was strategic. It was the radio song. 

Pusha T: You don’t regret but you just look back on songs and realize even radio songs need to be executed the right way. What about a favorite verse from each other?  

No Malice: There’s too many, way too many. 

Pusha T: Mal’s verse on “We Got It For Cheap” was really, really good. He was so hot on that joint, so angry on that joint, everyone was catching hell. Hov heard it and said, "Oh, he’s got something on his mind. He’s got something on his mind for sure." But even with all the seriousness and truth you guys put into your verses, the Clipse still had fun. Especially on those We Got It For Cheap mixtapes. Like putting Lauren London on a skit during that time period…  

No Malice: That was all him [Laughs].  

Pusha T: That’s my homegirl, man. It was like this guy knows “no chill.” 

Pusha T: I just asked for a skit. She said what she wanted to say. Well, something that was all No Malice was his book. Wretched, Pitiful, Poor, Blind and Naked. Pusha, do you ever think about writing a book?  

Pusha T: With my patience, I couldn’t even do it. I tell everybody all the time, that was a Malice stunt, something he know I can’t do. To sit down and write a book, chronologically, from thought to thought, it’s impossible for me. I just couldn’t do it. I ain’t got it in me.  

No Malice: I would have never written a book myself. That book came to me. It was my experience. Nobody wants to put their life out into the open like that. I was too busy being cool and even when I was touched by God I would have loved to kept it to myself, but I knew without a shadow of a doubt that this was something I was to share with the same people that was supporting me for all this time. It wasn’t something I chose to do. It was something I had to do. Why would I write a book? I didn’t want to write raps at that time. It’s very near and dear to me. Do you feel like you owe the fans another Clipse album?  

No Malice: I can answer that easily. I don’t feel like I owe anyone anything. And whatever I've given to the fans that supported us, I appreciate all the support. I really do. I hope they enjoy the art of the Clipse and I can honestly say, not even from a fan perspective, but from a world perspective, when I was at my lowest point in life. My very lowest, there was no one to call on but God. And I’ll be very clear about that. There wasn’t a woman, a gold chain, a Porsche there wasn’t nothing that could of have helped me feel better but God. So I know I don’t owe anyone anything. Even with the Clipse albums, it wasn’t that I owed the fans, it was just me showing my art with them, and I would love to that again sometime. Be clear though, I love the fans.  

Pusha T: I don’t owe nobody nothing. This game is horrible. No Malice: I really love the fans because they got it. They understood what was good about the Clipse. The same things that we enjoyed, from the intricate writing, the perspectives, and even the fashion. The people that liked what we liked, those are the reals fans. They still support me now and I really appreciate them. I mean it, I love my fans. Genuinely.

It has been two years since Hong Kong-based fashion conglomerate I.T. bought 'A Bathing Ape' and this year marks the 20th anniversary of the brand. NIGO sits down with WWD for an interview to discuss A Bathing Ape and its future. NIGO is no longer involved with BAPE, instead focusing on his own company 'NIGOLD' and several collaborative ventures. Take a look at what he has to say inside.

Why did you choose to leave A Bathing Ape, the very brand you started? When did you make the decision? 

Nigo: It was about six months ago that I started to think about what I wanted to do next. I guess it’s just me being selfish. It has been 20 years since I founded the brand, and in another 20 years from now I will be 60. I started fumbling around for some new possibilities. What I really want to make clear is that I didn’t fall out with [I.T chief executive officer] Sham Kar Wai. Sham and I get on as more than business associates and we came to a mutual decision. It was simply that I came to the realization that Bape was no longer just my creation and I didn’t renew the contract that I signed two years ago when I sold the company.  

Do you think that without you Bape is going to change even more significantly from now on? Nigo: There is a hangover caused by my own time managing Bape. That without me the brand wouldn’t exist is something the people who follow in my footsteps will have to overcome. But I think that I.T is confident that it is going to continue to sell without me. Especially in Asia, Bape is Bape. There are people who are fanatical about the logo alone. Maybe it will have an effect in places in the West like New York where I have an identity as Nigo. As for Japan, I wonder? I have a feeling they will just have to push on. If something goes wrong, maybe they will call me back!  

So, where will you go from here? Aside from Nowhere, you have your own company, Nigold, which produces your new clothing brand Human Made. Will this be the second incarnation of Bape? 

Nigo: Human Made is a brand that makes the clothes I want to be wearing right now, but I have no intention at all of growing it to the level of Bape. Two years ago, I opened a shop for Human Made in [the Tokyo residential neighborhood] Sendagaya that only opened on the weekends called Cold Coffee. I am in the process of renewing the interior of that and I am going to put on sale some of my collection of vintage items. I want to go back to doing business over the counter the old school way. I rent two or three locations for my collection and gradually have just wanted to let go of it all. I want to make a shop disguised as an art gallery with all of things I have collected on display for sale. I have no intention of going back into high-risk business.

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VEVO News interviews rapper A$AP Rocky and members of his A$AP collective at Hot 97's Summer Jam on Sunday, June 2. The MC talks about his crew's variety of interests, and his collaborations with other artists.

In this interview with Montreality , Fabolous speaks about: His upcoming studio album Loso's Way 2 (creative approach, release date), Relationship w/ fellow Brooklyn rapper JAY-Z, Memories of the late great Nate Dogg + More.

In this interview with Montreality, Jermaine Jackson speaks about: Whether or not the world took Michael Jackson for granted, What he learned from his little brother MJ, His message to the youth.

"I think that a lot of people didn't realise how important his presence was during his time on earth, but it's even greater now. When my brother passed, the world cried.." - Jermaine Jackson

 In this interview with Montreality , Dj Jazzy Jeff speaks about: Will Smith telling Eminem in 1998 "You're going to be the biggest flop in Hip-Hop OR the biggest thing", Will Smith's reaction to getting dissed by Eminem on "The Real Slim Shady", The possibility of making new music with Will Smith sometime soon, Winning the 1st Grammy ever awarded to Hip-Hop in 1989 + More.

 

In this interview with Montreality , Bow Wow speaks about: Meeting Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly for the 1st time at the So So Def 20th Anniversary, Collaborating with Snoop Dogg for his upcoming documentary "Who Is Shad Moss", Putting his upcoming YMCMB album "Underrated" on hold, Wanting to work with DMX, Michael Jordan yelling at him for wearing Iverson shoes to his house & More.

 

"Ab-Soul is the latest guest on Off Tha' Wall. We caught up with him moments after he finished performing at our Mass Appeal SXSW showcase in Texas. Ab-Soul brought his distinct brand of humor to the mix. A big fan of Michael Jackson, Ab speaks on the time James Brown, Prince and MJ battled dance moves. He also shares the quote he lives by, his favorite munchies, and working at the mall selling cell phones."