Kanye West just released his latest album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, but also announced that he and mentor Jay-Z would collaborate on a joint album entitled, Watch the Throne.
The new track, “That’s My Bitch,” (produced by Q-Tip) features Elly Jackson, frontwoman of the popular UK electropop duo, LaRoux. The album is still being recorded, but the duo have recorded tracks in Wiltshire, England, and plan to record more soon in Southern France.
Watch the Throne is said to be hitting stores in February of 2011.
Keri Hilson gives us a sneak peak of the artwork for her forthcoming sophomore album, No Boys Allowed with some promo shots from the album, picturing her in a men’s bathroom. The new album is slated to hit stores December 21st.
The incarcerated rapper, T.I. will be featured on the cover of Vibe Magazine’s December/January 2011 issue. The recording artist sat down with magazine before he began serving his time, but talked about his battle with prescription drug addiction and how he feels he’s being judged and treated unfairly for his actions:
On how feels he has been treated unfairly:
If I place my value in the way humans treat me, then maybe. But they’re human, man―they can’t help themselves. They do that to people they know personally. So how can I expect them to treat me, only knowing me through television? They did that to Jesus. They did that to Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali. They did it to every great person you could possibly think of. When it was all good, they was with them. When things got bad, then they was against them.
On how his drug habit affected his health:
I had a lot of work done to my teeth. Oral surgery, extractions, six, seven, eight root canals. Between January to February. As soon as I got out, I had a lot of stuff done. In the joint, you eat shit that is unhealthy for you. I had fillings that fell out and stuff that had to get dealt with. Of course for the pain they gave me oxycontin and hydrocodone. And, mind you, on October 13, 2007, I had cut off everything―weed, alcohol. Then I get these pills and I start taking them for the pain at first. And then I’m like, Wait―this shit makes me feel good. And it’s legal. After the pain went away, I kept taking it. I had like five, six prescriptions. So I had, like 80 pills. Everybody else might have a drink or smoke a blunt, I took a pain pill. Times when I had 18-, 20-hour days, I’d take a pain pill. And eventually I developed―I guess―the beginning stages of dependence. [Read More]
