With his new album date ready to go, J. Cole headed across the Atlantic to promote his upcoming Born Sinner LP. Visiting Charlie Sloth of BBC 1Xtra, the Roc Nation artist revealed a few things to expect on his sophomore effort. The first announcement was that TLC (Chilli and T-Boz) will appear on his June 18 release. Even bigger news is there will be no rap features on his album, expect a few singers and that’s it.

“I got TLC on the album, yes T-Boz and Chilli…..it’s crazy. Nobody’s rapping on the album.”

Listen to the interview below….

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In conjunction with his upcoming sixth studio album IV Play, The-Dream teamed up with Noisey for a 3-part mini documentary about his life. Through his own words, Terius gives listeners a detailed look at the man behind the music. Part 1 starts with the NC native talking about his childhood and the impact that his grandfather’s upbringing had on him as a man. He also goes into detail about his mother and grandad’s passing pushed him to pursue music in the early 90s.

Watch part 1 of the documentary after the jump…

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Set to initially arrive in 2008, five years later Birdman and Rick Ross deliver their collaborative project The H: The Lost Album Vol. 1. The free project hosted by DJ Khaled includes 11-tracks with appearances from Kevin Rudolf (“Don’t Hustle”), Mack Maine (“Money to Make”), and Gudda Gudda (“Justice”).

Expect to hear more from both heavyweights as Birdman and YMCMB’s Rich Gang album is due June 25 as Ross’ Mastermind solo LP arrives later this year.

Listen and download The H album below……

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Today, Left Coast songbird Jhene Aiko gave away a free No I.D.-produced “freestyle,” titled “Comfort Inn Ending. In under two minutes, the Def Jam singer pours her heart out about a love lost. All she has left now are faded memories. I’m sure we can all related. Look out for her upcoming album Souled Out later this year.

Listen to “Comfort Inn Ending” after the jump…

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Major Lazer has the perfect soundtrack for ladies with ASSets this Memorial Day weekend. After debuting the remix at Coachella 2013, the DJ/production crew tap 2 Chainz on their bouncy “Bubble Butt” single. Joining Bruno Mars, 2 Chainz, Tyga, and Mystic, the ATLien instructs female listeners how shake it this summer.

Find the original off Major Lazer’s Free the Universe, which you can purchase on iTunes. Expect the already filmed remix video to arrive soon.

Listen to the official “Bubble Butt” remix below….

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We first posted about this duo a few years back, but since then, the Danish group has gone on to work on solo projects and new material here and there. Consisting of vocalist Coco Maja Hastrup Karshøj and producer Robin Hannibal, the wordly team is ready to introduce a new EP, dubbed Avalanche. Before it drops on June 4th, dive into their new sounds with Kendrick Lamar. The group’s track “Tiden Flyver” was sampled for “Don’t Kill My Vibe.”

“We only have one feature on our new album, and we are elated that it’s Kendrick Lamar. He invited us to collaborate on his own album, and we had such a great time working with him that we asked him if he wanted to be part of our project as well. We are so happy for all his success and we are very proud of this song. We wanted to have more of a fluid song that wasn’t too over structured and had a bit of a bedroom/after hours vibe to it.”

Listen to “Better Off” after the jump…

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We may not be getting any new music from The Cool Kids in the foreseeable future, but Chuck Inglish has kept busy. The producer/rapper today releases his Droptops EP, which gears us up for his debut solo album, Convertibles, expected out before the year’s end. Inspired by “a night spent in a droptop Bonneville during this year’s South by Southwest festival and the good vibes of spending a summer in Los Angeles,” Droptops is a perfect place to start building your summer playlist. Especially when it features the likes of Asher Roth, Travi$ Scott and Buddy over wavy, bass-heavy jams.

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Earl Sweatshirt blesses us with the third track from his hugely awaited debut album, Doris (no, seriously, it’s actually called Doris). The follow-up to “Chum” and “Whoa,” “Guild” features Mac Miller and has a distinctively drugged-out, chopped-and-screwed feel to it. Although yet to be scheduled with a release date, Doris is rumored to have a plethora of high profile contributors: Tyler, The Creator, Frank Ocean, RZA, Pharrell and The Alchemist, to name a few.

Listen to “Guild” after the jump…

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Hot97‘s Peter Rosenberg shared some very interesting information about J. Cole’s Born Sinner album during this morning’s segment of The Realness. According to insider knowledge, Cole has a track on his sophomore LP tentatively titled “I Disappointed Nas.” As the story goes, the Queensbridge MC reached out to Jermaine after he heard “Work Out” and expressed his disappointment with the single.

Supposedly there’s a song on the J. Cole album called something along the lines of “I Disappointed Nas,” about how Nas supposedly reached out to J. Cole after he heard “Workout” and was like, “Nah, fam. I expected more from you than this.” And supposedly J. Cole gets really personal and has a whole song about how it felt to have disappointed, obviously, one of his heroes in music, Nas.

This definitely makes the June 18 album sales race more interesting, with J. Cole’s Born Sinner, Kanye West’s Yeezus and Mac Miller’s Watching Movies with the Sound Off all hitting stores that day. Who do you think will sell the most?

UPDATE: In a new interview with SoulCulture, J. Cole laughed off the “I Disappointed Nas” title. However, it sounds like he may still have a record that addresses the subject.

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The legendary Mannie Fresh fianlly made his way to the Juan Epstein show with Peter Rosenberg and Cipha Sounds. They covered a lot of ground here—from his very first introduction to DJing through his pops who was a street DJ in New Orleans, creating a movement with Cash Money and then parting ways, and his reemergence into hip-hop courtesy of chance meeting with Kanye. We also broke down som cliff notes to accompany the audio for your enjoyment.

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