Black Milk provides the beat for the latest from Your Old Droog, featuring Joey Bada$$ and Styles P.
Category: Joey Bada$$
PRhyme – ‘PRhyme’ (Deluxe Edition)
The PRhyme Deluxe Edition is here at last, including the dope new tracks with MF Doom and Phonte, Joey Bada$$, and Black Thought. Stream below.
Statik Selektah – ‘Lucky 7’
Lucky 7 from Statik Selektah has finally arrived, and so has the inevitable stream. Like all Statik albums, its stacked with features from the best rappers of today, including Action Bronson, Sean Price, Rapsody, Your Old Droog, Smif-n-Wessun, Talib Kweli and Skyzoo. The question remains though: What the hell is dude wearing on that terrible album cover? Listen below.
Statik Selektah – ‘Beautiful Life’ feat. Action Bronson & Joey Bada$$
As probably predicted, the new Lucky 7 album from Statik Selektah features a track with Action Bronson and Joey Bada$$. It sounds pretty good, and you can listen below. Let us know your thoughts.
Flatbush Zombies – ‘Did You Ever Think’ feat. Joey Bada$$
Flatbush Zombies have released new track Did You Ever Think, featuring Joey Bada$$. It’s another headnodder, and you can listen to it below.
Joey Bada$$ – ‘Perception Versus Reality’
A new track from Joey Bada$$ has surfaced online, and it’s pretty good. Contrary to what some parts of the internet are saying, Perception Versus Reality isn’t produced by Flying Lotus, but it’s a nice beat regardless. Listen below.
Joey Bada$$ – ‘Like Me’ (produced by J Dilla)
Another day, another new release from Joey Bada$$. This time its a video for Like Me, produced by the one and only J Dilla. The police brutality message is laid on pretty thick, and the Joey-getting-shot-to-death plot is way overcooked, but this gets a pass on account of being a Dilla beat.
Dilla Day 2015
February 10, 2006. For many hip-hop heads, it was the day the music died, for it was the date that the great J Dilla passed away. His legacy lives on in all of us though, and for several years since his death, his mother, the much-loved Ma Dukes, has organized the annual Dilla Day event.
The 2015 edition is leaving Dilla’s hometown of Detroit for Miami instead, and the confirmed line-up of artists is already incredible. His old group Slum Village will be there, as will frequent Dilla collaborators Talib Kweli and Madlib, plus the legend Pete Rock. Other guests include Black Milk, whose music has been inspired by Jay Dee, alongside Joey Badas$$, Camp Lo and more. That adds up to a fine selection of talent paying their respect to one of the greatest of all time.
This year the event is also being extended to an entire weekend, from February 5-8. Tickets are available from here right now. Peep the flyer below for more.
Review: Joey Bada$$ live in London
Lets be really honest for a moment. Most live hip-hop shows are disappointing. Late arrival from the artist, too much crowd hyping and not enough rapping, bad mic quality, short set lengths. We’ve experienced them all, even from some of our favorite acts.
We still had high hopes for the Joey Bada$$ tour, and on the whole it didn’t disappoint when we caught one of the shows in London. The set-up was classic no frills hip-hop: Joey on the mic, with a deejay out back. No more flash or flair required. For a rapper like Bada$$, still just 19 but making the kind of hip-hop that throws back to the classic era, its an environment that suits him well. When the deejay also happens to be Statik Selektah, its even better.
It turns out Joey knows how to rock a crowd too. Full of energy but without the unnecessary and over-the-top swagger of other acts, he lets his music do the talking, giving us proper versions of his biggest tracks.
Obvious standouts included Waves, truthfully one of the finest hip-hop tracks of all time (yeah, we said it), and the DJ Premier produced Unorthodox. There was also the obligatory heartfelt tribute to fallen Pro Era member Capital Steez, reminding us all just how tragic it is to lose a talented rapper at only 19 years of age.
With a decent live show, teaser trailers and documentaries, the hype over Joey’s debut album B4.Da.$$ just keeps on getting stronger. It drops January 20, 2015.
Go behind the scenes with Joey Bada$$ on tour
It’s been a good week for Joey Bada$$ fans. First up was a new cryptic teaser trailer that finally gave us a solid release date for B4.DA.$$. The highly anticipated debut album will drop January 20, 2015, and although full details are yet to be released, its expected to include singles Big Dusty and Christ Conscious, and feature production from DJ Premier, J Dilla and Statik Selektah amongst others.
A new video has also now emerged, documenting Joey as he travels around Europe on the latest leg of his tour. He talks about why he loves performing more than being in the studio, how to give the fans what they want, and the inspiration he’s taken from seeing Jay-Z and other major artists on stage.
We’ve been itching to hear B4.DA.$$ for months and months, and its nice to hear the young Mr Badas$$ stay humble and grounded as he prepares for what will surely at last be his breakout year.
Watch the mini documentary below, and the album teaser further down.