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Monday, January 30, 2017

NEWS: Fabolous Named Men’s Ambassador for 2017 New York Fashion Week

Fabolous Named Men’s Ambassador for 2017 New York Fashion Week

After all of these years in the game, Brooklyn rapper Fabolous remains as one of the most fashionable hip-hop artists of the genre. Known for always setting trends and attending the different fashion shows worldwide, it’s no surprise that for the 2017 Men’s New York Fashion Week, Fabolous has been appointed as the men’s ambassador for the lifestyle festivities.
As ambassador of the Council of Fashion Designers of America New York Fashion Week, the 39-year-old rapper will be seen attending all of the different men’s fashion show across NYC. Along with building and connecting with established and new designers, Fabolous will use his superstar platform to showcase and highlight the best looks from this week’s fashion shows while also providing his commentary and thoughts on the collections.
Fabolous will start his duties as ambassador of New York Fashion Week today, when several fashion brands and labels takeover NYC’s runways for the next couple of days.

NEWS: PnB Rock and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Have a Joint Mixtape in the Works

PnB Rock and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Have a Joint Mixtape in the Works

PnB Rock is quickly establishing himself as one of the newest faces of the Philly hip-hop scene. With a hit single “Selfish” blazing up the Billboard charts, this 25-year-old rapper, who also sings, is destined to make an impact in the music industry with his catchy tunes and crooning skills.
Born Rakim Hasheem Allen, PnB Rock broke onto the scene in 2014, with his debut mixtape, Real Nigga Bangaz. A year later, he came back stronger, signing a record deal with Atlantic Records, and releasing his buzzworthy mixtape RnB 3. Backed by standout tracks “Alone,” “No Time” and “Ballin,” PnB showcased why he’s carving a lane of his own with his highly addictive tunes.
Now, two years removed from the highly-acclaimed mixtape, the Atlantic Records signee has started 2017 with a bang, releasing his debut studio album, GTTM: Goin Thru the Motions, which features his biggest record to date, “Selfish.” Peaking at No. 51 on the Billboard Hot 100, and receiving heavy airplay on hip-hop stations, it’s only a matter of time before PnB receives his first plaque in the early stages of his career.
PnB Rock stopped by the XXL offices in New York to not only play new music but to also speak in-depth about his GTTM: Goin Thru the Motions album, an upcoming mixtape with A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie and more.
XXL: Why did you decide to name the project GTTM: Goin Thru the Motions ?PnB Rock: Around the time when I was working on the project I was really going through the motions, so that’s why I decided to name the project that way. I was going through a lot. I had just gotten signed. I was dealing with the newfound fame in my city. I lost my brother. I had a daughter. It was just about me dealing with all these different motions in life, you feel me?

Tell me about some of the producers featured on this project?

As far as producers, I’ve worked with a lot of different producers on this project. I worked with Scott Storch, Reefa. I got Needlz and Donut on there. I got Slade da Monsta on there. Shout out to him he’s been giving me plenty of heat. I also got Sonny Digital. Man, I just got a lot of good producers on there, so production-wise it has plenty of heat.

What guest features do you have on the album?

I got a lot of good features on there. I have this song with YFN Lucci called “There She Go,” I also have Quavo on there. I got my main guy A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie on the project. I also got Ty Dolla $ign on there. We recreated this R. Kelly joint. I got Wiz Khalifa on there, so yeah, we cooking out here.
I notice on this project you take a more singing approach than ever before. Tell me the reasoning for that.I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song “Selfish.” I came out with the song “Selfish,” I’m gonna say about six months ago and that’s the best reaction I got out of any songs I’ve put out. So I started to put my new sound towards that because it was creating such a buzz for me, and now the record is about to go gold. So the reaction to the record was big for me and I started doing more the R&B and, not per say, the traditional R&B, but I started singing more as far as rapping.

You have two records with A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie and it shows you guys have great chemistry. What’s it like to be in studio with him?

Every time me and A Boogie connect in the studio it’s just always good vibes. It’s like me being with one of my brothers or me being with one of my cousins or my family members. So we be just always vibing and we came up with these two records “Player No More,’ which was a hook that I had laying around and he heard it and we ended up finishing the joint. Then we ended up working on another song for my project called “Stand Back” and we did that joint just two days before my tape was about to come out.

Would you and A Boogie ever record a duo project?

Shout out to A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, that’s my bro. What I can tell you about me and A Boogie is that we’re working on a tape right now just because all of the people keep asking for it and we just be together so much so it was just like, Why not? you feel me? We just gonna be lit off that and probably go on tour to promote the project.

When can fans expect the mixtape between you and A Boogie?

Expect the tape to come fast. Like A Boogie gets off tour at the end of this month, but it’s nothing for me to fly out to L.A. and record with him at a studio out there, but it’s gonna drop within the next month or two, for sure.

You got a co-sign from R. Kelly for your song “Hanging Up My Jersey” with Ty Dolla $ign. Where were you when R. Kelly shouted you out and how do you feel about the major co-sign?

When I seen that R. Kelly had tweeted me I was in the studio and someone brought it to my attention like, “Yo, R. Kelly just tweeted you. He liked the song.” So I seen the tweet and he said, “Shout out to PNB Rock and TY for making a hit to my already hit” and he mentioned that he loved the song and reposted it and all that and even told his fans to go listen to the song. I was hype. I listed to R. Kelly growing up. That’s one of the people my mom used to bang while she was cleaning up in the crib. I probably know all of his songs. Shout out to R. Kelly for showing love. He’s definitely one of the greats.

ALBUM: Migos - Culture + 20 Best Lyrics From Album

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20 of the Best Lyrics From Migos’ ‘Culture’ Album

The Migos‘ latest full length release, CULTURE, finally arrived on Thursday evening (Jan. 26), instantly creating an air of excitement within the rap community. One of the more anticipated rap albums of 2017, CULTURE comes more than a year after Migos’ debut album, Yung Rich Nation, which generated plenty of buzz, but was stifled by legal drama. Using 2016 to regroup and regain their crown as the hottest rap group of the moment, CULTURE is the culmination of Migos’ rise to the top of the music world, and finds all three group members turning in stellar performances and displaying a chemistry that is as innate as it is effortless.

With Donald Glover’s Golden Globes nod to the Migos’ ubiquitous single, “Bad and Boujee,” helping to boost the record to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and their popularity at a fever pitch, CULTURE had a lot of expectation riding on it prior to its release. But with songs like “Call Casting,” “Brown Paper Bag” and “Deadz” already being mentioned as standout records by listeners (if you take a look through critics’ timelines on Twitter), it appears that Migos’ sophomore effort has managed to live up to the hype.

Boasting guest appearances from Lil Uzi Vert, Gucci Mane, 2 Chainz and Travis Scott, as well as production by Metro Boomin, Zaytoven, Cardo, Nard & B and other elite boardsmen, CULTURE packs plenty of firepower that adds to Migos’ own undeniable star-power.

To celebrate the release of their new project, we’ve compiled 20 of the most electric bars from CULTURE that showcase why Quavo, Offset and Takeoff have the rap game, and pop culture, in a chokehold at the moment.

“Culture”

Migos Featuring DJ Khaled

“Yeah, screw that lil’ tip on that dirty lil’ Uzi/I put a seven in a thot coochie/Niggas get money, don’t know how to use it/I whipped up the babies, Harambe, abused it” – Quavo

“T-Shirt”

Migos

“Young nigga poppin’ with a pocket full of cottage/Woah kemosabe, chopper aimin’ at your noggin/Had to cop the Audi, then the top I had to chop it/Niggas pocket watchin’, so I gotta keep the rocket” – Takeoff

“Call Casting”

Migos

“Up early in the morning trapping/You can get ’em how you asking/How many chickens? you can get ’em whichever way/Nigga, trap turned Zaxby’s” – Takeoff

“Call Casting”

Migos

“Niggas tried to send a thot/That’s the only way to plot/Klay Thomp, corner shot/Eight-ball, corner pocket/White boys in the game/Call ’em Andy Milonakis” – Quavo

“Bad and Boujee”

Migos Featuring Lil Uzi Vert

“Raindrop, drop top/Smokin’ on cookie in the hotbox/Fuckin’ on your bitch she a thot, thot/Cookin’ up dope in the crockpot/We came from nothin’ to somethin’ nigga/I don’t trust nobody grip the trigger/Call up the gang, and they come and get you/Cry me a river, give you a tissue” – Offset

“Bad and Boujee”

Migos

“Dabbin’ on ’em like the usual/Magic with the brick, do voodoo/Courtside with a bad bitch/Then I send the bitch through Uber/I’m young and rich and plus I’m bougie/I’m not stupid so I keep the Uzi” – Offset

“Bad and Boujee”

“Might be posted somewhere secluded/Still be playin’ with pots and pans, call me Quavo Ratatouille/Run with that sack, call me Boobie/When I’m on stage show me boobies/Ice on my neck, I’m the coolest/Hop out the suicide with the Uzi” – Quavo

“Get Right Witcha”

Migos

“Ridin’ in the coupe with the wings/Going to Thailand with them chinks/Percocet party, servin’ fiends/Swear to god my plug was Vietnamese/Taliban, my drugs, wrap ’em please/Servin’ all day, my gas on E” – Quavo

“Get Right Witcha”

Migos

“Born with it, count a hundred thousand start snowin’ with it/Go and get it, thirty round clip tear off a arm or ligament/Bitch I’m a dog from menace/You trappin’ hard for pennies/Hop in the frog, it’s tinted/Askin’ the lord, forgive me” – Offset

“Slippery”

Migos

“Plug called, tried to front, I don’t need it/I don’t need it/Pockets strong, wrist anemic/Get freezy, young nigga pay your debt-is/Grandma (grandma) auntie Ab and auntie NeesaUncle Bo, auntie Greta serve ya perkys/Auntie Eva, she got a pound she might just serve it” – Quavo

“Big on Big”

Migos

“Green Lambo, Piccolo/Diamonds drippin’ on me, Nickelodeon/You goin’ too big, you talkin’ bout money you botherin’ me/I own all of my cars, jewelry, and I got property/Building these houses in places I’m playing Monopoly/Please do not talk to me/You don’t do nothin’, you obsolete” – Offset

“What the Price”

Migos

“Tell me what the preacher preach about/Tell me what the teacher teach about/I’ma go find me a better route/That bullshit and cap you can leave it out” – Takeoff

“Brown Paper Bag”

Migos

“Bad Mona Lisa/Slide with my people

Pink slip for the ride/But what’s in the trunk, it’s illegal/Came from dimes, no cosigns/You can read between the lines/Like a pro skater did my own grinds” – Quavo

“Brown Paper Bag”

Migos

“Click, click, click, click shit, and I sprung my wrist/Money is over a bitch/Go to the mall in a Bentley/Money is bigger than Winfrey’s/Sippin’ codeine outta Simply’s/I do not fuck with the enemy/30,000 to the dentist” – Offset

“Brown Paper Bag”

Migos

“Fifty bands in the motor/Twelve can’t pull me over/Snowball, think it’s polar/Hotline Motorola/Fancy bitches.. go get the bag, the baddest bitches/Age of 23, I was in the magazine, the Forbes edition” – Quavo

“Deadz”

Migos Featuring 2 Chainz

“If I wasn’t trappin’, I’d be wrappin’ up them bundles/If I wasn’t rappin’ I’d be trappin’ out the condos/No forreal, no cap, my money long like anacondas/No forreal, no cap, I keep a sack like Sapp and Tucker” – Quavo

“Deadz”

Migos Featuring 2 Chainz

“Hop out the bed and I’m countin’ them faces/I jump out the whip and them bitches start faintin’/No twenties or fifties, just Benjamin Franklins/Block on lock call me Kurt Angle” – Takeoff

“Kelly Price”

Migos Featuring Travis Scott

“We been rocking, geeking, going all night/Treat my Lambo like a Fisher Price, yeah yeah/I can never let her spend the night/Woke up, cocaine all in my hair, thought it was lice” – Travis Scott

“All Ass”

Migos

“Bitch lookin’ like a Kardashian/We hopped in the coupe and we smashin’/Sippin’ on my drink, I watch that ass go slow motion/Walkin’ with that bag, look at my diamonds like the ocean” – Offset

“Deadz”

Migos Featuring 2 Chainz

“Gang bang slang caine/Heroin, half a ton, Purple Haze Cam’ron/Plays off a Samsung, get the job done/If I go jog at night, yeah, call it a mall run/You know what I did last night, cause I gave her all ones” – 2 Chainz