https://www.spin.com Music News, Album Reviews, Concert Photos, MP3s, Videos and More Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:23:49 +0000 en-US https://assets.spin.com/wp-content/themes/spin/assets/images/spin-logo_feed.png https://www.spin.com 125 40 Music News, Album Reviews, Concert Photos, MP3s, Videos and More hourly 1 https://www.spin.com/2019/07/nas-the-lost-tapes-ii-stream/ https://www.spin.com/2019/07/nas-the-lost-tapes-ii-stream/#respond Fri, 19 Jul 2019 04:03:18 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=335046 Nas' new album The Lost Tapes II was announced earlier this month, and now the New York native is back with the full release. The sequel to his 2002 compilation The Lost Tapes, the album includes his bizarre recent single "Jarreau of Rap (Skate Attack)," as well as outtakes from four of Nas' most recent… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2019/07/nas-the-lost-tapes-ii-stream/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2016/12/video-de-la-soul-memory-of-us-ft-estelle-and-pete-rock/ https://www.spin.com/2016/12/video-de-la-soul-memory-of-us-ft-estelle-and-pete-rock/#respond Thu, 08 Dec 2016 15:41:15 +0000 http://www.spin.com/?p=218869 And the Anonymous Nobody... cut "Memory of... (US)," which features Estelle and production from Pete Rock. The clip is jokingly styled after Masterpiece Theater, with Pete Rock giving a spoken introduction, wearing a smoking jacket and sitting in a cozy library. From there, it stars Estelle as a bride-to-be,… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2016/12/video-de-la-soul-memory-of-us-ft-estelle-and-pete-rock/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2016/12/new-music-smoke-dza-and-pete-rock-dont-smoke-rock/ https://www.spin.com/2016/12/new-music-smoke-dza-and-pete-rock-dont-smoke-rock/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2016 19:28:36 +0000 http://www.spin.com/?p=218116 Don't Smoke Rock. Rapping over the smooth boom-bap production from Rock, DZA is also supported by an impressive list of guests, including Rick Ross, Royce da 5'9", Cam'rom, Big K.R.I.T., and Mac… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2016/12/new-music-smoke-dza-and-pete-rock-dont-smoke-rock/feed/ 1 https://www.spin.com/featured/after-22-years-pete-rock-and-cl-smooth-are-finally-ready-to-make-new-music/ https://www.spin.com/featured/after-22-years-pete-rock-and-cl-smooth-are-finally-ready-to-make-new-music/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:46:30 +0000 http://www.spin.com/?post_type=featured&p=217570 On a warm night in late September, minutes before the start of the fall’s first presidential debate, Corey "CL Smooth" Penn sits perched on a folding chair in a tunnel beneath Times Square. On the street, crowds have gathered outside the Hell’s Kitchen bars. Some angle to catch a glimpse of Monday Night Football, but most jockey… ]]> https://www.spin.com/featured/after-22-years-pete-rock-and-cl-smooth-are-finally-ready-to-make-new-music/feed/ 4 https://www.spin.com/2013/07/pete-rock-dont-ya-just-love-it-ab-soul-stream-camp-lo/ https://www.spin.com/2013/07/pete-rock-dont-ya-just-love-it-ab-soul-stream-camp-lo/#respond Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:53:06 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2013/07/pete-rock-dont-ya-just-love-it-ab-soul-stream-camp-lo/ https://www.spin.com/2013/07/pete-rock-dont-ya-just-love-it-ab-soul-stream-camp-lo/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2013/02/ill-bill-paul-baloff-exodus-grimy-awards/ https://www.spin.com/2013/02/ill-bill-paul-baloff-exodus-grimy-awards/#respond Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:52:35 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2013/02/ill-bill-paul-baloff-exodus-grimy-awards/ The Grimy Awards (due February 26 via his own Uncle Howie). "The album is me paying tribute to things that inspired me throughout my life," Bill says in a Toronto hotel room,… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2013/02/ill-bill-paul-baloff-exodus-grimy-awards/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2012/05/pete-rock-slams-lupe-fiasco-crappy-troy-bite/ https://www.spin.com/2012/05/pete-rock-slams-lupe-fiasco-crappy-troy-bite/#respond Tue, 22 May 2012 14:03:28 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2012/05/pete-rock-slams-lupe-fiasco-crappy-troy-bite/ Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album. Any rap fan worth their salt should immediately recognize the saxophone riff and bass line lazily lifted from Tom Scott's "Today", as sampled in one of the most iconic… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2012/05/pete-rock-slams-lupe-fiasco-crappy-troy-bite/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2008/07/most-likely-living-superstars-be-posthumously-exploited/ https://www.spin.com/2008/07/most-likely-living-superstars-be-posthumously-exploited/#respond Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:38:03 +0000 http://static.spin.com/files/2008/07/most-likely-living-superstars-be-posthumously-exploited/ snatching of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis' gravestone, pondering which other deceased icons should be protecting their burial assets. And then came the news that on October 14, the world will be graced with the latest figurative coffin-raping of Johnny Cash's legacy, Johnny Cash Remixed (Compadre/Music… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2008/07/most-likely-living-superstars-be-posthumously-exploited/feed/ 0