Coast 2 Coast Mixtape Volume 57, hosted by Nina Sky, has been released and is available for free download on the Coast 2 Coast website.

This Friday I bring you an amazing clip of Jay-Z and Timbaland in the studio during the recording of Jay-Z’s Black Album. Timbaland, the beat bank, samples a few different beats for S. Carter to rap on… and then the beat for “Dirt Off Your Shoulder.” The rest is history… This clip is from Jay-Z’s [...]

Big announcements this week from Jay-Z and Kanye. According to MTV UK, Mr. West and Mr. S. Carter will both be releasing singles next week as well as albums before 2008 is up. Both tracks will be available for download next week.

TI is back and he is continuing his habit of sampling songs that have came out in the past year. This time he rips a lyric from MIA’s pineapple-ey Paper Planes, which is already sampling a song by The Clash. How deep does the rabbit hole go? Not too much farther; although I should mention [...]

In case you aren’t an avid fan of Jay-Z or Oasis, this story might have skated right by you. Allow me to embellish: Earlier in the year, Jay-Z was named a headliner at this year’s Glastonbury Festival in England. Noel Gallagher – front man of Oasis – calls Jay’s booking “wrong” for Glastonbury. “I’m sorry, [...]