Cruel Summer (Album Review )

The Album Yeezy Built 

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   When the first announcement came out that G.O.O.D music was going into production in an upcoming group album a few months back, everyone was hyped. The excitement for Cruel Summer came in a little bit after Watch The Throne, which was Kanye West and Jay-Z's co-album. Then rumors started to fly around on who was going to be included in the album, both producing wise and who'll lay a verse on a track. 

   Now we come to the present time to Cruel Summer, and how it measures up to all the talk. Even before the album was released, five out of the twelve tracks were released to the public. We had I don't like(Remix), Cold, Mercy, New God Flow, and finally the Hit-Boy produced banger, Clique. All of these tracks came prior to the September 18th album release date.

    Regardless of the amount of tracks heard before the album came out, the remaining seven tracks were nothing short of excellent. The album in itself has its own sound to it. All of the tracks seem to fit in together as a whole. I really love the album, even after listening to it a week after the release date. I still love to hear Cold, and especially love to hear Clique being played on the radio. What Kanye did was brilliant, by putting together an album that has so much variety in it . With the recent signing of 2 Chainz, Ye' pretty much covered all of the different type of hip hop styles out there. One of the surprises was including R. Kelly in the To The World track, which also includes Kanye alongside him. Everyone had their own spot in the album, it didn't feel as though someone got left out. Cruel Summer also brought out Ma$e out, who hasn't been heard from in a while now. Then you got the usuals; Big Sean, Kid Cudi, Pusha T, Common, Jay-Z, and Kanye West on the album. All of these artist made the album to what you hear today. 

    The whole G.O.O.D music group put together the album they were set out to put out. Some people might say it didn't live to their expectation. The album is the album Kanye set out to release. Period. If Kanye West didn't want the album to be released, i'm certain that the album would not have been released on the set date, and would probably would've been released much later. 

Buy the album on iTunes.

Big Sean Announces "Hall Of Fame"

Big Sean recently came out with his GOOD music partners with Cruel Summer, and charted no 2 on first week sales. He announces his second album at his Montreal concert. Hall of Fame: Memoirs of a Detroit Player is set to come out around December. 

DJ Drama-Quality Street Music (Album Stream)

The upcoming DJ Dram album, Quality Street Music, gets an album stream thanks to SPIN. Album comes out Oct 2nd.

Listen Here.

J. Cole & Major Lazer-Get Free World

The Roc Nation rapper J. Cole has come out with a track produced by Major Lazer, which already sounds like a weird combination to begin with. Free Download below.

UPDATE: J.Cole goes on twitter thanking Major Lazer on the collaboration, and mentions how it is a way to celebrate the one year anniversary of Cole World.

Lil Wayne-Same Damn Tune

Mr. Weezy F. Baby hasn't stopped his love for skateboarding, and showing everybody how much he's improved his skating. In his recent music video for Same Damn Tune, he integrates his skateboarding hobby with his music by filming a skateboarding competition which unclude big name skateboarders like: Paul rodriguez, Rob Dyrdek, Ryan Sheckler, Chaz Ortiz, Chris Cole, Nyjah Huston and Tyga.

Cruel Summer Debuts At Number 2 First Week

The GOOD music collabotration album sales have finally come out, and it has Cruel Summer charted behind Pink on first week sales. It doesn't come much to surprise since pretty much it would be known that the album would sell, but it was still up to the numbers to come out in order to pit as a number 2 debut. The album sold 205, 000 in first week sales, which trails behind P!nk who sold 280,000 to claim the no.1 position. Some people might say that the album could've take the first places spot, but for being a Hip Hop album, and to take it on the top 2, it would be a success. Props to Yeezy and camp. Can't wait for another GOOD music album.

source: HDD, Billboard

Crystal Castles-Wrath of God

The Duo known as Crystal Castles, releases a free download to the public. The track Wrath of God has whole different sound to it. Unlike their previous music sound, this time they've switched. I'm guessing they're trying to keep the sound the same but also incorporating what today's music sounds like. Be the judge. Expect their new album (III) on November 5th.