Jay-Z & Beyonce’s Baby Arrived!

Edited by Samantha Lim

Beyonce checked into Lenox Hill Hospital on NYC’s upper east side late Friday night (they supposedly rented the entire hospital floor for $1.3 Million!) and at 2AM this Sunday morning January 8, she has officially given birth to her and Jay-Z‘s daughter Blue Ivy Carter.  Checked into the hospital under the name Ingrid Jackson, the couple went through large measures to ensure that the labor was a private affair.  They covered up security cameras with tape, took away employees cell phones when entering the floor, and had security guards checking the perimeter.  The color blue is Jay-Z’s favorite and the roman numeral supposedly has a special meaning to Beyonce, hence the name Ivy.  The hip-hop royal has already gotten twitter love from Auntie Rihanna, Uncle Russel Simmons, and one social media savvy vixen who has already jumped the gun on taking over the Blue Ivy Carter  twitter handle, feeding us funny quips and clever RT’s.  Judging by the time at which we are posting this and the list of twitter topics at the moment (Aunty Gaga, Uncle Kanye, Godmother Nicki to name a few) we are sure to see a LOT of the new baby Blue Ivy. Congrats!

New Music: Bang Bang – Phlo Finister

Edited by Alex Kazemi

Finally!  Phlo Finister’s anticipated viral video “Bang Bang” finally dropped!

Beyonce Werqing Her Baby Bump on Harper’s Bazaar

Edited by Samantha Lim

Sasha Beyonce Fierce graces the November cover of Harper’s Bazaar and she. is. werqing. it. (Thanks to our fave Terry Richardson, of course).  With hair bigger than her baby bump will ever be, she dishes about her pregnancy, motherhood, marriage, her hip hop hubbie king Jay-Z, and more. And although we are fully aware how those photoshopped Barbie twigs could never be her real thighs, we’ve at least got the best real quotes and behind the scenes pics right here…

Out Of This World: Kanye West & Jay-Z “Watch The Throne” Planetarium Listening Party

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The Ten Most Fashionable Artists In Hip Hop History

Edited by McArthur Joseph

To celebrate then end of our music month here are 10 trendsetters from the hip hop world.

Justin Timberlake + Jimmy Fallon Hip Hop Medley Video

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Cheasleauen

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Sunday sesh with MASEO De La Soul

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Link Love:Sunday sesh with MASEO De La Soul

What a beautiful Sunday arvo to head down to Brisbane’s superclub Cloudland to hear De La Soul’s Maseo play records. We arrived around 2.30 pm to catch the last hour of Gavin Boyd’s set, amazed to be hearing classic early 90s hip hop in such a swish open-air club. It gave us goosebumps- in a good way!

Then just as we finished scoffing our tasty duck springrolls Cloudland serves good value yummy tapas Maseo jumped on the 1s and 2s. It was still early in the day and the crowd wasn’t pissy enough to start a dance-off which clearly affected Maseo so he brought out the big guns. A Michael Jackson medley which of course got the mainly 30-something, mainly upper-class into it….I gots nothing against the King of Pop but after 3 or 4 songs I was craving some good ol’ hip hop again. If only me and Lani had boogied a lil’ earlier he might have kept the hip hop vibe alive. Then he played a few Prince tracks in a row, then Madonna, Rick James, some De La breaks like Hall & Oats and some 80s electro funk classics like ‘White Horse’.

By 5pm the crowd was gaining momentum but I was disturbed when Maseo took us on the most up-beat of his ‘journey’, with some fucked up dance music that I guess he knew most of the pinger poppin, white kids could relate to. Ugh.

Was enjoying his commentary on the mic with remarks like “yall remind me of Miami” or “I feel like I’m playing at someone’s Summer barbeque”. Yep, that’s Brisbane for you! If Sydney is NYC and Melbourne is Frisco, Brizzie is Miami!? Haha. Yall just jealous of our weather! You all know I’m strictly a NY state of mind. Haha.

Then he finally played what we were all waiting for, some classic De La off 3 feet high and rising and of course their big aussie album De La Soul… is dead.
He was enjoying himself so much he wouldn’t get off the decks and was still rockin’ the crowd when I left at half 6.

What a beautiful venue and an enjoyable afternoon had by all- with free entry and cool staff! Someone should start up a funk/ hip hop Sunday sesh on the regular now it’s Spring -for us cats who don’t partake in dance music. I’ll put my hand up to play!