Music Videos

Watch Kendrick Lamar take his rightful throne in his new King Kunta music video. The 27-year old rapper takes it back to his ‘hood in the X-directed clip which was filmed throughout his hometown last month. He performs on top of the Compton swap and you see the whole city come out to show Kendrick love.

King Kunta is the latest single to be taken from Lamar’s chart-topping album To Pimp a Butterfly which debuted at Nº1 in both the UK and the US. It was streamed a record-breaking 9.6m times on Spotify in the first full day of its release. The album remains at Nº1 for the second week running on the Billboard album charts.

Lamar premiered the video last night (April 1st) on huge Jumbotron screens in New York City’s Times Square and Los Angeles’s LA Live entertainment complex.

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#ThrowbackThursday – Today we go back to 1969 with the world’s sexiest song. The song reaches a literal climax and mostly for this reason was banned from radio stations in Spain, Sweden, Brazil, the UK, Italy, Poland, Portugal, banned before 11 pm in France and banned from most stations in the US.

Je T’aime, Moi Non Plus was denounced by the Vatican and the L’Osservatore Romano – one report even claimed the Vatican excommunicated the record executive who released it in Italy. Jane Birkin says Gainsbourg called the Pope “our greatest PR man”. The track went to Nº1 all over Europe, staying on the UK charts for 31 weeks.

The title was inspired by a Salvador Dalí comment: “Picasso is Spanish, me too. Picasso is a genius, me too. Picasso is a communist, me neither”. Gainsbourg claimed it was an “anti-fuck” song about the desperation and impossibility of physical love.

The lyrics are written as a dialogue between two lovers during sex and are sung, spoken and whispered over a baroque organ and guitar track in C major. Media speculation at the time suggested that they had recorded live sex to which Gainsbourg told Birkin, “Thank goodness it wasn’t, otherwise I hope it would have been a long-playing record.”

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Azealia Banks follows up her recent Wallace online interactive music video with this even crazier creation for her new single Ice Princess. Directed by We Were Monkeys, the video takes us to an icy underworld where Azealia reigns as a Medusa Ice Queen (or Princess) and leads her CGI army of robot ice warriors into an explosive kaleidoscopic volcano. All whilst riding a giant silver snake. Now if that’s not crazy, I don’t know what is.

As per usual, Banks and her production team have upped the game out there. Artists are going to have to start getting seriously creative if they want to stand out against her wacky visuals.

Her fans are embracing the madness and have taken to her YouTube channel to express their views in the comments section of the new video. One popular opinion states: “I thought it was absolutely dope. Retro vibes. Missy Elliot vibes but I also got some rock / animation too. People are way too focused on what’s “current”.. maybe she didn’t want that, stop being negative toward any artist that shows individual expression. Thats the point. Yal are so lost in the sauce. Good work!”

The rap / hip hop track is taken from her debut album Broke With Expensive Taste which was released late last year.

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Megan Nicole’s latest production Escape and accompanying video was presented via the 2015 YouTube Music Awards. Directed by Young Astronauts, it follows her in princess-like dresses as she escapes to the enchanted forests and waterfalls in some beautiful countryside. It get’s very Snow White and Cinderella-ish when the woodland creatures start befriending her – wolves, grizzly bears, birds and bunny rabbits alike.

Megan comments “I got to work with a great team of people and a bunch of amazing and cute critters! Hope you like it :)”

The video has gained almost 3 million views since it’s launch last week and her online fan base are in love with the Disney, magical feel to her new sound and visuals. So are we! The song is the title track from her debut album Escape, which was released last October and is available on iTunes.

Megan posted her very first video to YouTube in 2009 and she now has over 3 million subscribers – check out her channel here.

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Fifth Harmony have premiered their latest music video for Worth It in honour of Saturday Night’s Kids’ Choice Awards in which they took home the award for Favourite New Artist. The girls sure know how to rock the stage. Watch them flaunt their sexuality in killer outfits whilst being a BOSS in the workplace.

The song, featuring Kid Ink is from their debut album Reflection, which was released late January 2015 and peaked at N°5 on the US Billboard 200 Chart. The 5 X Factor USA finalists keep bringing the heat, and with more collaborations like this one they’ll be getting N°1 hits in no time.

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Will Young’s got a new single out, and soon to have a new album out too. Love Revolution was premiered on Chris Evans’ BBC 2 radio show at the weekend, and though the sound is happy clappy, the lyrics are deep and introspective. The soul searching track samples Tomcraft’s 2003 dance anthem Loneliness. It’s great to be hearing it again!

Young’s anticipated forthcoming album 85% Proof is due out May 25 and will make it his 6th studio collection. All of his previous albums have been certified platinum or higher, and he is considered one of the most successful male artists from a reality competition in the UK.

Chart Facts: Will Young has scored 13 UK Top 40 singles with Anything Is Possible/Evergreen, Light My Fire, The Long And Winding Road/Suspicious Minds (with Gareth Gates), and Leave Right Now hitting Nº1.

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About two years ago London producers James David and Ollie Dickinson, aka Snakehips, released an excellent instrumental called Forever. They’ve now turned it into a full-length song with the help of the smooth, soulful vocals of Kaleem Taylor. The sun-soaked, soulful vibes of Forever (Pt. II) sounds like a summer hit to us.

Snakehips have been gaining plenty of attention recently with their smooth contemporary house sounds and their most recent release – the exquisite Forever Pt. II EP is outstanding. It features four tracks – I’m Gone featuring Syd from The Internet, an uptempo R&B track Overtime featuring Sasha Keable, a ballad Poison featuring the amazing Daniella T.A.O.L and this summer-is-here-already track Forever (Pt. II).

Snakehips are taking their brand of electro-soul on a North American tour which starts on May 20 in Denver and finishes on June 27 in Washington.

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LunchMoney Lewis recently released his video for his debut single Bills, and it’s pretty true to life and hilarious. Though be warned, once you listen to it you won’t be able to get it out of your head! It’s already gone to Nº1 in Australia and has amassed 2 million views on YouTube since it’s release just a month ago.

The video takes a light hearted approach to the usual struggles most of us face in our daily life, and the upbeat track is a constant quick tempo to which we need to get shit done. Literally. By the end of it all he’s yelping in a neck-deep pile of bills, responsibilities and eviction notices. You can’t help but laugh, and it’s the perfect song to keep you going when you’re ready to tap out.

Lewis came up in the scene after he was featured on Nicki Minaj’s sexy dance track Trini Dem Girls off her latest album The Pinkprint. He also co-wrote Burnin’ Up for Jessie J and Bo$$ for Fifth Harmony. We expect and hope to be seeing a lot more of him this year, we’re rooting for you Lewis! You’ve got mouths to feed after all.

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Happy Birthday to Motown legend, Diana Ross! Today takes her into her 71st year of life, and she has so much to reflect back on. From being a member of The Supremes in the swinging 60s to winning a golden globe for her role as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues. For our #ThrowbackThursday today we are going Upside Down, one of her 18 US Nº1 hits.

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Ross is one of the most successful female singers of all time, and has been entertaining the world for over four decades! Helping pave the way for black female singers in the industry back then and today, she still continues to perform internationally to sold-out concerts all over the world. Singing is her passion and she doesn’t plan on giving up on it anytime soon!

Fun facts you may not have known about the legend herself:

– Her 3- girl band The Supremes carries the record of scoring 12 number-one hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 back when they were in their prime.

– In Britain, Diana Ross was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as being “The Most Successful Female Artist of All Time” – with over 70 hit singles to date.

– Mother Ross has five very successful children. Three daughters named Tracee, Rhoda and Chudney and two sons named Ross and Evan.

– She has her very own playground in New York. The ”Diana Ross Playground” at 81st Street & Central Park West.

– She worked as a secretary for Motown Records CEO Berry Gordy Jr. while her records were being marketed in the 1960s.

– Back in 1999 she was arrested for grabbing an airport security guard’s breast, whom she claimed touched her breasts’ while being frisked. Well, tit for tatt that’s the spirit!

– In 1983 she introduced a line of pantyhose named “Diana Ross Ultra Sheers”

– She has two stars on the Hollywood walk of fame, one for her work with The Supremes and one for her solo career.

– She is the most successful female recording artist ever with 18 US Nº1 hits and 70 top 10 hits, since 1964

– Received the Lifetime Achievement Award from MIDEM in 1994

– Billboard Magazine named her Female Entertainer of The Century.

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Enrique Iglesias and Nicky Jam have released their new music video for El Perdón via the 2015 YouTube Music Awards. Directed by Jonathan Craven and Darren Craig, the urban visuals take us into the streets of South America, the land of passion.

The duet holds the Nº1 spot on the Billboard’s Hot Latin Tracks Chart, and Enrique has broken his own record for “Most Number Ones” on the respective chart.

Everybody is going crazy for this track, especially after the song went viral when Brazilian soccer players Neymar and Dani Alves with the Futbol Club Barcelona, posted a video of them singing along to the tune. Iglesias was quick to repost the images of the singing soccer stars up on his social media pages.

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