B13 Peer Review

The lineup for Odd Future's Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival has been revealed. Rick Ross, Mac Miller , Tyler, the Creator, Pharrell, Earl Sweatshirt, Action Bronson, Murs, Freddie Gibbs, Step Brothers and Vince Staples are among the acts slated to appear at  The 3rd Annual Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival , according to hotnewhiphop.com .  The Carnival is scheduled to take place at The Park at LA Coliseum on November 8. Tickets for the OFWGKTA event are set to go on sale August 8. Frank Ocean and Tyler, The Creator headlined the second-annual OFWGKTA Carnival . The 3rd Annual Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival  flyer is as follows: For additional Rick Ross coverage, watch the following DX Daily:

Boaz's effort features Scarface, Crooked I, Sean Price, Chevy Woods and Top Dawg Ent. president, Punch.  Boaz has released his new mixtape,  Real Name, No Gimmicks.  The project features Scarface , Crooked I , Sean Price, Chevy Woods and Top Dawg Ent. president, Punch . . Sap and !llmind are among the producers on this effort, which can be heard below. The cover art, tracklist and stream for Boaz's   Real Name, No Gimmicks  is as follows. 1. Welcome 2 Steel City 2. Fly Shit f. Punch 3. Hard To Forget It (f. Scarface) 4. Heaven Had A Ghetto 5. Like This Remix f. Crooked I, Sean Price, Chevy Woods

UPDATE: Jermaine Dupri is no longer managing Mariah Carey after less than a year of working with the singer in that capacity. Jermaine Dupri is reportedly Mariah Carey's new manager. Dupri addressed his plans for the singer in a statement. "A multi-talented artist of Mariah’s caliber should be doing everything imaginable," Dupri said in a press release. "I’m sure others have said this but not the way I intend to do it. For me, it’s about the execution."  Mariah Carey , who was previously managed by Randy Jackson, also released a statement regarding her relationship with Dupri. "We have a bond that surpasses music," Carrey said in a press release. "I am super excited about our merger because we have so many innovative ideas that I know will come to fruition." Carey's upcoming album, The Art of Letting Go , has no release date. Carey has been in the studio with sever...

The Chicago deejay passed away in April. DJ Rashad died of heroin, cocaine and alprazolam intoxication, according to NBC Chicago .  The deejay passed away in April and his death has been ruled an accident, the story says. DJ Rashad was found unresponsive by a friend in a Chicago apartment April 26. He was pronounced dead at the scene. "Music lost a legend today," Chicago native  Chance The Rapper  said in April when he learned that DJ Rashad, with whom he had toured, passed away. "And he was my friend," Chance added. "Love you DJ Rashad. RIP.” Tweets from Chance The Rapper, 2 Chainz and Danny Brown about DJ Rashad are as follows: Chance The Rapper          ✔ @ chancetherapper Follow Music lost a legend today. And he was my friend. Love you DJ Rashad. RIP ...

Exclusive: Iggy Azalea, Kanye West, Wiz Khalifa, Childish Gambino and Drake among other acts named in the MTV VMA 2014 nominations.   The MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) 2014 nominations have been announced, according to the Los Angeles Times . Beyonce leads all nominations with eight. Her nominations come from selections such as "Drunk In Love," "Partition," and "Pretty Hurts." Eminem and Iggy Azalea follow Beyonce with seven nominations each. The Hip Hop Video Of The Year category pits Eminem's "Berzerk" against Drake and Majid Jordan's "Hold On (We're Going Home)," Childish Gambino's "3005," Kanye West's "Black Skinhead," and Wiz Khalifa's "We Dem Boyz."   The VMAs are set to air August 24 from Inglewood, California's Forum. Usher, Ariana Grande and 5 Seconds of Summer are the scheduled performers for the event, though additional a...

Apple's acquisition of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine's Beats Electronics has seemingly opened the door for major corporations to get in bed with Hip Hop...for better or worse. The limits of just how far Hip Hop culture and music could infiltrate corporate America were seemingly expanded on May 28 when Apple sent out a press release confirming their acquisition of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine’s Beats Music and Beats Electronics companies for a purchase price of approximately $2.6 billion and approximately $400 million that will vest over time. In one month, tech and computing giant Apple nearly made Dr. Dre a billionaire, while Jay Z and Beyonce’s “On The Run Tour” was officially announced as being sponsored by JP Morgan Chase , and AmEx’s next “Upstaged” concert showcased the brand “not leaving home without” Pharrell Williams and Spike Lee . In a gangster rapper (Dre), ex-drug dealer (Jay) and the man once who helped push cocaine Rap into the mainstream (before se...

Keith Murray details physical altercations with Prodigy and Dame Dash. According to Long Island, New York rapper Keith Murray , his appearance on LL Cool J’s 1995 record, “Who Shot Ya,” nearly resulted in a feud with the late Tupac Shakur . The song was released months after Tupac was shot at Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan and Murray says the song sparked suspicion in Tupac who questioned him about the subject of the song. Murray revealed that he was initially approached by a friend of Tupac’s at the House Of Blues and then Tupac himself about “I Shot Ya.” He told the rapper the song wasn’t about him and added that the two were able to make amends soon after. “We did the song ‘I Shot Ya,’” Keith Murray said during an appearance on The Breakfast Club . “So, around that time I was hanging out with Biggie a lot. And Cease and them. And we went to the House Of Blues. I seen Tupac…I seen him, peace, at the House Of Blues. We was walking aroun...