Jay-Z Hidden Track ... Vinyl Only!

The last release from Jay-Z came in the form of Magna Carta Holy Grail 2013. Well Vinyl lovers, there's a new surprise here now and it's coming with an even bigger surprise...A Jay Z hidden track. 

Third Man Records have rereleased MGHG album as a part of a double vinyl set and you can hear a never before released track from the album. Hidden away in the back cover of the sleeve is a post-card flexi-disc, which features the "super secret hidden track."

According to the ThirdManStore.com website, "Once freed of its casing, this flexi disc plays a super secret hidden track. You'll just have to hear it for yourself, because we sure don't plan to ruin the mystery of it here." The double LP is selling for a reasonable price point of $20 and is currently available for purchase on The website but I'm sure the song will eventually make its way to the Internet soon enough. Since n'Rotation is all about the DJs, I'm 100% sure I'll find this wax in my DJ friends crates. 

Diss Records 2015...

So I've been busy working with some of the best DJs in the world and I can't seem to move past this unnecessary beef between Meek Mills and Drake. With Drake's recent drop of 'Back To Back' (Meek Diss) that puts Meek 0-2. Memes have taken rap beef to a new level and really caused the fans to clearly choose a side. I'm not dissing Drakes Diss, but I have diss records that really make this confrontation sound minor. Check out my TOP 5 DISS TRACKS and the deadly bars. 

1.) Tupac - Hit Em Up (BIGGIE & Puff Diss)
Quotable Lyrics
"First off, f*ck your b**ch and the clique you claim/ Westside when we ride, come equipped with game/ You claim to be a player, but I f**cked your wife/We bust on Bad Boys, ni**as f*ked for life" 

2. Notorious BIG - Who Shot Ya (Tupac Diss) 

Quotable Lyrics
"Who shot ya? Separate the weak from the obsolete/ Hard to creep them Brooklyn streets/ It's on ni**a, f**k all that bickering beef/ I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek"

3.) Jay Z - Takeover (Nas & Mobb Deep Diss)

Quotable Lyrics
"You said you've been in this ten, I've been in it five, smarten up Nas/ Four albums in ten years ni**a? I could divide/ That's one every two, two of them sh*ts was due/ One was 'nah', the other was Illmatic"

4.) Nas - Ether (Jay Z Diss)
Quotable Lyrics
"When these streets keep calling, heard it when I was sleep/ That this Gay-Z and C*ck-A-Fella Records wanted beef/ Started c*cking up my weapon, slowly loading up this ammo/ To explode it on a camel and his soldiers"

5.) Ice Cube - No Vaseline (N.W.A former members Diss)
Quotable Lyrics
"The Ni**as With Attitudes? Who ya'll fooling!/ Ya'll ni**as just phony/ I put that on my mama and my dead homies/ Yella boys on your team, so you're losing/ Ay yo Dre, stick to producing"

#LeslieMac

Tidal Gotcha Money...

If you slept on the iHeart Radio awards, you slept on Rihanna’s ‘Bitch Better Have My Money’ bars that indicated its time for artist to get whats due to them. In a Twitter post Rihanna stated, “NAVY, turn the tide.” 

WHHHHHHAAATT? Well the story begins with Jay-Z’s $56.2 million dollar purchase of a Swedish streaming company Aspiro.  A countdown clock on the TIDAL homepage moves closer to the 5 o’clock Eastern Standard Time launch. TIDAL is a high-definition music streaming service. The company has been sending out invites for a press conference today, in which Jay-Z will announce, “a commitment to a new direction for the music industry from both a creative and business

perspective.” The unofficial buzz is, the company will be using the event to confirm the first big-name artists to stream music exclusively on the Tidal platform. 

Over the weekend, the Swedish blog Breakit reported — citing sources close to the deal — that Tidal’s plan of attack will be to ink first-window deals with the artists, where Tidal would get first releases of tracks from big-name artists ahead of any other digital streaming services. This would be exclusive, but only for a period: Spotify, Pandora and others would eventually also get these tracks, but only later. Now that is major!

What’s in it for these artists? From what I’ve found on the net. It seems that Tidal may offer a more attractive set of terms to musicians than other streaming services — often agreeing to payouts of twice as much as its rivals. Now do you hear Rihanna singing “Bitch Better

Have My Money?”  Many artists have been complaining that digital music streaming is not providing decent enough returns. This makes the rumored deal TIDAL very appealing. But it’s a bit of a long shot when you do the comparison with its biggest rival Spotify. 

TIDAL currently offers some 25 million tracks and 75,000 music videos. Users can currently sign up to Tidal for either $9.99 or $19.99 a month. Unlike Spotify, Tidal doesn’t have a free tier, and its standard-quality subscription is available for the same price as Spotify Premium package $9.99. Not to mention Tidal has only 35,000 subscribers paying $19.99 per month, where as Spotify had 15 million paying subscribers in January. The numbers may be off but the Jay-Z connection along with his ROC Nation brand would ease the mind of any artist who even began to give this deal a questionable thought. 

Remember I spoke of a change is going to come…Here’s the ball rolling in that change direction! 

#LeslieMac