STR8 TALK: WHY WE’RE HYPED ABOUT JILL SCOTT’S RETURN?!
Tweet With a new distribution deal with Warner Bros. Records, Jill Scott is back on the scene and ready to takeover. Her tremendous success is about to go to new heights with the release for her upcoming fourth studio album, The Light of The Sun, dropping June 28. And we couldn’t be more excited and [...]
STR8 COVERS: LIL’ WAYNE’S “THA CARTER IV”
Tweet Weezy’s highly-anticipated album, Tha Carter IV, has been pushed back from May 16th to June 21, according to XXL. And it’s been circulated around the net that this is in fact the album cover to Tha Carter IV. This is ridiculous and just as odd as Tha Carter III. In my opinion, this will be [...]
STR8 TRACKS: ESTELLE & JOHN LEGEND- “THE DUETS: SING & FLOW”
Tweet While cleaning out my inbox I came across an email with some new collabo material from Estelle & John Legend entitled “The Duets: Sing & Flow“, a free seven song EP. Nice lil’ treat for the holidays. Could this be a sign of a collabo album in the works? Hmmm…In the meantime, be sure [...]
STR8 COVER: KANYE WEST “MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY”
TweetKanye lets loose of the unanimously the most bizarre album covers in hip hop history via twitter the other day.. “Banned in the USA!!! They tried to play me fam! They don’t want me chilling on the couch with my phoenix!” KanYeezy tweeted before posting the controversial artwork illustrated by artist George Condo. “In all [...]
FROM THE TWEETS: RIHANNA DEBUTS NEW “LOUD” COVER
Tweet The now redhead bombshell, Rihanna, is back with a new album Loud. Yesterday the rudegal took it to twitter and Facebook to debut the new album cover. Her lead single “Only Girl (In the World)” already is sitting at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Will you be playing this loud or low?! [...]
STR8 COVERS: N.E.R.D “NOTHING”
Tweet N.E.R.D is back with full force! Check out their new album cover for their fourth studio album entitled Nothing, set to drop this fall. The group came up with the title because according to N*E*R*D* front man Pharrell Williams “It’s like nothing you’ve ever heard.” Whereas their first album, In Search Of…, was an [...]
CIARA’S GETS DRIPPING WET FOR “GIMME THAT”
Tweet Yesterday Ciara took it to twitter to announce her new single cover for “Gimme That”… This was the previous single cover for “Gimme That”. THOUGHTS?! Share me !
TEAIRRA MARI’S “POINT OF NO RETURN” ALBUM COVER
Tweet Teairra Mari is focused on becoming the next hottest chick in the game…but shorty is really slutting it up in her videos and in her new album cover for Point Of No Return. Teairra you’re cute and all…you could strip down to ya birthday suit but if you don’t have the right team backing [...]
STR8 GIVE-A-WAYS: M.I.A. “MAYA” TWITTER CONTEST
TweetIt’s been a minute since we ran a give-a-way, so Str8NYC is back to bring TWO lucky readers a CD copy of M.I.A.’s Maya album, in stores now. Here’s how to win M.I.A.’s “Maya” twitter contest: 1. Follow @str8nyc 2. Send @str8nyc a Tweet using “#M.I.A” along with one of the day’s top trending topics. [...]
CIARA’S “BASIC INSTINCT” ALBUM COVER + “GIMME THAT”
Tweet Earlier today Ciara unveiled the cover to her new album Basic Instinct dropping August 17th. Ci-Ci looks gorgeous on the cover in this close-up giving us the one-eyed stare…but realtalk I was expecting a bit more. This looks more like a single cover than actual album cover. Here’s to hoping the music will be [...]