Miguel has completed the final chapter of his Art Dealer Chic series with the release of Vol. 3. The EP boasts three songs, two of which are new. The second track, Ooh Ahh! was first heard on Miguel’s first amazing Mixtape Mischief which we featured back in 2010. The other two tracks find the artist [...]
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Melt in Your Ears: Emeli Sande performs US Debut on Conan O’Brien
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Alicia Keys was quick to remind her millions of followers on Facebook that her new artist, Scottish singer Emeli Sande would be performing on the Conan O’Brien show last night. This was Emeli’s USA television debut performance. Keys and Sande have worked together on a song titled Hope for Emeli’s upcoming album. Emeli has also revealed in [...]
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Sweet Tooth: The Weeknd’s Impressive Coachella performance
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I know I am late on this. Toronto crooner TheWeeknd dazzled at the Coachella music festival this past Monday. I have seen some shaky performances by the reclusive signer who gained underground fanfare while releasing three mixtapes in the past year and a half. The OVOXO artist makes some great sounding music, but his vocals often leave much to [...]
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ChokLit’s Choice: Frank Ocean debuts new video for Thinkin’ About Forever + Coachella Performance Footage
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Crooner/Songwriter Frank Ocean recently re-leased the video for his timeless single, Thinkin About You. The video, direct by the Hi5 Collective was actually released last year but has now been officially released by Def Jam via Vevo. I noticed Frank’s label is putting the crackdown on Ocean’s affinity for giving away free music and video. [...]
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Music News ROLO: Nicki Minaj debuts at Number 1 while Madonna Suffers a big drop in Sales
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Little surprise that Rapper/Singer Nicki Minaj has topped the Billboard 200 charts with her sophomore CD Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. Minaj bowed out at number one with 253,000 albums sold. I have heard mixed reviews from the album. But Nicki has some hits on the album. Beez in the Trap is getting some airplay and Nicki’s yougner fans will [...]
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ChokLit Fresh: Drake drops two new videos, Take Care & HYFR
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Rap star Drake has decided to treat his fans to two new videos just in time for Easter. Yesterday, Drake dropped the video for Take Care, the solemn dance song that features vocals from Rihanna. Director Yoanne Lemoine uses a grayscale shade for the video and slow motion, zoom-in effects to match the song’s somber tone. [...]
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ChokLit Fresh: Kanye West & Dj Khaled bring us “Theraflu”
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“Can’t a young n*gga get money anymore??” Hip hop fans received quite the Choklit treat tonight as Kanye West dropped his new song Theraflu, on Funkmaster Flex’s radio show. The song, a collaboration with DJ Khaled may be on Khaled’s new compilation album, titled Kiss the Ring. Produced by Hit Boy (N*ggas in Paris), the [...]
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Before They Blow-Pop! *Video* Rita Ora does her best Rihanna Impression with “R.I.P”
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Roc Nation artist Rita Ora has released the video to her new single, R.I.P, that features London rapper Tinnie Tempah. The song was written by Drake with help from Toronto singer/songwriter Shi Wisdom. Drake originally recorded his version called, I’m Ready for Ya (which is the best version, in my opinion). Next, it was meant [...]
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Buttah of the Week! Ameriie Re-visits older sound with Every Time
Ameriie – who had added an extra i to her name within the last year has emerged with another go at the music scene with her new single Every Time. The airy production with hip hop snares is courtesy of producer Focus. Ameriie’s voice seems to get better with age because her voice hasn’t skipped [...]
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Melt in Your Ears: Miguel Drops ArtDealerChic Vol.2 + Remix Opportunity for Artists
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Last week, Singer/Songwriter Miguel released a series of snippets from his upcoming ArtDealerChic Vol. 2 EP – the follow-up to Vol. 1 which he released earlier in March. Thankfully, Miguel did not make his fans wait too long to hear his new music. Vol. 2 boasts three new tracks: Arch & Point …..All and Broads [...]
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Hot ChokLit! Ashanti drops video for “The Woman You Love”
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I almost forgot about this one. Last week, Ashanti released the video for her single, The Woman You Love that features Busta Rhymes. The song is the first single from her upcoming BraveHeart album being released on Ashanti’s Written Entertainment record label. In the video, a futuristic-looking Ashanti emerges from a spaceship to sing about [...]
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Sweet Tooth: Usher releases video for Climax
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I for one did not expect a visual to be released this soon. But Usher and his camp must have believed in Climax’s potential as much as his fans didn. The R&B superstar does not perform one dance step in the mature, raw and violent video for Climax. Despite the song’s obvious sexual nature and [...]
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J.U.I.C.Y – What’s Beef? The Dream talks Beef with the Weeknd and upcoming album
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Over the past week, there has apparently been some shots fired via social-networking platfor Twitter, between two of R&B's biggest starts. Terius "The-Dream" Nash, while performing at a sold-out show at S.O.B's in New York, was feeling himself as he mused to the appreciative crowd: "I haven't done a show in close to two years. [...]
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Still in the W(Rapper): Miguel releases ArtDealerChic Vol. 1 EP
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Singer/Songwriter/Producer Miguel has released Vol. 1 of his EP series, Art Dealer Chic via his Tumblr page Monday night. The three song EP, which also includes previously released slow burner, Adorn, features two new songs, That I Do (FTRMIX) and Gravity. Although three songs is way too few of Miguel’s new-age pop n B music to tide [...]
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Hot ChokLit! Rihanna & Chris Brown Reunite for “Cake” & “Turn it Up” Remixes
The Internet is buzzing now that the much-anticipated Birthday Cake Remix that features Chris Brown and Rihanna has been released Monday night. The snippet of Cake that appeared on Rihanna’s Talk that Talk back in November was a fan favourite, even though it was barely a minute long. Da Internz, who produced the track, recently teased fans [...]
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Sweet Tooth: Brandy & Monica preform “It All Belongs to Me” Live on Jay Leno
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I spotted this performance by Brandy and Monica on Jay Leno and I loved it! The R&B Divas reunited to preform their new single, It All Belongs to Me in front of the live audience. While Brandy starts off a little shaky, her vocals warm up to the song and she ends up killing it! Monica ends [...]
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Melt in your Ears: Usher Resurfaces with Climax
Mainstream R&B’s reigning Prince Usher Raymond brought a Valentine’s gift for fans yesterday when he released a new song titled Climax via Producer Diplo’s Twitter account. Let’s check out some lyrics: Going no where fast we’ve reached the Climax Together, now we’re undone Won’t commit so we choose to Run away Do we separate (oh) Don’t [...]
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Still in the W(Rapper) – Nicki Minaj’s New Single Starships + Roman’s Holiday
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As Nicki Minaj prepares for the release of her new sophomore album, Roman Reloaded (due out April 3), the genre-busting Artist is sparing no expense at attracting the utmost attention and publicity towards her Brand. Nicki appears alongside M.I.A in Madonna’s current single, Give Me All Your Luvin’ and even preformed alongside the two artists during the [...]
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Pour a Lil’ ChokLit Liquor: Singing Legend Whitney Houston Passes Away
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I started the ChokLItFactory.com as a small blog that was dedicated to my love for music. One of the very first posts I wrote was an ode to my favourite Female singer, Whitney Houston. I wrote a four-part series on why I believed Whitney was the G.O.A.T – the Greatest of All Time. Three years [...]
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Guilty Pleasure: Lana Del Ray continues to Cause Controversey + Video for “Video Games”
Lana Del Ray is a name that has consistently been coming up on music sites and blogs for the past two months straight. Much has been said about the beautiful 25-year old who is often described as the “self-style Gangster Nancy Sinatra”. She captivated fans with singles like Video Games and Radio, but merely survived on [...]
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