Thursday, December 11, 2014

Quick News

David Letterman has confirmed that the final night of his hosting duties to The Late Show will come on May 20.

Andre 3000 has announced that he will be making T-shirts based off the slogans on his recent jumpsuits that he wore on the OutKast reunion tour all this year. The shirts will go one sale next year.

The hip-hop documentary Fresh Dressed, which is directed by Sacha Jenkins and produced by Nas will make it's big screen debut at next year's Sundance Film Festival. The film chronicles fashions influence on hip-hop.

At an appearance at Rough Trade East in London last night, NME reports that El-P mentioned that Run The Jewels will begin work on Run The Jewels 3 in January.

Also, at the same event, El-P mentioned that he will be hitting the studio with Zach de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine, who he and Killer Mike pulled out of hiding for our League of Their Own Album RTJ2. El-P said, "In 1999 I spent a month in my apartment in Brooklyn with Zack de la Rocha just before he split Rage Against The Machine, working on music that will never see the light of day. I can't speak about his future but I will say that I'm going to LA to spend another month with him in January." [Source: NME]. In a series of tweets after the news broke, El-P then clarified his comments... sorta, saying "please understand the ZDLR thing is not at all %100. y'all gonna fuck it up by jumping the gun on that one. bad luck. BAD LUCK I SAY." Then adding, ""or maybe I'm lying about it not being confirmed. hard to tell, really. not sure i even know if i know."