Ads for Magna Carta Holy Grail, the surprise new Jay-Z album that’ll arrive later this week, had Jay in a room with four of the greatest rap producers ever: Timbaland, Swizz Beatz, Pharrell, and Def Jam co-founder/megabearded guru Rick Rubin. Those ads sure made it seem like Jay had a dream lineup of beatmakers in [...]

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Swizz Beatz and ASAP Rocky are both magnetic music-video screen presences, and both of them show dangerous amounts of charisma in the video for “Street Knock,” their feverish new AraabMuzik-produced collab. But neither one really emerges as the star of the video. Instead, the best moment belongs to deposed NBA superstar and c...

Earlier today, Hot 97 DJ Angie Martinez premiered a track from Swizz Beatz’ forthcoming mixtape called “Street Knock,” a cut featuring ASAP Rocky and produced by Araabmuzik. Head to Angie’s site to stream it.