All property is theft. So why not steal someone's life, or someone's work, or someone's dress code?

Every month, this column starts life as an impassioned plea that the new musical genre defined by Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak and then developed by J Cole, Drake and the Weeknd should henceforth be universally known as "singy hip-hop". The plan is to examine different critical perspectives on the rehumanisation of the rap vocal hook â€' from the sample through the live R&B cameo, to its reincorporation within the portfolio of contributions that the MC is expected to be able to make him/herself.

Unfortunately, just as an opportunity seems to be opening up for a learned exposition of the under-ratedness within the pantheon of such proto singy hip-hop landmarks as Warren G and Nate Dogg's Regulate and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's Tha Crossroads, a rival, more time-specific music media-related topic for discussion always seems to present itself. This month there are not one but two such pressing issues â€' individually too big to ignore, and mutually bound together in a delicious spun-sugar embrace of overlapping global ramifications.

First up is the man who turned up in the South African province of Kwa-Zulu Natal claiming to be Zulu folk singer Khulekani "Mgqumeni" Khumalo. Rather than having died in 2009, as his friends and fans thought, he claimed to have been held hostage in...

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However Earl Sweatshirt is nowhere to be found on album details...

The tracklist for the upcoming Odd Future collective album, OF Tape Vol. 2, (out March 20 on Odd Future Records) has been released. Looks like they've kept this one entirely in-house-- the album features Tyler, the Creator, Frank Ocean, MellowHype (Hodgy Beats and Left Brain), the Internet (Syd tha Kyd and Matt Martians), Domo Genesis, Taco and Jasper Dolphin, but no guest verses from outsiders. And no Earl.

Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All drop the official video for "Rella," directed by OFWGKTA member Tyler, the Creator under the alias Wolf Haley. "Rella," which features verses by Tyler, Hodgy Beats and Domo Genesis, is off of the group's upcoming LP "OF Tape Vol. 2," out March 20th on Odd Future Records.

Rap collective unveil the first taste of their new record 'OF Tape Vol 2'

Here's the first taste from Odd Future's group album OF Tape Vol. 2 (out March 20 through Odd Future Records), a video for a new song called "Rella" by Tyler, the Creator, Domo Genesis, and Hodgy Beats, with production by Left Brain.

Finally. OF Releases RELLA, The First Video From The OF Vol 2 Album. Produced by Left Brain Featuring Tyler, Domo And Hodgy. Wolf Haley Handled The Visuals. 

Tyler, The Creator reveals details of first track from forthcoming project 'OF Tape Vol 2'

Some Shit Tyler Did With Vice

Awesome. The First Video/Song From The OF Album Releasing Monday At 9pm. Rella.