Pusha T said He Fainted When He Heard Ghostface’s Verse on New Gold Flow

New God Flow had a nice surprise feature by Ghostface Killa, when the G.O.O.D Music Cruel Summer album dropped a few weeks ago. Apparently, Pusha T was as surprised as we were! While on the red carpet, he spoke to Vibe about his initial reaction.

“I heard the album on August 28th. I was just as shocked as you were,” Pusha T tells VIBE about the surprise Ghostface verse featured on “New God Flow.” “Everybody was brought in the studio and told to sit down, and [Kanye] played it. And they all just watching me. He’s telling me ‘Listen to the new mix! Whatcha think about the new mix of it?’ Man, when Ghost came on I fainted. He killed it.”

He went on to say,

We said Ghostface and Raekwon have the most timeless flows ever.

If you haven’t heard the updated version, listen below.

Q-Tip Hints at a G.O.O.D Music “Cruel Winter” Album

Even though Q-Tip is on Kanye’s roster for G.O.O.D Music, he surprisingly didn’t go up to bat on the group’s compilation album, Cruel Summer. When MTV asked Q why he wasn’t featured on the album, he hinted at a potential sequel project with the crew.

“I know, I know, I’m sorry about that but I have to let the cat out of the bag… If there’s a Cruel Summer then there’s got to be a Cruel Winter, right?”

Cruel Summer sold 205k copies in it’s opening week and landed number 2, behind Pink, on the Billboard 200. Is it winter yet?!

G.O.O.D Music’s “Cruel Summer” Comes in at #2

It’s been a week since G.O.O.D Music’s Cruel Summer has dropped, and their first week numbers have officially come in. According to Nielsen SoundScan, Kanye’s team sold 205,000, landing them in the number 2 spot behind Pink on the Billboard 200 chart.

However, on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, the crew enters at No. 1! And according to Rapup, this is Pink’s first number 1, selling 280,000 copies of The Truth About Love.

CyHi The Prynce Talks G.O.O.D Music From His P.O.V

With the release of G.O.O.D’s collaboration, Cruel Summer, CyHi The Prynce talks about the project from his point of view. How does the team feel about the album leaking? Why haven’t we heard too much of him? What music is he boiling up on his own?

Check out some excerpts from his XXL interview, below.

Kanye West Explains “Cruel Summer”

Cruel Summer dropped earlier this week, and in an intimate video with Yeezy, he talks all things G.O.O.D: Being underwhelmed with music, getting his crew’s opinion on all records and the packaging of the project.

He explains his meticulousness and how it effects his craft. G.O.O.D stuff. Watch below.

Big Sean Talks Grandmother and how Jay-Z got on “Clique”

While Big Sean and Sway were in LA for the VMAs, they talked candidly about a whole plethora of topics. From Sean’s grandmother who was in World War 2, to rocking shows with Jay-Z and Kanye West. He speaks on the genesis of the Hit-Boy produced song, Clique, and how The Throne got on it, plus what we can expect on his album.

Who can out-rap Big Sean? Listen below.

Hit-Boy Talks Playing Album for Jay-Z

Rap-Up caught up with our G.O.O.D friend, Hit-Boy and grilled the young producer with many questions regarding the Cruel Summer compilation album, his collaboration with Compton’s own, Kendrick Lamar, and even went on to say, he’s a free agent but has a lot of people knocking on his door — including Jigga Man.

“I got to play the album for Hov and he asked me for a copy on the spot, so that was just an accomplishment in itself.”

Hear all his answers below.

Tracklist: G.O.O.D. Music – “Cruel Summer”

The official G.O.O.D Music tracklist has been unveiled, and the 12-song album contains non-G.O.O.D features from R.Kelly, Jay-Z, Ghostface Killah, D’Banj and more. Of course, Yeezy, Big Sean, Pusha T, Common, Cyhi The Prynce, 2 Chaaainz, John Legend are all on it too.

Cruel Summer is due September 18, pre-order on Amazon UK is available now. See the full list below!

Common Talks Working In-Studio With Kanye West on “Cruel Summer”

Common swung by #SwayInTheMorning this week, and aside from raising the freestyling bar with our new Name Game [http://bit.ly/TkMItD], he spoke on being in-studio with Kanye West during the creation of Cruel Summer. “Diverse, hood and artistic” he how he describes the album.

Does Common take direction from Kanye West? Find out below.

Artwork: G.O.O.D. Music – “Cruel Summer”

The ring leader of G.O.O.D Music, Kanye West, took to Twitter to unveil the artwork to the team’s, highly anticipated compliation album Cruel Summer, which is set to impact the world on September 4th — which also happens to be Beyonce’s birthday.

What do you think about the cover artwork? Check out an even more 3-D angle of the artwork below.