Nas’ fourth single from Life Is Good is his excellent collaboration with Amy Winehouse, “Cherry Wine”. Playing a bartender in the clip, Nas views posthumous footage of the late Ms. Winehouse performing the track.

Nas’ next LP hits July 17th. Check out 30 second snippets of the whole thing right here.

Nas speaks on his July release Life Is Good, explaining that it is a “complete piece of work”. He reveals that producer Salaam Remi compares the album to both Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black and The Fugees The Score, both of which he had a hand in producing.

Before Amy Winehouse died, she wanted to start a “supergroup” that included Questlove of The Roots. The drummer says he misses the British singer, who he calls his “Skype buddy” and teacher of jazz music.

Let’s face it, posthumous albums usually suck. Reason being, the estate and/or record label gathers up all of the leftover material from said deceased artist, slaps some fonts on an old press photo, and tries to pass it off as an album. Even worse are the remixes, which attempt to “update” the artists’ sound for [cont.]

Nas Remembering Amy Winehouse from #rememberingamy on Vimeo. Nas speaks on recording with Amy Winehouse, which sees the light of day on her just released Lioness: Hidden Treasures LP.

From Amy’s Lioness: Hidden Treasures coming soon. Download  

Amy Winehouse’s long-awaited follow-up to Back To Black will take shape in the form of Lioness: Hidden Treasures. A collection of new, previously unreleased tracks, and alternate versions, the album will feature production from usual collaborators Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson, as well as a guest spot from Nas called “Like Smoke”. We’ll also be [cont.]

Big Boi Soundclouded this remix for Amy’s “Tears Dry On Their Own”, which never was approved or released by the label.

Talib Kweli Speaks On The Passing Of Amy Winehouse from HipHopSite.Com on Vimeo. In part one of our interview with Talib Kweli, he speaks on the tragic death of Amy Winehouse.

27-year old UK singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London apartment this morning (June 23rd), according to reports. The cause of death is currently “unexplained”, according to a press release from the Metropolitan police that read: “Police were called by London Ambulance Service to an address in Camden Square NW1 shortly before 16.05 [cont.]

Long before Amy Winehouse became a walking tabloid, the hardest working man in show-business, ?uestlove, was singing her praises, turning a whole generation of hip-hoppers on to her unique, soulful sound. In a recent article published in the U.K.’s Sun, ?uesto and Winehouse will join Raphael Saadiq for an as of yet unnamed supergroup project. [cont.]

Who exactly is Amy Winehouse?  Is she the reincarnation of so many Jazz and R&B/Soul legends to whom she is so often compared to like Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday, and Lauren Hill?  Or is she nothing more than a product of over sensationalized marketing techniques and tabloid scandals?  With the belated U.S. release of her [cont.]

     Amy Winehouse isn’t a hip-hop artist, but she comes from the hip-hop generation, and it shows in her music. Whether drowning her sorrows out in liquor over missing the Slick Rick gig (“Me and Mr Jones”), or enlisting Ghostface to rhyme on her “You Know I’m No Good” single, Amy Winehouse takes this rap [cont.]