VIDEO: NF - Warm Up

After the release of his new single "Warm Up" on September and also making it downloadable for free on soundcloud, NF has now released a new music video for the same single "Warm Up". 
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He is currently on the second part of his Therapy Session Tour.

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NF - 'Warm Up' (FREE DOWNLOAD)

Christian emcee NF dropped a free new track last night called “Warm Up” where he raps a little “something for the fans." 

On the song he raps about exceeding the expectations and negative thoughts of him rapping by other people. 

Listen to 'Warm Up' below

Download the track for free here.

VIDEO: NF - Grindin' ft. Marty

NF released a new music video today for track No. 10 of his new album Therapy Session, "Grindin'" featuring Marty. 

Therapy Session, which dropped on April 22, sold 29,184 units in its first week and debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard 200.

Watch Video Below

TOUR: NF reveals the schedule of a 23-city tour this fall

NF announced part two of his Therapy Session Tour. 

In May, NF went on tour with the Social Club Misfits to perform his new album, and he will hit the road again this fall. As of now, 23 dates are on his tour schedule, according to his official website.

Therapy Session, which dropped on April 22, sold 29,184 units in its first week and debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard 200. Check out which cites NF will perform the album in this fall.

Check out Therapy Session Tour schedule:

• 9/20 - Seattle, WA
• 9/21 - Portland, OR
• 9/22 - Orangevale, CA
• 9/24 - Phoenix, AZ
• 9/26 - Santa Ana, CA
• 9/27 - Los Angeles, CA
• 9/29 - Denver, CO
• 10/4 - St. Louis, MO
• 10/5 - Minneapolis, MN
• 10/6 - Milwaukee, WI
• 10/11 - Louisville, KY
• 10/12 - Chicago, IL
• 10/15 - Detroit, MI
• 10/17 - Columbus, OH
• 10/18 - Indianapolis, IN
• 10/19 - Cleveland, OH
• 10/20 - Philadelphia, PA
• 10/22 - Baltimore, MD
• 10/23 - Boston, MA
• 10/24 - New York, NY
• 10/30 - Carrboro, NC
• 11/01 - Charlotte, NC
• 11/02 - Charleston, SC

N/B: All tours are in the USA.

NF wins vote to be new walkout music for UFC fighter Nate Marquardt

In front of 45,000 people at Arena da Baixada in Curitiba, Brazil, UFC fighter Nate Marquardt will enter the octagon to NF's song "Oh Lord". 

Marquardt knocked out his last opponent after walking out to Trip Lee's "Lazarus" featuring Thi'sl.

Last week, Marquardt let fans vote on Rapzilla for his walkout music in UFC 198, which will air Saturday, May 14 at 8 p.m. ET on FS1. He nominated "Oh Lord", Tony Tillman's "Lord Have Mercy" featuring Derek Minor and B. Cooper, RMG's "Grain in the Sand" and Obie Obien's Portuguese version of "Your Love Never Fails".

Nate Marquardt

While sports anthems tend to be pump-up music (Andy Mineo's uptempo "You Can't Stop Me" won best walk-up song in the MLB in 2015), Marquardt opted for heartfelt.

"Oh Lord", track No. 7 on NF's new album Therapy Session, begins as follows:

When I die, put my ashes in the trash bag /

I don't care where they go /

Don't waste your money on my gravestone /

I'm more concerned about my soul

It's safe to say this will likely be the deepest song those 45,000 fans hear at UFC 198.

Listen to 'Oh Lord'

NF's new album 'Therapy Session' makes impressive debut on Billboard

Therapy Session has firmly established NF as one of the faces of Christian hip hop today. 

His sophomore album on Capitol CMG Label Group debuted on Billboard this week, and its numbers trump all Christian hip-hop releases this year besides Lecrae's surprise mixtape Church Clothes 3, which sold 29,207 album-equivalent units in Week 1. Therapy Sessions old 29,184.

NF's platform grew dramatically between the releases of his freshman and sophomore LPs on Capitol CMG. Mansion, which dropped March 31, 2015, sold 10,169 units in Week 1. See how the albums' first weeks on Billboard compare to each other below.

Therapy Session debut Billboard rankings (Mansion debut rankings in parenthesis):

Billboard 200: No. 12 (No. 62)

Top Albums Sales: No. 8 (No. 42)

Digital Albums: No. 7 (No. 22)

Rap Albums: No. 1 (No. 9)

Top Christian Albums: No. 1 (No. 1)

These rankings are even more impressive when Prince's effect on them is factored in. The legendary singer's death the day before the release ofTherapy Session skyrocketed his discography up the charts.

While Therapy Session's No. 12 spot on the Billboard 200 ties it withChurch Clothes 3 for the highest ranking in Christian hip hop this year, it's the seventh-highest non-Prince project on the chart.

Billboard 200 - Top 15 on the week of May 14, 2016:

Beyonce - Lemonade

Prince - The Very Best of Prince

Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain (Soundtrack)

Prince - The Hits/The B-Sides

Rihanna - ANTI

Prince - Ultimate

Prince - 1999

A$AP Ferg - Always Strive and Prosper

Chris Stapleton - Traveller

Justin Bieber - Purpose

Kanye West - The Life of Pablo

NF - Therapy Session

twenty one pilots - Blurryface

Adele - 25

Original Broadway Cast - Hamilton: An American Musical

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NF releases heartbreaking song for his mom who died from overdose

Over the past year, 25-year-old recording artist NF has drawn a fanatical following with emotional music — none more vulnerable than a new song written to his mother, who died from a drug overdose in 2009. 

On “How Could You Leave Us”, track No. 4 from his album Therapy Session,which was released on Friday April 22. In this song, NF weeps as he asks his mother why she loved him less than the pills she grew addicted to. This neglection, he expresses, makes the image of his future children without the grandmother they should’ve had no more easy.

I got this picture in my room and it kills me /

But I don't need a picture of my mom, I need the real thing /

Now a relationship is something we won't ever have /

Why do I feel like I lost something that I never had?

NF’s transparency on “How Could You Leave Us” epitomizes the concept of Therapy Session.

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“I mean, I think sometimes people, they confuse what I'm doing,” NF said on the outro of the Therapy Session title track. “I write about life. I write about things that I'm actually dealing with, something that I'm actually experiencing. This is real for me, like this is something that personally helps me as well. I'm not confused about who gave me the gift. God gave me the gift, and he gave me the ability to do this. And he also gave me this as an outlet. And that's what music is for me.

“When I feel something, whether it's anger, it's a passion about something or frustration, like, this is where I go. This is ... that's the whole ‘nfrealmusic’ thing, man. This is real for me. I need this. This is a therapy for me.”

You can Buy Therapy Session on iTunes.

NF Releases New Song and Music Video "I Just Wanna Know"

"I Just Wanna Know" available on iTunes now as second released song from upcoming album 'Therapy Session"

Capitol Records rapper NF has released his latest song and music video for "I Just Wanna Know" from upcoming album Therapy Session. 

You can watch the music video below.

The music video continues NF's trend of creating visually intense, brooding art pieces to accompany his raw musical style. "I Just Wanna Know" details the demise of a relationship, a theme the video explores by portraying NF arguing with a girl in a car before it flips off the road, apparently severely injuring her. 

This is the second track to release from upcoming album Therapy Session, following the launch of "Intro 2" a few weeks ago. The music video for "Intro 2" has already surpassed 335,000 views, more proof of the high anticipation riding on NF's sophomore followup to last year's breakthrough debut Mansion. Therapy Sessionwill be available on April 22. You can get "Intro 2" and "I Just Wanna Know" on iTunes now here: http://smarturl.it/TherapySession. 

You can watch the music video below.

NF reveals 'Therapy Session' tour schedule featuring Social Club

NF announced a nine-city tour for his upcoming album, Therapy Session, on Tuesday. 

After Therapy Session is released on April 22, Social Club will join NF in May for a tour that begins in his hometown.

Tour Schedule:

1. May 5 - Grand Rapids, Michigan
2. May 6 - Cincinnati, Ohio
3. May 11 - Columbus, Ohio
4. May 12 - New York, New York
5. May 14 - Greensboro, North Carolina
6. May 15 - Birmingham, Alabama
7. May 18 - Nashville, Tennessee
8. May 20 - Atlanta, Georgia
9. May 22 - Memphis, Tennessee

For tickets and more information, click here.

Source: Rapzilla

NF reveals release date of new album 'Therapy Session'

Grand Rapids, Michigan-based artist NF has announced the release date and title, as well as unveiled the cover art, of his sophomore album on Capitol CMG Label Group. 

NF will follow-up his label debut LP, Mansion, with the release of a project called Therapy Session on April 22, according to the following tweet he sent this morning.

New album #TherapySession dropping April 22, 2016 pic.twitter.com/xjBpmYUxBw

— NF (@nfrealmusic) February 12, 2016

Rapzilla interviewed NF briefly about his upcoming album a few months ago.

"I’m excited about it," he said. "If you’re an NF fan and you like the first record, I think you’re going to love this record. You might like it more. I don’t know. It’s really grimy. It’s really in your face, kind of like the first record.

"But it’s also very diverse. I like different styles of music. I’ll listen to Ed Sheeran, and then I’ll listen to Drake. I just want to make an album that represents me, but also is different from what people are doing, and I think that’s what I’m doing. I’m pumped about the record."

As the title Therapy Session suggests, NF said he will dive deeper into some issues he had rapped about on his previous project.

"On Mansion, I mention a lot of problems," he said. "I feel like this next record, I go in to detail about some things I’ve been mentioning along the way — a lot more detail."

Therapy Session has high expectations, thanks to the success of Mansion, which finished 2015 the 25th highest-selling Christian project of the year and the second highest-selling Christian rap project of the year.

Source: Rapzilla

NF talks about his next album, hit song 'I'll Keep On' and heartless critics

NF wasn’t speaking hypothetically when he said, “I got some people that write me like, ‘I wish you'd die like your momma did,’” on Marty of Social Club’s song “The One with My Friends.” 

“I wouldn’t say it if it didn’t happen,” NF told Rapzilla. “I go into more detail on my [new album]. Obviously on a feature, I only got a few lines. But yeah, that’s not even close to the worst thing that I’ve been written.”

NF is the fastest-growing artist affiliated with Christian hip hop. He just released his Capitol CMG Label Group debut album Mansion last March, and it finished 2015 the 25th highest-selling Christian project of the year — and the second highest-selling Christian rap project of the year.

A growing fan base comes with a growing troll pool, which NF has discovered as he’s risen. Understandably, he admits the trolls can get under his skin. But until he learns not to read the comments, NF said he’s been able to channel his frustration in to music.

“When I first see things like that, it makes me really angry because everybody’s 20-feet tall on Facebook,” he said. “It helps me as an artist, though, because that gave me a lot of energy for this next record because I am growing as a person. I still have a lot of issues I’m dealing with. On Mansion, I mention a lot of problems. I feel like this next record, I go in to detail about some things I’ve been mentioning along the way — a lot more detail.

“When I write a song called ‘Face It,’ that could mean anything; I don’t know how to face anything. I think on this next record, there are some songs that really give you what’s going on with me. And people writing me stuff like that, there are a lot of parts in songs that have been influenced from statements like that.”

NF said his sophomore album on Capitol CMG Label Group will release this year, although new music could come sooner rather than later.

NEW ALBUM COVER IS FINISHED!!! SO MUCH COMING!!!— NF (@nfrealmusic) January 28, 2016

Below is an excerpt of Rapzilla’s interview with NF about his upcoming album and his song “I’ll Keep On” featuring Jeremiah Carlson — the only Christian hip-hop to land on Billboard’s year-end Hot Christian Songs chart based on radio airplay.

Rapzilla: What is the story behind “I’ll Keep On”?

NF: That song is basically me talking about how I think a lot of times Christians for some reason find it weird to talk about the struggle of reading your Bible. That kind of stuff I really struggle with personally because I’m a go-go-go person and I hate reading, but really that’s no excuse for not doing stuff like that. 

But I struggle with it, so “I’ll Keep On” was more of like, trying to do something different, have a little break in the album, but also a song that came out because that’s how I really feel. I do have a Bible that sits next to my bed, and I feel like I don’t really do much with it.

RZ: As a Christian artist, were you hesitant to say that in a song? What kind of reactions did you expect from that?

NF: Honestly, I think it’s ridiculous what the Christian market is so sensitive about. If you’re too good or too scared to say that you struggle with reading your Bible, then you got other problems to worry about I feel like. That doesn’t bother me at all. This second album I said a lot more stuff. If that bothers you, I wouldn’t buy my second album.

RZ: I think that was one of the more moving songs on Mansion, so I’m sure you got many reactions to it, but was there one that stood out to you the most?

NF: Actually, most of my personal stuff that gets written to me is not about that song. I get tons from that song, but most of my stuff is “Mansion,” more of the harder stuff. That’s more of what I do. The really deep messages I get written are from songs like “Mansion” or, it’d surprise some people, but even songs like “Face It.”

“I’ll Keep On” is a little more out of the box. I think it’s easier for some people to listen to. It definitely has helped me a lot, and a lot of people relate to it and love it. That’s why the song I feel does so well, and I feel like sometimes we don’t talk about relatable things.

I don’t do it so it’s relatable. I do it because it’s real life. It’s what I’m dealing with, but it is relatable. When I started music when I was a kid. I didn’t write it for thousands of people to listen to. I didn’t even know what I was doing. I was just writing my life. And so it’s cool to see music impact people like that.

RZ: What can you say about your next album?

NF: I’m excited about it. If you’re an NF fan and you like the first record, I think you’re going to love this record. You might like it more. I don’t know. It’s really grimy. It’s really in your face, kind of like the first record. But it’s also very diverse. I like different styles of music. I’ll listen to Ed Sheeran, and then I’ll listen to Drake. I just want to make an album that represents me, but also is different from what people are doing, and I think that’s what I’m doing. I’m pumped about the record.

Source: Rapzilla

NF’s ‘Mansion’ sells most albums of 2015 Christian rap releases, first top non-Reach album in years

When Billboard revealed its year-end 2015 charts, a few Christian rap-related results stood out. 

No. 1: The top-selling Christian hip-hop album of the year wasn’t released this year. Lecrae’s Anomaly came out in Sept. 2014 and still accomplished the feat. Anomaly was also the 21st-highest selling rap album overall, charting there for the second straight year, which is uncommon for rap albums in general and unheard of for Christian hip hop-affiliated albums.

No. 2: The top-selling Christian hip-hop album released this year was NF’s Mansion, which means for the first time since at least 2006, a rapper who is not signed to Reach Records has released one of the 50 highest-selling Christian albums of the year. And for the first time since at least 2009, Reach did not release the top-selling Christian hip-hop album which dropped that year.

While Mansion had a five-month head start on Andy Mineo’sUncomfortable and the backing of a major label, the Universal Music Group-owned Capitol CMG, the accomplishment remains noteworthy. While dozens of Christian hip-hop artists have charted on Billboard based on their first-week sales, only a select few have maintained momentum enough to be one of the 50 highest-selling Christian albums of the year.

Here are all of the Christian hip-hop albums that have pulled this off since 2006, the first year that Billboard’s website has the yearly chart tracked (rank in parenthesis).

Top Christian Albums of the Year

2006 – None

2007 – None

2008 – None

2009 – Rebel by Lecrae (No. 31)

2010 – Rehab by Lecrae (No. 25)

2011

Rehab by Lecrae (No. 11)

Rehab: The Overdose by Lecrae (No. 24)

2012

Gravity by Lecrae (No. 7)

The Good Life by Trip Lee (No. 29)

Rehab by Lecrae (No. 45)

2013

Gravity by Lecrae (No. 12)

Heroes For Sale by Andy Mineo (No. 31)

2014

Anomaly by Lecrae (No. 3)

Church Clothes: Vol. 2 by Lecrae (No. 14)

Never Land by Andy Mineo (No. 26)

2015

Anomaly by Lecrae (No. 5)

Mansion by NF (No. 25)

Uncomfortable by Andy Mineo (No. 30)

Tomorrow We Live KB (No. 38)

Seven years. Fifteen Reach albums. One non-Reach album — Mansion.

This leads us to result No. 3 that stood out: 2015 had more projects that charted on Billboard’s year-end list of top Christian albums than ever before.

Source: Rapzilla

Watch KB, Derek Minor, Tedashii, Kirk Franklin, NF, Crowder, Matt Maher, Israel & New Breed and Kari Jobe's performances at 2015 Dove Awards

The Gospel Music Association (GMA) has released footage of performances at the 2015 Dove Awards, including those by artists  KB, Derek Minor, Tedashii, Kirk Franklin, NF, Crowder, Matt Maher, Israel & New Breed and Kari Jobe.

Watch all of the performances below.

Source: DBM Staff

NF receives placement on 'Madden NFL 16' soundtrack

Madden NFL 16, the latest edition of one of the most popular video game series on the market, hit stores today, and its soundtrack includes a familiar voice to Christian hip hop. 

Along with artists including The Weekend, Yelawolf and King Los, NF has a song featured on Madden NFL 16 — the "Intro" track of his album Mansion.

Source: Rapzilla

Music: New Song from TobyMac - Til The Day I Die ft. NF

TobyMac releases his collab with Capitol Record's rising hip-hop artist NF, "Til The Day I Die," as the second single from his upcoming album,This Is Not A Test. Toby's seventh studio LP will be released August 7 from ForeFront Records. 

Pre-order on iTunes or Amazon

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Source: Rapzilla