GULF SHORES, Alabama — On a festival bill that swings from acts just breaking through (Twenty One Pilots, Wild Cub) to icons like Tom Petty and Stevie Wonder, Public Enemy definitely fall into the legend category.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rap titans proved why they belong in the latter group during a high-intensity daytime set in the Boom Boom Tent at the Hangout Festival on Saturday.

The group's hype man, Flavor Flav, said PE fed off the energy of the crowd during their hour-long show, which found the young audience shouting along to such anthems as "Welcome to the Terrordome" and "911 is a Joke."

"We're the Rolling Stones of the rap game," said group leader Chuck D after the set while chilling backstage with MTV News' Sway Calloway. "Not braggin'/Lips bigger than Jagger/Not saggin'/Spell it backwards, Imma leave it at that," D rapped.

Chuck was talking about the relative youngsters on PE's upcoming summer package tour featuring Ice Cube, De La Soul and LL Cool J, but Flav added that with seniority status comes some pressure as well. "We ain't trying to leave ya'll on pins and needles/But we just as big as the Beatles," he freestyled.

One of the difficulties of achieving longevity in the game is that you have to learn to appeal to new audiences who might not have even been born when you started, as well as the old school fans when you're putting together a set list.

How does PE pull that off?

"We study people like the Rolling Stones, the Who," said D. "You ...

Very little seems to happen by chance in Kanye West's world, so it was likely no coincidence that just as the MC was taking the stage for his gig his girlfriend Kim Kardashian confirmed when we'll have new Yeezy music.

In a post that rapidly bounced around the hip-hop world, Kardashian Instagrammed what appeared to be the album's cover, as well as the rumored titled, Yeezus. The picture includes a CD case with what looks like a melted gold Jesus piece on the cover next to a pair of unreleased red Nike Air Yeezy IIs, a piece of red gaffer tape with the title on it and the message, "#Yeezus #RedYeezy's #SNL #Tonight #NewSlaves #YeezySeason #Donda #June18."

West debuted "New Slaves" by projecting the video for the song on 66 locations? across the globe on Friday and then made a triumphant return to "Saturday Night Live" to perform the new song "Black Skinhead."

Backed by a live band and dressed in a studded black leather biker jacket and red Air Yeezy II's, he let out screams over a sparse drum track and melody culled from Marilyn Manson's 1996 hit "The Beautiful People." He later tweeted what appeared to be the lyric sheet from the song, which features the lines, "4 in the morning/And I'm zoning/They say I'm possessed/It's an omen/I keep it 300/Like the Romans." For his second performance he did "New Slaves."

Although various sites were reporting that West's album is available for pre-order now on his official site, at press ...

NEW YORK — The second day of Electric Daisy Carnival New York kicked off with cloudy skies and rainfall, but that didn't seem to affect the sold-out crowd of 50,000, who, despite the weather, danced to a slew of DJ/producers who brought the Mets' Citi Field parking lot alive on the otherwise dreary weekend day.

Day two's DJ roster included a diverse group of acts, from the punk-rock electronica sounds of the Bloody Beetroots Live to underground duo Art Department. The self-described "house and techno Kung-Fu master," Loco Dice, played solo and then returned later to close out the Neon Garden stage, where he joined legendary British DJ Carl Cox for a back-to-back set. AN21, the younger brother of Steve Angello, held down the family name Saturday as he played into dusk with his longtime collaboration partner and Size labelmate, Max Vangeli.

EDC-NY may not have hosted every big-room act this year (as it seemed to do last year), but the evening lineup on the Kinetic Field Stage definitely lived up to expectations in the A-list DJ department: Smashing sets came courtesy of superstar DJs Thomas Gold, Calvin Harris, Afrojack and festival-closer Porter Robinson.

Thomas Gold started the evening roll call off nicely, mesmerizing fans with his powerfully bold production. The German DJ played his remix of Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain," along with his stellar hit "Sing2Me." Gold's set was marked by a continuous, loud thumping as he played popular hits from other artists like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, One Republic and Otto Knows; he artfully ...

GULF SHORES, Alabama — Just after he came off stage following a triumphant set 
 on the Boom Boom Stage at the Hangout Festival, Compton, California, MC Kendrick Lamar switched from world-beating rapper to hip-hop fan.

Speaking to MTV News' Sway Calloway, Lamar offered his thoughts on one of the year's most anticipated albums: Kanye West's as-yet-untitled sixth album. Like most of us, Lamar checked out West's 
 when it dropped on Friday, but, also like us, he said he "couldn't quite get the quality right" on the song that mysteriously appeared as part of a global stunt during which it was screened on 66 buildings across the planet.

"It sounded crazy," he said of the tune. "That whole marketing scheme is crazy. It's very inspiring. After a while you get to a point in hip-hop where certain tactics get watered down. How much music can you release on the internet to get it hot? How many singles can you put out. How many videos can you possibly do."

So, Kanye doing things the way he did is just West being the genius that he is, Lamar said, challenging the game and raising stakes once again with an album that's rumored to be titled Yeezus. "That's crazy, I want to hear that," Lamar said. "That's that creative Kanye genius stuff out the box ... whatever way is his way of being creative and getting his message across through that album, that's the culture. I can't wait to hear it."

MTV, VH1 and CMT are live from Hangout 2013, ...