Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Cudi ? Say it aint so



Devil horns in cudi's shadow at 1:37 of the video

Here's a pic of it....

Cudi say it ain't so dog, tell me u not on that Illuminati devil shit....... imma listen to see what you got to say on the album, but this scares me.

Theophilus London – Fatal Attraction

Fatal Attraction from Theophilus London on Vimeo.

Runaway Single Artwork

Support My Wife


Nicki Covers Complex!!!!!!!

Kid Cudi-Dangerous


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Friday, September 17, 2010

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Kanye West - Runaway Video Blueprint

I went to Herfection today and saw what Kanye wants for the "Runaway" Music video. Here's what he said:

"I’m color-correcting this film I shot in Prague a couple weeks ago. I want to edit the film on a boat. Where are the good editing boats? It’s the story of a phoenix fallen to Earth, and I make her my girlfriend, and people discriminate against her and eventually she has to burn herself alive and go back to her world. I’ve been feeling the idea of the phoenix. It’s been in my heart for a while. It’s maybe parallel to my career. I threw a Molotov cocktail on my career last year, in a way, and I had to come back as a better person"

Pretty Dope concept right,? What do yaw think? Here's a trailer to show you a little bit of his thoughts for the video.




runaway trailer, posted with vodpod

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Kid Cudi at Halo Reach Release



I think i play this nigga last nite, some dude's name was mr rager.....

MAESTRO KNOWS - Episode 8 (Professor Wonder)

Maestro Knows - Episode 8 (Professor Wonder) from Maestro Knows on Vimeo.

Carter 4 Update


December 14th?????? We shall see

Curren$y Pilot Talk 2 Trailer!!!!!

Curren$y - Pilot Talk 2 from Creative Control on Vimeo.



Jets Nigga, Now Where Havn't We Been Yet?.....

Jay Z brings out Kanye and Nicki Minaj at Yankee Stadium



DOPE ASS SHOW, THA SCREEN WAS OD...This was Yesturday, .....but uhh...More red kanye???? hmmmmm

Kanye Feat Pusha T - CDQ


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Monday, September 13, 2010

A Bathing Ape 2010 Fall/Winter GORE-TEX Camouflage Jacket


I want this.....like bad...no really

Kanye Feat Pusha T - Runaway VMA Performance



This Was one of the BEST performances i have seen in a while. It was just unique in every way. Starting from Ye playing the Beat manually while performing, nobody expected that. That's one thing about Kanye you know he's going to kill the show but you also know he is going to bring something new to it too. From the Jesus walks performance to the power performance all the way up to last night at the VMA's he keeps people guessing. But this goes down officially as my favorite Kanye performance. Shout-out to Pusha T for killing it too. And i fucks with there suits too, bringing back the Slick Rick feel. This the third time I ye in a red suit, wonder what that's about, but all together dope show guys.


Kanye Feat Pusha T - Runaway Live MP3


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Kid Cudi Glory Snippet


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Friday, September 10, 2010

Takashi Murakami Art Exhibition @ The Chateau de Versailles




Please view more via Hypebeast. Amazing work!

Maroon 5 – Give A Little More Music Video

N*E*R*D Joins TOur with The Gorrillaz



(Fashion Night out N*E*R*D performance)

Tour Dates
(will be in DC Oct. 11th)
October 6th – Agganis Arena – Boston, MA
October 8th – Madison Square Garden – New York, NY
October 10th – Susquehanna Bank Center – Camden, NJ
October 11th – Patriot Center – Washington, DC
October 13th – Fox Theater- Detroit, MI
October 14th – Air Canada Center – Toronto, ON
October 16th – UIC Pavilion – Chicago, IL
October 17th – Target Center – Minneapolis, MN
October 19th – Toyota Center – Houston, TX
October 20th – Verizon Theater – Dallas, TX
October 22nd – Frank Erwin Center – Austin, TX
October 24th – Wells Cargo Theater – Denver, CO
October 26th – Dodge Theater – Phoenix, AZ
October 27th – Gibson Amp – Los Angeles, CA
October 28th – Viejas Arena – San Diego, CA
October 30th – Oracle Arena – Oakland, CA
November 2nd – Key Arena – Seattle, WA
November 3rd – Rogers Arena – Vancouver, BC

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Lupe Complex Interview


Complex: How did the Japanese Cartoon EP come about?

Lupe Fiasco: Well, I’ve always been a fan of all music. My favorite songs aren’t hip-hop songs, they’re songs from Queen like “Somebody To Love.” Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music. Once I got to create some hip-hop, it was like, “Okay, what am I going to do now?” So my artistic side was like, “Yo, let’s do some rock music.”

The true inspiration for Japanese Cartoon is the band Joy Division. You ever watch footage of Joy Division singing? [Joy Division’s lead singer] Ian Curtis is like a straight nerd. And he [doesn’t look] like the rock and roll type. But when he got on stage, he became a completely different animal, like he was having a seizure on stage. When he was performing he just threw himself into the performance, but when he came off stage he was a mild-mannered person. Japanese Cartoon is like a tribute to Joy Division and Ian Curtis.

And it actually came about quite secondhand. I was actually writing songs to hopefully present to Matthew Santos, who was working on his album at the time. It was kinda like my two cents. And it was good. It wasn’t great by any measure, and it wasn’t terrible by any measure. But it was just weird. The creative process for me to create that type of music, I had to put myself in a whole other zone. I only felt comfortable doing it in a British accent or some other kind of subdued version of my own voice. Simply because I don’t like to hear myself sing. So to get comfortable [hearing myself sing], I sang in another accent.

I still don’t know how to play any instruments. But the guy in the studio, Graham Burris, did. But we didn’t have a drum set, so he had to beat-box the drums. And he could play the bass, so he played a bassline on one song. And that’s how you get [the song] “ARMY.”

Then it went from making songs for Matthew to being its own thing. Like, “this is Japanese Cartoon.” With me singing in a fake British accent with this motley crew of guest engineers and guest studio musicians to play on this record by request. So that’s the band. And over time as we did more records, I got more comfortable hearing my own voice so the accent started to go away. On songs like, “Crowd Participation” and “You Are Here,” I’m not using the accent. Those are songs later in the recording process, [when] I’d stopped using the accent. But I felt it would have been an injustice to go back and re-sing all the songs. I felt that people should get the whole Japanese Cartoon experience as it was.

Complex: So what is Japanese Cartoon?

Lupe Fiasco: Japanese Cartoon is my lifeblood. That was my Plan B. If Lupe Fiasco fails and Lasers never comes out, I have to do something. I still have to make music. I still have to go out and tour. I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody. But you get bored with that and you want new challenges. And for me, this is a new challenge.

Complex: You mentioned Japanese Cartoon being your Plan B, let’s talk about Plan A. A second ago, you said “If Lasers never comes out.” Will it not come out?

Lupe Fiasco: It could. The situation with me and my record company has gotten to the point where it’s just like…we’re really at our final straws. People could say it’s me, that “Lupe doesn’t want to make popular music” or “The label has got to have records that they can sell and Lupe is not giving them the records they want to sell” and XYZ. I’ll meet a fan on the street and we’ll have a full conversation about it. There’s maybe six or seven people walking around who know the whole story with their mouths wide open and their jaws to the floor as to why Lasers has been held up to this point and why it’s not coming out. I can’t tell you that. We’re in a space where we’re still negotiating and some stuff isn’t meant for the public.

Complex: Do you see the record coming out any time soon?

Lupe Fiasco: God willing. I literally put it in God’s hands. You know what, Lasers is a record I poured my heart into. I was actually making my own music, in the studio making the songs, and rapping on them. And at the same time, making the music more acceptable. Not making it more poppy, but making it more popular. Putting it in the position where more people can understand it but at the same time still satisfy my hardcore fanbase.

Complex: You keep referring to it as Lasers, but on the Internet now people are saying the record could be called Food and Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album. Is that not a real title?

Lupe Fiasco: When I said that I was going to do an album called The Great American Rap Album, I did it. Lasers is one project.

Complex: So you have two albums already done?

Lupe Fiasco: Yeah. I make music every day. [Laughs.] Half of the next Japanese Cartoon record is done. When I say Lasers has been done for two and a half years, what do you think I’ve been doing since then? I’ve been sitting back and making more music. I get beats every day from every producer. People want me to feature on their songs, and favors for favors, and all this other craziness. Lasers is one project on its own. It’s its own project, sitting being done, waiting to be released. And I’m in talks with doing the record after this one. So I’m constantly creating. But that doesn’t mean I’m constantly releasing.

Complex: But don’t you want to release Lasers? You made the album because you wanted to make it, right?

Lupe Fiasco: To be 100% honest, if it comes out, it comes out, if it doesn’t, it doesn’t. It’s not going to affect me either way. That doesn’t mean I don’t like hip-hop, that don’t mean I don’t want to be a rapper. It just means that I know what everybody else doesn’t know about that album. I know the dark side of that album. Nobody else knows the story. It’s a dark, deep, twisted, nasty story that people lost their jobs for.

It’s like Lasers, that’s one album that got disrupted in the business process. It’s a great album, but that album may not come out. But here’s Food and Liquor II. So what’s going to make you happy? What’s truly going to make the people happy? I’m giving you another album. I’m already past it. I’m not sitting around, “Oh man, I want Lasers. Why don’t they put out my songs?” Crying. For what? You go in and put out another record. And that’s what I did.

If God wills it to be, we’ll be talking about Food and Liquor II. And if Food and Liquor II doesn’t come out, we’ll be talking about Food and Liquor III. [Laughs.] If Food and Liquor III doesn’t come out, we’ll be talking about Food and Liquor IV. If that doesn’t come out, we’ll put out The Cool II, The Cool III. I’m never going to stop.

I love music. I’m never going to stop making music. I just did a whole punk rock album. So when the business overshadows the music, then I’m done. And I’ma step away from that, which is what happened to Lasers. All people see is music. It’s a music business. The music is beautiful and great. I love to perform it, and I love to go around the world, and I love to sing it and say it. But I hate to pick up my phone when I get off stage to talk about the music business!

I hate to be looked at as the villain. I can’t control my perception to the public but I try not to be a villain. My greatest fault is that I refuse to backbite others and put others on front street to the public. Because if I did that, I would be justified and vindicated with everything that I’m saying. But I’ll be doing myself a personal injustice in something I don’t believe in. If somebody wants to come to the plate and talk about the stuff that they’re doing behind the scenes as to why XYZ isn’t happening, then so be it. But I’m not going to put people on front street. That’s why I don’t do dis records or any stupidness like that. I’d rather to talk to somebody personally, and if they still motivated enough to tell the public what’s going, then so be it. If not, then I’ll take the L, publicly. And I don’t mind taking the L. I don’t really care.

POW! RIGHT IN THA KISSER



Got this from the BBC blog and couldn't stop laffin...enjoy!

Penfield Limited 35th Anniversary Limited etd Outback vest


Release: Sept. 15th Price: 500$ ..........Nice

Tokyo in Timelapse

Wat would Tokyo Sole be without Tokyo...

inter // states from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo.

KiD CuDi talks about new album



2 ALBUMS!!!!!! MOTM on NOVEMBER 9th AND "A DOSE OF DOPENESS" ?!?!? WIT DOT THA GENIUS......

KiD CuDi - Trapped in my mind live

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Colin Munroe – One (Sky Ferreira Revox)

NEW COLIN!!!!!!!!!

Colin Munroe - One (Sky Ferreira Revox) by Hypetrak

OkayPlayerTV Interviews Big Sean (Video)

VERBAL & YOON: Where It All Happens

VERBAL & YOON: Where It All Happens from hypebeast.tv on Vimeo.



YOON IS BAD


Simply amazing video. This video was made by "The Astonishing tribe" as a blueprint for the touch screen future. They set this technology for the year 2014 but its only a prediction. This would be awesome if this technology is actually released. Also good video work guys.

visvim “Dissertation on Permeation: Harmony versus Convergence” Trailer

UNDFTD 2010 Fall/Winter Collection

Undefeated has some dope stuff for there upcoming season. The thing that really caught my eye was the varsity jacket in which i am in serious need of. Here's a few pics I liked from it. For the rest check here at HYPEBEAST.


Big Boi feat. Andre 3000 – Lookin’ 4 Ya (jedi Remix)


So Dope... Download HERE

Blu Mash Up Interview

Blu x TheMashUP.Net Interview (Video) from themashup916 on Vimeo.

Chip tha Ripper - From me to you


CHIP THA RIPPPPPPAAAA Download HERE

Monday, September 6, 2010

Takashi Murakami Macy's Thanks Giving day Parade float


Saw on Hypebeast that Murakami is coming to NY City in november to discuss his layout for his float for the Macy's Thanksgiving day Parade. Stay Tuned for specifics.

My Next Shoe Cop




These Bad Boys Will be mine Wednesday if all goes well!!!

Jermaine Cole- VilleMatic

J.cole was talking of working on another mixtape yesterday on twitter soo be on tha lookout, but to hold you guys over download villematic dope song.

Röyksopp – The Drug Music Video

Röyksopp - The Drug from thatgo on Vimeo.

B.O.B- Magic Music Video

Chip Tha Ripper x Belvedere Vodka

Belvedere Presents: A Day in the Life with Chip Tha Ripper from Davy Greenberg on Vimeo.