Tibi PuiuBoy, that Jay-Z sure knows how to make an entrance. Yesterday night, during Kanye West’s show in NY’s Madison Square Garden, our very own Shawn Carter (Jay-Z for you fools) made his way around the stage on a avalanche of beats and introduced what’s now officially The Blueprint 3, his latest, upcoming album produced by none other then Kanye West. Anyway, here’s the fun part. Kanye and Jay-Z sung what could be the first track…
Kanye West: ‘Flashing Lights’ (3rd and final version)
As expect Kanye’s back with the 3rh and final version for his forth single off Graduation, “Flashing Lights.” The first two were mediocre at best, but this one’s down right terrible. It’s creepy, badly directed and with no plot or meaning what so ever. Not that a music video should make any sense, but this one’s no fun at all. Just look at it, it’s like a bad B movie Adams Family readaptation. A total…
New Kanye West video: ‘Flashing Lights’ (2nd version)
Kanye’s back with yet another video version for his explosive track “Flashing Lights,” the second in a three video series. If you’re memory still serves you well, you’ll recall the first video, directed by Spike Jonze, was centered around a tied up Kanye, a shovel, gasoline and a half-dressed woman. This, second one, directed by Bill Pollock, is a lot more cloudy, ambiguous and especially sexy, most probably because we get to see less Kanye…
New Kanye West video: ‘Flashing Lights’
Fresh after a great live performance, alongside Daft Punk, and with four awards under his belt, at this year’s Grammy Awards, you’d expect [tag]Kanye West[/tag] would slow down a bit. Instead he released a new video for “Flashing Lights,” his latest single comprised of 10bpm warming kickdrums and staccato synthesizers, that hit you with a wall of beats. The video, however, kinda lacks sadly, featuring a well “equipped” black lady, stripping down to her langeree,…
Rihanna to join Kanye West on tour
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Multiple Grammy-winning and current hip-hop kingpin Kanye West is bringing out the big guns for this tour, by inviting a whole bunch of great singers. This comes after West captured four rap Grammy Awards, but lost other four in categories he had been nominated. As a matter of fact, he lost the rap collaboration award to Barbadian bombshell, Rihanna. But they are going together on a tour, along with N.E.R.D. and Lupe Fiasco. Fiasco is…
New Michael Jackson video: ‘Billy Jean 08’ (Kanye West remix)
Some time ago we did a Thriller 25th anniversary special post, in which we discussed [tag]Michael Jackson[/tag]’s iconic album from its sound to its sales to its legacy. Also back then we mentioned there was gonna be a re-issue with remixes and covers, from the current pop and R&B celebrities. Such a re-edited track is MJ’s smashing Billy Jean, on which [tag]Kanye West[/tag] put his word class producing skills to the test, by infusing some…
The 2007 most downloaded artists from Apple
Steve Jobs’ iTunes is undoubtedly the world’s largest online music retail store and as physical records have long ago been outsourced, in terms of sales, by downloads we can safely say that the iTunes charts are a measure to test a band’s mainstream popularity. Let’s take in example the latest end of the year charts from Apple, that have surfaced recently; namely the “best selling albums of the year” and the “best selling singles.”Apparently [tag]Maroon…
So will the Grammy nominees please stand up
The biggest thing here is Kanye West with no less than 8 categories. Other nominees include Amy Winehouse with 6 as well as Foo Fighters, Jay-Z, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake and T-Pain with 5. This is a bit surprising because this release of the Foo Fighters was a bit weaker than their previous work but they were accepted a bit better by the critics than a part of their fans which claim that they were a…
Wu Tang Clan have the green light to sample The Beatles
Rap demigods [tag]Wu Tang Clan[/tag] have managed to be the first ever musical group to be allowed to legally sample [tag]The Beatles[/tag]. A mighty feat no doubt. The song in question to be sampled is “As My Guitar Gently Weeps” and as we reported a while back it’s set to feature guitarist John Frusciante from RHCP and George Harrison’s 21 year old son, Dhani Harrison on acoustics. The cover is set to appear on the…
Kanye West: ‘Graduation’
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Artist name: Kanye West Album name: Graduation Label: GOOD Music/Island Def Jam Gender: Hip-Hop Release date: September 11, 2007 ZMErating: 9/10 Website: http://www.kanyewest.com/ [tag]Kanye West[/tag] has been through an amazing journey through his career. Debuting on a classic album (The Blueprint), putting on an amazing show with The College Dropout, and not falling for that sophomore slump that so many succumb to with Late Registration, Kanye has constantly stayed on top when put on center…