Thursday, October 30, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
JAPAN KEEPS KILLIN IT!
This video is disgusting! The japanese are just killing it on the BBoy scene. The beginning is kinda slow, but just vibe to the sick beat. Once the power moves come on....DAMN!!! Sickest combos and most innovative transitions I've seen in a while. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
HOT!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Barney Chucks
High end retailer Barneys NYC has hooked up with Converse on these beautiful Chuck Taylor All Star Hi’s. Coming in a perforated patent leather material, these sneakers screams “BUY ME” even in times of economic woes. These sneakers coming three colorways and will retail for $95. Available soon at Barneys NYC.
Available in White, Red and Black/Gold
iPod Battle
This is a form of competition for those who didn't cut it as break dancers. 2 teams go head to head to one-up the team before with track selection to move the crowd. Ultimatly, the crowds vote for which team played the sickest tracks.
I gotta admit, it's pretty cool in a dorky way. It's a craze that's hit Japan, France, and cities throughout the US. Seems like fun...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
PHOTO HUNTER
Ever went onto the iTunes store searching for a game that will keep your interest for hours on end (well, maybe not hours)? Ever wondered why they never released photo hunt as an itunes game? Well you're prayers have been answered.
Recently a very good friend of mine teamed up with another friend and has been under development of an application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. After months of development, testing and finally, the long awaited approval, they present to you.... PHOTO HUNTER. I had the honor to do some beta testing and I must say, this game is ADDICTING. Just like those good ol' days in the pool hall playing this game while waiting for a table to open up.
Anyways, the game is now launched onto iTunes. GO GET IT! It's a game that will definitely keep your "hands occupied" for a long period of time when you're bored *inside joke*.
Here is a link of the Product Review Page. It's gonna be a great game with great updates to come.
GO GET THE GAME AND SEE WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!
FYI as a promotion to get the word out, the game will be priced at .99 cents for a very limited time.
Recently a very good friend of mine teamed up with another friend and has been under development of an application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. After months of development, testing and finally, the long awaited approval, they present to you.... PHOTO HUNTER. I had the honor to do some beta testing and I must say, this game is ADDICTING. Just like those good ol' days in the pool hall playing this game while waiting for a table to open up.
Anyways, the game is now launched onto iTunes. GO GET IT! It's a game that will definitely keep your "hands occupied" for a long period of time when you're bored *inside joke*.
Here is a link of the Product Review Page. It's gonna be a great game with great updates to come.
GO GET THE GAME AND SEE WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!
FYI as a promotion to get the word out, the game will be priced at .99 cents for a very limited time.
GRAPHIC ARTIST DANIL KRYVORUCHKO
I know I'm late on this, but I gotta admit, I was lazy when I first saw this. But I had to come back to these images soooo many times cuase it was just too dope! So I took that as a sign to post.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Kanye's 808 and Heartbreaks Listening Party.
The worlds of hip-hop and art collided when Kanye West threw a listening party for his new album 808s & Heartbreak on Tuesday night in Los Angeles. The event, a collaboration between Kanye and Italian artist Vanessa Beecroft, was unlike anything we’ve experienced before. After sipping on Veuve Clicquot and Moët, several hundred guests, including Jay-Z, will.i.am, Mos Def, Rick Ross, L.A. Reid, actor Jonah Hill, Sa-Ra’s Taz Arnold, and director Chris Robinson, were led upstairs into an open gallery space where 40-50 naked women stood against a blue light panel. At approximately 9:45 p.m., the lights went off and the spectacle began.
Blue, red, and yellow lights flashed across the giant panel as Kanye’s fourth studio album blasted through the speakers. Skinny, mixed race models, wearing nothing but black stiletto heels, posed through the entire 11 tracks. Some changed positions from time to time, sitting down, stretching, and performing other body contortions. The no photography rule was strictly enforced.
After the last track off 808s & Heartbreak played, the lights came up and Kanye appeared in a T-shirt and jeans. He went on to thank everyone for coming and expressed his gratitude to Beecroft for her hard work. He told the story of how he contacted the artist a week before the event. She said she listened to 808s and the album touched her “personal life” in a few ways. Kanye responded by saying he also felt touched by her work, referencing the naked women, which drew a laugh from the audience. We hear that the models were hired through an open casting call and reportedly paid $1000 each.
As rumored, the entire album is in Auto-Tune. Kanye launched into a speech about how much he loves using Auto-Tune and that lately the term has been associated with being “wack,” much to his dismay. “Never lose your childhood,” he told the crowd, explaining how he wanted to go back to feeling like a child, overwhelmed and carefree. Auto-Tune reminded him of those early days. As a kid, he thought the color pink was cool until someone told him “it was gay.” He then excitedly exclaimed, “Pink is better than blue!” ‘Ye expressed his admiration for T-Pain, saying “his light was so bright.” He further explained his belief that society and culture steal confidence and self-esteem from you when you’re a child. You’re born with it, but society takes it away. If he was 8 years old, he would have walked into a recording studio and told the engineer, “Give me Auto-Tune!” He officially declared it “the funnest thing to use.”
The album, which he completed over three weeks in Hawaii, is unlike anything Kanye has done. He happily classifies it as “pop” featuring heavy drums and pulsing electronic sounds. “People think pop is bad, but Michael Jackson was pop and who can compare to him?” Kanye asked, adding that he wants to categorize the album under “pop” in iTunes. Even though it was hard to make out lyrics over the booming system, we believe we heard Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy rapping on two tracks. The raw and revealing album puts Kanye on another level of artistry and a few strokes away from genius.
Responding to reviews, the Louis Vuitton Don said, “I don’t give a fuck if it’s hot or not, it’s from the heart… Would you judge a grandmother’s love? Give it two-and-a-half mics out of five?” Kanye said that he went to the Def Jam label heads and expressed how important it was that this album was released this year. He didn’t care if it wasn’t on the schedule or if they wanted a holiday push. He mentioned that he does have another album coming in June and he may be singing or rapping.
As the evening came to a close, the Chi-Town MC declared, “I’ve always been a fan of Vanessa’s work and strong imagery.” He liked the “idea of nudity because society told us to wear clothes at a certain point.” The night’s most poignant moment came when the rapper said, “The irony for me… I’ve talked about so many labels, Louis Vuitton this, Benz that… For me to lose the most important person to Hollywood.” He explained that the album’s closing track, “Coldest Winter,” is about his late mother, Donda West. According to him, the first ten tracks are about someone else who was close in his personal life, most likely ex-fiance Alexis Phiifer.
“I don’t know if you noticed, but I don’t talk about any of that stuff on the album—no stuntin’, no flashin’, just real things.” And for one night, Kanye West bared all.
Here is a tracklisting for 808s & Heartbreak based off what we could make out. No official titles were announced so take this for what it is.
1. “Welcome to Heartbreak”
2. “Heartless”
3. “Love Lockdown”
4. “Robocop”
5. “The Wrong Thing”
6. “In the Streets”
7. Title unknown
• Alternating heavy drum and beeping sounds
• More singing, loud wailing noises
• Long extended instrumental ending with “ahhs” whispering over it
8. “Real Bad News”
9. “So Amazing” featuring Young Jeezy
• Uptempo
• “I’m a monster, I’m a killer.”
• Loud animal screams and howls like “Love Lockdown”
10. “That You Know” or “Tell Everybody” featuring Lil Wayne
• Harder rock vibe
• “Tell everybody that you know, that I don’t love you no mo’”
• “I’m back up on my grind.”
• Wayne’s verse: “Shit stink ’cause it’s pee-eww”
11. “Coldest Winter”
• “Goodbye my friends, will I ever love again?”
• “It’s pouring…it’s pouring.”*
*Rap-up
Blue, red, and yellow lights flashed across the giant panel as Kanye’s fourth studio album blasted through the speakers. Skinny, mixed race models, wearing nothing but black stiletto heels, posed through the entire 11 tracks. Some changed positions from time to time, sitting down, stretching, and performing other body contortions. The no photography rule was strictly enforced.
After the last track off 808s & Heartbreak played, the lights came up and Kanye appeared in a T-shirt and jeans. He went on to thank everyone for coming and expressed his gratitude to Beecroft for her hard work. He told the story of how he contacted the artist a week before the event. She said she listened to 808s and the album touched her “personal life” in a few ways. Kanye responded by saying he also felt touched by her work, referencing the naked women, which drew a laugh from the audience. We hear that the models were hired through an open casting call and reportedly paid $1000 each.
As rumored, the entire album is in Auto-Tune. Kanye launched into a speech about how much he loves using Auto-Tune and that lately the term has been associated with being “wack,” much to his dismay. “Never lose your childhood,” he told the crowd, explaining how he wanted to go back to feeling like a child, overwhelmed and carefree. Auto-Tune reminded him of those early days. As a kid, he thought the color pink was cool until someone told him “it was gay.” He then excitedly exclaimed, “Pink is better than blue!” ‘Ye expressed his admiration for T-Pain, saying “his light was so bright.” He further explained his belief that society and culture steal confidence and self-esteem from you when you’re a child. You’re born with it, but society takes it away. If he was 8 years old, he would have walked into a recording studio and told the engineer, “Give me Auto-Tune!” He officially declared it “the funnest thing to use.”
The album, which he completed over three weeks in Hawaii, is unlike anything Kanye has done. He happily classifies it as “pop” featuring heavy drums and pulsing electronic sounds. “People think pop is bad, but Michael Jackson was pop and who can compare to him?” Kanye asked, adding that he wants to categorize the album under “pop” in iTunes. Even though it was hard to make out lyrics over the booming system, we believe we heard Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy rapping on two tracks. The raw and revealing album puts Kanye on another level of artistry and a few strokes away from genius.
Responding to reviews, the Louis Vuitton Don said, “I don’t give a fuck if it’s hot or not, it’s from the heart… Would you judge a grandmother’s love? Give it two-and-a-half mics out of five?” Kanye said that he went to the Def Jam label heads and expressed how important it was that this album was released this year. He didn’t care if it wasn’t on the schedule or if they wanted a holiday push. He mentioned that he does have another album coming in June and he may be singing or rapping.
As the evening came to a close, the Chi-Town MC declared, “I’ve always been a fan of Vanessa’s work and strong imagery.” He liked the “idea of nudity because society told us to wear clothes at a certain point.” The night’s most poignant moment came when the rapper said, “The irony for me… I’ve talked about so many labels, Louis Vuitton this, Benz that… For me to lose the most important person to Hollywood.” He explained that the album’s closing track, “Coldest Winter,” is about his late mother, Donda West. According to him, the first ten tracks are about someone else who was close in his personal life, most likely ex-fiance Alexis Phiifer.
“I don’t know if you noticed, but I don’t talk about any of that stuff on the album—no stuntin’, no flashin’, just real things.” And for one night, Kanye West bared all.
Here is a tracklisting for 808s & Heartbreak based off what we could make out. No official titles were announced so take this for what it is.
1. “Welcome to Heartbreak”
2. “Heartless”
3. “Love Lockdown”
4. “Robocop”
5. “The Wrong Thing”
6. “In the Streets”
7. Title unknown
• Alternating heavy drum and beeping sounds
• More singing, loud wailing noises
• Long extended instrumental ending with “ahhs” whispering over it
8. “Real Bad News”
9. “So Amazing” featuring Young Jeezy
• Uptempo
• “I’m a monster, I’m a killer.”
• Loud animal screams and howls like “Love Lockdown”
10. “That You Know” or “Tell Everybody” featuring Lil Wayne
• Harder rock vibe
• “Tell everybody that you know, that I don’t love you no mo’”
• “I’m back up on my grind.”
• Wayne’s verse: “Shit stink ’cause it’s pee-eww”
11. “Coldest Winter”
• “Goodbye my friends, will I ever love again?”
• “It’s pouring…it’s pouring.”*
*Rap-up
Kanye Love Lockdown Performance.
Went to the taping of this yesterday before heading out to "Welcome Home DJ AM" party. Kanye had to do 3 takes to get it right. I respect him as a performer for that reason. He has to have it perfect. It doesn't matter if it's a small show or a full on concert, he gives every performance 110%.
The party tonight will be bonkers. DJ AM backing Jay-Z with an 8-piece orchestra. Can't Wait!
The party tonight will be bonkers. DJ AM backing Jay-Z with an 8-piece orchestra. Can't Wait!
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
DJ AM x Jay-Z
"Adam Goldstein – better known as DJ AM – is getting back behind the turntables as Jay-Z's deejay just a month after surviving a fiery plane crash that took four lives, he tells PEOPLE exclusively.
"He's the greatest rapper in the world," Goldstein, 35, says. "This is the biggest thing that's happened in my career."
In his first performance since the Sept. 19 Learjet crash that left him with second and third degree burns on his face and left arm, Goldstein will join Jay-Z at the Hollywood Palladium Wednesday. "
FUCK YEAH!
"He's the greatest rapper in the world," Goldstein, 35, says. "This is the biggest thing that's happened in my career."
In his first performance since the Sept. 19 Learjet crash that left him with second and third degree burns on his face and left arm, Goldstein will join Jay-Z at the Hollywood Palladium Wednesday. "
FUCK YEAH!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Cleaned up Heartless
Browsing through the web, I found this version that was redone by a fellow Kanye fan "ishaqfahim". Great re-work. Can't wait for this to drop.
Kanye West - Heartless (reworked)
Kanye West - Heartless (reworked)
DJ AM Welcome Home Party
DJ AM aka Adam Goldstein has been a close friend of both BPM Magazine and myself personally for many years now and we owe him a debt of gratitude that we can never repay, but we hope this helps just a bit…
KROQ & DECKSTAR in association with T-Mobile and BPM Magazine are hosting a very special event to WELCOME HOME DJ AM. The party will be filled with huge DJ performances, all by personal friends of AM including MARK RONSON, CUT CHEMIST, MIXMASTER MIKE, STEVE AOKI, MOMJEANS AKA DANNY MASTERSON, DJ VICE, DJ HOMICIDE, DJ SPIDER, JUS SKE, GRAHAM FUNKE, STONEROKK, DJ FASHEN & MIKE B.
The welcome home party goes down in one week, Tuesday October 14th at Avalon Hollywood (18+) from 10p-3am. Now before you ask there is NO guestlist, NO exceptions. Tickets are currently $20 each at www.wantickets.com with proceeds going towards the memorial funds of those lost in the recent tragedy.
Please check out the invite below and we hope you all can make it. This a once in a lifetime event and we’re proud to be a part of it…
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Spinning @ Level 3 Hollywood
Holla! I'm tempted to run a 4x for the event just for shits and giggles... We'll see.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Heartless...
This weekend in LA, Kanye dropped another exclusive. Slated to be the 2nd release of his next album, 808 and Heartbreaks, I give you... HEARTLESS.
This song is sick. The hooks got me!
In the night I hear it call,
The coldest story ever told,
Somewhere far along this road
He lost his soul,
To a woman so heartless
How could you be so heartless?
This song is sick. The hooks got me!
In the night I hear it call,
The coldest story ever told,
Somewhere far along this road
He lost his soul,
To a woman so heartless
How could you be so heartless?
Friday, October 3, 2008
NYC Banksy
Headline grabbing British street art star BANKSY grabbed even more attention this week when two massive new murals featuring his trademark rat character were unveiled in downtown NYC. The enormous spots were not the artist’s usual sneak attacks, however, as both images appeared on legally rented walls and were painted—in uncharacteristically plain sight over the course of several days—by commissioned Manhattan sign painters COLOSSAL MEDIA. Of course this has raised the eyebrows of the worldwide legion of the Banksy faithful that follow the Bristol Bad Boy’s every clandestine move with baited breath. Has Sir Banks given up his usual M.O. in favor of going legit? Has he made so much money that it’s safer to rent space and hire commercial painters than bomb? Is he qualified to run for Vice President of the USA? Unfortunately, none of these questions will be answered in the weeks to come.
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