I’ll be honest and say most of what I’ve heard from Mos’ new album has been wack. He’s one of those dudes I will always check for as a result of the Blackstar/Black On Both Sides era. I’m not sure what company (Current?) he’s linked up with to present this but this is a million times better than the “official” video. If you’re bored and want to see him faded, talking a lot of shit, and spitting a fairly serious freestyle that’s HERE. That was the first “promo” I heard for the new album, and for awhile there I thought shit was on. Maybe it still is, we’ll see. You can check an album sampler for The Ecstatic HERE. It has dope album art, I’ll give it that.
“Drake” is happening. The LAF is co-signing. If you tried fucking with him but couldn’t get into his music, it will grow on you. The hipsters like him (the hipsters I know), the girl I work with who hasn’t bought a CD since Tha Carter III loves him, and he does okay as far as Hip-Hop dinosaur purist types go. The cross-over appeal is serious. His humility, in my opinion, makes him hard to hate. Yes he was a child star, he’s Canadian and does not have a G pass and apparently that’s not Hip-Hop. But this dude has managed to create the biggest buzz I can remember in my nerd rap life. I’m young though so I guess that doesn’t count for much.
Point being this is your last chance, HERE’s his mixtape, HERE’s one of the best songs from said mixtape JSE was up on in December (the first time I heard Drake), HERE’s another, and above is an interview by Semtex in Hyde Park, London.
Reblogged from Hypebeast and other streetwear outlets, James Jebbia, founder of Supreme NY recently granted Interview Magazine an interview. He touches perceptively on reselling, artist collaboration, the Japanese market, and the definitive emergence of the brand, quoted below.
“These companies had to sell to a wide range of people, and a lot of them were very young. When people think of skaters, they think of, like, the 12- or 13- or 14-year-old kid. But in New York, it was the 18-to-24-year-old hardcore kid who wasn’t wearing any skate stuff. They’d wear a hat or whatever, but they wouldn’t wear the clothing,because it would fit badly and was bad quality, and skaters want to look good and pick up girls. So we slowly started making our own stuff. It was a time when it was a lot easier to do that kind of thing. It was easier to make a sweatshirt in Brooklyn, or do these hats locally, because you could get nice things made fairly easily.”
Either you know what to expect from a Nardwuar interview and thus will probably watch this, or you need to watch your first Nardwuar interview.. right now. (My only complaint is that Nard missed the “Yes you can!” after Lykke kicked the “Can I Kick It” verse…)
Since I respect Drake as an emcee for obvious reasons and this is the first interview video I’ve seen of him I figured I’d post it. (Video may only work in Mozilla Firefox)
Kool Keith stayys on point. Honestly click play because the shit he teaches works. My fridge is like tonic water, red peppers, no-label label potato salad, and bisquick. It gets left alone son furreal. He plays Richards February 19th.
Kid Cudi talks about working on 808’s and Heartbreak with Kanye West, shows us what a room full of groupies looks like, and eats rice krispie squares. Consequence and Mr. Hamilton do their thing as well… Oh yeah, and Kid Cudi and Consequence divulge a fair bit of info regarding their upcoming albums. Basically, the video is definitely worth watching if you’re a fan of any of these artists.
There will soon be more to see around here as we’re adding a new dimension to the site: a non-music-related branch of the LAF. The following video is the type of post you’ll see on there—actually, this post is more like one extreme end of the spectrum. The new blog will probably include only 10% make-you-think content. The rest of it will be composed of 50% eye-candy… and 40%.. make-you-laugh content. In other words, it’ll be ill, so keep it locked or come back in a month or whatever..
Now back to the much more important topic of this video…
At the very least, this is worth watching in its entirety. I personally am so glad to see this guy speaking out. It’s refreshing to hear—no matter how biased or exaggerated of an opinion you or I may think he is expressing.
An mc that you should hear if you haven’t heard of him yet. Perhaps this interview will inspire you to seek out some of his music that isn’t featured in the video…
Someone put me up on this dude like a week or two ago (thanks Kirsten!) and I was like damn how do I write on a music blog and still sleep on dope shit ….. for shame.
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