Art of The Day

The Giraffe Tower by Outlandish One

Kanye was Thinking Lamborghini Doors

The 33-year-old said, “there were times that I contemplated suicide. I will not give up on life again.”
He also revealed his 3rd single “All of the Lights” off his upcoming album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
The track features 11 artists, including Rihanna, Alicia Keys, The Dream, John Legend, Elton John, Kid Cudi, Charlie Wilson, and others. Kanye described “Lights” as “completely seamless and ghetto as f*ck!”
Yesterday I told you that Kanye took to this Twitter page to brag about his graphic album cover being “banned in the U.S.A.” It turns out the album’s cover is only banned at discount retailers Walmart and Target in the US.

Take One For the Team

New Kanye track featuring...well look at the cover lol.
http://www.mediafire.com/?4loe126658692eo

New Cassidy

Game - All Day, All Night feat.Cassidy http://usershare.net/XclusivesZone/c8mre7p2lrmz

Art of the Day

By: Unknown

Indianapolis Music Fest is today

The badasses behind last year's blockbuster Heavy Gun Showcase & Beat Battle are returning October 16, 2010 to present the Heavy Gun Showcase & Beat Battle II: The Sequel!

Performances From:
Brad Real
Grey Granite
G Scott Bailey
Hinx Jones
Jack & Crown
Mic Sol & Ace One
Mudkids
NightRiders
Oreo Jones
Pro Forms
Scoot Dubbs
Wiz Kids

Producers in the Beat Battle:
25 Lighters
90 Lbs
Beach House
Blake Ali
Dawhud
Defame
El Carnicero
Firearms
Hakim
Joe Harvey
JP from Dirty Thirty
Lonegevity
Motif
Ruse One
Soul Cinematik
Who is Louis?

ALL AGES WELCOME!!!

Cover: $5
All Day BRMF Bracelet: $10

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TIME SLOTS!!!
2:00 - 3:00 - First Round of Beat Battle
3:00 - 3:20 - Oreo Jones
3:20 - 3:40 - Jack & Crown
3:40 - 4:00 - Brad Real
4:00 - 4:35 - Second Round of Beat Battle
4:40 - 4:50 - Mic Sol & Ace One
4:50 - 5:10 - Pro Forms
5:10 - 5:25 - G Scott Bailey
5:25 - 5:40 - Hinx Jones
5:40 - 6:00 - Wiz Kids
6:00 - 6:30 - Third Round of Beat Battle
6:30 - 7:00 - MudKids
7:00 - 7:20 - Scoot Dubs
7:20 - 7:40 - NightRiders
7:40 - 8:00 - Grey Granite
8:00 - 8:30 - Final Round of Beat Battle

Art of the Day

By Damien Newton

Penfield 2010 Winter Sanford Beanie

With the cold weather on the cusp of freezing our precious ear lobes off and humbling our heads with its iciness, Penfield’s Winter Sanford Beanie is a perfect accessory to snap up before the cold snap. Featured in four different knit colorways with contrasting stripes and a bold ‘Penfield’ across the brow, this toque will add a touch of color against a gray winter backdrop.

Oh, and if you’re ever buried up to your head in snow, that pom-pom on the top might just save your life!

JYJ - Ayyy Girl (Feat. Kanye West, Malik Yusef)

Raised By Wolves

I WANT ONE SOOOO BAD!!! RBW from Ottawa. Mad dope

A Drake Song I Actually Like

So I seen Drake's new video for " Find Your Love " and I have to give props. The song reminds me of Drake's old mixtape " So Far Gone " and Kanye did a nice job on the production. It makes me wonder what Kanye is doing for his new album, which I heard he started working on it since January. I mean this song isn't good enough to make me want to buy the album, but good job on the song Drake & Kanye.

Rihanna? Sex Toys?

The 22-year-old Bardbadian singer is busy with her European tour, but that doesn't mean she isn't leaving time for fun.Rihanna was recently spotted in Paris doing some shopping at a Louis Vuitton boutique as well as a sex shop called Toy's Me. She looked beautiful while out and about in Paris sporting a trench coat and boots.

Rihanna is no stranger to all things sexual. You can tell from her recent performances on stage with all that crotch grabbing along with her playful yet sexual lyrics in her song "Rude Boy," that this girl likes to have some freaky fun. She owns her sexuality like none other, just another reason to love her.

DOM KENNEDY

DOM. KENNEDY graced the streets of Los Angeles in 2008 with the release of his debut project, entitled 25th Hour. The Leimert Park native made a name for himself by performing at various events and venues including the popular Sneaker Pimps Tour and the world famous House of Blues. The amazing response to his live shows ignited his ambitions to self-produce, distribute and promote the 25th Hour mix-tape, which now stays in heavy rotation on Southern California play-lists. With his witty yet ingenious lyrics, Dom Kennedy has proven that he is not your average West Coast emcee.

Who Is Stalley?

Hailing from a state that hasn't seen a national championship in over 60 years, Stalley has always been adamant on bringing the title back home. Leaving to play Division 1 basketball in Michigan, his time out there would be brief after an injury. But his goal to bring a champion back home would lead him to New York to pursue his new focus; music. In 2008, he connected with Ohio's own, Terry Urban on the mixtape release "Goin Ape"as well as toured opening for Mos Def. Currently Stalley has been working with ALIFE and GFCnewyork, the collective responsible for the success of Mickey Factz. He's recently released his 2nd project titled "MadStalley: The Autobiography" where he pens his journey and experiences over re-worked Madlib productions. Massillon's Stallion is putting his whole state on his back, as he rides to leave a trail for the voices and stories of those unheard. Stalley says, "The theme music of champions is now back here in Ohio. Now all Lebron has to do is get us that trophy so we can celebrate."

Kanye's First Performance Since the VMA's

Kanye West hit the stage with Common, Mos Def and Talib Kweli during Common’s benefit concert last night in LA. In the footage above, Kanye, Common, Mos and Kweli perform Good Life, Run This Town, Make Her Say, Flashing Lights and Get Em High.

NOBLE YOUTH

In 1922, the poet Carl Sandburg summed up actors since the seventeenth century in a single line of verse: “They all want to play Hamlet.” As it turns out, nearly all of them have—from John Barrymore to Liev Schreiber, Sarah Bernhardt to Ethan Hawke. “Someone once told me that you don’t play Hamlet—Hamlet plays you,” says Jude Law, the latest star to join the brooding pantheon. “He demands such a reveal of your inner feelings and thoughts that you have to open yourself up to him and see where he takes you.”

So far, Hamlet has taken the 36-year-old actor to the West End, where last summer he dazzled critics and drew adoring crowds with his charismatic performance in the Donmar Warehouse director Michael Grandage’s sinuous staging of Shakespeare’s existential tragedy. This month, after a brief stop in Denmark (at the real Elsinore Castle), Law and Co. open in New York for a twelve-week run at the Broadhurst. Despite moments when he felt, as he puts it, “the fear of God,” Law, after a seven-year hiatus, was thrilled to return to the stage, especially in such a demanding role. “You don’t often get to play a character with so many facets, who gives you so many opportunities to delve into your arsenal as an actor,” he says. “Ultimately, it’s why you’ll never have a definitive Hamlet—each actor has a different color, a different tone, and each brings out a different side of him. You can’t capture it all—which is a relief.”

In the London production, Law, with his sculptural features and tousled locks, his wiry frame clad in black jeans and T-shirt, easily captured a certain rumpled aristocracy. As his director observes, “We need Hamlet to walk on, and we need to see the crown prince standing before us.” But Law also captured Hamlet’s mercurial nature with remarkable intensity and self-assurance. He seems to be at his best when giving the audience access to Hamlet’s inner world, as when he delivers the “To be or not to be” speech slouched against a concrete wall beneath a swirl of falling snow. “I realized that I was blessed with an actor who really only plays it in the moment,” Grandage says. “He actually lets the play happen to him on a nightly basis.”

The two decided that their Hamlet had had a wonderful childhood, which allowed Law to react spontaneously to each fresh horror. “We found it astoundingly liberating,” says Grandage. “Both Jude and I benefited from happy childhoods—I know it’s not very fashionable to say that these days—and we were able to draw on that for the building of the character.”

The son of teachers, Law grew up in Lewisham, South London, where, as a schoolboy, he discovered a gift for the stage. “Standing up and pretending to be someone else seemed to come quite naturally to me,” he recalls. “I’m not sure what that says about me. I suppose that, as a kid, when people tell you that you’re good at something, you figure, Well, I’m rubbish at maths—might as well try something else.” Law practiced his craft in regional theater before making a name for himself in London—and later in New York—as a fragile innocent who disports himself sans costume in Cocteau’s Les Parents Terribles. But with his almost absurd good looks, tempered by a hint of vulnerability, Law was destined for the big screen. He has built a film career playing characters endowed with, and trapped by, eternal youth—a never-grow-up quality that, judging by the very public vicissitudes of his private peccadilloes, the actor doesn’t always leave on the set.

Hamlet, of course, is the original aging adolescent—society is corrupt, everyone’s a phony, and I want to kill myself—unable to reconcile his ideals with reality. When asked if he sees any parallels between Hamlet’s dilemma and his own life, Law allows that the melancholy Dane’s sense of betrayal and of being misunderstood ring a bell: “He feels hugely let down by the behavior of others, which I can certainly relate to, and yet he’s ultimately sort of singled out as the one who is troublesome and problematical.”

There is something ever-elusive about Law—which makes him perfectly suited to mine the contradictions of a figure that audiences have been trying to pin down for centuries. “You see Hamlet struggling with these questions about why we’re here and what the work of life is, but ultimately, as with all great writing, the answers are really left up to us,” Law says. “At the heart of this character is someone we all recognize as ourselves.”

Pixie Geldof’s Hair-Raising Stories

When we encountered Pixie Geldof backstage at the C’N'C show in Milan last night, her hair was being tortured. Enrico Mariotti, the man in charge of her now recognizable platinum blond coif, was yanking, back-combing, tweezing, teasing, stretching, and gluing her over-processed locks into a frizzled nest on the top of her head. “This is nothing,” he said, pulling out his iPhone for some show-and-tell of his masterpieces from Jeremy Scott’s Spring show, where Geldof sported a tall, Flintstones-style updo with technicolored, crimped extensions exploding form a bone-shaped clasp. “It bobbed when I walked,” Geldof recalled of the runway look. “I would totally wear that hairpiece to a party,” she added in what was likely complete seriousness (we were talking to London’s resident wild child, after all). With all the extreme styling that her natural hair is frequently subjected to, we couldn’t help but wonder if she struggles with breakage—or worse, if chunks of her hair ever just fall out. So we asked. “I have my methods on hair maintenance,” she said, revealing a few tricks of the peroxide-application trade. “When I bleach, I don’t wash my hair for a few days before; that way my scalp is dirty and protected from the chemicals. Then post-dye, I leave it dirty again so that my natural hair oils feed and repair my hair.” Ah. So there is, in fact, a method to the madness. Alas, if only we had time to get her notes on the art of country-to-country party-hopping and up-all-night antics. Another time.

A Revolution is Rising

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WIZ KIDS!!!!!

I know this is late but the wiz kids dropped there mixtape about two weeks ago. Support the group and download the mixtape "Financial Aid: Semester 1". You can download it athttp://www.datpiff.com/DJ_DayDay_Wiz_Kids_Kal-J_GQ_Brent_the_Gent_.m67425.html

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