Archive for March, 2011
New: Pusha T – “Lost In The World”
GOOD Music’s Pusha T (of Clipse) has released his version of Kanye West‘s Bon Iver-sampling “Lost In The World”. The new song will be included on Pusha’s highly anticipated new mixtape Fear Of God. It’s the same Pusha T we’ve grown to love and expect, adding his touch to Yeezy’s masterful beat. Eughk!
New Strokes Song + Video
Like The Strokes? Well then you’re in luck today because the always rocking New York City band has released a new song titled “You’re So Right” and a new music video for their album’s lead single “Under Cover of Darkness”. Angles will be released on March 21 in the UK via Rough Trade and on March 22 in the U.S. via RCA. Check out the new song here, the new video here, and Julian Casablancas’ description of the new song below.
Speaking to NME about the song, singer Julian Casablancas said: “I had some early REM vibes for a minute or two. It’s a darker one. It counters some of the happy vibes on the other tracks. I like dark things!”
New Starfucker Music Video
Starfucker has released a music video for “Quality Time”, a song from their new album Reptilians, set for a physical release on March 15th via Polyvinyl. You can read a review of the album here and watch the music video below.
Kanye West and Mos Def Freestyle at Blue Note
Kanye West and Mos Def kicked a freestyle on Sunday night at New York’s Blue Note, performing with the help of Robert Glasper and his Robert Glasper Experiment. Kanye’s verse was extremely impassioned, including references to the 2009 VMA incident between him and Taylor Swift.
Check out the performance below, courtesy of CiscoNYC.
Lupe Fiasco Talks Lasers: “I hate this album.”
“I had to do ‘Show Goes On,’ that was like the big chip on the table. I had to do it and it had to be the first single if the record was going to come out. And then there’s ‘Never Forget You’ [featuring John Legend]—which is another record I had nothing to do with—which became another bargaining chip, like, ‘Yo, after ‘Show Goes On’ there’s going to be this other record that you had nothing to do with.’ And I know John Legend, he’s a cool dude. But it was just a record he had sitting around and Exec A or Exec B heard it, and they were like, ‘Oh yeah! We’re going to put this on Lupe.’ And it wasn’t like, ‘Hey Lupe, do you like this song?’ it was like, ‘You got to do this record.'”
“One thing I try to stress about this project is, I love and hate this album. I listen to it and I’ll like some of the songs. But when I think about what it took to actually get the record together and everything that I went through on this record—which is something I can’t separate—I hate this album.”
On the topic of the album’s multiple delays, Lupe said, “It’s like, ‘Another album out but the main root of the problem is still unsolved.’ And then there are records you literally had nothing to do with. That was a part of the compromise. Compromise doesn’t mean everybody is going to be happy, it’s just we’re going to do the best thing we can. The best thing for both parties is for this album to come out. Whether that means we’re homies or whether that means everything is cool now, that’s a different story.”
Read the full interview here and be sure to check out Lasers on March 8th.
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