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Video: Jay-Z & Kanye West – “N*ggas In Paris”

Well, I guess this right here was inevitable. Kanye West and Jay-Z‘s Watch The Throne megahit “N*ggas In Paris” now has a seizure-inducing music video, composed mostly of live footage from Kanye and Hov’s recent US tour. Flashing lights, mirror image effects, Kanye and Jay dancing… it’s all there.

Thoughts?

If you aren’t feeling creative, feel free to copy and paste one of the following suggested comments:

  • That shit cray!
  • Ball so hard…
  • I don’t even know what that means.
  • blah blah blah something about the Illuminati
  • If you just so happen to be named Aubrey Drake Graham, you can use this one: “I’m just feeling like the throne is for the taking… watch me take it!”

Listen: Main Attrakionz – “Focalin”

Big day for Oakland rap duo Main Attrakionz! Just after releasing the dates for their first ever US tour, MondreM.A.N. and Squadda B posted up a new song produced by Tyler Bisson, the twinkling, hypnotic “Focalin”. It’s quite similar in style to 2011’s free full-length 808’s and Dark Grapes II, one of the best mixtapes released last year (even including a lone feature from Harlem’s ASAP Rocky). You can check out “Focalin” and the group’s tour dates below. Over the next two months, the California natives will make their way across the country into New England and into the South before wrapping everything up at this year’s SXSW.

MP3: Main Attrakionz – “Focalin”

Main Attrakionz 2012 Tour Dates:

2/10 @ Pomona College – Claremont, CA
2/19 @ Grand Central – Miami, FL
3/1  @ Middle East Upstairs – Boston, MA
3/2 @ Connecticut College – New London, CT
3/3 @ Sarah Lawrence  College – Bronxville, NY
3/4 @ Glasslands Gallery – Brooklyn, NY
3/5 @ Webster Hall Studio – Manhattan, NY
3/6 @ Strange Matter – Richmond, VA
3/7 @ Longshanks – Greensboro, NC
3/8 @ Proud Larry’s – Oxford, MS
3/10 @ 35 Denton Festival – Denton, TX
3/12-17 @ SXSW

Odd Future’s Earl Sweatshirt Returns

After being reportedly stuck in a Samoan camp for quite some time, it appears that Odd Future‘s Earl Sweatshirt has finally come back home. The young rap prodigy, most known for his fantastic mixtape, Earl, created both a Twitter and Tumblr account, and has also released a youtube video teasing new material in return for receiving 50,000 followers. Upon reaching the milestone, Earl tweeted a link to his new website, Terttlefer.com (turtle effer?), which contained a new song fittingly titled “Home”.

MP3: Earl Sweatshirt – “Home”

The Los Angeles based hip hop skateboard collective, who have a busy year ahead, also released the album art (shown above) to OF Tape Vol. 2, which fits into their established style and features OF collaborator Lucas Vercetti. Check out the music video for Earl Sweatshirt’s “EARL” below.

Download: Curren$y – Here EP

So apparently, Curren$y woke up yesterday morning and instead of getting ready for the Super Bowl like much of the world, decided to record and release a new five track EP for free. Spitta’s always been known for his diehard work ethic, but this seems to be an entirely new level for the woozy-flowed rapper: recording, preparing, and releasing an entire project in just a few hours. After numerous releases in 2011, Here is Curren$y’s first project of the year and hopefully the first of many. You can download the entire thing for free here.

DOWNLOAD: Datpiff

Jennifer Herrema Says Avalanches Record Out This Year With Danny Brown

In a recent interview with Pitchfork, Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux and  RTX (now Black Bananas) fame teased some new details about the long-delayed Avalanches release. Not only did Herrema team up with the Australian band to write lyrics for a new song titled “The Stepkids”, but Herrema also told Pitchfork, “They said the album is definitely going to come out this year. And I heard Danny Brown is going to guest on the record, too.” Wow. If the new record does indeed come out this year, it will be the group’s first studio album since 2000’s critically-acclaimed Since I Left You. Not much else is known, but current working titles for the album include On A Saturday and Friday Night Fever.

Herrema’s new album as Black Bananas, Rad Times Xpress IV, is out tomorrow.