MuddyDonut
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Are they playing Bandz by Travis at game 7? Dude blew up real fast or am I'm hearing something else.
Sorry but thats nausea inducing, top five what?
And what is this comparion of VW to trap music?
See I fucks with Dom, its ok to like VW but dont act like that shit is groundbreaking.
That's cold. I forgive you because your mixes bang.That's all Ye had too
what kind of oppressive office do you work in?
How did more people buy his CD than Ye's when Ye's was missing copies on the shelf and all of Cole's stacks were full? Lmao
Man I work at a dental office. We got Pandora playing Dave Matthews all day
my condolences.
did you check that hus kingpin?
Can't call myself a Grizzly Bear fan. I only heard Shields and Veckatimest from them. I didn't think Veckatimest was all that great. I honestly thought it was incredibly inconsistent, but I do love Shields. Can't speak on Animal Centipede
I can see that video
I laughed at the beginning when drake got a handshake and cole didn't lol. They thought he was the weed man.
Man I work at a dental office. We got Pandora playing Dave Matthews all day
Good stuff there....kinda want.
Good stuff there
'Magna Carta Holy Grail,' the upcoming Jay-Z album is about everything but the music, and that's the point
When you're watching the three-minute teaser for Jay-Z's upcoming album Magna Carta Holy Grail, it is easy to forget that it is really just a lengthy commercial for Samsung. A mostly hand-held, Fade to Black-like snapshot of Jay in the studio recording and attempting Ray Lewis-like speeches to his crew of producers and engineers is sorta exciting if you don't think about it too hard. Rick Rubin, Pharrell Williams, Swizz Beatz, and Timbaland are all there! That one beat almost sounds like the theme song to River's Edge or something, and then it goes dubstep, but, like, real U.K. dubstep, not the hammy brostep wub-wub heard on Watch the Throne's "Who Gon' Stop Me" (and yes, we know Flux Pavilion is English)!
Samsung has purchased a million copies of the upcoming Jay album and will be providing it to their Galaxy phone customers three days before the record enters stores and digital locations like iTunes. This is a low-key commercial for an imminent Jay-Z/Samsung game of synergy that is going to sell what will be just another Jay-Z album as a slab of high-minded rap art and Who Moved My Cheese?-esque business brilliance all at once, when it's really neither. Jay-Z's Twitter ramped up this angle, presenting Samsung's plan as some kind of paradigm-shifting rocking of the industry: "If 1 Million records gets SOLD and billboard doesn't report it, did it happen? ha. #newrules #magnacartaholygrail Platinum!!! VII IV XIII." That tweet is way more revealing than it probably intends to be. Namely, it is evidence that the distribution model and corporate involvement surrounding this album is what actually matters. His business plan for promoting the album is based on the idea of the album as a business plan.
There's also a legendarily head-up-his-ass insider quality to that tweet because it engages in business talk that music fans just don't follow. Yes, we've all been trained to consider sales numbers, turning popular art into a numbers-crunching sports exercise, but just sit back and think of the inside baseball going on here: The ever-evolving, "What's a sale" debate that finds Billboard changing its algorithms gets transformed into some pseudo-visionary hip-hop boast, grandiosely thrown at Jay-Z's fans. Normal people don't care about this process, but they're being made to care because Jay-Z is inserting himself into the process. In that commercial/trailer, Jay-Z pontificates on the Internet, calling it "the wild wild west, framing Magna Carta Holy Grail (just a terrible title, by the way) as a product that will explore this territory. He's assisting a corporate manipulation of music from top-down and painting it as some Steve Jobs-like burst of brilliance. It's Kanye's Yeezus "rap game Apple visionary" buld-up already turned into a marketing scheme.
Also, you have downed a pretty undiluted strain of business-fuck Kool-Aid when you can consider literally selling your album to a corporation as establishing "new rules." Yes, this is an unprecedented kind of selling out, but that doesn't really mean anything anymore, especially in the world of rap which has always been more bottom line-oriented. Regardless of one's opinion on the topic, it is a guy teaming up with a phone company and selling his album to them, so that they can sell it to some of you early, as if that's something you should be thankful for, or would even want? It doesn't matter if this album is any good. It has already sold a million copies. It's an obnoxious, possessive attempt to stop album leaks and a gross way to sell music fans on the idea of full-stop corporate crossover as a necessary (or even revolutionary) act.
Plus, this isn't some mid-level rap or metal band teaming up with Scion for a cash infusion, this is one of the richest and most successful rappers/businessmen on the planet gaming the system with the help of a big corporation. It's not about sales. It's about will-to-power domination (winning on top of winning, just because) and taking momentary control of something (the music industry) that is slipping away from the people who used to be in control. This could not be more status quo. Corporations and the old guard have gotten everything wrong about the Internet, so unsurprisingly, they will now pat themselves on the back for a feckless manipulation and paint it as being with-it and adjusting to the times. Here's how Internet rap and artistic sustainability really play out: Locate a way to control every element of an album (i.e., product tie-in), including its first-week sales buzz, and package it as game-change. Don't buy into it.
North West really? Whats wrong with like Allison
Kanye already said he wanted to name his son North. Guess he figured 1 kid w/ Kim was enough so he'd just go w/ it for the girl.
It's better than Blue Ivy...I think.
Blue Ivy is the trashiest name ever
at least North West is hilarious
5 Chainz shop for TD would be betterAnybody watching Game 7?
I'm hoping that we can get a 2 chainz 'shop for Lebron.
North West really? Whats wrong with like Allison
so Gibbs just dropped an AOTY contender
ESGN is AOTY, DAMN! I'm done, fuck, gotta score me some pussy right now.
PP truly let me down by not catching that oneDat Kevin Hart reference
PP truly let me down by not catching that one