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Let me being by saying how amazing it is to live in a time when the “finest” minds of our generation have spent a week exhaustively parsing the merits of an album called Yeezus . God bless the internet. I think this album is remarkable in many ways, few of which have much to do with its first week talking points. I’ve never in my life heard an album, (and yes this thing, these 10 tracks, whatever they may be, are very much a cohesive unit that invite multiple front to back listens) that provokes so many [...]

After their grooviest output yet, album Holy Fire (released February 11th on Transgressive Records), Foals follows up the extremely unsettling video for " Late Night ." A video with an ending scene that depicts a man hanging himself with another assumedly deathly scenario. Foals are making a tradition of these NSFW videos. The opening scene of "Bad Habit" finds Foals' lead singer Yannis Philippakis collapsed in the dessert. Suddenly Yannis is spurred on by the band's trademark spunky guitar lines as he stumbles after a nude woman, representative of, "A bad habit. one he cannot shake." One he urges [...]

DJs Gianni Lee and Mike Blud have assembled the samples that Kanye and his producers used in "Yeezus" in the appropriately titled "Yeezus: The Samples." While the Soundcloud link features a #NoTrackList , Pitchfork was kind enough to provide the tracklist for your perusal: 01 Intro (Prod By Gianni Lee) 02 Holy Name of Mary Choral Family: "He'll Give Us What We Really Need ("On Sight") 03 Marilyn Manson: "The Beautiful People" ("Black Skinhead") 04 Capleton: "Forward Inna Dem Clothes" ("I Am A God") 05 Omega, Omega: "Gyöngyhajú lány" [...]

• GianniLee - Yeezus - The Samples ( Mixtape Stream ) Gianni Lee x Mike Blud #NoTrackList

Two and a half years after My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy , Kanye West delivers his 6th solo studio album and it is nothing like the rest. An odd combination of extremely hyped and not at all hyped,  Yeezus went largely without the typical promotion processes (such as a LEAD SINGLE) and is still expected to push about 500,000 copies, placing it very solidly atop the charts.  Yeezus  is many, many things, many of them polarizing, but perhaps the one undeniable adjective about the album is 'unique.' Like it or not, Kanye set out to do whatever he [...]

Can't Tell Me Nothing with Zach Galifianakis - High Quality Video This is the highest-quality version of 'Can't Tell Me Nothing' on YouTube. Song: Can't Tell Me Nothing by Kanye West Video: Zach Galifianakis and Will Oldham Exec. Producer: Kanye West Producers: Zach Galifianakis and Inman Young Director: Michael Blieden Editor: Michael Blieden For more on Zach Galifianakis, visit: http://www.zachgalifianakis.co m/ For more on Kanye West, visit: http://www.kanyeuniversecity.c om - For more on DJ Matt Werner, visit: http://mattswriting.com

To celebrate the success of our recent monthly DJ event "Uptempo's How We Keep It", we've decided to release Kero One's refix of Daft Punk's new track "Lose yourself to Dance". Kero One has made the track harder by adding new drums, rearranging the sequence, adding new synthesizers, and topping that off with a mash of Kanye's raps. www.twitter.com/keroone

The latest track off Yeezus is a dark ballad with Chicago rapper King L. Check out Send It Up below and get ready, Yeezus is about to POP OFF.

Today The New York Post reported that just days before his fifth studio album is set to be released Kanye West is still working on the songs. Yeezus is slated for a June 18 release date but apprently 'Ye brought producer Rick Rubin in to help get new tracks in order. The sample he used [...]

In a recent interview with Huffpost Live , Kanye and Jay-Z producer, Mike Dean shared some details about Yeezus and Wa tch The Throne 2 .  Dean revealed that Kanye has been working on Yeezus for about the past six months and was actually still working on it as of today, but is still slated for a June 18th release.  Also in the video, Dean said that the new album is "not an extension of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy .  It's a new work of art."  As far as the [...]

Like him or hate him, Kanye's a pretty big deal, and he knows it. Sunday, at Governors Ball in New York, Kanye performed new material from his upcoming album "Yeezus." New tracks included "I Am a God," "On Site," and some currently unknown new material. These tracks follow his bombastic debut of "New Slaves" and "Black Skinhead" on SNL under a month ago. The sound of these new tracks is certainly darker than ever, with booming bass that seems to signal not a dubstep-style drop but a coming apocalypse. Screeching sound effects and a serious, no-nonsense [...]

“Kanye West is undoubtedly one of the most exciting producer/artists to emerge in the last decade. His music is one of the few I can safely say I whole-heartedly admire (next to the late great J. Dilla). I had the pleasure of producing “The Morning” off of 2012′s highly anticipated “Kanye West Presents: G.O.O.D. Music Cruel Summer” LP. During the creation of that song, and between the months of July 2012 – March 2013, I created a handful of tracks with Kanye West in mind. This is a collection of some of that music. It features collaborations and co-production from [...]

• Illmind - !.B.F.K.W. (!llmind Beats For Kanye West) EP

Kanye West has had a few cool album covers in his day. "Graduation" featured Takashi Murakami's cutesy pop direction with an overload of colors, followed by the simplicity of the balloon heart on "808s and Heartbreak," followed by George Condo's bizarre rendering of West mounted by a female phoenix for "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy." And Kanye is also the kind of guy to feel that with this next cover, he must change everything. Perhaps he felt that with "My Beautiful" he had peaked and that there could literally be no room for improvement within the traditional [...]

Uptown XO and gets together with Creative Junkfood on this new, animated music video for the track "Everyday." The video brings a lot of fun, playful visuals, but the song itself is stone cold serious as Uptown XO and AB the Pro make some pretty bold statements and comparisons. Stream Uptown XO's new full-length via the widget below: Colour de Grey by Uptown XO

Despite the plethora of hype building under this Texas MC and producer, Travis Scott's Owl Pharaoh doesn't sound like much more than a rap demo that bites its influences a little too hard. WATCH THE REVIEW

88-Keys ft. Kanye West - Stay Up ‘Stay Up’  was the first single from 88-Keys’ debut solo release, The Death of Adam . Even though the track is form 2008, this is one song that Yeezy features on that many of his self-proclaimed fans never seem to know about. 

The hood is really loving this one, 10k+ in just one day. Jonwayne showcasing his lyrical mastermind on this Pusha T/ Kanye produced joint. Click through to the soundcloud for the lyrics. Oh yeah, and, I read on Stones Throw that the Cassette series may be a trilogy? #fingerscrossed PS grab the recently released Daytime Naps .

To be fair, he merely sampled the pole.

Three remarkable singles over the past few months have lead us to Chance the Rapper’s second mixtape, Acid Rap , which is blowing up the internet even as I write this. And for good reason: Acid Rap serves as a remarkable (if not all that surprising) showcase for a very young and very talented MC. Acid Rap does not have the appetizer sampler feel of a lot of other mixtapes, and is buffered with excellent guest vocals from the likes of Twista, Action Bronson, and (surprisingly) Chance’s mentor of sorts Childish Gambino. None of whom, [...]

• Chance The Rapper - Favorite Song (ft. Childish Gambino)
• Chance The Rapper - Juice

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"I ask, 'cause I'm not sure: do anybody make real shit anymore?" It's a conundrum up to which the contemporary recording artist must have to face on a nigh on daily basis and, to surmise, although there may be plenty continuing to make the real shit to which dear Kanye here refers, originality is all but a thing of the past by and large. You know, to state the ineluctable obvious, and whatnot... Though imitation can, and indeed often is the sincerest form of flattery, and this an aphorism Ontario troupe [...]