VOYR is our all access pass into the behind the scenes happening at Kanye and his big brother, Jay-Z‘s Watch The Throne tour. The daily video series will give us an insight into the hard work that goes into living life as Kanye West. Yes, they still work even after earning millions. Ye drops a plethora of quotables in this short first episode: ‘It’s a pursuit and responsibility. If people have done things before, you should be able to surpass them. I’m on a pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum’. BOOM. Inspiring, watch it on the reverse! Right off to bed I go..
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Bieber fever is at an all time high and while the lil dude is in the middle of recording his next album, he is also in the middle of a little promo tour to support the release of his Christmas album entitled Under The Mistletoe. One of his promo pit stops was to visit radio station Power 106 where, in addition to talking about his festive offering, he treated listeners to a short freestyle over Jay-Z and Kayne‘s ‘Otis’. I say freestyle but he had preselected Otis as a track that he wanted to rap over so it could be that he wrote his rhymes beforehand but never the less the kid done a pretty good job. This is not the first time he has slipped on his rap hat, see here, and i’m sure it won’t be the last, who know he may even be the next Chris Brown. We all know he thinks he’s a rapper now lol, not that he’s bad at it either. Anywho see how Bieber fairs after the break.
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Beyonce hooks up with J.Cole to shoot the visuals for the second remix of her track, Party. Set in a trailer park garden full of cool friends including Theophilus London, sister Solange, Cassie, Kelly Rowland and others, the video takes it back to the old school with neon outfits, crazy nails and an inflatable pool which really just makes you wish you were there! It’s lovely to see the beautiful Solange making an appearance in this video, it seems Beyonce was feeling rather nostalgic when she decided on the cast for this shoot as even former band mate, Kelly Rowland makes an appearance! Hit the jump for shots of fun, around 15 outfit and hair changes by Beyonce and an amazing Keith Harring dress I would die for!
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Gosh I don’t think anyone would have thought they’d be writing about the Chicago rapper’s high fashion line when he emerged onto the rap scene in 2004 with College Dropout. Ye has been constantly breaking boundaries between the world of fashion and music since then from his pause-worthy fashion sense, to dating models and constant front row appearances. I was quite apprehensive about him releasing a collection since Pastelle never saw the light of day but he’s suprised me with this Jil Sander-esque collection. Sexy. “The biggest conversation I hope I can end tonight is whole ‘celebrity designer’ thing,” he said once he’d managed to collect himself. “That’s the biggest hurdle when you want to get amazing people to work for you.” Pretty sure he managed to successfully do that with the show, the likes of Jeremy Scott and Alexander Wang applauding the rapper’s debut show with positive comments. Ye didn’t wow us with something whacky or revolutionary – the collection features a lot of sexy dresses, gothic, bondage vibes throughout all the pieces. Plenty of leather jackets and skirts. You can see the streetwear influences with the hooded jacket that’s reminds of BAPE hoodies, don’t you think so too? More on the reverse.
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I’m taking it waaaaaaay back, you will all know this song because it’s been sampled/covered by numerous artists over the years. However NOTHING touches this version by the legendary soul singer Otis Redding. I bet a lot of you didn’t know Otis died at the age of 26 in a horrific plane crash, sad story. His music lives on 40 years on, can you believe he released 6 albums in the space of 4 years? That’s more than your Rihanna’s & Beyonce’s put together. I wanted ya’ll to hear the original mainly because of the Ye’ & Jay sampled ‘Otis’ which I am a fan of but it doesn’t come close. Nuh uh. Hop on after the cut.
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Last week, we resuscitated Eargasms back to life. Ya’ll seemed to like it so we’re back again with 5 more songs. To be honest, this week could have easily been dedicated to Watch The Throne and with all the riots – it’s been a really quiet week in terms of music, in fact I don’t think people were paying as much attention!? I know I wasn’t. So we’ve only got 4 choices, enjoy. Eargasmic!
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Last night I saw a tweet from Funkmaster Flex, “(Video) Tinie Tempah Freestyles Over “Otis”. I genuinely smirked at this. I’ve never ever been a fan of Tinie Tempah, from his ‘Wifey Riddum’ days through to ‘Pass Out’ – I respected his hustle…but certainly not his rhymes. I decided to check out Flex’s blog for the link to the video, just because I was interested in seeing what the Americans had to say. I wasn’t actually planning on watching the video. But I’m glad I did. Check out the freestyle on the other side.
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