I had to press pause on Common’s new album, 3 songs in and it was sounding GOOD. One of the better hip-hop releases this year. When it comes to R&B – this year has been all about The Weeknd and Frank Ocean. Abel Tesfaye dropped House of Balloons then Thursday and now the finale to the mixtape trilogy; Echoes of Silence is unleashed on the interwebs, just in time for Christmas. Woah the first track is a cover of Michael Jackson’s Dirty Diana and he kills it! download link on the reverse.
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Sorry for the mini-mid week hiatuses from us. It’s honestly down to work and when you come home from work around midnight and have to wake up at 6:45 to get in early – your body nor your mind wants to write any blogposts. This guy has been doing the rounds on Tumblr for a whole minute now but I’ve only just come across his page recently because the platform has started to grow on me. I’m still not too keen on it, have stopped photographs on there if you’ve noticed. It’s for the lazy bloggers. Back to Replace Face – I have no idea who this guy is. Does anyone know!? I want to give him/her a pat on the back. He’s taken the works of George Dawe, an English portrait artist during the Napoleonic Era and combining them photographs of friends, family and celebrities using Photoshop. They’re all really well done, in fact they look like actual paintings. More on the reverse.
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The Michael Jackson tribute concert is ever closer and news regarding the star is starting to surface. Facebook have announced that they are to stream the concert live on their website and have dubbed it as “the first ever Pay-Per View event available to Facebook’s global audience”. The concert is set to take place on October 8th starting at 10AM costing 40 Facebook credits ($3.99) – this is the price if purchased before the 8th - 50 Facebook credits ($4.99) – when purchased on the day of the event -. Fearne Cotton will be hosting the event along side Jamie Foxx with performances from Beyoncé, Christina Aguilera, Alexandra Burke, among many others. Will you be watching?
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So on my quest to find what I’ve missed out on the passed couple of weeks I found a series of videos of Y&Y favourite Mr. Aloe Blacc. Not only is this session arranged to live classical instruments but the “I Need A Dollar” Crooner does a hauntingly beautiful rendition of the late Micheal Jackson’s “Billie Jean” watch the session filmed at Made in Berlin in its entirety and a documentary about the process after the jump.
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The title of this post says everything that needs to be said. While we could choose to be really sad on this day we suggest that we celebrate the genius of the greatest entertainer that has ever lived. Remember why you loved and still love the man with the glove and play his greatest hits all day long. Have a toast to Michael Jackson and have a great day.
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These have been out for quite some time now but we havn’t posted a fuckery video in a long while so I thought why not! You may or may not have come across ThisisMack, a channel on youtube quickly attracting a lot of attention because of his witty and highly amusing hypothetical beef videos mainly between Beyonce and Ciara. Other videos include the likes of Kelly Rowland, Lady Gaga, Rihanna and even Michael Jackson. These videos kill us every time we watch them, there are some spectacular lines in these such as MJ’s “im sorry…who are you” and Ciara reference to Rihanna as a “Mothaf**kin crayon”.Wow and the voices… this guy went in. I wonder if he’ll do one with Christopher Brown and Frank Ocean! Watch the videos after the cut
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At first I questioned why Chris Brown added ‘Deuces’ to the album as it had been officially released as a single on June the 25th 2010 and was available on his ‘Fan of a Fan’ mixtape since May last year. However on second thought I found it appropriate as he’s moved on from a very low point in his career and is saying deuces to all the haters. Waving his goodbyes, but not showing any hate as the albums title stood for ‘Forgiving All My Enemies’ (F.A.M.E.), but just recently CB said he wanted it to be closer to his heart so changed it to ‘Fans Are My Everything’.
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