So on Saturday was a day of two half for me. Having woke up after a deep and meaningful sleep that lasted all of 1 hour I headed down to the studio (photography studio), still intoxicated, to meet Yin. After the shoot was done I took my ass home and slept for a lil bit. Having returned to being a fully functioning human being I then took my self down to the second studio shoot of the day where I again met up with Yin. We had no business being on set really other than just to be there but it was good just to be in the presence of such talented people. Olan was busy doing his thing behind the camera creating his next Cardy Films masterpiece while Joel Baker and Monique Sian were busy looking pretty and showing off their acting skills. If you guys aren’t familiar with Joel and Monique then take a peak at our previous Eargasms post but before you do that just watch the visuals that Olan has crafted. May I just add that this was shot on Saturday, his turnaround is crazy I don’t know how he does it.

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YIN: I’m here, alive and well. You think I’m going to go on set without my camera? Please. It was another opportunity to play with my camera and see what I can do indoors. Especially since there is lighting involved – I’m a big fan of natural lighting, absolutely despise of the overly commercial ‘shiny reflective’ skin look that many people yearn for. To me, it’s like the autotune of photography but that’s just my opinion. I want to be able to make studio lighting look as natural as possible, will take practice! Here’s a few behind-the-scenes photographs, including a few funny ones. Poor Joel, he almost got Chris Brown’d by Monique.

And the cover for DJB & Joel’s upcoming single – Changing Room (Drake Cover)

Dayum. Friend of the site, Olan Collardy really outdid himself with his latest visual masterpiece – a music video for up and coming London based rapper Brewer. Wait wait, hold your horses. When you hear the words; up and coming, London and rapper in the same sentence, y’all instantly think ‘oh no Channel AKA!’. This video is the complete opposite, it’s classy and the song? Just as good. Brewer has a steady flow, lyrically sound and this time he questions everything that’s wrong with him in relationships. I’ve been impressed with his music so far, look forward to what he’s got to offer in 2012. Hop on after the cut to see the video.

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The styling is on point too, works really well with the location! Boom.

‘Why am I make the same mistakes as I made when I was 18′

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He definitely took his TIME to release this video! think we previewed it a good 3-4 months ago on the site. Shakka’s released a few incredible Shakkapella’s in that time – click here to check them out. The ‘Take Our Time‘ video features Shakka meeting a woman (Hannah Ogahara) and taking it ‘easy’ with her as they galavant and dance through Notting Hill/Ladbroke Grove area. I can’t help but think she’s helping him walk at one point in the video – it looks like he’s walking with a limp! Haha. I’m excited to see what he brings out in 2012. Video on the reverse.

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Beautiful. Souflul. Deep. Meaningful. Those are all words that you can use to describe this piece of art from Dutch singer Mar, who has been creating remarkable covers for his Variaton series takes on the classic Aphex Twin’s track ‘Avril 14th’. Most of you will probably recognise the sample from Kanye’s ‘Blame Game’ track off MBDTF. The visuals are something else, starts off so beautiful and happy, then all of a sudden things take a twist for the worse. You’ll see. Track also features UK‘s very own soul singer, Szjerdene. I can’t pronounce her name but she’s mighty talented.

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London-based rapper, Cynikal drops the visuals for his latest track ‘Losing My Balance‘. He takes on J. Cole’s instrumental off light skinned Jermaine’s classic mixtape ‘Warm Up’. It’s one of those tracks for me, no one can really do the beat justice the way he does. Cole’s switches it up with a smooth flow that just works with sample. Cynikal does a good job though! PHDLDN kill the visuals, love colour grading and the slowmo feel to it.

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Have you heard the original track ‘Balance’ by Sara Taveras? Check it out here. One of the 3am work mode songs for you, so chilled.

We have consciously slowed down on posting music videos in recent months however when the first music video from a guy that you have been supporting for quite some time and that guy is now considered as one of Y&Y‘s homies then you can’t not showcase it. This is the first, and hopefully not the last, video taken from his simply stunning mixtape Those Who Wait (which you can download for FREE here). I haven’t watched the video yet because I wanted to share it with you guys ASAP so why don’t we all click the read on button and watch it together. I present Daley – ‘Smoking Gun’ the official music video, Let’s go!

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Ladies and gentleman, I present to you the first set of visuals from extrovert R&B artist, The Weeknd. This is exactly what I had imagined a video from The Weeknd would look like, why? because it’s dark, eerie and trippy as hell. It’ll leave you saying ‘WTF’ or with just a blank face but it works, for a character like Abel Tesfaye such an avant garde video is perfect. The XO clique have teamed up with film maker and art director Mikael Colombu to create this visual masterpiece and it’s definitely not your average music video. You see Abel Tesfaye losing his heart, flying across planets in space ships and more. It’s a dark, twisted fantasy where we see the world splitting when the girl breaks his heart, strong concept. Let me know what you think!

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This is super creative and easily one of the best music videos of the year.

Came across this comment on Vimeo from a teenage girl -

Don’t like the video at all!! xD
Why always trying to make things really fUktup why..?

My dear child…

Props to PinBoardBlog for the heads up.

Finally the visuals for Lost Ones off J. Cole‘s album Coleworld: The Sideline Story have been released. Now it’s been said that the video was actually shot in 2008 before his deal with Roc-Nation. Props to Cole and his team to how under raps they kept this. For those of you that have listened to the album, you’ll know that this is one of Cole’s most evoking songs on there, where it talks of the trials and tribulations of have an unexpected baby on the way and whether him and his girl are ready for such. We all know having children is not the most easiest of tasks especially when you’re not able to provide for one.

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However by the quality of the video you can tell it was shot before the deal. Director BBGun does a great job with the visuals, although not like anything I expected, I think it may actually be better than what my mind was able to conjure up.

Cole has announced that the next single off The Sideline Story will be ‘Nobody’s Perfect’ featuring the wonderful Missy Elliot, we can only hope she’s in the video.

Last week I heard Sean Paul’s latest single ‘She Doesn’t Mind’ and though I like the track, it doesn’t quite compare to his previous offerings and I’m speaking specifically about ‘Dutty Rock’. I’ve chosen Sean Paul’s single ‘I’m Still In Love With You‘  as this week’s throwback track as a reminder of how good he used to be. One thing I can’t help but notice is how much styling has changed over the years in music videos… is it me or has everything gotten tighter and less ‘bling’. But having said that, I like this video even though it is a little bit cheesy. I think the dancing is great too- no Daggering round here!… Watch the Sean Paul classic after the break.

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Rihanna today released the music video for the first single ‘We Found Love’ from her upcoming album Talk That Talk. I have to say that this video is actually one of my favourites from her and I say this having only seen the video once. The video features male model Dudley O’Shaughnessy who had the very lucky job of playing Ri Ri’s boyfriend in the clip. although I do say that is is probably my favourite video in a long while from Miss Fenty, I would like to express my slight concern for her disregard to see herself as a role model for the young. While the video in my opinion as a 20 something year old adult is visually stimulating, it does raise an eyebrow when remembering that kids will be watching it during the day, for it reminds me of a Skins episode crammed into a 4 and a half minute clip. What with all the smoking, sex and possible drug taking it seems to capture, one does question whether there is a need for a more tame version to  be shown before the watershed. That being said, I return to my earlier sentiment and say that this is a good video for a song that I had previously been neglecting. Having seen this video I now like the song so much more. P.S it was nice to see Calvin Harris make a short cameo. Peep the clip after the break.

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