The remix collective Urban Noize released this collection of their works reinvisioning tracks by the potent trio of Jay-Z, Kanye and Adele. Titled Brooklyn. Chicago. London. (The Urban Noize Remixes) in honor of the artists’ hometowns, the 8-song album features some nice production work from the Florida natives. Stream the Brooklyn. Chicago. London. mix below, […]

DJ Soul assembles a veritable Who’s Who of hip-hop both old and new for his latest mixtape celebrating the 8-year anniversary of Japanese label Lafayette. The 1-hour 10-minute megamix blends everyone from Ghostface & MF Doom, Reflection Eternal, Nas, Mobb Deep, Raekwon and Common to Kanye, Prince Paul, Jay-Z, Tyler The Creator, Pusha T and Cam’ron. Plus many […]

Awesome People Hanging Out is a blog hosted on Tumblr featuring photographs of awesome people hanging out. Simple, direct and to the point. While anyone can submit and comment on photos, the coolest part of the blog is scoping through photos of people — who are presumably awesome — hanging out with other awesome people, […]

In a beautifully executed release, Kanye West has teamed up with M/M Paris to create a limited collection of silk scarves based on the various covers of Kanye’s recent My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album. Famously painted by erstwhile Esquire cover genius George Condo, there will be 5 different pieces in the collection (the 5 […]

Have you heard enough stories about moving mass kilos of black market goods in the last week or so? No, well then you’re in luck — Virginia Beach’s favorite blizzard maker, Pusha T of the Clipse, finally drops the mixtape you’ve been waiting for. Just a little sampler to sate appetites while he prepares his […]

We all recall the shutter shades Kanye wore that were, let’s be honest, utterly useless. Well here’s another useless pair of shades clearly not shielding your eyes at all from the sun. Jeremy Scott, who can always be counted on for the outlandish, teams up with eyewear staple Linda Farrow to launch a line of […]

Sure this may not be as well done as Bert & Ernie’s “Ante-Up”,  but it still makes for a clever re-visioning of Kanye’s id-fueled poetic catharsis. Muppets covering rappers…will it ever get old? Not when it’s done well… Thanks Lawless!

The Suzan are one of those bands that resist categorization like the Mujahideen resist foreign invaders. You start off with a quartet of punk-inspired Japanese girls, throw in some doo wop melodies, xylophone and tribal drums, and finish it off with surf guitar and a smattering of playful electronic lines — voila, The Suzan. The […]