Spelling Caine

So, you downloaded the latest product from G.O.O.D Music and you’re overly surprised at how into this mixtape you are. Here’s the thing, considering the project has production from Yeezy, Harry Fraud, !llMind and Jake-One, you should be impressed. Pusha T has successfully catapulted himself out of the pigeon hole that The Neptunes (oh, they produce a track on this too) had placed him in. Now, many haters out there, including justifable Kanye haters are going to say that this is much ado about nothing, that the Twitter hype (which is extensive) surrounding this ‘mixtape’ is nothing more than a by -product of Kanyeshian fever. No doubt a Kanye co-sign will do much for your career (see Cyphi Da Prince). Alas, said hate would be premature and misinformed, this album bumps extremely hard, and is surely appreciated by both Main, Wall, and The Street. This Jake-One joint is my fave, though that !llMind one is also bath salts.

Pusha T – Take My Life feat. Andrea Martin [Produced by Jake-One]

One logistical point slash thought. What is up with the multiple versions of spelling for “caine”? I’ve seen both Cain and Caine, including on Pusha T’s own tweets/social networking push. Seems minor yet amateur hour. Speaking of different ways to spell “caine”, it would be a misstep on your behalf not to acquaint yourself with Singapore Kane’s mixtape “Wrath of Kane”, a ZIF sponsored project from a ZIF HOFer. Here be the links.

Download: Pusha T – Wrath of Cain(e)

Download :Singapore Kane – Wrath of Kane

G.O.O.D Friday

The most posted track on the internet today by us bloggers. I needed a reason to upload the pic, so there.

Kanye West – Mercy featuring Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz

The New Kanye West Album Is Doper Than Your Coked Out Moms! [Listen-A-Long]

Album got leaked. Same thing as Cudi, no free downloads here. Cop it on Itunes/Amoeba or don’t, fuck it, he gets all his money from peripheral marketing anyways.

Dark Fantasy

Epic track, personal favorite. You ain’t got no Yeezy in your Serrato?

Gorgeous (feat. Kid Cudi & Raekwon)

Another dope track. This is the only track with useful features. Raekwon and Kanye should happen more often.

All of the Lights (Interlude)

I prefer the ‘lude to the track.

All of the Lights

I really though Kanye was above Rihanna at this point, her vocals make this track sound of this world, not planet yeezy.

Monster (feat. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver)

Nicki is the only verse that matters. Fuck Hov is getting lazy. smh.

So Appalled (feat. Jay-Z, Pusha T, Prynce Cy Hi, Swizz Beatz & The RZA)

This track was leaked early, Pusha T impresses me the most here. Another lazy ass Hov verse.

Devil in a New Dress (feat. Rick Ross)

The Taylor Swift apology track! One of Yeezy’s best verses.

Runaway (feat. Pusha T)

Kanye’s vocals are agitating periodically on this track, overall track is fiyah. Pusha T, really pushing his personal envelope. I heard people now consider him a Top 5 rapper. Smh.

Kanye’s Winter Is Late But Not Lazy

Kanye’s 808′s & Heartbreak album was a highly anticipated and consumed album, 18 months ago! But, his decision to roll with director/photog  Nabil Elderkin is a la mode genius. Scope his work, more videos than photos, but both are substantially engaging.

Big Sean Is Brought To You By…

This dude Big Sean is a rapper you’re going to hear plenty about in 2010. No, I’m not vouching for him, I know not if he’s the next ill rapper to hit the plains. But I know this, Kanye West is backing him, and that means plenty of limelight. Personally, I think he’s coming across as a watered down version of Wiz Khalifa on this promotional music video. Then again, I equate Wiz Khalifa to his new stuff, specifically his love affair with auto tune extension on all of his rhymes. So maybe watered down Wiz is pretty harsh words for Big Sean, but hell, he’s got Uncle Yeezy, he’s a big boy, he can handle the early critique, right? Prove us wrong Big Sean, we’re dying for the next big thing, Sean or not!

MPFREE: Big Sean – Finally Famous Mixtape

Midget Film

Riding some Hollywood marketing dick, West and Jonze put out this short film just in time for Google search optimization regarding the blockbuster movie “Where The Wild Things Are“.

Kanye Perpetuates that Chicken Stereotype

First of all, the Germans need to chill the fuck out with the Obama reference. I don’t care what cultural idiosyncrasy is used to mitigate German behavior, their  history of racial intolerance combined with a direct diss of our President is unacceptable. If you think I’m overreacting go ask a German dude what they call Hip Hop & R & B? They call it “Black” music, officially, like, if you go to their CD stores you will see a section called “black”, there are no qualms about it. We have a patriotic responsibility to demonstrate our deprecation, I encourage you to take action. Personally, I’m not going to push German artists for a while, sorry Snowgoons, but we bleed white and blue, not just red.

On the flip side of the responsibility scale, we need to do a better job of not cultivating popular stereotypes. For example, the quintessential, black people love chicken! Unfortunately we got too much new stupid money walking around bolstering the archaic boilerplate. Peep the following quote from a gossip blog regarding Kanye freaking at a recent charity show:

“Kanye walked in and noticed a guy eating chicken. He took offense and blurted petulantly ‘Why wasn’t I offered chicken? It’s not fair – you want me to perform for free – everyone is eating – why am I not eating?’

Kanye typically does not shy away from his modest roots, often proclaiming his appreciation of things hood, including fried chicken whilst in Hong Kong on his blog last year. But acting like a petulant child post-Taylor Swift in regards to fried chicken is just reckless. So while Kanye gives more fodder to the masses of racists out there, I challenge you to stay away from the chicken in type casted scenarios.

New Motto: Don’t eat the chicken, Fuck it.

For the privacy of your own home, a bomb fried chicken recipe after the jump

You Runnin Your Town?

Peep some pix from the video shoot over at Kanye’s blog

Kanye remixes Beyonce’s Ego

It’s Kanye and it’s brand new. Hence it’s up on the site.

MPFREE: Beyonce ft. Kanye West- Ego (Remix)

New Kanye West Mixtape

Here’s the second installment of the LV’s & Autotune mixtape series. Recently leaked on the net, this mixtape is riding the tremendous success of its predecessor and the strength of its single “Diamonds”. Of course being Kanye West isn’t detrimental to the cause either. This tape also features the track ” Kinda like a big deal” with the Clipse that was leaked recently on the Zeebreezy. Simply put, if you’re even remotely into Yeezy or Autotune, this free download is well worth your bandwidth.

Track Listing:

1. Diamonds

2. Poke Her Face (Feat. Kid Cudi, Common, Lady Gaga)

3. We Fight, We Love (Feat. Q-Tip, Consequence)

4.  Maybach Music 2 (Feat. Rick Ross, T-Pain, Lil Wayne)

5. Flight School (Feat. T-Pain, GLC)

6. Amazing (Remix) (Feat. The Dream, Young Jeezy, Christina Milian)

7. Imma Be Iight (Feat. Lil Wayne, Joe Young)

8.  Doing Girls Wrong

9. Knock You Down (Feat. Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo)

10. Walking On The Moon (Feat. The Dream)

11. Go Hard (Remix) (Feat. Lil Wayne, Jay-Z)

12. I’m The Shit (Remix)

13. Oprah Story

14 . Kinda Like A Big Deal (Feat. Clipse)

15 . Ego (Remix) (Feat. Beyonce)

UPDATE: Kanye Download now available…

Rose that grew out of South Philly concrete

 

Somebody please explain to me Kanye’s motivation to be dating Amber Rose. I know for a fact that about 18 months ago when “Graduation” was in heavy rotation there was not a supermodel out there who would have named anyone other than Kanye when asked “what’s in your IPOD right now?” So basically Kanye had access to a database of “10′s”, many of whom share similar lifestyles, travelling the world socializing with the uber elite. Kanye’s secret affinity for Euro-Lux fashion branding also would have been a logical motivation to date a socially groomed simpleton in the body of a global supermodel. Alas, Kanye went in a different direction, think the Fresh Prince of Bel Air before he got to Bel Air. Amber is from Philly and in a very true sense she’s a Philly girl all the way. She used to strip at a club/steakhouse called Delilah’s under the stage name “Paris.” She also used to be in an extensive lesbian relationship, one with documented jpegs of the two lovebirds littered all over the Net. In the South Philly scene “Paris” was known, sheeet, I may even have put a 20 in her G-string once upon a time, I really don’t recall. But none of this makes any sense to me, I still don’t understand why Kanye settled like this. I’ve spent countless minutes daydreaming about what esoteric skill Amber must possess in order to have sucessfully engaged the attention of the #1 superstar on the planet. Again, I have no idea, but I do know that Amber is a visual phenomenon, one that should be examined aesthetically. That being said, I give you the Amber Photo-Biography:

 

“Well I’d do anything for a blonde-dike

And she’ll do anything for the limelight

And we’ll do anything when the time’s right
Ugh, baby, you’re makin’ it (harder, better, faster, stronger)”

Yes, that’s Amber he’s spitting about. The girl who started out as “Paris” in Philly and ended as a Philly girl in Paris.