What One Man Can Have All This Power?

Mr. West is in the building and after months he is finally making noise again. Yesterday, Kanye joined Twitter and gained over 200,000 followers in less than 24 hours. How crazy is that? If you refresh his page you see hundreds of new followers every time you refresh. We can only imagine what his twitter page is about to become. Everyone knows Kanye likes to express himself even when it may hurt someone else in the process.

In other Kanye News, one of his first tweets indicated that his new album would no longer be called “Good Ass Job”. It is still up in air whether the album will still drop September 14th which was once marked as “G.O.O.D. Music Day”. The day was suppose to feature other album releases from artists signed to his G.O.O.D. Music imprint. Cudi has already been pushed back from the date. So what can we expect from Kanye? Well, I posted some new footage of Kanye performing new material off the album at the Facebook offices. Yesterday he did the same at the Twitter offices.

Up next is the long awaited “Power” video. You can see a screen cap above from the Marco Brambilla directed video. Mr. Brambilla said the project – which he preferred to describe as a “video work that’s been commissioned by Kanye to accompany the music” rather than a music video – was his and Mr. West’s attempt to answer the question, “How do you visually paint a portrait of power?” The video is expected to drop next week on Kanye West’s official site. We can’t wait. For more on the video visit NYTIMES.

KanYe Performs Three New Tracks From Album

Kanye stopped past the Facebook offices today and blessed them with some new tracks off of his new album. There’s all kinds of crazy talk about the album being pushed back, it not being called, “Good Ass Job” and more, but one thing that I know for sure is that it’s going to be crazy! The tracks performed are rumored to be titled “Mama’s Boyfriend”, “Heavy Chain”, and “Sweat On My Face”. September 14th can’t come any sooner.
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Kanye West x Air Jordan 6 Infrared 2010

Mr. West was seen at JFK airport in New York recently, before heading  to Los Angeles for the BET awards in California wearing the Air Jordan 6 Infrareds. You can find the shoes at many athletic shoe outlet stores including Foot Locker. (click here to view/order shoes and similar styles)

New Music: Rick Ross ft. Kanye West – “Live Fast, Die Young”

Banger! Rick Ross teams up with Kanye West on the Kanye produced “Live Fast Die Young”. The track appears on Rick Ross’s upcoming “Teflon Don” album. Ross’s album is shaping up to be pretty nice, but doesn’t he always have dope albums? Check out the song below! I am loving all of this new Kanye. Speaking of Kanye…make sure y’all cop “Power” on Itunes now!

DOWNLOAD/LISTEN: “Live Fast, Die Young”

New Music: Kid Cudi ft. Kanye West – “Erase Me”

New Kid Cudi and Kanye West! It’s a G.O.O.D. day in the neighborhood. Here’s a radio rip of Kid Cudi’s new single “Erase Me” which is taken from his new album “Man on the Moon: The Legend of Mr. Rager”. The new project is expected to drop September 14th which will also see releases from Kanye West, Big Sean, and Consequence.

LISTEN/DOWNLOAD: “Erase Me”

earStyle X BET AWARDS 10: The Rundown

Wow. I have to say that the 2010 BET Awards was definitely the best one yet. Even the Red Carpet show was entertaining! There’s some moments that I want to get into, but first I want to just give a big thanks to BET for throwing the BET Awards Viewing Party in Philadelphia! It was a success and thanks for the dope customized Ipod Nano!

Now…on to the show. The award show had so many great moments, but I can’t cover them all. I will just cover some of my favorite moments and get into a few of the not so great moments of the show.

Kanye West – “Power”

What better way to open the show than with the return of KanYe West? Man…that definitely set the pace for the show. The backdrop was simply amazing and very much like the Glow In The Dark tour. KanYe is back and he’s coming with it. The only flaw with the performance was that BET had to censor like EVERY word, we heard maybe 10% of the song, but it’s all good. I’m ready for September…I am sure he will do a “Good Ass Job”. Shout out to BMF for the footage!

Following that amazing performance was an amazing show opener by the wonderful host Queen Latifah. Queen Latifah did her thing tonight! There is nothing worst than a good show with a bad host and I am more than happy that Queen Latifah was chosen to do the job. While she may not have performed the latest big girl rendition of a Beyonce dance like Mo’Nique, she really held her own and kept the momentum going for the evening! Kudos to Queen Latifah.

Diddy- Dirty Money ft. Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, and T.I. – “Hello, Good Morning”

Pyro, lots of smoke, and lots of star power were just three factors of one of the hottest performances of the night. Diddy and his Dirty Money crew (Wassup Kalenna?!) ripped the stage with their remix of their hit single “Hello, Good Morning”. Rick Ross, T.I., and Nicki Minaj were great additions to an already great performance. Our only complaint is that at times the smoke kind of took the limelight…literally. We spent a great deal of time looking at silhouettes and listening to backing tracks. Other than that Diddy and Dirty Money killed their choreography and had the whole place rocking! Now we are waiting to finally board this “Last Train To Paris”. It’s been scheduled to take off for a year now, but the album is now set to drop this fall! Let’s work.

Mike Epps was one of the few things that just did not work for the night. He was not funny at all. I’m not hating. I am just speaking my mind. Oh and I am glad Debra Lee kept it short and did not bring up Don Cornelius. Oh yeah another thing that could have been avoided…the “Music Matters” section was a great idea. Big ups to J. Cole for getting a few minutes to do his thing…but come on Debarge should have left that one alone and that one girl who sound worst than Keyshia Cole. I understand artists like to surprise the crowd and do things that make sense for the audince, but B.o.B. should have called up Hayley Williams for “Airplanes pt. II”  and left Keyshia Cole in her seat. She did that great song NO JUSTICE and she was a vocal disaster in my opinion. Eminem literally recovered that performance and saved it from being a complete wreck. Kudos.

Usher- “There Goes My Baby”

They call him U-S-H-E-R. Usher could have easily ripped the stage with “OMG”, but he chose to cool the night down with a decent performance of “There Goes My Baby”. Watching the performance reminded me of his earlier days. I think it was the way he breezed through the verses and commanded the stage doing the minimal. Good job Usher…I wonder what will be the next single after “There Goes My Baby”.

The Chris Brown Michael Jackson Tribute

Epic. Epic. Epic. Job well done Chris Brown. This was by far the best Michael Jackson tribute. It was an emotional roller coaster, but he killed it! He put his heart on that stage. Shout out to everyone saying he faked his emotions…come on, really? Get a life. Good job Chris Brown…I hope things work out for you!

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Congratulations to everyone who won an award. Wait. Video of the Year went to Beyonce and Lady GaGa for “Video Phone”….I am sorry, but that was the biggest WTF moment of the evening. Congrats to Alicia Keys and all of her awards, y’all had to love Prince’s reaction to her hopping her pregnant self up on that piano. She did her thing though! Congrats to John Legend, Prince, and everyone else. It was a great show!

Spankin’ New Video: KanYe West- Coldest Winter

Talk about knowing how to completely market a product until there’s nothing left. KanYe just dropped a video for “Coldest Winter” off of his “808 & Heartbreak” album. This definitely came by surprise as KanYe is currently in the studio working on his next album. The video is no different than any other KanYe video. It brilliantly uses fashion, art, and story telling to bring a story to life in ways that not many other artists can do. KanYe never fails to impress me with the videos. On another note though, I am kind of looking forward to Spring and the seasons to change…maybe this should have been released in let’s say, November or December?

Beyoncé Makes Grammy History

Just when you think Beyoncé has achieved all she can, she pulls another accomplishment out of her bag. During last night’s Grammy celebration the Houston native broke Grammy History by becoming the most awarded woman in one night in the 52-year history of the awards show. The “Crazy In love” singer took home 6 awards including one for Song of The Year  for “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”. She now has 13 Grammy awards sitting around somewhere. Pretty darn cool.

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