Here is a Teaser of MTV Diary Of NERD which was aired this summer On MTV UK. Thanks to fantastical.
MTV Diary Of NERD (Teaser)
Summit On The Summit Boot Camp Episode Two
November 13th, 2009 by Mika
Vote For The Best Clipse Cover Art
November 13th, 2009 by Mika
After the release of the Til The Casket Drops album cover art, Complex did a feature on the Clipse’s cover art from all 3 of their albums. You can vote on which album artwork is your favorite out of the 3 on the complex site.
Clipse – Lord Willin’ (2002)
Illustration By: Vicki Berndt
Design By: Courtney Walter
For their official debut, the Thornton brothers went with an illustration that shows them riding through Virginia Beach with black Jesus in the back seat. Damn, he couldn’t get shotgun?
Clipse – Hell Hath No Fury (2006)
Photography By: Jonathan Mannion
Design By: Courtney Walter
What better way to convey the crack music inside than by photographing Pusha and Malice with a kitchen stove? The international currency on the wall was definitely all obtained through legal channels.
Clipse – Til The Casket Drops (2009)
Illustration By: KAWS
He’s already done cover art for all of their 2009 singles—“Kinda Like A Big Deal”, “All Eyes On Me” and “I’m Good”—and KAWS continues the up-close graphic motif on the official album art, which shows a pink casket and the artist’s signature X’s.
Clipse – Doorman feat. Pharrell (Official Video)
November 12th, 2009 by Mika
“If Hell Hath no Fury was the Clipse’s ominous we’re-going-to-stand-in-the-shadows-behind-this-door-and-whisper-threats-to-you album, then Til the Casket Drops is shaping up to be the album where Malice and Pusha repeatedly punch us in the face very publicly. Granted, we still don’t have much to go on, but “Door Man” is a big budget Khaled-era single filtered through the Neptune’s weird sensibilities. Meaning the outer space synths are louder, the noise that sounds like a jug whistle is more prominent and the Thornton brothers’ foreboding is replaced by confrontation. Not the best Clipse single, but an interesting direction anyway.”
Drake Talks ‘Thank Me Later’, Enlists The Neptunes
November 12th, 2009 by Mika
Young Money rapper Drake recently spoke on his highly anticipated debut album ‘Thank Me Later’. Drake revealed to Rap Up that his album is still in the early stages and divulged some of the artists he has reached out to for his solo project. “I sat down with Pharrell for a couple days, but it was very, very early in the recording process, so I wasn’t sonically sure what I wanted,” Drake revealed. “I’m about to sit with Timbaland.
Kanye and me have a lot of work to do together, and then other than them, just [Noah "40" Shebib] and Boi-1da who did the majority of [So Far Gone] with me.” Drake also revealed that the first single off his album will not be ‘Shut It Down” with R&B crooner The-Dream as previously reported. “No, it’s not the first single,” Drake divulged ” It deserves to be a single at some point, but it’s not the first single.” Drake hopes to have ‘Thank Me Later’ in stores in February but the album has no official release date.
Drake – Thank Me Later (2010) (February)
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Shakira Says Neptunes Helped Her Experiment On She Wolf
November 12th, 2009 by Mika
Songstress describes how she combined several influences and made them ‘coexist.’ Shakira’s latest singles, “She Wolf” and “Give It Up,” are just a taste of the new direction the singer is taking in her November 23 release, She Wolf. Though she’s never been a conventional pop star, to say the least, the Colombian songstress says that this album is pushing the boundaries, with the help of producers like The Neptunes and Wyclef Jean. “[Pharrell] was very open,” Shakira told MTV News. “He’s a very smart guy. He gets me. He understands what I’m about, what I stand for musically and artistically.
He knows that I like to combine influences from different worlds and make them coexist under the same roof.” The new album is her most electronic so far, and it draws influence from a variety of different locations, including Colombia, India, the Middle East and Jamaica. She hopes that it keeps that fusion element she likes so much. “I like to experiment and see how all these things can survive within a pop record, and working with Pharrell is a great experience,” she said. “He’s very fast, and I’m kind of slow, take my time. But working with him was great. I really learned a lot. … As well with Wyclef Jean. He’s a great friend and a great artist. He’s pure and real; he’s a real musician.”