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Pharrell With Takashi Murakami
Photos by Armen Keleshian & Aubrey James.
Pharrell With Nigo & Friend
Pharrell With Kap G
Pharrell With Takashi Murakami
Pusha T
Complex Magazine’s annual convention and festival is returning this November to the Long Beach Convention Center in Southern California. For its third edition, ComplexCon will once again be carefully curated by the Complex team and Cultural Director/Executive Chair Pharrell Williams and legendary artist Takashi Murakami from Nov. 3-4.
The festival and exhibition brings together pop culture, music, art, food, style, sports, innovation, activism, and education for one weekend. This year, ComplexCon will focus on the enlightenment and empowerment of the individual, reflecting the issues and conversations that permeate and influence culture today from entertainment to art to politics. Pre-sale tickets for this year’s ComplexCon are already sold out. More tickets will be announced soon.
Sound the alarm! ComplexCon 2018 returns Nov 3 & 4 in Long Beach, CA. Limited pre-sale tickets go on sale this Friday 🤑
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— ComplexCon (@ComplexCon) July 18, 2018
The wait is over guys, after 7 years (not counting the Spongebob release) N*E*R*D is back with a new album titled ‘No_One Ever Really Dies’. “ComplexCon, make some motherfucking noise. We are here right now because no one ever really dies,”. The album will have 11 tracks including A-list features such as Gucci Mane, Wale, Future, Kendrick Lamar, M.I.A., André 3000, Ed Sheeran and Rihanna who is already featured on their first single ‘Lemon’, which actually was a Diddy tune first, but went to Rihanna but didn’t make the final cut on her ‘Anti’ album.
N*E*R*D took the stage to debut their new album, No_One Ever Really Dies, on the first night of ComplexCon in Long Beach, California. The stage featured real cars for props, vibrant lighting, and dozen of dancers keeping the energy up as the album played. “Good evening. Welcome to the N*E*R*D listening party,” said a female voice. What most thought was going to be a concert turned into a massive album listening party with N*E*R*D there to witness it all from the back of the stage. They watched on a van as they jammed out to their own bangers and observed dozens of dancers parading across the stage and the venue’s first floor area.
After a few tracks, Shae joined the dancers to turn up, then later Pharrell. “The album’s not coming out tomorrow,” Pharrell explained. “We’re giving it to you. It’s yours. You got it before everybody else.” said Pharrell. As the night concluded, the female voice returned and announced, “End of program. Good night.” It was then that the dancers took a bow and welcomed N*E*R*D to the front of the stage. Pharrell took a bow on his knees, which he held for about a minute, and showed deep reverence to the crowd — who he thanked frequently throughout the show.
After the lights went dark, he returned for an encore performance and spit Rihanna’s “Lemon” verse in her absence. The lights went out and the crowd demanded the latest single one more time. He obliged and performed “Lemon” one last time before calling it a night. I haven’t checked any snippets yet, but if you can’t stay strong, then scroll down for a full preview of every song below, the album does not have a release date yet so stay tuned for more information, thanks to BigPUNoy for the videos.
N*E*R*D – No_One Ever Really Dies (TBA) (2017)
01 – Deep Down Body Thurst
02 – Lemon feat. Rihanna
03 – Voilà feat. Gucci Mane & Wale
04 – 1000 feat. Future
05 – Don’t Don’t Do It feat. Kendrick Lamar
06 – Kites feat. Kendrick Lamar & M.I.A.
07 – ESP
08 – Lightning Fire Magic Prayer
09 – Rollinem 7’s feat. André 3000
10 – Lifting You feat. Ed Sheeran
11 – Secret Life Of Tigers
Pharrell With Nigo
N*E*R*D, ASAP Ferg & Travis Barker
J Balvin, Pharrell & Bad Bunny
Travis Barker & Pharrell
Mette & Rhea
Kelis
N*E*R*D – No_One Ever Really Dies (TBA) (2017)
01 – Deep Down Body Thurst
02 – Lemon feat. Rihanna
03 – Voilá feat. Gucci Mane & Wale
04 – 1000 feat. Future
05 – Don’t Don’t Do It feat. Kendrick Lamar
06 – Kites feat. M.I.A. & Kendrick Lamar
07 – ESP
08 – Lightning Magic Fire Prayer
09 – Rollinem 7’s feat. André 3000
10 – Lifting You feat. Ed. Sheeran
11 – Secret Life Of Tigers
Billionaire Boys Club, in collaboration with N*E*R*D, will be dropping exclusive merchandise at ComplexCon to celebrate the group’s reunion. The commemorative line will include a fleece hoodie (pictured above) which has the words “No One Really Ever Dies” printed in that classic Billionaire Boys Club font with the BBC logo in the N*E*R*D font on the back. There will also be NEIGHBORHOOD x N*E*R*D merch which includes a N*E*R*D Brain incense chamber, long sleeve T-shirts, and hats, all available in two colorways.
Billionaire Boys Club will also have its Hebru collaboration that will include T-shirts, crewnecks, lightweight coach jackets, accessories, and toys with designs of Hebru’s Flyboy character mashed up with the BBC logo. Last but certainly not least, Billionaire Boys Club and Medicom have linked up for some new BBC BE@RBRICK that will feature the Starfield pattern. There will also be an i am OTHER Black B@ERBRICK available. Both will come in either 100 percent and 400 percent sizes.
Photos by Jerod Harris, Pharrell, G-Star RAW, Artmurri, ComplexCon, Adidas Originals. This past May, it was announced that Pharrell would join the inaugural ComplexCon as the cultural director and host committee chair. There were going to be plenty of surprises, appearances, and events involving the super producer. And Pharrell definitely delivered. On the first day, he debuted his new G-Star RAW Elwood X25 collection at the brand’s installation.
The line included various patterned and printed jeans. Later that afternoon, he joined activists, members of the MHA Nation, a reservation near Standing Rock, and Complex executive editor Alex Gale for a panel at Adidas‘ booth. Pharrell, who was launching the holiday line for his Hu Collection for adidas, spoke about the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline—a cause he’s supported for a while.
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