Get Hep To This

Yesterday the hip-hop world said goodbye to a true legend of the game, Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys.

Adam had been battling cancer for a long time and finally lost the fight on May 4, 2012.

Many kids grew up listening to the Beastie Boys, including me. They helped to bring hip-hop into the mainstream in it’s early days. They had their own style. They didn’t care if what they were doing was mainstream or not, they just kept on doing what they loved. They stood up publicly for causes they believed in. They were trailblazers.

MCA will be missed.

Check out the video above to see Coldplay doing a tribute to the fallen legend as they played a show at The Hollywood bowl on the day of Adam’s death.

It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of the Muppets. That’s why I’m super excited that there’s going to be a new full length Muppet movie out this fall cleverly titled “The Muppets”. 

While that is super cool on it’s own, it’s not the reason that I think you need to “get hep” to it. What is super cool is that although the movie is coming out in the fall, they’re already getting people talking about it far in advance… and in a very clever way. Rather than saturating us with the trailer (see video above) for the movie over and over again, they’re playing up to other movies that are coming out this summer and general genres and adding their own little Muppet flair to it. Check out some of these bellow:

Here’s one that’s a take on Green Lantern:

This one play’s like the trailer to The Hangover 2:

And finally, this take on the “rom-com” genre and doesn’t even mention The Muppets until the end:

I’m totally loving these and won’t be surprised if see a bunch more of these all the way up to Thanksgiving.

Keep ‘em coming Muppets!

MC HAMMER - BETTER RUN RUN (JAY-Z DIS… Yes, I said MC Hammer has a Jay-Z dis song)

So, apparently Hammer wasn’t happy that Jay-Z mentioned the time he went broke on one of Kanye’s good friday tracks called “So Appalled”. The once rapper now preacher is so upset that he made a hip-hop video for the first time since…. iduno, 1994?

It’s especially funny for the following reasons:

• What Jay-Z said wasn’t that bad
• Everyone knew about Hammer going broke, so it’s not like Jay gave away some big hip-hop secret
• MC Hammer is a preacher. Are they even allowed make dis videos?
• The super long intro makes no sense and is really just Hammer talking on the phone for almost 2 mins

Anyways, I thought it was hilarious and needed to be passed around the interweb.

Wanna hear what Jay-Z said? Here’s the track MC Hammer is so upset about:

Kanye West - “Power” (Live from SNL)

Did you catch Kanye on SNL this past weekend?

Neither did I, but thanks to my friends over at Sidewalk Hustle I found this video of him performing “Power”.

I have to say, this is one of, if not the, coolest SNL performances I’ve ever seen. Kanye’s too cool for the normal warehouse backdrop, and what he did with the whiteness and beautiful ladies is just pure canned awesomesauce.

Enjoy.

B.o.B - The Adventures of Bobby Ray

You’ve probably heard the song in this above video. I did, but paid no attention to who it was. Then I heard a lot of hype around the artist B.o.B and decided to check out his new album, The Adventures of Bobby Ray.

Turns out that song was his, but that’s not his only good song. I’m currently loving this album and have it playing almost non-stop on my ipod as I travel for the past few days.

He’s deffinitly his own artist, but he kind of reminds me of a mix between Kanye and Andre 3000 (of Outkast). 

Do yourself a favour and check this album out.

Now here’s another track from the album that doesn’t have an official video, but if it doesn’t get you moving, you might be dead:

SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD

I don’t usually post movie trailers here, but I’m pretty excited about this one.It looks like a real life Anime movie, which makes me happy.

I knew the movie was based off of a graphic novel (one in a series of six [that I know of]) and I was so impressed by thius trailer I just ordered the first 3 books of off Amazon.

Can’t wait to read the books and see the movie.

On a side note; I actually saw them filming parts of this around Toronto last year and seeing snow in the summer is just kinda weird.

BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge Series

I love a good cover song. Who doesn’t? That’s why I was so happy to get the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge collection of CD’s the other day.

Being from North America, I had never heard of this series before until an English girl I met while travelling introduced me to these CD’s. The series is one where artists come in and do some acoustic versions of their own songs and a lot of awesome covers.

So far there are 4 volumes of the CD’s, each with 2 discs. If you love good music and especially good cover songs, I highly recommend you check out this collection.

There’s so many good ones that I actually spent most of the morning today watching the videos to decide which one to use for this post. I think I made a good choice.

Kanye West’s Glow In The Dark Book Promo

Kanye West has a book. Kind of.

These are photo’s taken from his Glow In The Dark tour from last summer, which was a pretty cool looking show.

I wouldn’t buy the book usually, but I’d think about it now because it also comes with a CD of instrumentals he used on the tour, which are interesting reimaginings of his original tracks. You get a sample of those songs in this promo here, which is pretty well done.

Black Eyed Peas Double Music Video for “Ima Be” & “Rock That Body”

Now, to be honest, I havenb’t really been a big Black Eyed Peas fan since their Bridging The Gap album, but they are doing quite well for themselves. You can really see that from the production value of this 10 min video.

I’m not so into either song, but the video is still cool.