When multi-platinum hiphop artist Nas was growing up in the housing projects in Queensbridge, New York, he probably wouldn’t have guessed Harvard would ask to create a hiphop fellowship in his name 30 years later. But it’s happening. So how do you design a home for hiphop at Harvard?
Continue reading »You likely wear a t-shirt during most of the week. You always will. A t-shirt will never go out of style. Have you thought about where it comes from? No, not the store you bought it from, before that. Before the brand got it and before a factory mass produced blanks. NPR decided to document
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Yo Gotti, Memphis rap’s most popular rapper and visible ambassador (pop star Juicy J notwithstanding), has been working for almost two decades, enduring market shifts from actual tapes to out-the-trunk CDs then monetized Vevo players like the sly small businessman whose main street store stubbornly refuses to go under. Speaking about some of the
Continue reading »After teasing the visuals last week, Drake dropped the music video for “Worst Behavior” on Monday morning. The latest cut off of Drake’s platinum-selling “Nothing Was The Same” album, the visuals star Drake’s father, along with appearances by Juicy J and Project Pat. The ten-minute video is broken up by an extended comedy skit featuring
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Big Sean has ambitions to be the biggest rapper in the world. He isn’t but he feels like he can be and he feels like he will be. “Once you get that belief in your head, just really believing in yourself more than anything, that’s when everything starts to unfold.” That should be exactly how
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Thomas Bogner, a student at Germany’s Technische Hochschule Deggendorf, has designed a concept himself inspired by his desire to have an improved Nike+ Fuelband with more features. ”This concept was clearly inspired due [to] the experience with the Nike+ Fuelbands — I just fell in love with its flawless form factor,” Bogner told Mashable. ”What
Continue reading »Fresh off the announcement of his upcoming album, I Am, Yo Gotti drops off a video for its first single, “King Sh*t” featuring T.I. In it, the Memphis rapper offers up simple visuals of diamonds, crowns, and girls twerking on the pole. I Am is due out November 19th. (via ballerstatus)
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