Produced by Hitboy. Premiered online and offline by Flex, Clue where you at? lol. Pic via @minigotchu.

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Can’t front, diggin the production and even sort of enjoy the way Cons comes off. But something about the way Cudi comes in for the hook, it just doesn’t meld well for me. Kinda funny though that it’s about being on your own, right?

Kanye West – Mama’s Boyfriend

Peace to FWMJ who also published the lyrics

Maybe ‘white man’s indie’ has been killed
and mainstream African American hip hop for white people will ‘crowd out’
altbro internet market share
We live in a time where humans use tastemaking websites
2 construct their identity
Maybe alternative ppl will ‘disconnect’ from the internet
now that ‘online perfection’ has been experienced

We already know that in the 2k10s
only rappers can be ‘brilliant’ / produce perfection
so groups of 1-4 white dudes
can’t make relevant albums any more

As a white skinned bro
Who used to think indie music made me ‘unique’
I’m not sure why I am alive any more
I no longer believe that 1 day I will create the_perfect_buzzband

I sorta want to pull a ‘reverse Michael Jackson’
and become black
not to play in the NBA/NFL,
but instead to write a relevant album

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: The Samples

1. Mike Oldfield – “In High Places” (Dark Fantasy)
2. The Turtles – “You Showed Me” (Gorgeous)
3. Cold Grits – “It’s Your Thing” (Power)
4. King Crimson – “21st Century Schizoid Man” (Power)
5. Continent No. 6 – “Afromerica” (Power)
6. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – “You” (So Appalled)
7. Smokey Robinson – ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” (Devil In A New Dress)
8. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth – “The Basment” (Runaway)
9. The Mojo Men – “She’s My Baby” (Hell Of A Life)
10. Black Sabbath – “Iron Man” (Hell Of A Life)
11. Aphex Twin – “Avril 14th” (Blame Game)
12. Bon Iver – “Woods” (Lost In The World)
13. Manu Dibango – “Soul Makossa” (Lost In The World)
14. Lyn Collins – “Think” (Lost In The World)
15. Gil-Scott Heron – “Comment #1″ (Lost In The World)
16. Backyard Heavies – “Expo ’83″ (Runaway)
17. Tony Joe White – “Stud-Spider” (Hell Of A Life)

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The rapper hired the public relations firm Rubenstein Communications to help him craft a response to former President George W. Bush, then criticized the NBC morning show for interrupting his answers.

Kanye West can usually be counted on to say what’s on his mind, but the rapper had some extra help formulating those thoughts when he was interviewed on NBC’s “Today” show this week: he hired the public relations firm Rubenstein Communications to coach him on his response to former President George W. Bush, and the firm and the rapper are no longer working together following Mr. West’s feud with “Today,” according to several people familiar with the arrangements of the interview.

Mr. West preemptively condemned the “Today” interview on Tuesday night, before NBC broadcast the segment on Thursday morning. On his Twitter account, Mr. West wrote that Mr. Lauer “tried to force my answers” by playing footage of his confrontation with Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards and of an interview with Mr. Bush while Mr. West was replying to the “Today” anchor’s questions.

Mr. West also wrote on Twitter that when he taped his interview on Tuesday morning, he came to the show “with only positive intent.”

But he came to “Today” after canceling and then re-confirming the booking, and with the consultation of a Rubenstein media coach hired from outside his usual circle of record-label and management representatives, the people familiar with the arrangements of the interview said. (These people would not speak for attribution either to avoid offending Mr. West or to avoid harming other business relationships.)

If you haven’t, here’s the interview:

Kanye West x Kid Cudi x Raekwon – Gorgeous

Kanye West – The Joy ft. Jay-Z, Charlie Wilson, Kid Cudi (Prod. by Pete Rock)

Although I shudder to hear Jay-Z twist his voice to add that Kanye slur I’m glad he asked himself this: Would you rather be paid or overrated? Although I gather he meant it as a rhetorical statement I can’t help but sense he sounded unsure. Broke and a whole lot of respect? And the RZA verse was the main reason I downed this, so fair warning, there is no RZA verse.

Kanye West – So Appalled ft. Jay-Z, Pusha T, Swizz Beatz, RZA, Cyhi The Prynce

The latest in Kanye’s GOOD friday series is redeemed by Bink. Premiered over @ Ye’s mixed media blog KanyeUniverseCity. Cool to see his embrace of direct publishing platforms including twitter, which he has been utilizing all morning to vent on what he sees as a deliberate attack on his image by popular media.

Kanye West – Devil In A New Dress

No one grave should have all them flowwwas! Im talking mislead youth & pushing Black Power

It went down last night in NYC. Pete Rock producing new joints for Smif-N-Wessun, Kanye West and Camp Lo is dope. He also speaks on how the beat for Juicy came about and Q-Tip straight up jacking Jazz (We’ve Got) from him. Funny story of the night: Big Punisher eating a bag of onion rings while doing his verse for Verbal Murder in the booth. Somehow, I can picture that. RIP.

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Luke Fox loves rap music. And when Fox writes about rap, he’s not musing about poetry. He’s also not adoringly worshipping idols. He simply loves the music, and he asks the questions someone who loves the music would ask. Talking to and about Ice-T, Nas, Jay-Z, Ludacris, Gang Starr, Kanye West, El-P, MF Doom, Kool G Rap, Common, and dead prez, Fox takes on the egos and the attitudes, connecting the past with the present, the pop with the peculiar. In these eleven candid interviews, Fox not only presents a small chunk of his extensive freelance career, he paints a coherent portrait of hip-hop at a crossroads, before and after the millennium.

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If somewhere along the line there was an artistic decision made for this not to be released, I’m thinking it should have been honored.