Respect Authority

So Spike Jonze’s short film / kinda music video featuring Kanye West, titled “We Were Once a Fairytale”, has been spreading like H1N1 across the blogs today, officially certifying Jonze as the currently most hyped director of wild children or child-like men in Hollywood.

Nonetheless, the hype is pretty much deserved. Interestingly enough, this was filmed before the whole VMA Hennesseygate incident, so that only adds to its strangely enrapturing surrealism. All in all, I thought it was pretty awesome, but…

Beyonce had one of the best videos of the year.

Take a good look at the above photo. Is Kanye just signing an autograph for an awestruck fan, or is he pulling off a daring modified dick-through-the-popcorn-bucket maneuver, perhaps forever redefining the term “sneakerhead”? The world may never know… or, at least it won’t until TMZ finds out anyway.

Check it out everybody, the circus has arrived at Fashion Week Paris!

And stay tuned for an exclusive preview of Kanye’s new single “YMCA & Heartbreak.”

First thing’s first. Renaissance is a really weird looking word.

Anyway, onto more slightly more important things. In light of hit or miss Biggie biopic, Notorious, releasing in theaters in this week, I’ve been giving Ready To Die a spin for old times. “Juicy” is a well-known track, to say the least, and its popularity and legendary status at this point is due to the fact that it’s the fucking Huckleberry Finn of mid-nineties hip hop. It’s the coming of age tale of that entire new generation of rappers. As Biggie references his influences, naming Heavy D, Marley Marl, and Mr. Magic among others, he’s actually mentioning the time hip hop was now leaving behind.

Hip hop’s gone through a lot of changes since then as well. The Notorious B.I.G. died over beef with other players in the rap industry. Conversely, in recent years, when rappers are feuding they pose on the cover of Rolling Stone together and make YouTube videos about it. However, hip hop is changing yet again. Read More ›

Kanye West: So I have this song, “Heartless,” and I’m really looking for a way to make another music video that features me almost exclusively, with maybe the occasional hot chick thrown in. It’d be great if there could be a lot of shots of me singing at the camera while wearing a blazer and impeccably white shoes. I’d like to do a little back-and-forth man dance at the same time, if we can swing that. Then obviously we’ll have the normal shots of a girl dancing with a sexy yet borderline-sullen look on her face, and maybe some neon lights in some of the backgrounds? I’m really into neon. And while I’m thinking about it, let’s play it safe by riding on the coattails of something as utterly watchable as “Harder Better Faster Stronger” was listenable, so we can’t really go wrong. That should take care of my final requirement, which is that the video has to be totally hypnotizing. Like coma-inducing.

(Director) Hype Williams: I know just the thing.