While you where out chilling at the neighborhood BBQ, celebrating your three day Labor Day weekend we over at Hypetrak where feverishly working to get you the latest music and news before anyone else on the net. Okay, so maybe we kicked back a few beers in the process but hey…we got the job done. [...]
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Hypetrak’s Weekly Friday Picks - August 29th
August 29, 2008 – 4:35 pm
Between keeping up with the Democratic National Convention, preseason football, surprise album leaks and gallons of Starbucks coffee to fuel late night blogging, it has been a long week to say the least. Through it all it has been a fruitful week for new music and as always we have some dope videos for you [...]
T.I. x Lil Wayne x Kanye West x Jay-z - Swagger Like Us (S.L.U)
August 23, 2008 – 9:48 am
The gods of bravado have smiled upon us. Undoubtedly some of the most steezy MCs to pick up a mic T.I., Lil Wayne, Kanye West & Jay-z have all joined forces to rhyme on one track. The song has a M.I.A sample on the chorus and the result is epic. Now let the talk begin [...]
Hypetrak’s Weekly Friday Picks - August 22nd
August 22, 2008 – 4:51 pm
If you don’t know by now, Hypebeast’s official music blog entitled Hypetrak has officially launched a few weeks ago. Needless to say, it is the most awe inspiring, jaw dropping, amazing, well written, up to date music blog on the entire world wide web. Okay, so maybe we need to work on being humble but [...]
Lupe Fiasco - Birds and the Bees
August 15, 2008 – 3:49 pm
A recently shelved track “Birds and the Bees” by Lupe Fiasco and produced by Kanye West recently hit the net. The soul sampling beat sounds like vintage Kanye and the playful wordplay and similes are exactly what we expect from Lupe. Judge and listen for yourself over at Hypetrak.
Futura x The Clash
August 14, 2008 – 3:31 pm
Everyone knows Futura as a respected graffiti artists who carved out his legend by turning urban landscapes into spray can canvas’. However, what you may not know is that once upon a time Futura was so immersed in the Hip Hop culture that he decided to put his voice on wax as an MC. He [...]
Juxtapoz x Reas - August 2008 Issue #91
August 13, 2008 – 6:44 pm
Todd James aka Reas, Legendary NYC graffiti writer and designer of the characters for Crank Yankers, hooks up with Art & Culture Magazine Juxtapoz to contribute striking cover art for their August issue. The cover is designed with James’ trademark whimsical style and use of pastel colors. The inside is filled with other heavyweights including [...]
adidas AZX - I to P Video
August 13, 2008 – 6:12 pm
In 1984 Adidas launched the innovate ZX range, a line of running shoes that would end up being the prototype for all running shoes that came after it. An A-Z of shoe designers and high end exclusive sneaker retailers where chosen to make their own design of the shoe. In this particular segment of the [...]
Nike Sportswear x 290 Square Meters x Appletree Records
August 11, 2008 – 4:43 pm
Nike Sportswear collaborates with 290 Square Meters and Appletree Records to produce a musical track inspired by the new Nike’s AW 77 sweater made by Loopwheeler in Japan. Producers Beau Love, Sotu the Traveller and Louis Bordeaux also known as Pêche Noire used obscure samples and sounds to formulate a song that would be the [...]
Pharrell & Kanye @ “Everybody Nose” Remix Video Shoot
August 6, 2008 – 5:17 pm
It seems every other day we get a behind the scenes glimpse of this green screen footage. We already got to see Pusha’s footage of him running through his verse on the set now we get to see a sneak peak of Yeezy and P. These sneak peaks are good and everything but this better [...]
