HBO continues to fetishize NYC with How To Make It In America
Posted by Anupa in Music, Television on 05. Apr, 2010 | 6 Comments
Good looking people live in New York City It’s a fact that almost everyone wants to live in NYC. If you don’t then I’m going to assume you’re either a) soulless or b) boring. Capitalizing on an epoch of NYC-philes (and a grip of hip, upwardly mobile young people), HBO’s new roster includes How To [...]
Show & Tell: Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness (Video)
Posted by Anupa in Music, Show & Tell on 08. Dec, 2009 | 3 Comments
(via Nation at itsthecalm.com) This party looks mad fun, and I love that sped-up-slow-motion effect, but I always envisioned the video for this song being a blunted beyond reality Cudder driving down a desolate, moonlit highway. Maybe that’s a little too literal for executive producer Josh Hartnett though. Yeah, THAT Josh Hartnett. I had no [...]
PaRappa the Rappers causing mass hysteria
Posted by Anupa in Concerts, Music, Rappers, Seen at..., Toronto on 30. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
Google ‘”drake cartoon” and this is what you get. Rap is kinda cartoonish these days still. Take MF Doom (aaand I guess the Wu to an extent) out of the equation, just for for this one, okay? I’m talking about the overly defined, larger-than-life hip-hop personas we’re surrounded by: Gucci Mane, 50 Cent, Wayne, Yeezy. [...]
Show & Tell: Mr. Hudson – White Lies
Posted by Anupa in Music on 12. Sep, 2009 | 0 Comments
NOT the dude from Powder So last night, like all of Twitter, I was watching the live stream and tweeting part of the Jay-Z September 11 tribute concert at Madison Square Garden. I’ll save that for another post, but as I was looking over my Twitter feed this morning, I noticed that my last concert-centric [...]
Show & Tell: Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness Ft. MGMT & Ratatat
Posted by Anupa in Music, Rappers on 08. Sep, 2009 | 0 Comments
“Pursuit of Happiness” is the latest track to leak from much lauded Midwest MC Kid Cudi‘s upcoming album Man on the Moon: The End of Day dropping Sept. 15. This track is slowly changing my opinion of Cudi. I’m a beat-lover so I dig that the production credit for “Pursuit” goes to Brooklyn-based DJ duo [...]
