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26th June 2011
Beyond Oblivion recently got an additional $77mil in financing for their music licensing venture. Interestingly enough, their stakeholders include MySpace owners, News Corp. This sounds like a win.
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13th January 2011
Kanye West & Jay-Z’s “H.A.M.” A Marketing Spoil.
On Jan. 11, Facebook crashed, or at least according to Kanye West. Around midnight, West tweeted a screen shot of an error page suggesting the famed social network had exceeded it’s bandwidth following the release of “H.A.M.”
Rap veterans Kanye West and Jay-Z had released the first track off of their forthcoming album, Watch the Throne, on Facebook but to lukewarm reviews and even more lackluster buzz.
Kanye West x Jay-Z - HAM by uristocrat
Days before the release, West and Jay-Z announced on their Facebook fan pages that “H.A.M.” would be a midnight release via a page dedicated to their joint album.
And soon after, the blogosphere was pregnant with anticipation of the duet single from the rap titans.
Facebook users rushed the Root Music powered “BandPage” for the first taste of Watch the Throne and in the hours following the release, the album page had garnered over 32k fans and hundreds of comments. “H.A.M.” was all the digital hip-hop community could talk about in the small hours of Jan. 11 but the question still remains:
Why Facebook?
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14th December 2010
Marketing vs Legal - The Record Labels' Internal War
Great post by super-blogger, Eskay.
Interesting read, might just have to write about it.
(Source: moearora)
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18th November 2010
Jay Electronica
Shiny Suit Theory feat. Jay-Z & The Dream
Jay Elect’s verse on this record is very telling. The talented don’t fear failure, they fear success.
Me and Puff, we was chilling in Miami
He said “N*gga f*ck the underground,
you need to win a Grammy
for your mama and your family,
they need to see you shined up
you built a mighty high ladder, let me see you climb up
N*gga, what you scared of?
terrorize these artificial rap n*ggas and spread love
pollinate the ear buds”My next post will be on the crescent city emcee, stay tuned.
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11th August 2010
Kanye West
See Me Now f. Beyonce & Charlie Wilson
How do we feel about the new Kanye?
Interesting choice in features. Did Beyonce say n*gga? A remix featuring Jay-Z will drop Friday. Do we still get excited for Jay features? I’m still looking forward to it.
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