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Friday, July 31, 2009
Kanye responds to false "King Of Pop" statement
YeezY
Stop Motion Video: Bugs Under Streetlights
This is pretty cool...long exposure of bugs under a street light.
Music: Telefon Tel Aviv - "What's The Use Of Feet If We Haven't Got Legs"
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Video: Dead By Sunrise Sneak Peak [+Album Art]
Dead By Sunrise is the side project of Linkin Park's Chester Bennington.
The debut album "Out of Ashes" will drop this fall!
Here's the album cover:

They also just shot videos for their tracks "Crawl Back In" + "Let Down"
so..stay tuned for those!
Video: Maestro Knows - Episode 2 (Berlin)
In this episode Maestro, Phil and Joey roam around the city of Berlin to take a look at a few stores, catch up with Erolson from Acronym, ride motor scooters, and grab some food before night bowling!
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
New Kanye West Material (a new album?) On The Way
Considering what Kanye said on 106 & Park a while ago...it wouldn't be a big surprise if he'd actually drop an album later this year.
Jay-Z x Big Boy’s Neighborhood - Interview
Talks of BP3, what keeps him wanting to record, Chris Brown, The Game, “Dame ate pretty well with me”, twitter and more!
Jay-Z x Big Boy’s Neighborhood: Part 2
spotted @ herfection via HHNM
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Cons TV: Charlemagne's 100.3 Morning Show
Join Consequence as he visits Charlemagne's Morning Show on Philly's The BEAT 100.3. They discuss Cons' NEW Single "Whatever U Want", the NEW LP "Cons TV" and Charlemagne gives a SALUTE to Kanye!
Video: Asher Roth Tour Rehearsal


Monday, July 27, 2009
Common will narrate Kid Cudi's Album

Nice!...Common has this great kinda urban tone in his voice
without sounding too cold....if you know what I mean...
Video: XV - The Introduction (Karen Civil)
XV is gearing up for the release of his next project, the highly anticipated "Everybody's Nobody", boasting features from Ne-Yo, Lil Wayne, Colin Munroe, Wiz Khalifa, Big Sean and more. The mixtape drops on July 31 and will be hosted by DJ Enuff and DJ Benzi.
Video: Graffiti in Outer Space
„The sky is not the limit“...everyone who does Graffiti wants to put a tag somewhere where no one else has every put one before..well...this dude had a great idea....tag a spaceship!
Video: Kid Cudi Live @ Kube 93 Summer Jam
DNC got the chance to hit Summer Jam in Auburn, Washington to catch Cudi live.
Exclusive Cudi interview coming later this week...
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Video: Unboxing the Red "Dons" And Grey/Pink "Jaspers"
Ibn and Don C unbox the KW x LV shoes that were named after them.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
VIDEO: KENNA - IMITATION IS SUICIDE EP
ITS KENNA AND RJD2 - BASED ON EMERSON'S SELF RELIANCE AND IF YOU ARE WONDERING WHO ITS ABOUT...ITS ABOUT THEM...THE POSERS AND THIEVES, THE AUTO-TUNE GURU'S.
Video: Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
First single off the new Arctic Monkeys album
"Humbug" which drops in August!
PreZZure - A Good Album On A Bad Day
"June 25th 2009 was a crazy day for me. I never thought after 13 weeks of freestyle commericials and promotion that the king of pop and one of the most influential people in music would die on the day I release a free album.
"A Good Album On A Bad Day" is NOT a dedication record to Michael Jackson, I dedicate my music to all of those who've blessed us with their presence. This song is a thank you to everyone who has supported my music."
Friday, July 24, 2009
RH TV: 11 Minutes W/Talib Kweli
RubyHornet talked to Talib Kweli at the W Hotel in Chicago, IL. While in town for a performance with Rhymefest at The Shrine, Kweli talked about the place he's at in his career, working with Hi-Tek again, the backlash from Beautiful Struggle and how the fans feel about Black Star, and more.
Another Retirement: The-Dream Announces "Love King" Will Be Last Album
"I am engaged and 'Love King' IS going to be my LAST album!" he tweeted. In a subsequent post, The-Dream explained, "It is going to be [his] last bcuz, everybody is trying to 'KILL THE DREAM!' [The Dream is] the ONLY one that can end [his] career," although he did clarify he "will still be producing, writing, and featuring on other artist albums though."
Jay-Z - "Run This Town" (ft. Rihanna & Kanye West)
Download Here
Video: Diddy on Letterman
Interviews with Diddy are always fun & entertaining...
I enjoy his interviews more than his music right now...lol
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Video: Trey Songz ft. Drake - Invented Sex (Ukulele Cover)
Ariel P is back with yet another Ukulele cover...
this time featuring his bro.
Ibn Jasper - Street Level Interview

IBN: Kanye moved to New York and started with Roc-a-fella, but never liked his haircuts. Like in the movie "Fade To Black," he always wore an orange hat, which he called his "haircut hat" because when he'd get his haircut in New York, he never liked it, and put the hat on right after.
'Ye kept telling me "You HAVE to move out here!" but I wouldn't because I was already established in Chicago. Why leave and go somewhere else? I told him, 'If you could match what I make I'll come.' Then he got his record deal with Def Jam, asked me how much I made and had his mom set up my bank account.' Then we went on tour "School Spirit" tour in 2004.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Video: Kid Cudi - "Day N Nite" by Sugar Ray (RAWsession Cover)
I like Little Boots cover more to be honest..but...ok.
Video: Kid Cudi - Pursuit of Happiness (Acapella)
Last night Cudi gave the first glimpse into his song ‘Pursuit of Hapiness’ which he says will serve as his 4th single after ‘Sky Might Fall’. This is probably the track that Cudi did with MGMT.
Bloggin' & Me
I started to blog back in December of 2007. I was new to the whole thing and really didn't know much about it. But every month I learned something new and applied it to the blog. This phase was really cool and exciting but after a while, when you reach that point where you think...now I'm happy with where my blog is at and how it looks like and all...this phase kinda stops and some things are not that exciting anymore.
I'm actually talking about The lupEND Blog right now as that is the blog I'm putting the most time and effort into. If someone would have told me 2 years ago that I'd have a blog that Lupe would read (or even know) and Kanye, Consequence, A-Trak, Ibn, Va$htie and various other people would link to on their own blogs...I would've told you "Yeah, right..I don't think so." And if you'd have told me that every Hip Hop blog + MTV, NME, Pitchfork and Entertainment Weekly would name it as a source for one of their own entries, at least once, I would have told you that you're insane.
But all of this happened and I'm proud that we were able to get this far with it...and it just shows me that people must like what we/I do..and that's a great thing. I usualy don't like to brag about things like that (like being linked on MTV.com or Kanye's Blog) but it's a fact and it's dope because not everyone archives something like that.
Lately there are some things that are really annoying though. For example...there are like 10-15 spam comments on the blog every day and it's a pain in the ass that I always have to delete them and it just sucks that I have to deal with stuff like that 'cause I could spend this time on other things.
Then there are people who constantly ask you things like "When does Lupe's album drop?" or "when is he playing his next show, where can I get tickets?" and when they ask things like that I always think...do you even read what I write every day? I mean...if you would...you wouldn't have to ask. Don't get me wrong...I don't mind being asked about stuff and I'm always as nice as possible if people ask me something...but if it's something that I just wrote about 2-3 days ago and you're still asking but you could just read the blog instead...then I start to think...why am I doing all of this if you don't even take 5 minutes of your time to read it?
Besides that it seems like people think that we have some type of inside sources or connections so that we know stuff before it actually happens but let me tell you this...we don't really know much more than any other person and if we get inside infos (which is rare), we most likely won't talk about it 'cause we're not supposed to.
Then there are the smartasses (like I call them) who only leave comments when they see something that you did wrong, that's also very annoying...I don't mind if you tell me that I wrote something grammatically wrong...I don't like blogs with a lot of mistakes myself , but if that's the only thing you're commenting on and you never leave comments on other entries...then I don't really want you to leave comments at all. You also have to keep in mind that I'm German so my first language isn't English...and I think I'm doing a pretty good job on delivering entries without a lot of mistakes. I know people who run blogs and their first language is English and they're making more mistakes in one entry than I do in like 120 in 1 month...what's up IllSeed? lol
Basically, I think comments are not really neccessary at all but if you disable them people start to tell you some shit like...don't rob our freedom of speech. So..yeah..WHATEVER..I think I'll probably just activate comment moderation soon and then I won't have to deal with it anymore.
Why am I writing all of this?..Well...I just had to get it off of my chest 'cause it was buggin' me the last couple of days. I still love bloggin' but it's not as exciting as it was when I first started...some great dude once said that you should enjoy the time when you're that new dude 'cause you won't be the new dude forever...wise & true words.
Video: MAESTRO KNOWS Season 2 - Episode 1 (Bread & Butter)
Take a trip to Germany with Maestro as he spends time in Berlin and visits the Bread & Butter tradeshow!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Video: Kanye West - "Good Life" Live Performance @ Chicago Theatre '09
Be sure to tune-in to Fuse TV on July 25th @ 8pm/7c to see Kanye perform tracks off his latest album, 808’s and Heartbreak and more.
Video: U2 - I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
Great video...best one of the NLOTH era - animated by David O'Reilly
hmm...they disabled embedding for the youtube clip...
so I took this one from Heather...
Video: Travis Barker's Flying Drum Solo
Blink 182 played a family and friends show yesterday to get ready for
their reunion tour and Travis did the fliest drum solo ever.
NotCot has some cool pics of it, too.
Video: Stages Portrait Interview With Kaws
At the occasion of Stages art show opening in Paris, La MJC had the chance to interview most of the artists.
First chapter, a conversation with Brian Donnelly aka KAWS
Video: Yung Nate - Deal With No Deal Trailer 2
Woody x Rhymestyle x Charles are all in the video.
It's goin' down!
Monday, July 20, 2009
New Jay-Z single "Run This Town" (ft. Kanye x Rihanna) drops on Friday

Does that mean that the Drake track won't be a single...
or at least not the first official one?
HAHA
and about that VMA performance...I told you so...one week ago...
update:
Download the track here
Video: Beastie Boys Postpon Tour & Album - MCA has cancer
But, yes, this means concerts will be canceled, and the promotions for the new album delayed. This also affects their planned Lollapalooza performance.
Well...all the best to MCA..I'm sure he'll be fine soon.
Video: Coldplay - Strawberry Swing
Click here to watch the full video on BubbleGum.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Video: Charles Hamilton working on new material
There you have it...Charles is alive and kickin' it - working on some
new shit right now - this video was recorded like 4 hours ago.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
The Blink 182 Tour Bunny
Video: Chester French Performs "C'Mon" on Jimmy Kimmel Live
The fans were the ones who wanted them to perform this song.
Nice choice!
Video: Kid Cudi on Hot 97
Friday, July 17, 2009
Hilarious Video: Darth Vader - Hammertime
The highlight of the hilarious Hyperspace Hoopla that concludes each day of Star Wars Weekends at Disney's Hollywood Studios is the Dance-Off with the Star Wars stars during which Star Wars characters get down to popular music.
In the video above you can see how Vader and the Stormtroopers dance to MC Hammer's "You Can't Touch This."
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Jay-Z Says Kanye Inspired 'D.O.A.'
Jay-Z says that the two recorded one track with Auto-Tune previously for "The Blueprint 3," but once "D.O.A." came about, they decided to scrap it. "After we made the 'D.O.A.' record about a month ago, we were like, 'if it's got to go, it's got to go.'"
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Video: Jadyn Maria - Good Girls Like Bad Boys (ft. Flo-Rida)
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Video: The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother
New short film "Treat Me Like Your Mother" for The Dead Weather directed by Jonathan Glazer. The new album "Horehound" is in stores on 7/14/09. The Dead Weather is: Alison Mosshart, Jack White, Jack Lawrence and Dean Fertita.
Dope: Daft Punk x Silly Thing 1000% Kubrick Heads
Today we get a detailed look from TK at the heads of the two figures and that makes you understand how much detail and precision work is needed in order to blow up the figures into this new gigantic size properly.
"MAKIN' GROWN MEN CRY" Eternia & MoSS - Road to Release: Episode #6 feat. 88-KEYS & SKYZOO
In Episode #6, Eternia revisits the playground w/ 88-Keys & makes a grown man cry in Queens, after an impromptu performance on the block w/ Mauikai. 88 & E reminisce over recorded tracks that never leaked (including a song w/ Kanye West... & E?!) & Skyzoo recalls the 1st time he saw E spit @ Squeeze Radio.
Video: Maestro Knows - Tour Edition Episode 6
In this final episode of the tour follow Maestro, BJ and Ty around Atlanta as they check out GLC, Thumbs Up diner, Standard, Rita's water ice. Maestro stops off to shoot with Zach Wolfe and ends his birthday at the bowling alley.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Video: Fabolous "When the Money Goes" ft. Jay-Z (BTS)
"When The Money Goes" Featuring Jay-Z!
Jaydiohead - Jay-Z x Radiohead - The Encore - 5 New Tracks
You might remember the original Jaydiohead project which was awesome...well the guy who did it is back with some more tracks!
Download Here
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Video: Kobe Bryant & Lil Wayne interview at photo shoot
Weezy says: "The album is done..ready to go..just waiting
on the label to press it up and ship it"
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Video: Nelly Furtado "Mi Plan" Photoshoot Scenes
What kind of weed did she smoke before the interview?
I mean...look at her eyes...lol
"Mi Plan" is the name of Nelly's upcoming Spanish album
which drops on September 29th.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Lady GaGa & Kanye West Fall/Winter US Tour Dates
I would like to see a concert from that tour, too..but right now it doesn't seem like there'll be European dates for this...well...for all you lucky people in the US...here are the dates:
Oct 04, 2009 HSBC Arena Buffalo, New York
Oct 07, 2009 TD Banknorth Garden Boston, Massachusetts
Oct 10, 2009 1st Mariner Arena Baltimore, Maryland
Oct 11, 2009 Wachovia Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oct 13, 2009 Xcel Energy Center Saint Paul, Minnesota
Oct 15, 2009 Madison Square Garden Arena New York, New York
Oct 16, 2009 Nassau Coliseum Uniondale, New York
Oct 17, 2009 IZOD Center East Rutherford, New Jersey
Oct 28, 2009 Quicken Loans Arena Cleveland, Ohio
Oct 29, 2009 Verizon Center Washington, District of Columbia
Oct 31, 2009 Palace Of Auburn Hills Auburn Hills, Michigan
Nov 02, 2009 United Center Chicago, Illinois
Nov 05, 2009 Toyota Center Houston, Texas
Nov 07, 2009 New Orleans Arena New Orleans, Louisiana
Nov 08, 2009 American Airlines Center Dallas, Texas
Nov 10, 2009 US Airways Center Phoenix, Arizona
Nov 11, 2009 Cox Arena at Aztec Bowl San Diego, California
Nov 13, 2009 Mandalay Bay Events Center Las Vegas, Nevada
Nov 14, 2009 Honda Center Anaheim, California
Nov 16, 2009 Staples Center Los Angeles, California
Nov 18, 2009 Save Mart Center Fresno, California
Nov 20, 2009 ARCO Arena Sacremento, California
Nov 21, 2009 HP Pavilion At San Jose San Jose, California
Nov 22, 2009 HP Pavilion At San Jose San Jose, California
Dec 02, 2009 Pepsi Center Denver, Colorado
Dec 03, 2009 Tingley Coliseum Albuquerque, New Mexico
Dec 03, 2009 Tingley Coliseum Albuquerque, New Mexico
Dec 05, 2009 Sprint Center Kansas City, Missouri
Dec 06, 2009 Scottrade Center Saint Louis, Missouri
Dec 09, 2009 Bank Atlantic Ampitheater FT Lauderdale, Florida
Dec 11, 2009 Philips Arena Atlanta, Georgia
Dec 12, 2009 Greensboro Coliseum Complex Greensburo, North Carolina
Dec 13, 2009 Norfolk Scope Arena Norfolk, Virginia
Dec 15, 2009 Mohegan Sun Arena Uncasville, Connecticut
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Friday, July 3, 2009
New Pic: Shakira
It's like one of the hottest days this year over here...and then she drops a pic like this on her twitter...damn
New single"She Wolf" from her upcoming album "Animal Instinct" coming soon!
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Video: Eminem - Beautiful (Full Version)
I love this video reminds me of 8 Mile and the Lose Yourself video (probably 'cause it was shot in Detroit, too...lol). This is some good old Eminem shit...the type of stuff that a lot of people missed, I guess.
More of that on Relapse 2 please.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Video: GMTV London interviews Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake paid tribute to the late Michael Jackson on GMTV - calling him a cultural icon whose music 'got inside your soul'.




































