Akomplice Clothing Season 8 Photoshoot Teaser Video
Akomplice - Season 8 Photoshoot
Somewhat racy video "teaser" from Akomplice Clothing for their current line.
Video by vitalfilms.net.
Official Site:
Akomplice
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Akomplice - Season 8 Photoshoot
Somewhat racy video "teaser" from Akomplice Clothing for their current line.
Video by vitalfilms.net.
Official Site:
Akomplice
Mashable's Pete Cashmore interviews Chamillionaire and one can get a nice sense of Chamillionaire's strategic smarts.
Most of the interview is focused on the digital world and Chamillionaire says he studied that world as seriously as he studied mixtapes and the indie music scene. Now he's studying stocks.
In describing his choice of social networks for marketing, Chamillionaire says he goes where the fans go:
"It's not even about me. I go to what they want."
Unfortunately Cashmore doesn't follow-up on Chamillionaire's statement that now folks are starting their own networks and moving away from the biggies like MySpace. I'd love to hear Chamillionaire's thoughts on addressing that situation as a marketer. I'm curious if he has some ideas beyond just following suit and starting your own.
Chamillionaire gets into a concern he has about how digital downloads are tracked and a Mashable writer describes it this way in the post:
"Chamillionaire also talks about how the music industry needs new metrics to determine what’s popular, since album sales are meaningless in the world of a la carte purchases via iTunes."
Actually Chamillionaire states that he's concerned that someone could download 9 of an album's 10 tracks individually from iTunes and it doesn't count as an album sale. Well, they didn't buy the album and the iTunes downloads have already been included in all the relevant charts including the main singles charts. So it's an interesting idea but determining what's popular in terms of downloads is well in hand and Chamillionaire certainly got chart credit for all those downloads.
But Chamillionaire's clearly puzzling out the details and thinking everything through in a serious manner that's impressing folks and makes him look quite solid going forward.
Via Nathan Driver.
Official Sites:
Chamillionaire
Chamillionaire @ MySpace
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Skillz' Million Dollar Backpack has been pushed back from a June 10th to a July 8th release by KOCH Records. Let's hope that's the final push cause Skillz has been waiting long enough.
The album includes such guests as Common, Talib Kweli, Freeway and The Roots.
Official Site:
Skillz @ MySpace
The Good Life New Era Fitted w/Skateboard Decks by Craig Wetherby
Manik Skateboards has announced their collaboration with photographer Craig Wetherby:
"The Manik and Craig Wetherby collaboration features a selection of some of Wetherby's most popular imagery. Wetherby has photographed just about every relevant hip-hop artist to date while also being highly respected and admired by the punk rock and rock n roll communities alike...With a massive and diverse portfolio, his work has been featured in dozens of publications including Complex, The New York Times, Spin, Rolling Stone, Snowboard Magazine and Vibe."
Manik Skateboards by Craig Wetherby
"This exclusive series includes skateboard decks, crewneck sweatshirts and t-shirts, as well as New Era fitted caps that showcase various imagery shot by Wetherby. The eight showcased images throughout the collection include hip-hop artists such as Ghostface Killah, Slick Rick and Method Man, along with famous images of Gwar and Bad Brains at the world renowned CBGBs."
"In total, the eight limited edition decks range from 7.5 to 8.25 in length, costing $60.00 per deck. The t-shirts are available in black, white and heather grey with a Wetherby original silk screen on 100% cotton, retailing at $30.00..."The Good Life" New Era hat that comes in black and olive canvas, with photos printed on white satin on the inside panels retailing for $50.00..."
"The traveling art exhibition will begin its tour in May 2008 starting in Seattle and will continue through December 2008 making stops in Tokyo, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. As a special treat, each stop on the tour will have unique limited edition color ways of the fitted hats available only for that particular city."
More Info:
Manik Skateboards
Artist's Site:
Craig Wetherby
Congratulations to Adam Bernard who's the new Urban Culture Editor for Beyond Race magazine.
The Roots' Rising Down debuts at no. 6 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Top 10 Albums on the Billboard 200:
1. Madonna - Hard Candy
2. Mariah Carey - E=MC2
3. Leona Lewis - Spirit
4. Lyfe Jennings - Lyfe Change
5. Def Leppard - Songs from the Sparkle Lounge
6. The Roots - Rising Down
7. Portishead - Third
8. Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch
9. Now That's What I Call Music 27
10. Tim McGraw - Greatest Hits Vol. 1 and 2
Lil Mama's VYP: Voice of the Young People debuts at no. 25 with sales of 19k, probably not the start that Lil Mama Inc. was hoping to achieve.
Sesame Street - Oscar OG Tee
Fun new Sesame Street gear
Brand New Substantial Tees @ MooseShirts.com
Official Bun B x Algierz tee
Lupe Fiasco x Enstrumental exclusive tee
Sesame Street - Countin' My Stacks Tee
Flavor Flav "It's My Flavor" tee
J Dilla x IC3 Clothing tee
Mare139 for Stussy
Just Blaze x LRG Limited Edition T-Shirt
Hip hop advertising and marketing links:
El-P Says DefinitiveJux.Net Is Selling Out
Snoop Dogg in Mariah Carey album promo ads
Diddy get's featured in new Tourism Campaign "Just Ask The Locals"
50 Cent, Dwight Howard, and Friends Shoot A Vitamin Water Commercial
Chamillionaire x Castrol Motor Oil partnership
Pepsi launches new DJ Division campaign
Complex Media Expands To Create Dedicated Digital Unit
AdAge:
Urban Is the New Mainstream
Mos Def's new Nixon Watch ad
Paul Wall's new Avirex clothing ad
Terrance Dean: Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--from Music to Hollywood
Terrance Dean's Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--from Music to Hollywood is due May 13th from Atria Books.
Press Release:
SOHH.COM LAUNCHES NEW "CONFESSIONS OF DOWN LOW LIFE, LOVE AND SEX IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY" BLOG WITH AUTHOR TERRANCE DEAN
Hip hop fashion links:
M.I.A. Launches Clothing Line
The revolution of streetwear
Addicted to Fresh: Men’s Spring Fashion
Lupe Fiasco x Dr. Romanelli leather jackets
Chilly-O: Ice Cold Fashion From ATL
DC 2008 Premium Denim Lookbook
Young Buck's David Brown Clothing online store now open
Plies becomes 3,746 rapper this year with a clothing line
Eminem relaunches Shady Ltd. clothing
Hip hop fashion video interviews from DrJays.com:
Interview with Baby Phat’s Marci Corbett
Interview with Akademiks’ Emmett Harrell
Exclusive interview with Nelly
Exclusive interview with LL Cool J
Exclusive interview with Paul Wall
Barack Obama Keeps Brushing Off That Dirt
That's right! We're showing Barack love in the NC primaries. At least my people are!
Vid via Hip Hop and Advertising.
According to Variety, Common is in the next Terminator flick, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins starring Christian Bales and supposedly rated PG-13.
The film debuts May 22, '09.
Common's next movie appearance will be in Wanted starring Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy opening June 27th.
In The Shadow Of An Icon
In The Shadow Of An Icon is a compilation album released by Thug Life Army Records featuring a wide range of artists who feel the influence of Tupac Shakur.
However the album actually has no Tupac Shakur tracks though Tupac is featured in the cover art shown above. The question of how one markets a product that connects to such an iconic figure without having a contribution from that icon is interesting to consider and my own thoughts start with ideas for the album cover art that could somehow forefront the artists while indicating the presence of Tupac's spirit.
If such a marketing puzzle interests you, you may also enjoy considering the documentary Kurt Cobain: About A Son which is built on audio interviews but contains no film footage of Cobain or music by his band Nirvana. It's a surprisingly effective documentary from AJ Schnack that can also be taken as an example of creatively taking an alternate route.
Press Release:
Indie Hip Hop Label Re-Issues Unique Tupac Tribute Project
ODB Asun Unique Documentary Trailer
Not much info on this but it's gonna have lots of good ODB footage.
Via GRANDGOOD.
Adweek profiles Jason Zada who created:
"last summer's 'Football resurrected' campaign for 2K Sports' All Pro Football 2K8 video game. For it, Zada, 34, directed hip-hop legends for online, TV, print and outdoor content. 'I was a little white kid breakdancing in the early '80s and I got to shoot and direct Rakim and Chali 2NA,' says Zada, a huge hip-hop fan and avid gamer."
Zada seems to be best know for the Elf Yourself campaign for OfficeMax.
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Access to Care PSA Featuring MIKE-E
Press Release:
American Cancer Society Launches Access to Care PSA With International Recording Sensation MIKE-E
VH1's announcement of I Love Money, a reality tv show that gathers together folks from Rock of Love, I Love New York and Flavor of Love, finally presents an honest reality series to the American public.
What's weird is that this is being labeled a celebreality series when the participants only claim to fame is being in a reality series featuring a celebrity.
More importantly, the return of such celebreals raises the question:
Can zombies eating zombie brains result in mad cow disease?
VH1 begins to unveil the zombies in question.
Soulja Boy releases a video for She Gotta Donk following the release of iDance and it already feels like a hit singles fishing expedition.
Related ProHipHop Coverage:
Soulja Boy's One-Hit Wonder Label: Does It Matter?
iDance: Soulja Boy's First Single off iSouljaBoy
Emmanuel Jal - Warchild
Emmanuel Jal's Warchild is due May 13th from Sonic360.
Rapper Emmanuel Jal's Trip to Peace [NPR, 2005]
Music industry news from Hypebot:
Are indie labels and musicians being left out of Music 2.0 thanks to recent deals by the four major record groups? Join the discussion.
iTunes turns 6 years old, but new challenges lie ahead. Vote: What will iTunes' market share be in 5 years?
More court action is possible between ASCAP and Real, AOL and Yahoo! according to the DiMA.
As new details emerge it becomes apparent that Nokia's Comes With Music comes at a high price.
eMusic has launched in Canada.
Universal and Sony BMG have invested in music social networking site MOG. But a feature in MOG raises fears of label control of your music collection.
Video game Grand Theft Auto IV adds in game tags to Amazon for download purchase.
Top 10 Stations on Sirius and XM.
With a concert pre-sale Nine Inch Nails proves again that they know how to serve the fans. Watch them and learn.
OP-ED: Will labels share new and proposed "taxes" with the artist?
Ticketmaster has bought VIP ticketing firm SLO.
The American Association Of Independent Music (A2IM) is turning three.
New Coldplay single explodes on Last.fm.
See ProHipHop's Hypebot Industry News category for past roundups.
Little Brother - And Justus For All
Little Brother's And Justus For All is due June 3rd from Hall of Justus.
Rizoh did a background check:
"Yesterday, some of you were confused (albeit excited) about this new Little Brother CD. So, I got in touch with Phonte to find out exactly what this is.
Tay says, 'It's the mixtape from last year mastered, minus the drops and skits, with a few new tracks included.'
This one's definitely going to be a keeper, because I remember and justus for all being better than some people's album."
I've actually wondered why we haven't seen more albums emerging from the mixtape circuit as mixtapes themselves become more legit. It will be interesting to see how And Justus For All does though it's off to a disappointing launch with that album cover and the straight reuse of the mixtape's title.
At the end of the day, people believe whatever the heck they want to believe. That's why we're all basically committed to a path of world destruction.
For Soulja Boy the stakes aren't quite that high but, despite Souljaboytellem.com going gold, Soulja Boy is stuck with the one-hit wonder label attached to his brand until he has another big hit.
Of course, many musicians have trials and tribulations around their sophomore release and all pop stars have to get a second hit to keep going. When that progress falters, rising stars may see their fanbase dwindle as they suddenly become one hit wonders on the real. Once so labeled, the drive for new fans becomes seriously hindered as antibuzz agents accumulate.
But it may well be that all the labels and criticism won't hinder and might even help Soulja Boy due to the stark polarization of Soulja Boy lovers and haters that is often marked by a generational divide.
Some of this has been obvious but it wasn't until the Jay-Z & basketball stars press event that I realized that we're not just talking about fans and foes, we're talking about demographics that exist in entirely different worlds.
Obviously there's plenty of crossover between Jay-Z fans and Soulja Boy fans, whether folks want to acknowledge that or not, but it seems pretty clear that Soulja Boy's youthful following has emerged in a world in which Jay-Z is an old man that is respected by old people. They might dig him in the way they might dig other aging world class stars but he's not one of them and has no relationship to their lives in the way that so many 20-somethings still seem to feel.
Unless you're on a kneejerk mission through life, you know what I'm talking about.
Jay-Z can't touch Soulja Boy because Soulja Boy's core fans don't care about Jay-Z. And that's why there won't be a real beef or real battle no matter what Soulja Boy says about these guys cause he's the future and they're the past, at least within the youthful world in which he's embedded.
Unless he doesn't get another big hit. With the bar so high, given that Souljaboytellem.com went gold and the single, Crank That (Soulja Boy), spent 12 weeks in the top 10 in '07 with a brief return in '08, Soulja Boy has quite a challenge ahead.
Related ProHipHop Coverage:
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iDance: Soulja Boy's First Single off iSouljaBoy
All Natural - Element: Fire
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The following new releases are available from Amazon.
Krizz Kalico - Vitiligo
7L & Esoteric - Esoteric vs. Japan
All Natural - Elements: Fire
B. Dolan - The Failure
Big King - Hard II Kill & Refuse II Die
The Coup - Genocide & Juice [Reissue]
D'Cyple - For My People
One Be Lo - The R.E.B.I.R.T.H.
Prolyphic & Reanimator - The Ugly Truth
Ron Browz - The Wonder Years
Supa D - Rinse: 03
Tech N9ne Presents Krizz Kaliko - Vitiligo
Time Life Entertainment - Hip Hop Hits
For a database of upcoming and past releases with updates,
please see Hip Hop Albums @ netweed.
My Radio Is Bigger Than Yours Promo Video
This is a fun little video offering what I assume are all audio samples from Lupe Fiasco's The Cool. It works well as an audio sampler while also working well as a quick story that is more memorable than a typical collage of images or the like.
Lil Wayne's Lollipop slips to no. 2 on the Hot 100 singles chart but it does take the top spot on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart "becoming the chart's first rap single to reach No. 1 since Ludacris' 'Money Maker' climbed to the top in October 2006."
Top 10 Singles on the Hot 100:
1. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
2. Lil Wayne - Lollipop feat. Static Major
3. Jordin Sparks - No Air feat. Chris Brown
4. Madonna - 4 Minutes feat. Justin Timberlake
5. Usher - Love in This Club feat. Young Jeezy
6. Ray J & Yung Berg - Sexy Can I
7. Mariah Carey - Touch My Body
8. Sara Bareilles - Love Song
9. Chris Brown - Forever
10. Chris Brown - With You
Lil Wayne's A Milli debuts at no. 60, V.I.C.'s Get Silly at no. 92 and G Unit's I Like the Way She Do It at no. 95.
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