A collection of tracks Mr. Solo Dolo put out in ’08 and ’09 plus one new track. Download and tracklist after the jump.

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Via Kanye

This is still my favourite Cudi MixTape, though:

Man on the Moon: DOWNLOAD HERE

Quote “Play Cloths” Blog:

“Pardon me i must say, I’m kinda like a big deeeeeaaal”

“Whats the big deal? Only some of the biggest talents in music coming together on the first single for the most anticipated album of 2009, thats all.

The beat, provided by DJ Khalil, is wilder than a pack of red bull infused spider monkeys let loose in a Guitar Center.”

OK. That wasn’t subtle. But shiiiaaaat. This is pretty big. Kaws is said to be doing the artwork for the “Until The Casket Drops” album, too.

The release date of the whole album is “pushed back like Ne-Yo’s hairline”.

uhm… Distractions?

Via Play Cloths.

I was going to post the new N.A.S.A. “Gifted” video feat. Kanye West, Lykke Li and Santigold. But then my hands started shaking from triangle/laser/huddle pics/dayglow overdose and I had to switch that shit stuff off. So I’m posting the new Deerhoof video instead. It’s about two people who fall in love and like to eat fruit while fighting evil knights and monsters (I think). Not your biggest “google trend” words or “twitter buzzwords”, I know. But I like it. Plus, it’s all in 8-bit graphics so it’s safe to watch all the way until the end without suffering from nasty hipster retro withdrawal.

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Buck and Judy tasty, isn’t it? this fruit
Buck and Judy big, isn’t it? that fruit
Buck and Judy asking name of the fruit

No one knows what
No one had seen that

Dust falls onto earth, down
Finding how to rise, sighs ahhhh

Buck and Judy commenting on the fruit

Buck and Judy tasty, isn’t it? this fruit
Buck and Judy big, isn’t it? that fruit
Buck and Judy what was that? that fruit

They’re here. First official images.

I dig the grey ones, but I don’t think I could walk around with an LV logo on my soles. You?

“Hang my feet out the window/Jock my shoe game/All my kicks fly/Like Liu Kang”

Young Mulah drops his 6th installment for the Drought series and it’s (sorry, but I have to..) fiyaaaaaaah!!

Tracklist and download links after the jump.

I know every day there’s about 5 Lil’ Wayne mixtapes coming out, but only the Drama series and the Empire Drought series are worth it.

This one has a little less “turn off the beat, I’m a talk about freakin’ Sarah Palin with her glasses on ’til she shouts “Lil’ Wayne for president!” – moments and more proper songs on it.

We’ll see if this one holds up after a zillion plays.

Or even if it survives next week… that’s when the new Clipse ‘Road to when the casket drops’ mixtape drops.

Until then: listen for yourself…

GET THE DROUGHT IS OVER 6 – THE REINCARNATION HERE

1. The Reincarnation
2. I’m A Monster
3. Red Magic Ft The Game
4. Nina
5. Best Thing Yet
6. First Place Winner Ft Swizz Beatz, Curren$y & Mack Maine
7. Gorilla
8. Louisianimal Ft Lil Boosie
9. Down Here Ft Rick Ross
10. My Office
11. I Feel Me (Produced By Mental Instruments)
12. Put Me In The Game
13. Different Girl Ft Nu Jerzey Devil
14. Blinded
15. Forever Ft Chris Brown
16. See It For Myself
17. Tell Everybody That You Know Ft Kanye West
18. Whatever You Like Ft Jae Millz & Young Gutta
19. Shootout
20. Dick Pleaser Ft Jae Millz
21. Street Life
22. Drought Is Never Over

Note: Track 17 has been deleted from most free versions.

In the new video for ‘Champion’, Kanye turns into a puppet-Rocky and runs is felt-covered ass off.

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Has Yeezy learned nothing from Isaac Hayes?

Running is bad, mmmkay?

Seriously, though. I miss Isaac Hayes already. As you probably know, this giant of soul music collapsed next to his treadmill last sunday and never recovered.

Isaac was bad mother *shut your mouth* and probably my first clue to the vast amount of awesomeness that lies just beyond the sampling archive of your average producer.

Being a middle class white kid, 15 years old with the internet still but a flicker in Al Gore’s eyes, I knew nothing about Mr. Hayes. Until “The Fresh Prince” (yes, that one) made a reference to a certain TV-show called ‘Shaft’. I looked up the name in the local library and came home with a soundtrack that would remain spinning in my cd-player (a solid steel Sony dinosaur, weighing in at about 30 pounds) until I racked up a library-fine hefty enough for me to get banned for life (srsly). But more importantly, that cd would change the way I looked for music. Turns out, this Isaac Hayes character was sampled by just about half the bands I knew. Portishead, Tricky… they all plundered his catalogue. From then on, the first thing I did when I bought a new cd was read the liner notes. Who got sampled? And where could I get my hands on the original?

This is why, when most of my peers would be singing along to ‘Discotheque’ (especially the ‘uhn! aha! aha! part – man, I just don’t get that song…), I knew all the words to ‘By the time I get to Phoenix’.

I’m posting a few extra gems from my private reserve as parting shots, in honour of the big man.

Everyone’s already posting the ‘Shaft’ tune, so I’m trumping all y’all with the simply obliterating funk version of Bernard Purdie, probably the best drummer of all time. It was taken from the full LP ‘Pretty Purdie’.

And of course, still my favourite, ‘By the time I get to Phoenix’.

Thank you Mr. Hayes. You shall be missed.

A friendly reminder that the KNOTORYUS Tumblr. site is still going strong with more cultish or ad-related stuff. Like the ‘Sexy People’ blog, dedicated to the perfect portrait photography. Or Darth Vader art. Or Radiohead covered by vintage robots.

Or…

Who wants to get a first look at Kanye’s shoes for Nike: ‘the Yeezy’? (You can see those after the jump…)

More at KNOTORYUS TUMBLR.

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Spike Jonze did the first version, NEON did number two. Apparently, there was a third version by Dethura, but rumour has it; it didn’t make the cut so Kanye dumped it.

+ Kanye’s mad & he ain’t paying  (after the jump)

Kanye West:

“I shot 3 vids for flashing lights cuz I ain’t like the first 2. I loved the 3rd one that I released with Spike and hit the world with that. I actually had Sam Speigal , Spike’s brother and co-orchestrater of THE TOUR MUSIC, do a remix 2 the scary one 2 make the music fit. I planned 2 put it on a DVD later this year. No rant’s here just an explanation of why yall getting those other vids rt now that I ain’t approve and why I ain’t finna post neither on my blog. So I hope whoever leaked them got the shine they was looking 4 cause that’s all they’ll get now. And I know that’s incorrect english but that’s how I talk when I want 2. Oh and I’ve just been 2 busy 2 get at the New York Times for all that his Ego BLAH BLAH BLAH bullshit so stay tuned.   For fun, I want yall 2 read this whole post in the Grandma’s Boy JP robot voice  LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! “

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We can only imagine Kanye on the phone with So_Me after seeing the new Justice DVNO promo…

So_Me: “Allo?”

Kanye: “Heeelllll No!”

So_Me: “?”

Kanye: “I know you didn’t play me. I KNOW you didn’t!”

So_Me: “Oo is this?”

Kanye: “Don’t act like you don’t know who this is! You know who this is! Don’t act like you don’t know when Yeezy is coming down on you!”

So_Me: “Kanye?”

Kanye: “What the hell is that DVNO video? What the hell ! Why didn’t I get that? This sh*t is technicolor! Mine was a kid with a box of broken crayons! How you gonna play me?”

So_Me: “I’m not playing with you..”

Kanye: “That’s right! You don’t know how right you are! You ain’t playin’ with me no more. That’s it! I’m past you. I’m all over you. And you can’t come to my house no more. That sh*t is closed. Get it? Closed!”

(hangs up)

So_Me: “Allo? Yeezy baby? Allo? Zut, alors…”

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Finally! After being played to death for months

at the local KNOTORYUS pod, Kid Sister has released a vid for the club smash ‘Pro Nails’. Kanye gloves up. Fingers start to breakdance. One anyonymous blogger calls it: “another boogey track for the stuck up ones to snap to”. Ey!