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Festival

Coachella 2012 Lineup Announced

The line up includes Dre Dre & Snoop Dogg, Florence and The Machine, AVICII, DJ Shadow, La Roux, La Roux, Bon Ivor, Sweedish House Mafia, The Weeknd, Afro Jack, Frank Ocean, The Black Keys, Jimmy Cliff, Mike Snow and Nero to name a few.

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Swag Uncategorized Video

Teairra Mari Hits The Studio With Rico Love To Record Hot New Album

The Original Princess of the Roc Teairra Mari since dissolving all ties with Roc Nation has teamed up with Producer Rico Love, in a bid to bring back r’n’b by creating a vocally driven album for release in 2012. Check out the chemistry between Tierra Marie and Rico Love as they lay down tracks on the first day of recording for the new as yet untitled project which features the lead single U Did That. Check out the footage below.

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Trailer Video

Rihanna Behind The Scenes Preview Of Battleship

Rihanna channels her inner Whitney Houston rude boi acting hard, taking on the role of Raikes in Battleship, Rihanna’s character is a female nany seal, a trained weapons expert with extra attitude. The Peter Berg-directed film co-starring Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgard, and Taylor Kitsch hits the big screen on May 18. Take a look at the behind the scenes action below.

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Music Swag Video

Tyga – Rack City

Check out the official video for Rack City the latest release from Tyga.

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Music World Premiere

Jay Z – Glory

With the natural birth of Blue Ivy Carter, Jay Z marked the occasion by dedicating an unreleased track titled glory paying tribute to his wife and mother of his daughter Beyonce Knowles-Carter and their new born baby girl Blue Ivy, rumour has it that the unique name stems from a combination of the genius bodies of work that many say consist of Beyonce and Jay-Z’s best work, Blue as in The Blueprint and Ivy as in the roman numerals IV representative of Beyonce’s current album 4. Jay Z goes of to talk about Blue Ivy being conceived in Paris, the most amazing feeling he has ever felt, and Beyonce’s miscarriage back in 2007. A refreshingly simple and unique celebration of new life narrated by Sean Carter featuring Ivy Blue Carters vocals months after she performed at the MTV VMA with Beyonce. Listen to the audio below.

Jay-Z Ft. B.I.C. – Glory by SRE

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Culture Fashion Fly Photography Swag

I-likeitalot Individuals Streetstyle 2012 Week #1

I-likeitalot presents to You our first street style. Each week of the year we will be shooting individuals with their own style as we salute each person originality, their unique and individual fashion sense. Rather than following the latest trends, they create their own distinctive style that suits them and reflects their character. To some it may seem Odd to other classics but to us it has this “Je ne sais Quoi” that can’t be defined Check out all the Individuals after the Jump.

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Interview Music Video

Sounds of 2012 : Frank Ocean

Frank Ocean has come 2nd in the BBC Sound of 2012. Christopher Francis Ocean is set to finally establish himself as a solo artist of Worldwide acclaim in 2012. The 24 year-old OFWGKTA member moved from Louisianna to Los Angeles following hurricane Katrina to work on his first album, and legally changed his name from Christopher “”Lonny”” Breaux shortly after. In L.A. the singer soon hooked up with the Odd Future collective and began work writing for the likes of Brandy, John Legend and most recently Beyonce on I Miss You. Ocean was also called up to work on two tracks from Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch The Throne. Collaborations aside, it was Ocean’s solo work which garnered most praise. Signed to Def Jam in 2009, Ocean delivered his debut mixtape nostalgia,ULTRA earlier this year, winning fans on both side of the Atlantic, including Zane Lowe, who debuted tracks from the release on Radio 1 in November.

PROPS TO BBC

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Fashion Fly

Common – Stay Schemin (Remix) (Drake Diss)

The Drake versus Common beef is heating up as Common quickly returning shots over Drakes verse on Rick Ross Stay Schemin, who got the First round Point?

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Culture Fashion Fly Swag

Kinetics x Adidas Superstar 80s “Animal Collection”

The Kinetics x Adidas Superstar 80s brings together a doper than cream new pair of shoes, The classic Superstar 80s on Leopard print with snake-skin branding, what more can I say Except I Like It a Lot, Do You?

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Music Swag Video

Mz Bratt Featuring Dot Rotten – Speeding By

Check out the video for Mz Bratt featuring Dot Rotten Speeding By lifted from Elements mixtape.