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Kanye West’s arrival to the Twitterverse–and his subsequent 50+ posts the first day–has spurred a slew of Yeezy-related Twitter pages. First, Aziz Ansari kicked off the #PredictingKanyeTweets hashtag, then @Budgetkanyewest appropriated ‘Ye’s style and adapted hit to their budget lifestyle. Now, someone has taken the rapper’s penchant for lines that straddle the border between clever and corny and turned it into @Fakekanyelines, a hysterical collection of lines we can actually see the self-proclaimed greatest artist of all time drop on his next album. To wit:
“I want my son born in the summer so I can practice heir conditioning.”
“After Taylor Swift, I lost a lot of comrades/had to head for the hills, but I ain’t Lauren Conrad”
“You got a problem? Well then say so!/Yeah that’s what I thought. LMAO”
“Used to be the $#!t, but you …
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For some reason, the concept of Philadelphia-rap music makes me feel cold all over(sans the jovially-neon Fresh Prince–though even he departed for sunny Bel-Air). Perhaps it’s the town’s deeply-rooted Protestant work ethic or maybe it’s a manifestation of populist pride against New York City’s glitz, but in a genre that revels in showcasing the ascension from poverty to posh, guys like Freeway, Beanie Sigel and Black Thought have always given off the impression that they’re proud to remain scrappy. Certainly no exception to said-zeitgeist is Reef the Lost Cauze whose latest offering, Fight Music, hears the Philly-MC clawing through producer, Guns-n-Butter’s murky beats with domineering confidence. However, as frosty as Reef’s lyrical right-hooks are, he warmly shines some light upon his hometown as well as things that make him laugh and …
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SXSW is known for its excess. So many bands, so many people, so much drinking, such long hours… And if there is a future for the music business, it is somewhere floating around the SXSW Music Festival. With the overbooked schedules and harried journalists and photogs trying to cover as many bases as possible to the wannabe hipsters and their trite costumes, could there be any beauty in minimalism and structure? Twitter is all about limitations, but a short tweet can capture the highs and lows of a packed festival and say more than those 140 characters.
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Day Three of SXSW was a burner in terms of what could and would happen in terms of pleasant surprises. Starting off with daytime drinking at Carrera’s SXSW haven, the meandering began at the FADER Fort to meet and chat with WARP/LuckyMe wunderkind Hudson Mohawke, we ran into a man in a kilt. The day just got weirder after that; with every obstacle trying to interfere with the continuation of Day Three’s set-in-stone journey. Traffic, cancellations and BBQ were the main reasons. Walking into Stubb’s, there was an expectation that wobbler-extraordinaire Rusko was going to spin a set in the outdoor space. After eating some mac n’ cheese, the twitterverse said otherwise. Rusko couldn’t come to Austin due to layovers in Colorado, and Beats Antique, the headliner, would …
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