Music Trend Setters Blog

Homecoming

Hype Williams and Kanye on the set of Kanye's next video for the new single Homecoming

Yes We Can - Obama Song by will.i.am

Paris, Tokyo

Kanye's Homecoming (Featuring Chris Martin)

Just posted on Kanye's site:

HOMECOMING from kwest on Vimeo.

Sweeter Than Honey

It is my opinion that if the majors knew what they were doing I could also post Erykah Badu's wonderful video and you could see it and that would make you want to buy and listen to her album in a loop, like I have for the past 48 hours, but Universal knows better than to engage into grass-root marketing... DUH!!! So they are trying to make sure that this video can only be seen on their YouTube sub-site, but cannot be embedded anywhere else... I still recommend you go check it out there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9jpkF1ehD8&NR=1 unless their effort to prevent her video from spreading is as effective as their strategy (which so far is resulting in ~20% sales decline year over year for the past 5 years), in which case these two windows below won't work for long. Remember these guys sued Napster, and resisted iTune, because you don't get horrible shareholder value destruction and insane artist promotion without a clearly failed but strictly implemented strategy, so limit your expectations, these guys are good at doing it wrong...

Like Prada? Have 4 Minutes? WATCH THIS!

A Morricone Gangster

The full album is at http://amorriconegangster.com/. I know I've posting a lot of Jay-Z these past few days, but his latest album is the gift that keeps on giving and I love it all!

Jay-Z's "I know" - American Gangster

Paranoid Park Movie Trailer 2008

The film is based on a novel by Blake Nelson, and takes place in Potland. The story revolves around a teenage skateboarder who accidentally kills a security guard.

It premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival as one of the 22 films in competition, and won the extra-special 60th anniversary prize.

Jay-Z - Falling Live (American Gangster)