FreshNerd

01. Intro
02. Suspended Animation (feat. Ced Hughes)
03. Sky Might Fall (Soul Remix)
04. Her
05. Message To Rhianna (feat. Ghostface)
06. Good Luv
07. Put It On
08. Makes You Happy (Smooth Mix)
09. Around We Go
10. To Find A Hero (feat. Colin Munroe)
11. Interlude
12. Dream World (feat. Spree Wilson)
13. So Much More (feat. Joell Ortiz & Papoose)
14. Song Cry Part 2
15. Mad World (Remix)
16. E.O.T.W. (aka Donnie Darko)

DOPE! Not sure why I avoided listening to these guys for so long but I’ll probably check out the whole record after listening to this one. At first glance, seems like this would sound like a forced collabo but it’s far from forced. John Legend delivers a great hook and the rest of the song falls in place.

Umm….what the f*#k is this?!?

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Don’t write the music, let the music write itself – Michael Jackson (R.I.P.)

Definitely looks like this will be a positive project with purpose. I just hope the music comes across audibly well. I’m still kinda iffy on the first track that was sent over to me but maybe that will change as I hear more. I’m definitely looking forward to this.

Hank Willis Thomas holds no punches when it comes to getting his point across. The piece above is from his “Branded Series” in which he takes an ad that you may see day in and day out and shows the underlining racism that is present. His Branded series is definitely one that makes you think whether you agree with it or not. He uses the comparison of the NBA trade to the slave trade showing the similarities with a mashup of ads and images. Definitely something to think about…..

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Alex Pardee, Skinner, Jeben Berg & Jason Maloney throw up a mural at YouTube headquarters.

Bobo shot this over today with not much explanation nor reason behind this except that this will be on a forthcoming project from these two. Not sure if I’m feelin’ this…

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Limited edition by David Choe…details soon come.

Pharrell teams up with Takashi Murakami to create a sculpture that ended up selling for 2 million dollars. I respect the art, but I can’t say I actually like this piece.

If you steal my money I don’t have that money anymore.  If you copy my music I still have it, and so does everyone else who has it.  No one loses anything, the supply of copies just increases. – Peter Jenner

It looks like while I was enjoying my b-day last month, I missed all of the dope shit. I’m late on this one, so this is for the nerds that haven’t seen this as of yet. Christian Rich is a group that is currently residing in New York via Chicago and they’re pretty dope. What’s doper though is this video and the concept behind it which can probably be translated a number of ways. Have any idea what its about? Let’s talk about it….leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Lily Allen has something to say….guess what it is?