Jay-Z & Kanye West – Monster ft. Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver

Since my internship is officially over, I guess I could do some work around here…at least, until school starts in a week *Evil laugh*  Anyway, this is the second single off Kanye & Jay-Z’s upcoming 5 song EP, Watch the Throne. Enjoy

DOWNLOAD: Jay-Z & Kanye West – Monster ft. Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver (MP3)

Sidenote: Whats up wit the skip at 1:35? ….

My $0.02: Kanye ripped the weak beat…otherwise; Wack sauce

Hmmmm slick bar about Taylor Swift.  Let me know what you guys think. Hit or Miss? What was your favorite bar or too all over the place?

DOWNLOAD: Kanye West – Power ft. Jay Z & Swizz Beatz (Remix) (MP3)

Apparently we all went on vacation at the same time and didn’t tell each other. Ha. Just playin. Guys we are all extremely busy right now so we send out apologies for the lateness of these posts. We also thank you for supporting 5Starhiphop.

Most of these are new, some I forgot to post earlier. Inside we have Andre 3000, Kanye West, Drake, Chris Brown, Talib Kweli, J.Cole and Neako just to name a few. Some singles, some mixtape songs.. either way…. Enjoy!

Luda is my favorite rapper…who is yours?

Kanye calls it a portrait, I call it….dah nevermind.  We’ll just stick with that.

So what exactly is the piece?

Well, it’s a video portrait of Kanye. It starts with a very tight shot introducing him that’s kind of a reinvention of a neoclassical painting. It pulls back from the shot, without any cuts, and we reveal the video canvas, populated by all these characters who are depicted in various stages of undress and decadence. The iconography comes from Roman iconography, Renaissance iconography, and it connects to the sexuality of the music as well. As we reveal the setting for it, there’s a feeling of a moment of transition for him. A fall from grace, if you will. It visualizes power, and him as the icon as power, and then at the end of the piece it challenges the power that I set up at the beginning. It’s an elliptical piece of storytelling.

How did you guys end up using that kind of imagery?

He approached me via my gallery and he wanted to do something that wasn’t a music video. He wanted a video work that would accompany the music. I said, “That’s great, because I don’t do music videos.” I wanted to give it an epic feeling. The song feels very personal, but the orchestration and the production of the track is epic and I wanted to give it something hypersensational and exaggerated.
-Director Marco Brambilla

Here is a behind the scenes look at Kanye West’s ‘Power‘ video. The production was overseen by director Marco Brambilla. What do you think the meaning of Kanye’s single is? It is interesting to hear what everyone thinks he means is this song. Share Below.

Here’s the CD quality of one of Scott’s single’s off  Man on the Moon II:  The Legend of Mr. Rager.

DOWNLOAD:  KiD CuDi – Erase Me Feat. Kanye West (Prod. Jim Jonsin) (MP3)

“I don’t need yo pussy, bitch I’m on my own dick”

-Kanye West, “Power” (3:00)

Wait, let me get this straight.  So Kanye is basically saying that he dick rides himself so often that he no longer needs the satisfaction of the female genitalia, also known as a vagina, or as Kanye puts it, “pussy”.  Hmmm.  Interesting. So I think I got it;  Either gay, stupid lyric or Kanye just likes to jack off a lot.  You pick.  I vote for all three.

Bonus Stoopid Lyric:

“I was drinkin earlier… now I’m drivin”

File this one under: Not smart and/or Dry snitching on self.

Disclaimer: Before you get your panties in a bunch about your beloved Kanye (coughLevicough), just know this segment is all in fun.  I actually fucks wit the song…just some questionable lyrics.

Cleveland’s Kiss FM played this one yesterday. I think it’s going to be on Scott’s Man On The Moon: The Legend of Mr. Rager dropping on G.O.O.D. Music day (Sept. 14th). I’m real curious to see how people feel about this.

DOWNLOAD: KiD CuDi – Erase Me ft. KanYe West [Radio Rip] (MP3)

Brand new Ricky Rozay/KanYe collab they worked on out in Hawaii. Times are tough. Teflon Don hits stores July 20th.

DOWNLOAD: Rick Ross – Live Fast, Die Young ft. KanYe West (MP3)

Here go a couple new tracks off Evil Empire’s Trending Topics 4 mixtape.  One is just a snippet, the other is tagged.  Splash wit the assist.

DOWNLOAD: Kanye West – Monster ft.  Rick Ross [Snippet] (MP3)

DOWNLOAD: Game – Pushin’ It ft. Robin Thicke & T.I. [Tags] (MP3)

Here comes Kanye’s first single off his upcoming album, Good Ass Job.  Track features Dwele and production from Kanye and S1.  Word is, Drake passed on this beat.  Ha!  This one goes pretty hard.  Oh yeah…this isn’t even the final version of the song.  (aka get it while you can)  **UPDATE: Mastered version added!

DOWNLOAD: Kanye West – Power ft. Dwele (Prod. by S1 and Kanye West) [Mastered] (MP3)

Sidenote: I’m disappointed in Levi Guy not posting this all day, seeing as he “couldn’t wait for some new Kanye”. Smh.

Here is Drake’s second single from his upcoming album, Thank Me Later, due out June 15th.  Kanye on the production.  Dropped off via October’s Very Own.

DOWNLOAD: Drake – Find Your Love (Prod. Kanye West) (MP3)

Full single artwork after the jump!