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N.E.R.D. Get Extra Nerdy With Kanye West

Kanye West, whose blog has become my go-to source for new videos over the past few days, posted the above clip for N.E.R.D.'s remix of "Everyone Nose" with the simple declaration "THIS IS WHY I FUCK WITH HYPE!!!" I'm guessing "This" in the previous sentence means "His willingness to blend characters from Space Invaders and Donkey Kong with a dancing bathroom-sign lady, which make for a much better video tableau than American Apparel model rejects. And also, me me me me me in 8-bit mode." [OnSmash via kanYe West: Blog]

2:30 PM on Thu Aug 7 2008
By Maura Johnston
183 views, 4 comments

Latest by Tauwan: @the rich girls are weeping: Or if while "passing out in the bathroom of [Winston's? Teddy's? Cinespace? Area? LAX? Hyde? Whichevs.]in a haze" whilst others around you ham it up and hope to catch Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter's eye, or any more »

leak of the day

Santogold, Pharrell, And That Guy From The Strokes Sing For Their Shoes

ARTISTS: Julian Casablancas, Pharrell, and Santogold
TITLE: "My Drive-Thru"
WEB DEBUT: June 9, 2008

leak of the (yester)day

New NER*D Album Is Unsurprisingly Ridiculous, Surprisingly OK

ARTIST: N*E*R*D
ALBUM: Seeing Sounds
LEAK DATE: June 4, 2008

leak of the earlier this week

Rick Ross Makes A Summer Jam With Pharrell? Whuh?

ARTIST: Rick Ross
SONG TITLE: "Get Down (feat. Pharrell)"
WEB DEBUT: May 27, 2008 More »

sit on it

Pharrell Achieves Greatest "Moment Of Zen"

"I had often wondered what it's like to truly be in love, not lust for once. So I decided not to ask what it was like in someone else's shoes or what it was like to sit in their seat. I decided to sketch out my own experiment; the perspective chair." - Pharrell Williams, co-designer of Perspective [Billionaire Boys Club via The Music Slut]

5:30 PM on Wed May 28 2008
By Anthony Miccio
450 views, 5 comments

leak of the day

Common Makes A Summer Jam With Pharrell? Whuh?

ARTIST: Common
SONG TITLE: "Universal Mind Control (feat. Pharrell)"
WEB DEBUT: May 22, 2008 More »

conversing

Pharrell, Santogold, Julian Casablancas United By Converse

Once again, artists have come together to promote a common cause, and this time it's a sneaker. Santogold, the refreshing new artist who sounds like Gwen Stefani reacting to M.I.A., has joined Strokes leader Julian Casablancas and renaissance man Pharrell Williams to record a new song/video/Converse ad campaign. Santogold says the final product is "such a Pharrell track," which either means that it's the R&B smash of the summer or an embarrassing trainwreck with noxious jazz keyboards. I would think the presence of Mr. Casablancas would edge things towards the latter possibility, but maybe I just don't have enough faith in Converse. More »

9:30 AM on Thu May 15 2008
By Anthony Miccio
2,928 views, 6 comments

Latest by Tauwan: @KingHater: Oh my God! I thought I was the only one. The other night I was in the kitchen with my roommate as he was cooking dinner and Starstruck was playing and I was like who is this? And he was like Santogold. more »

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NER*D Get Their Cobrasnake On

Lindsay Lohan, Kanye West, and a guy dressed up like a giant nose show up in the video for "Everybody Nose," the predictably annoying new single from N*E*R*D. Coked-out potential American Apparel models strike awkward poses for Pharrell as he and his bandmates yell "achoo! achoo!" and get caught in a mosh. Ironically, this track, both musically and lyrically, is meant as more of a critique of club culture than a celebration.

2:15 PM on Wed May 14 2008
By Anthony Miccio
2,035 views, 7 comments

recaps

What We All Missed At Monday Night's Hip-Hop Summit Action Network Awards

• Slightly incongruous attendee George Lucas, there in support of his main squeeze and probably spending the evening mentally toting up that Crystal Skulls money/plotting from his seat on how much more interesting awards shows would be with CGI'd Ewoks and explosions.
• Jim Jones being incoherent.
• Ciara referring to her brain as a "memory stick," while failing to note its maximum read/write speed.
• A casual Friday Pharrell comparing honoree Snoop Dogg to the Redheaded Stranger before noting that we should not condemn the man for his weed intake. (Why on earth would we condemn him for that?)
• Snoop himself torpedoing Pharrell's good intentions by making a rolling papers joke before claiming to be mentoring 2,500 kids by proxy in his after-school football program, because the pimp-turned-televised family man is for the children. [NY Daily News/ Photo: Getty]

11:30 AM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Jess Harvell
205 views, 3 comments

Latest by sparkletone: There's nothing worse than seeing two Al's fighting. Actually. A George Lucas/Rich Boy album might be worse than that, so I take it back. more »

Kanye West's summer tour will feature Rihanna, N.E.R.D., and Lupe Fiasco as openers. No word on whether Pharrell will be selling his "music universe-inspired" jewelry collection—a sample is at left—at the shows' merch tables. If that does somehow come to pass, prices for said rings and things start at $2,000, so those people looking to up their "classy" quotient while out on the town might want to bring their high-limit credit cards. [Kanyeuniversecity.com / Songs For Soap]

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Speaking of SoHo retail: When I first saw the headline "Pharrell Opens BBC/Ice Cream Store In NYC," I got kind of excited at the idea of heading downtown and sampling a taste of Blue Magic Swirl. Alas, the shop is only selling a "colorful line of clothing and sneakers [that's] a reflection of Pharrell's signature style." Bo-ring. [XXL]

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A mere 24 hours after Fox's life-on-Music-Row series Nashville got pulled from its time slot, ABC has given the green light to Limelight, an hourlong drama about performing-arts school students in New York that is "partly inspired by hip-hop producer Pharrell Williams." [Variety]

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grumpy young men dept.

Lupe Fiasco Is Tired

Having dropped the downcast, Thom Yorke-freaking single "Us Placers" (see above) on Kanye West's Can't Tell Me Nothing mixtape—cute idea, far from an obvious hit—Lupe Fiasco, Kanye, and Pharrell are trying to get labels hyped for a full album from the trio as "Child Rebel Soldiers," which sounds like a skit that was cut from the M.I.A. album. More »

12:32 PM on Tue Aug 14 2007
By jharv
539 views, 5 comments

live earth

Madonna Gives It Up To Fight Global Warming

A new Madonna song, "Hey You", was made available for free today on MSN's site as part of the build-up to Al Gore's Live Earth concert extravaganza. The Pharrell-produced track is not going burn up dance floors anytime soon (think "Toy Soldiers," not "Deeper And Deeper"), but we encourage you to go over there and snag it (it's free, after all) for two reasons: one, every download drops a quarter into the coffers of the Alliance for Climate Protection; and two, someone has to encourage Microsoft now that they've dipped their toe into the MP3-distribution waters, right? More »

10:39 AM on Thu May 17 2007
By mjohnston
717 views, 5 comments

Latest by millwhistle: is it even possible to write a song about global warming without making it suck? I mean, I like polar bears and everything, but still. more »

The Video Music Awards: They're Coming! Get Ready!

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