Urban/Pop Video Killers

July 22nd, 2008

Man, Kanye West is right. Hip Hop is producing that crack music nigga. The best songs, the best videos, the best pop. How can Jessica Simpson even hope to compete with LaZee for pure wildness?

Here’s some hot hiphop/urban/pop videos to burn your bandwidth on.

First up Swedish(!) rapper[1] LaZee with his blinged out gangster roll on Rock Away. This has to be one of the visually busiest videos in a long time.

LaZee – Rock Away



When it comes to jumping pop you can always rely on Pharrell[2] and his bro’s in N.E.R.D. The first single from their new album, entitled Everyone Nose, wins three awards: best sweaty club night video, best use of the word a-tchoo in a pop song and best frickin song about cocaine in the history of the world. The video will make you wish that you were young again, when you used to wake up at 11 on a Friday night and fall around in a messy club until dawn.

N.E.R.D. – Everyone Nose



The last video is a breakout track from UK urban types Sway feat. Stush. It’s called F ur X (say it phonetically) and is amazing for the pure speed of the delivery.

Sway feat. Stush – F ur X



Jonas Brothers, the ball is in your court. Choke on it.

Or as he’d be known in his native tongue, a, uhm, rapper.
hmmm… I actually hoped that the Swedish for rapper would’ve been something like raeppreruhn
– other something suitably viking-ish.
His new single for Madonna – The Beat Goes On – is great as well.

The Good Ship Faakensheize – Season 2 – Episodes 5 and 6

July 15th, 2008

My patience with TGSF is rapidly running out. I like the concept but my attention span is just too short to keep it going as a long term project. I’ve put up two more episodes – Back to the Ol’ Buzzcut and Get High Tonite.
I will probably do two more, but then its on to my new concept – the Lulwer-Bytton contest.

In the meantime enjoy TGSF; while it lasts.

Maul – another short-lived web comic

July 4th, 2008

As is my wont I’ve started work on another short-lived comic entitled Maul. It’s pretty much a carbon copy (plagiarism) of nrvs web comics though I did clear it with nrvs himself, so no lawsuits then.

For some reason I tend to be quite serious about the aesthetics of comics. I hate Garfield though some modification elevates it to the godly level of Peanuts. I consistently enjoy Basic Instructions, but somehow the only the first episode of the relentlessly aesthetically pure Adventures of Confessions of Saint Augustine Bear really blew me away[1].

The aesthetic of nrvs web comics (and therefore of Maul) is less about the punch line and all about being meticulous about the delivery.

Or maybe it is exactly because the first episode is so unbelievably brilliant that none of the follow ups quite made the grade.