Kanye West Debuts Short Film At ‘Yeezus’ Listening

June 16, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff Videos No Comments  

UPDATE: Better quality in D.C. (above)

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Kanye West unveiled his American Pyscho-inspired short film during his listening session in Los Angeles on Friday night. Just like his previous projection for ‘New Slaves‘, the graphic visuals were projected against a wall outside Milk Studios, where hundreds of celebrities, journalists, and tastemakers gathered to hear his new album (including the likes of Justin Bieber, Tyler, the Creator, Evan Ross and Scott Disick).

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Deluxe Edition Of ‘Yeezus’ Reportedly Available On The 18th

June 15, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff News No Comments  

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UPDATE: We’re eating on Tuesday. Additional Tweet added below.

So the news that’s hitting hit that net after Kanye’s daughter came into the world is that he will be releasing a Deluxe version of his upcoming album which we can preorder on the 24th….not sure when it will hit stores. We’re eating sooner than we think.

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Def Jam Is After ‘Yeezus’ Leaker

June 15, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff News No Comments  

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Reports TMZ:

Sources close to Def Jam tell TMZ, leaks like this aren’t uncommon — especially in the digital age — in fact, the record company has a special leaks division that deals with problems just like this.

“Yeezus” was scheduled to drop June 18, but the entire album surfaced on the web earlier today.

According to sources, the leaks division employs various methods to track down the source of a leak … as well as to put a stop to any further illicit file sharing. We’re told the record company already has a lead on who’s behind the leak and plans to take swift punitive action.

As for Kanye — we’re told he’s cool as a cucumber.

Sources close to the rapper say Yeezy feels it’s almost inevitable for a highly anticipated album to leak … especially with so many cooks in the kitchen.

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TRACKLISTING: Kanye West – Yeezus (UPDATE)

June 14, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff News No Comments  

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UPDATE: Below is the final tracklist with full production credits for Kanye West’s new album Yeezus, which set to hits stores this Tuesday.

01. On Sight [prod. Daft Punk]
02. Black Skinhead [prod. Daft Punk, Travi$ Scott (co.), Mike Dean (add.)]
03. I Am A God (feat. Justin Vernon) [prod. Daft Punk, Hudson Mohawke (co.), Kanye West (co.), Travi$ Scott (co.), Mike Dean (add.), Rick Rubin (add.)]
04. New Slaves (feat. Frank Ocean) [prod. Daft Punk, Travi$ Scott (co.), Hudson Mohawke (co.), Mike Dean (co.), Kanye West (add.)]
05. Hold My Liquor (feat. Chief Keef & Justin Vernon) [prod. Young Chop, Mike Dean (co.), Arca (add.), Rick Rubin (add.)]
06. I’m In It (feat. Justin Vernon) [prod. RZA, Travi$ Scott (add.), Mike Dean (add.)]
07. Blood On The Leaves (feat. Tony Williams) [prod. TNGHT, Kanye West (co.), Mike Dean (add.)]
08. Guilt Trip (feat. Kid Cudi) [prod. Symbolyc One, Arca (co.), Travi$ Scott (co.), Mike Dean (co.), Ackeejuice Rockers (co.)]
09. Send It Up (feat. King L & Iamsu) [prod. Gesaffelstein, Arca (co.), Daft Punk (co.), Hudson Mohawke (add.)]
10. Bound (feat. Charlie Wilson) [prod. Kanye West, No I.D., Symbolyc One (co.) The Heatmakerz (co.), Rick Rubin (add.)]

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So, if you were at the listening session for Kanye’s new album (yea, I laughed at that too), then you were probably privy to all of the information for Mr. West’s Yeezus. All of the information has been put together to form what is probably the official tracklisting for the upcoming project (due June 18th), which you can check out below.

01 “On Site” (produced by Daft Punk)
02 “Black Skinhead” (produced by Daft Punk)
03 “I Am a God” (produced by Daft Punk)
04 “New Slaves” (featuring Frank Ocean) (samples “Gyöngyhajú lány” by Omega)
05 “Can’t Handle My Liquor” (featuring Chief Keef and Justin Vernon)
07 “Could’ve Been Somebody”
08 Untitled (featuring Kid Cudi) (samples “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday and “R U Ready” by TNGHT)
09 Untitled (featuring King Louie)
10 “Bound” (samples “Bound” contains samples of “Bound” by Ponderosa Twins Plus One and “Sweet Nothin’s” by Brenda Lee)

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King Louie Speaks On Recording “Send It Up” With Kanye West

June 14, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff Interviews No Comments  

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King Louie skyped into MTV a few days ago to speak on his record from Yeezus — titled ‘Send It Up‘ — and how his verse ended up on the track’s final version:

“When I did the joint, we were in the studio — no B.S., like 20 hours strong, a day. We were in Paris or whatever,” he told us via Skype on Thursday. “I had woke up, and it was just a freestyle verse off the top and that turned out to be the one he was really rocking with; just genuine bars.”

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Rick Rubin Speaks On Producing Kanye West’s ‘Yeezus’

June 14, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff Interviews No Comments  

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Before finishing up Yeezus, Kanye got Rick Rubin on board to executive produce the album. Rubin spoke with the Wall Street Journal about how be took on that position:

When and why did you join the “Yeezus” project?
Kanye came over to play me what I assumed was going to be the finished album at three weeks before the last possible delivery date. We ended up listening to three hours of partially finished pieces. The raw material was very strong but hadn’t yet come into focus. Many of the vocals hadn’t been recorded yet, and many of those still didn’t have lyrics. From what he played me, it sounded like several months more work had to be done. I joined the project because after discussing what he had played for me, he asked if I would be open to taking all of the raw material on and help him finish it.

How would you describe the new sound he was driving for, and how you did you help him arrive there?
He wanted the music to take a stripped-down minimal direction. He was always examining what we could take out instead of put in. A good example would be the song that became “Bound.” When he first played it for me, it was a more middle of the road R&B song, done in an adult contemporary style. Kanye had the idea of combining that track with a cool sample he had found and liked – I removed all of the R&B elements leaving only a single note baseline in the hook which we processed to have a punk edge in the Suicide tradition.

Can you recall a scene from the sessions that might help people understand his method in the studio?
We were working on a Sunday [the same day West attended a baby shower for girlfriend Kim [Kardashian] and the album was to be turned in two days later. Kanye was planning to go to Milan that night. Five songs still needed vocals and two or three of them still needed lyrics. He said, “Don’t worry, I will score 40 points for you in the fourth quarter.” In the two hours before had to run out to catch the plane, he did exactly that: finished all lyrics and performed them with gusto. A remarkable feat. He had total confidence in his ability to get the job done when push came to shove.

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Dude Remakes Kanye West Song With Hair Products

June 14, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff Videos No Comments  

This is dope (the remake is of ‘Niggas In Paris’ if you couldn’t tell). Lyrics included below.

LYRICS:
You know I’m bald so hard that my whole head’s shiny
so it’s easy to find me
what’s Rogaine to a mothafucka like me could you please remind me?
Bald so hard this shit’s grey, gotta sweep all the hair in the trash again
gotta buzz it, gotta keep it really short, i gotta shave it, or I’m looking like I’m Khloe Kardashian
see I’m a bald, bad-ass like Dana White,
when I roll up on your bitchy ass, in a slick Prius,
and I fight you when I’m high as fuck like Nick Diaz, and never get rehab
I’m getting cinematic with it, anybody wanna try to fuck with Lethal for their benefit?
I’mma kick you so hard that my shin’ll split, lil bitch, better get a mental grip, or I’mma run you over in a rental whip
I’m givin a kiss to Beyonce’s chest
you wiggaz is bangin ya head like Kanye West against a stop sign
you thinkin of makin guns illegal? I don’t care, i already bought mine
I slip in the clip then I finger the trigger and pop nines
I’m gonna burn the flag, got the Constitution up in my pocket
thinkin like a prophet, superhuman when I rock it, let’s turn down the beat and watch it
Check it you gonna get shredded, beheaded, deaded
my head is red like I fed it unleaded
embedded etiquette, mega-prophetic
never been hesitant, every devilish measurement of my lyrics is 77 megabits
sippin on a little hot sake watch me
all the rappers always tryin to copy is sloppy
I’m sick in the booth I’m stickin and movin and kickin a groove and I’m makin a musically
magical moment you wanna bomb like Nagasaki
so fuck anybody if they don’t like sushi
I smack Demi Moore on her old white booty
cuz
kiddo when I’m bonin
I push a girl’s slot to 12 am like Leno did to Conan
get the telephone and call the cops
come and search my head for the baldest spot
I’m like Bonnar and Griffin when I be bombin the rhythm
and all you lil booty bitches is just Donner and Blitzen
blitzin a Black and Decker rhythm man the mackest mechanism waitin for the day that BREAKIN BAD IS BACK ON TELEVISION listen
I’m hoping your flow’s gonna be tighter fuck anybody that ever stole one of my lighters

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Nappy Roots – These Walls (Revisited) (Prod. Kanye West)

June 13, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff Music No Comments  

Vice President of Nappy Roots Entertainment Group, Jonathan Hay; “We’ve had this song with Kanye West for exactly ten years now. I’ve wanted to re-produce this song for a long time because I’ve always felt it was never done justice by us. I’m not saying this because I’m biased, but it has always been one of my favorite Kanye West tracks of all-time. It desperately needed to be revisited. I’m sure Kanye will be much happier with the song this time around.”

Ten years ago, superstar Kanye West was in the studio with the Grammy-nominated Nappy Roots for the follow up to their Atlantic Records debut Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz – one of the biggest selling rap albums of the year. West was producing a song for their next album and was in the studio to help them choose a track to write to and record. While listening to several of West’s productions, the group ran across an instrumental that immediately jumped out to them, but to their dismay, West told them that he already had plans for that song and he intended to keep that track for his own Roc-A-Fella Records debut album The College Dropout. The guys continued to press on about how much they wanted that particular song and tried to convince West to let them to use it on their album instead of “These Walls”, but West stuck to his guns. That track later became one of his career-defining singles “Jesus Walks”.

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RECAP: Kanye West’s ‘Yeezus’ Album Listening Session In NYC; Sort-Of Explains Album Title

June 11, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff Videos 3 Comments  

Miss Info was in the building for Kanye West’s Yeezus listening session, which took place on the “loading dock of Milk Studios in NYC’s meatpacking district” (as if I’d know where that is). Check out the above visual, as well as ‘Ye’s own words on how the albums came to fruition (as well as the team that helped him create it) and where Yeezus came from in the first place (below).

“If you ever see somebody standing next to me, know that they’re better than me at something.

“We didn’t give a fuck about what nobody said from the outside looking in. We just wanted to make the best product possible and this is just the beginning of an entire new mentality about how to make music.

Creative directors: Matt Williams, Virgil Abloh, and the whole team, Don C, Ibn, all the Been Trill Family and RSVP family.

From Daft Punk working on like 3-4 joints on the album. The first joint, “Onsite,” “I Am a God,” “Black Skinhead.” Mike Dean, Travis Scott, working on the album. Hudson Mohawke, Arthur. Last, but not least that came and helped bring this whole shit together, that executive produced the album with me and the family, is Rick Rubin coming in and like finishing up the whole shit for us, which is legendary because everything we did on this project, everything I did, like when we released ‘Numbers on the Board,” from the video, to the no artwork, to the style of the song and everything, I was like ‘what would Rick Rubin do.’ What was his Def Jam shit that they would do because I remember Rick even saying, he said ‘when we did Def Jam we really wasn’t feeling like we was in competition with nobody body because our shit was so direct… ‘where we at right now?’ We in the middle of the city right now, open to the muthafuckin’ streets and nobody is shuttin’ down shit while we make real music.

So I had to go to the god Rick Rubin and play him my shit, ask him questions and allow him to take this project to an entirely new level. And he made a lot of great decisions at the end and pulled it to a new level.

I wanna explain something about the title Yeezus, simply put West was my slave name and Yeezus is my god name.”

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Kanye West Apparently Filmed A Music Video This Past Weekend

June 10, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff News No Comments  

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Spotted on In Touch Weekly:

Amidst birthday celebrations and a performance at the Governors Ball this weekend, In Touch can reveal that Kanye was hard at work shooting what he hopes will become a viral video to promote his new album, Yeezus, due out on June 18.

The theme of the video is none other than the family friendly motif of American Psycho.

“Kanye spent the weekend shooting an American Psycho-inspired video in Brooklyn with Scott Disick and Jonathan Cheban,” an insider tells In Touch. “Jonathan (pictured below) actually gets killed in the end.” The video, which was shot at Brooklyn Fireproof soundstages, is supposed to be released later this week in anticipation of his new album. “Kanye wants the video to go viral and drum up more publicity for his album,” the insider reveals.

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