Josh Groban Sings Kanye West Tweets – Thumbs Up
Kanye West is on Twitter (@KanyeWest). This isn’t news to anyone who is a regular on The Twitter. Since he has joined Twitter, Kanye West has earned a reputation of having some interesting and random tweets. He also used his Twitter feed to release some songs from his new album before it hit stores.
Back in late July/early August, I wrote a blog post about how comedy duo Paul and Storm used various Kanye West tweets and assigned them to an assortment of The New Yorker comics, resulting in very humorous captions.
Now, the tweets of Kanye West are being use for another ruse. Oscar and Grammy award winner Josh Groban has decided to make a compilation CD of the very best Kanye tweets. Putting his tweets with comic strips are one thing; placing them to the sound of music is quite another. Check out the video below to hear Josh Groban put his angelic and award-winning voice to the tweets of Kanye West.
PS- Thanks to my friend Maura for bringing this gem to my attention!!
Kanye West Tweets with The New Yorker are Dope! – Thumbs Up
Last year, hip-hop artist Kanye West made the news for reasons that no one would be proud of. He jumped on stage during the MTV Video Music Awards interrupting Taylor Swift while she was accepting her award for “Best Female Music Video” and uttered those words that will forever be remembered (and mimicked in multiple different ways):
“Yo Taylor…I’m really happy for you and I’mma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!”
Most recently, Kanye West jumped on another stage to display his rants: Twitter. And, the great thing about it is that Kanye tweets just as you would expect him to talk. Nothing changes. You can follow him at @kanyewest and see for yourself.
Well, with the new Twitter account and the 140 characters of gold that Kanye gives to the world each time he tweets, comedy duo Paul and Storm decided to use that gold and turn it into comedy gold. How did they do that? By taking various Kanye West tweets and using them as captions to a number of The New Yorker comics. You can see a few good ones below or a whole slew of them here. You can also see future ones posted on twitter by following the hashtag #kanyenewyorkertweets.
(via Mashable)
Supernova – Thumbs Up
I’m a fairly big Kanye West fan, but he seems to be featured on so many songs by other artists, it’s hard to keep up with what he’s doing. Here is a song titled Supernova by Mr. Hudson, a band from the UK that is on Kanye’s G.O.O.D. Music label. The video came out on June 30th and is just as cool as the song is. I love the effect that makes it look like Ben Hudson and Kanye are made out of lights. I wonder how that was done.
PS Thumbs up for the Estelle (of the song American Boy) cameo in the video.
Wale – Thumbs Up
Thumbs Up: Wale (pronounced “wall-eh”, not like “whale”) is a rapper from Washington D.C. whose clever lyrics put him in the same corner as Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco. He’s coming out with his debut studio album this year, titled Attention: Deficit. Last summer, I couldn’t stop listening to W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E. his remix of D.A.N.C.E. by Justice, and this summer I haven’t been able to stop listening to Chilin’, featuring Lady Gaga, the first single off Attention: Deficit.
Wale also has a mixtape coming out called Back to the Feature, that he claims should be released no later than June 13th, which according to my calculations, is tomorrow. So keep your eyes peeled for that. However, the release has already been delayed before, so I wouldn’t be too surprised if it was delayed again.
