Elusive poet and traveling man Jay Electronica has been surfing the sound waves lately. Besides Jay getting spotted roaming around SXSW, yesterday the song “We Made It” featuring his Roc Nation label boss Jay Z started floating around, but not before “Better In Tune With the Infinite” featuring LaTonya Givens popped up a week earlier. The thing that’s always guaranteed when listening to a Jay Electricity track is the brother’s uncanny ability to spit bars that almost sound like he’s casting …
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Although there will be a fourth season of Boondocks, the creator and producer of the show, Aaron McGruder had absolutely no involvement in producing the fourth season? Funny style. Adult Swim issued a press release saying, “this season was produced without the involvement of Aaron McGruder, when a mutually agreeable production schedule could not be determined.” According to The Root, when McGruder was requested to comment, he confirmed as much. McGruder created the Boondocks comic while in college at the …
Painter and street artist Dan Witz is up in the Jonathan Levine Gallery. His solo exhibition opens April fifth at six PM in NYC. Witz was at first, just a punk kid going to art school at Cooper Union, hitting up punk shows at places like CBGB’s, playing in garage bands and getting animalistic in mosh pits. Believe it or not, this Brooklyn-based artist started off wandering The Big Apple, painting meticulously detailed humming birds on public spaces. He wasn’t …
This is a super buggy animated video for “Space Cadet,” off Australian producer Flume’s 2013 four-disc deluxe edition. One of the discs is a mixtape full of notable names. “Space Cadet” features Autre Ne Veut and Ghostface Killah on the track. In the video Autre Ne Veut is a three-headed character rocking mohawks. Ghostface is spitting on top of a step pyramid that shoots lasers. The video is directed by Jim Dirschberger and Jay Howell. They work on Nickelodeon’s “Sanjay and Craig.” The animation itself …
At a time when the Cold War bred paranoia, the Vietnam War was ending, Nixon was resigning, and America’s imagination was walking on zero gravity after landing on the moon, artists Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel were subverting conventional ideas and pulling futuristic stunts that would echo well into the new millennium. From 1973 to 1990, under the moniker Clatworthy Colorvues, the duo plastered their designs on billboards in San Francisco, using the entire space to function as a window into what …
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