Live: Diesel U:Music Miami (Santigold Lives!)
- story Felipe Delerme
- photo Serge Alexander
It’s been about two years since we put Santigold on the cover of F51, but since she played Studio B for the issue’s release party she’s been harder to find than someone willing to love us for us, and not just because we can score them tickets to Wild Yaks shows. Sure, Santi put on for her city on Jiggaman’s “Brooklyn (We Go Hard)” and even beefed up Major Lazer’s “Hold The Line” but then the videos for both were just balmy cartoons. This past Tuesday, however, we witnessed Santi in all her leopard print/white short set glory, along with Kid Cudi, Jemina Pearl, DJ Mom Jeans and a brain-scrambling noise dance troupe called the Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! at Diesel’s U:Music Miami stop. Though both Cudi and Jemina have promising debut albums to their credit, it was Santi (and a pair of lithe dancers) who reminded us how wrong we’ve been to have neglected Santogold in recent months. We also found out that she’s been training to climb Mount Kilimanjaro with Lupe Fiasco and a bunch of other people for charity, and by the time the people were rushing the stage to wild out to Momjeans closing out on the wheels, we were swooning again just like the first time we heard “Creator.”
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posted on Nov 20, 2009 in MUSIC NEWS, OTHER tags Diesel U:Music, DJ Momjeans, Jemina Pearl, Kid Cudi, Miami, Santigold, Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt!
Video: VV Brown, “Day ’N’ Nite” (Kid Cudi Cover)
- story Matthew Schnipper
All those press releases about VV Brown forgot to mention that she lives in a dorm room and hangs out with dudes who claim they’re not into frat parties because they hate the bro atmosphere but really just feel socially awkward so they drink Pimm’s cups and listen to indie rap. Every once in a while, like with Pharrell, the nerds get the jocks to pay attention to them and the integration creates a hybrid afterbirth of weird cool, like Kid Cudi’s stoner anti-classic, “Day ’N’ Nite,” which the aspirant VV Brown has covered with the help of some of her anti-Chav buddies. Check for when she gets wild enough with the megaphone that she almost knocks her Powerbook off her lap. Think different, everyone.
Kid Cudi, “Make Her Say (Cubic Zirconia RMX)” MP3
It’s really more of a cover, but after waking up to our clock radio alarm playing “Make Her Say” every single morning at 7:42 on the dot for the past 84 days straight (thanks Hot97), Cubic Zirconia’s ditching of the original is a relief. Their ominous synth refix gets at the darker side of Gaga—the descending, sparse electro is a good companion piece to her scary red lace death shroud from the other night. But, thankfully, vocalist Tiombe Lockhart only hints at the crazy-making melody of the “Poker Face” sample, and transforms Cudi’s juvie BJ fantasy into a sarcastic parroting of the Kid’s retardo chorus, like “Oh yeah sure, I’ll do whatever you want dude. In yo dreams!” Which makes it rather feminist, and feels like a reclaiming of all the AM minutes we’ve been terrorized by Gaggy’s vaudevillian “uh oh”s.
Download: Kid Cudi, “Make Her Say” (Cubic Zirconia RMX)
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posted on Sep 16, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Cubic Zirconia, electronic/dance, Kid Cudi, Lady Gaga, Tiombe Lockhart
Video: Kid Cudi f. Kanye West & Common, “Make Her Say”
- story Peter Macia
Cudi, Kan and Com split themselves and walk around. Cinema!
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Video: Kid Cudi, “Heaven At Nite”
- story THE FADER
Cudi goes simplistic in this new video for the Ratatat-produced next single from Man on the Moon.
The “Boom Boom Pow” Remixes = That Mayan Apocalypse Thing?
- story THE FADER
PUUEEEPPUHHLL IN THAA PUUHHHLLAACCEEAAHHH IF YA WANNA GET DOWNNAAAHHH. Haha. That shit is terrible, but in the grand scheme of things, both of the remixes of the Black Eyed Peas’ newest effort that surfaced this weekend are not bad. The first, with Gucci and 50, sounds nothing like the original in the best way possible until the end when the Rave Machine 3008 featuring Fergie kind of ruins it. Cudi’s version on the other hand is more closely related to what we’ve heard already, though he seems to be a lot more comfortable doing club tracks since the Crookers remix of “Day N Nite” became his signature song. All in all, not as mad as we’d like to be at either of these, though we reserve the right to retract when Fergie mushrooms to a height of 300 feet and eats everyone in sight who is not dancing real hard.
Download: Black Eyed Peas f. Gucci Mane & 50 Cent, “Boom Boom Pow (Remix)”
Download: Black Eyed Peas f. Kid Cudi, “Boom Boom Pow (Remix)”
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posted on Apr 27, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags 50 Cent, Black Eyed Peas, electronic/dance, freeload, Gucci Mane, hip hop, Kid Cudi
Freeload: Kid Cudi f. Kanye West, Common, A-Trak & Lady Gaga, “I Poke Her Face”
- story THE FADER
Well there you go, Lady Gaga finally made it onto The FADER. Once again, Kanye forces our blog hand (pause? fuck it.) by endorsing something we thought we’d only have to peacefully coexist with for the rest of our lives. What’s next, Kanye West presents creamed spinach?
Download: Kid Cudi f. Kanye West, Common & A-Trak, “I Poke Her Face”
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posted on Apr 6, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags A-Trak, Common, freeload, hip hop, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Lady Gaga
Freeload: Sharam f. Kid Cudi, “She Came Along”
- story THE FADER
Wow, okay. Kid Cudi got with Sharam Tayebi of Cher-remixing big room house duo Deep Dish for Sharam’s new solo album, eh, Get Wild. And believe it or not, it’s pretty good and seasonally appropriate, more like this and less like this. Couple it with Bosco Del Ray and 77Klash’s “Round N Round” and you could argue (dubiously) that there is a country club movement underway.
FADER TV: Kid Cudi f. Kanye West, “Day N Nite” + Crookers Remix (Live at The Levi’s®/FADER Fort)
- story THE FADER
This seems to be one of the more popular performances making its way around the internet via random attendees’ videos from The Levi’s®/FADER Fort. So here you go, internet, Cudi and Kanye doing the double shot seven minute jumparound version of “Day N Nite” and its Crookers remix in all its hi-fi glory. Stay tuned for more clips from The Fort.
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posted on Mar 24, 2009 in EVENTS LEVI'S/FADER FORT SHOW tags EVENTS-LEVI'S/FADER FORT, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Levi's FADER Fort
Kid Cudi is a Lot Less Angry About New Unofficial Naked Girl Video
- story THE FADER
Some corners of the internet should be familiar by now with Kid Cudi’s vociferous objection to the “Day N Nite (Crookers Remix)” video that leaked without his approval late last year. The video was not all that bad but did require a certain willingness to overlook its objectification of women, which incidentally was not what got Cudi so upset, just that he hadn’t given it the green light. So late yesterday, this video for a new Cudi track, “Superboo,” popped up on several blogs, and it forgoes any kind of storyline whatsoever in favor of straight up topless models looking lustily into the camera. Those who posted didn’t appear to care that its creator was a photographer who makes quite a few of these videos soundtracked by his favorite songs, which would’ve explained why Cudi’s not even in it. Nudity and Cudi’s fondness for it aside, “Superboo” is not bad at all. Girl Power!
