VMA Nominations & Voting

Nominated for 'Best New Artist' and 'Video of the Year', I finally have an excuse to post Tyler the Creator's self-directed "Yonkers". In other categories, I am also opinionated:

• Best Pop Video: Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"
• Best Rock Video: The Black Keys' "Howlin' For You"
• Best Hip-hop Video: Chris Brown/Busta Rhymes/Lil' Wayne's "Look At Me Now"
• Best Female Video: Nicki Minaj - "Super Bass"
• Best Male Video: Cee-Lo Green - "F*** You"
• Best Collaboration: Kanye/Rihanna - "All of the Lights" (sort of a runner-up hip-hop)
• Best Art Direction: Death Cab For Cutie - "You Are A Tourist"
• Best Choreography: LMFAO/GoonRock/Lauren Bennett - "Party Rock Anthem"
• Best Cinematography: Eminem/Rihanna - "Love the Way You Lie"
• Best Direction: Beastie Boys - "Make Some Noise"
• Best Editing: Adele - "Rolling in the Deep"
• Best Special Effects: Kanye/Katy Perry - "E.T." (winning this was the point of this song)

You can vote for these (or your favorites) [here].

New Mixtape Weezy

I'm about a week late on this, but Lil' Wayne just dropped a new mixtape called Sorry 4 the Wait. On it, he takes on Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci", properly demonstrates how awful of a rapper Lil' B has become since his days in The Pack by demolishing him on my favorite Waka Flocka track, and shouts out everybody and their mom over Beyonce's Major Lazer-sampling "Run the World". (via The Fader)

My Remixes

Those of you who have heard me DJ may have been lucky enough to hear one or two of my exclusive edits of various tracks. I just got a Soundcloud, so here are my first and most recent remixing efforts for your listening/downloading enjoyment:
Lollipop [Foxy Remix] by thefoxandthehound Like A G6 [Foxy Remix] by thefoxandthehound

Lil' Wayne & Old White People

My friend Molly Facebooked me the video of this since I didn't see it live. Apparently Lil' Wayne was on The View talking about drugs, kids, his life, and rock music, and then performed "Prom Queen", one of his travesties that he calls rock songs. Here's the clip, and according to Wikipedia The Rebirth rock album is still in the works for a June release date, so prepare yourselves...

This is almost as good as the Katie Couric interview!

Swagger Like the Grammy's

Big news from the Grammy's:
Unfortunately, Diplo & M.I.A. did not win, but fortunately neither did the Jonas Brothers.
The odd choice of album of the year was possibly compensated for by these two performances:
M.I.A., Kanye, Jay-Z, Weezy, and T.I. - Swagger Like Us


Radiohead & the USC marching band - 15 Step


Also check out Diplo's hilarious Twitter posts from the ceremony here

Lil' Wayne's Grammy interview with Katie Couric

Great stuff. Wayne on being a gangster, marijuana, his childhood, his father... everything you ever wanted to know. Couric is the perfect interviewer-no preconceived notions, dismissal, or fangirl insanity. Loved it. (disclaimer: watched it on the Fader, not live TV)