Converse: 3 artists 1 song - Kid Cudi ft Bethany Cosentino & Rostam Batmanglij | All Summer

I've had an on-again/off-again love affair with Converse since my first pair of Chuck Taylor All Stars when I was a young teenager. The classic canvas black & white low-tops purchased (after a short begging session with my mom) at our town's local "everything" store, Chubby & Tubby. Where you could buy everything from shoes to Christmas trees to bait and tackle. Needless to say after countless years of business Rainier Avenue's Chubby & Tubby is gone and being replaced by, probably, one of those trendy mixed-use buildings. The past few years seemed to have been dedicated to countless efforts and attempts to creating Seattle's Southend neighborhood (AKA ghetto) into a fancy Southend suburbia, bringing the willful city moneymakers in to make the neighborhood look a bit more... ornamental?! Although failing to realize that you can make it as nice and as unrecognizable to it's residents and former residents as you want - the block will always be hot.
Anyhoo, back to the subject at hand... There's no surprise that Converse made another '3 artists 1 song' collab after last year's quick favorite My Drive Thru with Pharrell, Santigold & Julian Casablancas. So naturally I love that they enlisted Kid Cudi as 1 of the 3 artists for this year's musical marketing strategy... Converse sure knows how to sell (even more of) their brand - for I see another pair of black & white low-top canvas Chucks in my near future ;)



Listen well
Be swell
And remember half the time I really 'Don't Give a Shit'

XO

Big Boi | Sir Lucious Left Foot... The Son of Chico Dusty

I don't know what you know but what I know is something like Sir Lucious Left Foot hittin' us with his greatness as the offspring of Chico Dusty. Big Boi's rapturing funk is spilled throughout the entire album. As a matter of fact, it's so funky Big Boi put his left AND right foot in it ;)
I'm sure all my fellow Outkast fans have already copped this one and even though it may never be the same without his signature sidekick, Big Boi isn't disappointing us one bit as we're clearly not suffering while we get our FatSax-fix sans Andre 3000. So kick back in y'alls cameros, cutlesses, camries & caddies and enjoy this one folks. BOI STOP!


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Listen well
Be swell
And remember half the time I really 'Don't Give a Shit'

XO

Well if ya/Lookin' for me I'm probably in Metropolis...

Oh whaaat?! Did B.o.B. & Lupe just outshine Ms. Monae in this wondamix?! My opinion humbly thinks so!
B.o.B. - "But I'm a different planet so excuse my astrology - Balanced and symmetrical I guess I'm just geometry..."
Lupe - "Greetings, welcome to the meeting of the minds/That be thinking all the time 'bout defeating all the blind - Shouting, down at Babylonian accounting/Medieval mathematics keep us average in amounting..."
Although I say outshine loosely and in a good way as they're definitely not overshadowing Ms. Monae, so don't twist it. Ms. Monae is clearly still shinin'... ;)

This video just made my day.



Listen well
Be swell
And remember half the time I really 'Don't Give a Shit'

XO