n-words in paris, update!

while the internet's been buzzing about the recent release of the video for jay-z and kanye's "you-know-whats in paris", i came across a claim that they had performed the song 168 times on the watch the throne tour. i quickly realized that there's no way they played that many shows, and dug a little deeper. this is hilarious:

The video -- which West directed -- starts with footage of the duo's Los Angeles performance, a decision that was perhaps made to honor the number of times they rapped the song live (10 consecutive times at the show in question). From there, the video becomes a mix of special effects (primarily of the kaleidoscopic variety) and concert footage (via)

According to Rap Radar and the fan video below, the Throne duo played the song nine times in a row last night at the end of their second show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Nine times! At the album version's three-minute, 40-second length, that's more than a half hour of nothing but a song you've already heard a million times — that'd be, like, well on your way to two full episodes of Arrested Development on Netflix! "A glorious occasion … a record-setting evening … it's so magnificent," raved the proud multimillionaires from the stage. (via)

If you have been to one of the Watch the Throne Tour concerts, you know that Jay-Z and Kanye West really love to perform their WTT banger “Niggas in Paris“, which is currently #6 on the Billboard Hot 200. In fact, the duo performed the song 11 times in one concert in Vancouver. (via)

On their Watch The Throne tour last year, Jay-Z and Kanye West became notorious for performing their triumphant banger “Niggas In Paris” over and over, as many as 10 times. (via)

that's about how many times i've watched the video in the last 18 hours.

AAAAA-GGGAAAIINNN!!!!

don't be jelly beans of my curpcake

I got it for all of my hard work...


URPDATE!!11!

There's chocolate inside my chocolate. JICYWW.

kanye west and jay-z's new video for n-words in paris

So many good videos in 2012! #bigdeal2k12

barack obama is impressed with the marshmellow air cannon, continued

did you know barry has a tumblr? and just published a playlist on spotify?

more like peeps-and-poops station

earlier this week, i rounded a corner in penn station and immediately had to dodge a large yellow puddle on the floor. as i passed, my eyes followed the puddle back across the floor to its source. a person, laying on the floor against the wall completely unconscious, possibly dying, probably already dead. then the smell hit me. i didn't have the measure of insensitivity necessary to snap a photo, but here's a sample from the internet.

one of the greatest injustices in the world, architecturally speaking (rob just 'my dad has cancer'd me) is the fact that there are black and white photos of what penn station used to be, lining the walls of what penn station is now. i am one of the forsaken 600,000 people that have to pass through this place every day, and i hate it with every fiber of my being.

the new york times has a piece today that explores some possible solutions:

Nearly a half-century has passed since the destruction of the great 1910 station designed by Charles Follen McKim of McKim, Mead & White, a “monumental act of vandalism,” as an editorial in The New York Times called the demolition in 1963. A vast steel, travertine and granite railway palace of the people, the old Pennsylvania Station had declined by the end into a symbol of bygone Gilded Age opulence. It was replaced by Penn Plaza and Madison Square Garden, Modernist mediocrities, erected to serve real estate interests, with a new subterranean Penn Station entombed below.

Some 600,000 commuters, riding Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit, now suffer Penn Station every day. That makes it probably the busiest transit hub in the Western world, busier than Heathrow Airport in London, busier than Newark, La Guardia and Kennedy airports combined.

To pass through Grand Central Terminal, one of New York’s exalted public spaces, is an ennobling experience, a gift. To commute via the bowels of Penn Station, just a few blocks away, is a humiliation.

What is the value of architecture? It can be measured, culturally, humanely and historically, in the gulf between these two places. (via)

swiperboy made you this.

some swipin' highlights!

a mashup i can get behind

catching the ball at the same time

“Bradying” looks to take over where “Tebowing” left off. “Tebowing,” of course, was taking a picture of yourself in Tim Tebow’s iconic kneeling pose after scoring a touchdown. There’s even a website dedicated to “Bradying.” You can check it out here.

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lucky, indeed.

erin baker's dad just sent me a picture of the valentine erin gave them.

classic erin.

this humpday has been awesome

because i have been listening to pitchfork's top 500 tracks of the 2000s playlist on spotify.

it's been a whole day of "holy s, i forgot about this song!!"

books are alive

nErD aLeRt!

beautiful library ribbons by norwegian firm, helen & hard.

oh god. i can't even pick a favorite part.

tell me yours.

that doc looks gooooood

dark... but good.

mario manningham, friend of 2pz

giants super bowl hero mario manningham was mugging for the camera last night with friend of 2pz rosanna. they both made it into the newspaper this morning. looking good Ro.