The Yes Men, a tremendously clever group of con men have pranked the world again. They, through a group of volunteers, handed out a ton of fake issues of the New York Times.
These papers were dated July 4, 2009 and triumphantly announce the end of the Iraq war. The Yes Men went through all the [...]
On the eve of what is perhaps the most important US presidential election in a generation, the blogosphere is buzzing with commentary and prognostication. At 4080Records we’ve been following the race since the primaries, when it seemed inevitable that Clinton and Giuliani would be the candidates on tomorrow’s ballot. It has been a [...]
Everyone has been saying that the music video is dying. MTV has, in the past decade, essentially given up on it. Now we see MTV and Muchmusic and VH1 and all the others focusing way more on other programming. We get awful ‘dramas’ like The Hills, or people hurting each other (Jackass). Hell, even The [...]
This is a one-trick pony of a website, but one that may actually prove useful to you from time to time.
The Vinyl Record Generator lets you produce an image of a LP (or 45) that features the text you want on the label. Basically, it’s a quick and dirty method of making album art for [...]
To all of our Canadian readers - happy Thanksgiving! In celebration of what is quite possibly the second greatest holiday of the year (Christmas clearly has the advantage, but only because you also get free stuff in addition to a good meal), check out this video of a dude scratching over Grandmaster with one hand [...]
So a young filmmaker named Dustin McLean (the owner of dustfilms) decided that he was intrigued by making a literal music video. Basically, taking a video and re-recording the song to literally narrate what’s happening in it.
The results have been hilarious. Check it out below.
It’s so good even MSNBC is all over it. Seeing as [...]
Check out this MetaFilter post for a brief hip hop history lesson. It’s hyping up a new documentary film called This is the Life.
It’s focus is on The Good Life cafe, a series of emcee workshops and ciphers that is the precursor to Project Blowed. The true hip hop head swill be nodding along to [...]
BlackVoices, a blog I’ve recently come across, has a pretty fascinating look at a group of senior citizens in China who’ve developed a taste for hip hop dance.
Here’s what they have to say:
“Wu then had a vision that she and a bunch of other older ladies would get together and form a hip-hop dance troupe. [...]
It may not be groundbreaking news, but we have a policy here at 4080 that any time the CBC uses the phrase “fresh rhymes, beats” in an article title, we have have to blog about it. And if you don’t believe this could ever happen, head over to the CBC’s website and prepare to be [...]
HipHopDX.com is reporting that Forbes has released their top hip hop cash kings of 2008. The top is no real surprise, 50, Jay-Z, and Diddy. This is the first time 50 has won, but it mainly has to do with that massive Vitamin Water sponsorship thing with Coca Cola.
The real news is our boy Common. [...]