Look at this fine ass specimen. Lil' Wayne has established himself as one of the most prominent faces of hip hop in the last 5 years, rightfully so. That man stacks verses better than tetris. He is my Sylvia Plath (I skipped over her in high school. And Nirvana. SRRRRY). Until Cam'Ron comes back, that is.
I have to say, I like a dude who rocks tattoos and all that shit, blasting music in his car bass turned all the way up. A proper rude boy, as Rihanna says. Fucking 8319031-pack stomach, rap dreads not hippie dreads, sagging pants and all that shit. LOVE IT. AND he also used to date TRINA. AND he has like, 80 tracks with Nicki Minaj (who I've recently finally come around to loving. Any girl who calls themselves the black Barbie is like, A++ in my book. Plus she's half-dyke or 2/3 GAY). It's like striking gold and then striking gold again vicariously. However, and you had to see this coming, THIS is very much a deal breaker:
Srsly? WTF. TEETH. I don't quite understand grills and I probably never will, but if you read the article and go to "health hazards", the mention of gum disease is enough to send me running to dry hump a bottle of Listerine. It worries me. Wayne, you should start taking your oral health much more seriously. HE'D BE SO MUCH HOTTER WITHOUT THEM. Other offenders: Kelis, Paul Wall, Nelly. They are so not worried about gum disease.
Anyways, I'd imagine Lil' Wayne would be the perfect hot gentleman boyfriend sans grills. They just make his already large mouth seem larger, whether that's a benefit or not...aside from the fact his face is kind of creepy. I guess he'd be a classic butterface? This would be the closest term I could use except for the fact that when his mouth is closed he is also perfection-ish. It's the mouth.
Lil' Wayne - A Milli
Nicki Minaj - I Get Crazy (ft. Lil' Wayne)
NIcki Minaj - Girlfriend
HOT Body WEIRD Face: Lil' Wayne Edition
Chicago loves the remix
So since our blog was added to Hype Machine (and use Soundcloud) we get a lot of music sent to us. Most of it is stuff we'd never post because it's either bad or just not relevant to our (primarily) queer blog. However, since we are in Chicago I feel like we should support a couple of local artists who are doing some pretty great stuff.
The first of the songs I'm gonna highlight from Chicago area producers/djs comes from This Guy I Know. We first internet-met TGIK when he sent us over a remix he did of Bright Eyes' First Day of my Life in response to our Valentine's Day post, and we're sure glad he did. TGIK has a way of reworking songs so elegantly that they could easily be mistaken for an original version, and this Yeah Yeah Yeahs Maps remix is no exeception. Good stuff!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (TGIK Remix) (Alt)
The next selections are from Chicago's Midnight Conspiracy. Midnight Conspiracy are producers/djs/party-throwers and bloggers for the Members Only AV blog and are getting a lot of attention for their remixes. They've only put out a couple of remixes so far, but they're both really good, so it makes sense they'd be all over the 'net. I tried to choose which one I liked best to post, but I'm just gonna give you both! Check out a dubstep remix of Esser's Headlock and a hyped up dancefloor version of Chromeo's Night By Night.
Esser - Headlock (Midnight Conspiracy Dubstep Remix) (Alt)
Chromeo - Night By Night (Midnight Conspiracy Remix) (Alt)
Hole?
Today a song called Skinny Little Bitch was released under the band name 'Hole'. For those of you who didn't live as a teenager in the 90's, that was @CourtneyLoveUK's band that was pretty awesome and important to a lot of girls and gays. The band that wrote Skinny Little Bitch, however, is the not the Hole of the 90's. This incarnation of Hole is Courtney Love and some studio musicians writing irrelevant alt-rock music. There's no Patty Schemel, no Eric Erlandson and not even a Melissa Auf Der Maur anywhere near this, so for our purposes, let's refrain from calling it Hole.
Hole, for a lot of us, was like a gateway band into riot grrrl. Without Hole would Midwestern kids like me have heard of Bikini Kill or countless other 'girl' bands? I'm not so sure. Their influence on weirdo teen girls of the era is undeniable. But besides all that, Live Through This consisted of great song after great song and although not AS good, Pretty On The Inside is a classic too. To be honest, I still think Live Through This is pretty much amazing and will proudly wear my Hole tshirt whenever I dig it out of the pile of black tshirts on my floor...But I would be lying if I said I liked this new song. I mean, I it's no surprise since Celebrity Skin was terrible as well, but with so much talk over the years about Nobody's Daughter I guess I just expected more from "Hole".
But you don't take my word for it...
Hole - Skinny Little Bitch (Download HERE)
And check out some vintage Hole too!
Hole - 20 Years in the Dakota
Hole - Gutless
Owen takes off his shirt
Owen Pallett has released a (very slightly NSFW) video for Lewis Takes Off His Shirt from his latest album Heartland. Jason masks, witches, knives, orange Crush and some sweet animation all make appearances, so take like 5 minutes and check it out!
Also enjoy the audio version of Lewis Takes Off His Shirt and the Simon Bookish remix of Keep The Dog Quiet.
Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes Off His Shirt
Owen Pallett - Keep The Dog Quiet (Simon Bookish Remix)
I am....
Another video from iamamiwhoami was posted today. Many of the people following this viral series, myself included, believed the 6th video would be the final reveal. We were wrong. What we have gotten from this video is music that sounds pretty different from the ambient music featured in the earlier videos, 'iam' spelled in blood, 'Welcome' spelled out in sticks and the mysterious woman saying 'Why'. Oh, and a monkey drawing. Which totally makes sense.
With all the build up this better lead to something AMAZING. However, I'm keeping my hopes down because I'm feeling more and more like this is gonna be someone I've never heard of. 
One commenter on the YouTube page mentions that the stains in the snow are similar to the above photo that The Golden Filter posted on their Tumblr yesterday. Interesting, but the music in this video doesn't sound anything like what The Golden Filter have done so far in their career and the photo doesn't really match either. I'm saying that's a coincidence.
But really, I still have no idea. Do you?
CREEP remixes Wetdog
It's only been a week or so since we mentioned CREEP's remix of Baghdaddy's Hot Shit, but they are already back with another remix. This time they've dedicated their dark electronics to a rework of the all girl British band Wetdog and although there's really not much that you will recognize from the original version, it's probably a great indication of what we can expect from CREEP. Either way, I'm really liking this sound right now and I'm definitely looking forward to more from Lauren Flax and Lauren Dillard as CREEP.
Wetdog - Lower Leg
Wetdog - Lower Leg (CREEP Remix)
Really, France?
Only in my dreams is smoking like that. And only in my dreams can my hair actually look THAT good. From our lovely friends at OMG Blog, I've seen just how gay France actually is. Or gay friendly. Is it okay to hi-five over this blatant sexual ad? Too late. In a quest to cut down on our generation's smoking hobbies, France has released these photo ads which will probably have the opposite effect.
In other news, this is actually what my life as a smoker has been thus far:
France 1, The World 0.