If you’re gonna be in New Orleans tomorrow night (Thursday, October 8), then we’ve got the show for you, whoadie! In the latest event from Heineken’s Red Star Soul concert series, N.E.R.D., Mickey Factz and DJ Jus Ske will be joining forces at an undisclosed location. For a shot at winning 2 tickets, answer a simple trivia question below…
A teaspoon of sugar helps the medicine go down and a sexy singer/dancer/pantominer helps stale pop groups sell records. It’s pretty simple. Take a middling, directionally challenged musical group that can’t seem to get their albums to chart, add a sexy female and BAM! Success strikes and the group will start selling out the Garden, performing for the President and their lead singer will appear as a hologram on CNN to give his take on the current political climate. Or so it went for the Black Eyed Peas when will.i.am smartened up and recruited Fergie to join the group back in ‘03.
Now it seems Pharrell wants to do the same with N.E.R.D. Recently, a PYT has been seen accompanying P, Chad and Shay on stage at various tour stops, leaving people wondering who she was. Then Star Trak rapper Fam-Lay was kind enough to clear up the confusion via Twitter, letting the world know that the girl in question was named Rhea and that she was the newest member of N.E.R.D. Oh yeah, and that she’s dope! But just how dope is she? Is she good enough to make N.E.R.D. sell a milli and get Pharrell on MSNBC as a talking head? In other words, is she as good as Fergie? Keep reading for our comparison, then vote for your favorite token female…
H&M and Designers Against AIDS teamed up with celebrities like Dita Von Teese, Katy Perry, Cyndi Lauper, and N.E.R.D for a collection in which 25 percent of sales will be donated to youth HIV/AIDS awareness projects. The tees go on sale on May 28. [FreshnessMag]
These Vans Sk8-Hi “Animal Pack” would match nicely with Taz’s tights. [HighSnobiety]
Mauro Grifoni makes a blazer that that will lift you into a whole ‘nother style bracket. Classy! [Selectism]
Newly-crowned MVP LeBron James laced up his new exclusive sneaker last night, en route to scoring 34 points and bodying the Hawks. [Nice Kicks]
Now your kid can be as much of a douche as you, with this young’n Segway knock-off. [Oh Gizmo]
We all know women and cocaine go together like lox and cream cheese, and bums and dick cheese. That's why we love current Complex cover fellas N.E.R.D.’s latest video for “Everyone Nose (Remix).” Pharrell, his best bud Chad, and that other dude Shay (not sure what he does, either) are joined by CRSers Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco, along with Clipse’s Pusha T, for an ’80s video game-themed clip that deifies all the ladies on the line for the bathroom.
However, “Everyone Nose (Remix)” is just the latest in a long tradition of hip-hop videos dedicated to scandalous freaks who live on the third rail, but rarely take the subway (ifyousniffwhatwesizzle). Watch 5 noteworthy rap videos about cocaine queens, along with N.E.R.D.’s new clip, below.
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CLICK HERE for a large version of the N.E.R.D. cover. CLICK HERE for a large version of the Lupe cover.
This year for Complex’s annual “Style & Design” collector’s edition issue, we set out to fuse the worlds of music and art in a way that had never been done. On one cover, we paired N.E.R.D. with KAWS, the graffiti icon-turned-art world darling who also happens to be one of Pharrell’s favorite designers. And on the other cover, Lupe Fiasco teamed up with another graf God'Todd “REAS” James'to create an outrageous image of the Chi-Town superstar sitting on the sun.
In addition to the covers, KAWS and REAS painted over even more photos of the musicians for the features inside the book. CLICK HERE to see the full story with N.E.R.D. and HERE for the full Lupe story. Check back on Monday for the other side of our August/September issue'two sexy-ass covers with Cassie (that’s 4 total, if you’re counting), along with a titillating series of videos from her shoot that are sure to have the 'net going nuts. After the jump, check out four videos from the N.E.R.D./Lupe shoots, including an interview with KAWS.
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Megan Fox was the MVP of Fox's All-Star party. [Bastardly]
Save some paper and go with the “poor man's” Porsche. [Double Viking]
Check out N.E.R.D's new video for Spazz. [Nah Right]
Not surprisingly, Hugh Hefner's new girlfriend can swallow. [Flisted]
Incase taps KRINK for a limited laptop sleeve. [Daily Drop]
Multinational corporations do a lot of shitty things. You know, pollution, sweatshops, secretly financing third world guerrilla wars. But on the other hand, their marketing departments have pretty decent taste in music!
In the last few years, we’ve seen a surge in corporate-backed collaborations, from Smirnoff’s Signature Mix Series to Boost Mobile’s “Whole City Behind Us” campaign with Kanye, The Game and Ludacris. Now Converse has brought N.E.R.D., Santogold and The Strokes’ lead singer Julian Casablancas together to record a new song for their Century celebration. Called “My Drive Thru,” the song will be available for free download tomorrow at the company’s website. Throughout the summer, the trio will be seen together in a music video for the song and will appear in advertising that bears the slogan “Three Artists, One Song.” Listen to the collabo below.
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Not surprisingly, Kim Kardashian got wet, and the cameramen were paying attention. [Flisted]
Check out N.E.R.D's video for “Everybody Nose.” [Nah Right]
The IVs are re-dropping in July. Money in the bank. [Nice Kicks]
Steven Colbert parodies Bill O' Reilly's meltdown. [Double Viking]
Although you may think these items make you look cool, they really don't. [HolyTaco]
Wikipedia spin-offs continue to pop up. First Chickipedia, now Comic Vine'a new online resource for all things superhero related. The site is a throwback for former comic card collectors with each entry’s extensive biography, accompanied by a user-generated ranking of the heroes by their super human attributes (speed, strength, etc.). Fan boys have another reason to sweat.
