Where'd She Go?

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Recent Coldplay Footage!

Sim-PLEX Returns!!!

We will be debuting our first single off of our second project this FRIDAY, AUGUST 21ST 2009!!!! I hope you're ready!
The song is entitled "Where'd She Go?", and provides great proof of why this next project will be "EPic"!

Lupe Fiasco x Mickey Factz x The Cool Kids in Tokyo, Japan

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Jay-Z Covers "Wonderwall" by Oasis

You know I had to post this eventually. (I finally found it on vimeo....I'm not using anymore youtube videos unless I have to.) Oasis is definitely one of my favorite bands. I think Jigga knows just as many words as I do though lol. Then he goes into 99 problems. Dopeness.
I think he's Zoot though....Hahaa

Jay-Z Live @ Glastonbury from @ndre$ito on Vimeo.

I Thought These Were Cool

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The Beautiful Game!

Football - The Beautiful Game // by Mini9Torres from Kristian Klev on Vimeo.

Twitter vs. Facebook

Iight check, so I wake up this morning to check my e-mail and to see what's trending on Twitter, but something went wrong. Twitter, the socially open, status updating site was down. "Okay, cool", I thought to myself as I checked my e-mails, "I'll try again later". Sooo, later arrives, and I still cannot sign onto Twitter. "Okay, cool", I said to myself, "I'll just get on Facebook". But here's the thing about Facebook, it's supposed to be a "social" website, but it has turn into an "all in your business" site. So I refrain from using Facebook unless I have something I want to tell my 700 "friends", (Like I really know who they are or something). To make matters worse, Facebook has become a place of Event promoters and a bunch of other things that clutter my inbox, along with the growing amounts of "Older" people who have joined such as my Mother and Godparents etc. What makes Twitter "better" in my opinion, is that Twitter is 100% a "Social" site, and that's it. You don't have photo albums to maintain, relationship status' that change daily or any of that trivial stuff from High School. Instead, you have a status in which you can use up to 140 characters to get your point across. What you do within that status is completely up to you. Politics, hot albums, what you did in High School are just some random topics to talk about. Some folks actually make extremely valid points that spark heated discussion. But anyway, you can can check Twitter on your free time to catch up, but since Twitter was down I signed onto Facebook. So I decided to express how I felt about Facebook by saying,"I only get on this thing if Twitter isn't working", then BOOM! All this hate mail from Facebook lovers/ Twitter haters. I'm like, "WHOA"! WHO STILL USES FACEBOOK FAITHFULLY?? But anyway, people really had super corny jokes against Twitter, and all kind of stuff...Why?, who knows! I don't see why people are so defensive over a website which is modeled DIRECTLY after Twitter. I honestly found it amusing, as people hit me on the FB chat box complaining lol. But anyway, it is what it is, and some people are always slow to "change". But I promise, one day Facebook will end up just like Myspace, and people will be on the band-wagon extra late, while most of others are on a NEW social site. Let's stay ahead of the curb ya'll! Geez...

Coldplay: "Back on Tour"

Cool footage of my personal favorite band Coldplay. Ironically, this footage is at the Nissan Pavilion, in which Live4 (Minus 1) was present. They've been on tour for over a YEAR now! Damn, talk about sacrifice. But something about these guys make it seem as if touring is effortless. Anyway, I hope you enjoy...

Back On The Road from Coldplay on Vimeo.

Who's Gonna Save My Soul??

I just found out that 'Chris Milk', the same guy who directed this video, also directed the Kanye video below this post. Excuse my tardiness, but Chris Milk is pretty dope/ different lol. In retrospect, I really appreciate his work. WORD!

Gnarls Barkley - Who's Gonna Save My Soul from Chris Milk on Vimeo.

"All Falls Down"-Throwback Jam (for MY generation)

Damn, I have completely forgotten that Kanye has always been on his artistic ish*. These are some tough shots they pulled off in this video. Especially when he's in the bathroom rapping in the mirror, but you can't see the camera, but yet you see his hands in first person view-Dope!. And if you pay close attention to that bathroom scene, you'll notice the audio vocals switch, to give it more of a "bathroom"/ hollow room sound. But all in all a classic project.

Kanye West "All Falls Down" [HD] from Chris Milk on Vimeo.

A Real Life Entourage.

I rarely watch TV, but when I do, it's usually either a Soccer game or....ENTOURAGE!! Hands down, this HBO series is one of the greatest shows EVER! It shows the life of an actor, Vincent Chase, who makes it big in Hollywood and gives his old neighborhood buddies and his brother jobs. What makes the show so good is the fact that if any MAN made it big, this is how they'd live lol. Big house, Nice cars and sexy women in Los Angeles? Sounds good to me! But recently, after indulging in a few of my favorite episodes, I've notices striking similarities in the Entourage crew and my crew "LIVE4". Although none of us has yet to make it big, we still have a cool lifestyle that anyone our age would envy. I'm not going to use this blog to rant about the "cool" things we do, but instead prove the point that great TV emulates life.

Within Live4 you have Marcus McCoy (Marx/ one half of Sim-PLEX), then you have Sean Aikens (Seany Seans), Taj Reed (Taj) and Myself Stephen Ellis (Jazz/ other half of Sim-PLEX). Marx and I make up the Hip Hop duo of Sim-PLEX, and Sean & Taj are the fashion enthusiasts. We are all multifaceted, with Taj being a male model/ R&B Soul singer, who also features on a lot of our music. Sean has a a strange role in being the personal manager of Sim-PLEX. But because each of us are universal in aspect, no one really has a distinct character match in the show Entourage, but we all have certain characteristics that match those of the show. So when I watch Entourage, I always find myself saying, "Damn, Sean would definitely say something like that-Just like Ari." or "That is a situation Taj would find himself in-Just like Vince". All the while, making the show a greater experience due to the fact it relates to my everyday life.
But just know that LIVE4 > Entourage. Ha!

Speed of Sound...

It's been awhile, I know, but a lot of positive moves have been made in the wake of our next project. Marx and I have been bouncing ideas back and forth, in an attempt to make this next project EPIC! But nonetheless; I am back at the "Speed of Sound" with a whole new mind set, a whole new outlook on life and whole a whole NEW SCHOOL!! As I head into a new solstice in my life, I hope every life lesson I learn can be used as a tool to help others who dare to follow a dream. But let's keep the show movin'. Your man "Jazz" is back at the Speed of Light. So what's a better way to start this "Music Monday" than with Coldplays hit song?? Lets GO!!