Wiz Khalifa Rolling Papers

Wiz Khalifa

New up and coming rapper Wiz Khalifa is set to drop his debut studio album Rolling Papers.

Khalifa has in his past released several mixtapes and been widely praised as one of the best

hip hop mixtape artists of 2010. With the buzz attracted from his mixtapes, he won MTV's

award for "Hottest breakthrough hip hop artist of 2010".

Rolling papers album features his first official single Black and Yellow, which sold well over

two million and became one of the highest selling hip hop singles of 2010. 

 

His song Black and Yellow represents his roots, the city of Pittsburgh. As the city's colours are black and yellow. The NFL team pittsburgh steelers also adopted the single as their entrance music to their football games. Having generated huge media buzz and support, it also caught the eye of fellow rapper Lil' Wayne, who produced a remix of the song, which he called 'Green and Yellow'. He produced it for the 2011 Superbowl, a game where Wiz Khalifa's favourite team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Lil wayne's favourite team, the Greenbay Packers, would have a showdown. Lil' Wayne's remix brought even more publicity to the up and coming rapper's song, as it has thus far been notably popular for being remxied numerous of times by fellow rappers including Tyga, Young Jeezy and others of that high caliber. Hip Hop legend Snoop Dogg offered Wiz Khalifa to work together and create the official remix of the song which is known as the "Black and Yellow (G-Mix)". It also features T-Pain and Juicy J.

His album Rolling Papers features hip hop heavyweights such as CurrenSy, Rick Ross, Too Short and Snoop Dogg. It has also been rumoured to feature The Game, as Wiz tweeted that he had just finished creating a track in the studio with the former G Unit Rapper.

His second single off his debut album 'Roll Up' has just been recently released and features RnB singer Cassie in the film clip, although she does not sing. Roll Up, similarly to Black and Yellow, also received wide praise and reached #6 on the Hip Hop charts.

Hurricane: The Film

Music videos are important in the development of a song. They bring it to life. They expose every aspect of it and make it real. Most of the songs out have highly technical videos, full of movement and graphics. They allow the singers to fly and jump over crowds of people, morph into aliens, and so much more.

                                                         Katy Perry's "E.T"

Then there are some artists that bring a new meaning to music videos. Instead of heightening graphics and multiplying green screens, they introduce miniature movies. Mini works of art that tell stories.

The band 30 Seconds to Mars created one of these works of art. 

The music video for "Hurricane" went under extensive editing once it was released.  The religious, political and overall sexual factors in the film made it so controversial that many stations in America wouldn’t show it in full.  The idea that society would be so against the idea of bondage, and other graphic images shown in the movie, seems to baffle the director, lead singer Jared Leto.  

He tells Entertainment Weekly,

"I just think it’s interesting that when you turn on the news or whatever else catches your interest, how much violence and negativity is available out there. As soon as it comes time for sexuality, it’s a big shock that people are sexual beings. It’s an interesting double standard to me."

The movie is really a work of art. Divided into three chapters: "Birth," "Life" and "Death," it follows the band members journey through New York City at night.

Read here for a full description, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1653163/30-seconds-mars-unveil-epic-hurricane-video.jhtml 

the CENSORED version

To see the UNCENSORED version, click here: http://www.jared-leto.net/hurricane-the-film-uncensored-version

Watch it yourself, and see an artist's masterpiece for youself. 

Rap or hip hop music

Rap or hip hop music is a young growing music in the world. Mostly rap artists are African Americans. This kind of music is more popular with kids and who are the people are in their twenties. The main reason for this much popularity is because young people think this is as cool. Especially clothes of rappers, how do they sing and they are always surrounded by good looking girls these attract the young people more. The Rap songs are usually composed by disk jockey or DJ, with turn table music tracks. Normally rap artist will speak, chant, rhyming, over the music track very quickly. These rap songs are usually about the violence, drug use, wealthiness, people close to the artist and often time dedicated to people who lost their life in street violence. Rap music changed overly because previously rap music called old school music. This old school music created in the eighteen and nineteen centaury. That old school music didn’t sing about the violence and murders. That was about the girls and some crazy things. All the way to now rap music is an important music in the world. Above that youtube video about the top 10 hip hop/ rap musics.

Rock Music

This is the video about rock music. Rock music is more popular who the people are in their mid twenties to early fifties. This kind of music is pretty popular because many type of music basically came from rock music such as alternative music which is similar as rock music. This kind of music is now unpopular in teenagers and senior citizens. In 1960’s and 1970’s parents thought rock music is rebellious. Therefore they didn’t like rock music but their children like that music. Those time it was popular because new trend, fast and loud. Musicians use instruments and sing in the rock music. Guitars are more popular in rock music. They used much kind of guitars such as base guitars, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, colourful guitars and strange shaped guitars. They also used pianos, keyboards, drums and few singers. In the rock music there is always lead singer and at least five singers. Normally in this music lyrics are sung fast but in other songs like love songs and sad songs lyrics are sung slowly. This rock music created many true singers and talented musicians. 

Aussies In The Music Scene

Most music you hear on the radio these days is from the American music scene. A HUGE selection of American artists from all genres, ranging from hip hop, to rock to pop, can be heard.

For an Aussie band like Short Stack, (their video “Princess” shown above) getting airplay on the radio is hard, especially when they have to compete with many popular American artists like Katy Perry, Britney Spears and Eminem, just to name a few.

Australian artists like Kisschasy, Silverchair and Guy Sebastian all have acheived success overseas too, as well as having a strong Aussie fan base, despite the  competition. This just shows that Australian bands can be just as appreciated as any other artist from any other country. 

Australian Idol winner Guy Sebastian, has been so well recieved in America that many popular American artists have made appearances in his videos and songs. This can lead to much exposure on American radio, which boots his musical career. 

Silverchair had also announced an American tour in 2007, and according to alternativeaddiction.com,  the band "... sold out some New York, Los Angeles and Toronto shows within minutes." 

full article here: 

http://www.alternativeaddiction.com/musicnews/article/864/Silverchair-Announces-US-Tour

Its really good to see some great Aussie bands gaining popularity, not only here in Oz, but also overseas. Good on ya, guys! 

Introduction about the music

The main medium of music is sound. Music is not a noise; real music gives pleasant sound to hear. It is an auditory art. The word of music comes from Greek word. When people are listening music it makes them happier. Music can create by human voice and instruments. Human does not need musical instruments to create the music but instruments needs human to create the music.

Many cultural people got music as an important part of their culture. People does not need to understand language when they listen foreign language because music is not about language, it is about the rhythm, tempo, meter, articulation and performance. There are different kind of music like rap, country, melody, rock, disco, pop rock and hip hop. People in India hear their traditional music especially North Indians learn Hindustani music and South Indians learn Carnatic music. In western countries all the famous musicians are very rich and they got lot of fans all over the world. These musicians got fans even in third world countries so this is explain us language does not require for music. 

Design Post

We are doing this blog for our IT & Society group assignment. We are supposed to post our design picture as our first post. As I said before we are going to design our blog same as this picture shown above.