Sam Sparro - American Boy (Estelle Live Lounge Cover)
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Check the clip, laugh out loud, and try out your own Christopher Walken impersonation.
Favorite line: “Wa-oow, it’s like ya lookin’ right into my nah-ggin’”
Big ups to Eric for passing this along.
Michael Schumacher, Alex Rodriguez, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg,… these are some of the highest paid, most famous people in their respective fields. And now the highest paid music artist is Jay-Z! Not just the highest paid rapper, the highest paid musical artist period (He beat out Madonna’s contract by $30M to hit $150 million). Live Nation just bought rights to Jay-Z everything from albums and ticket sales to merchandise. The contract also demands that Jay-Z keep it creative, guaranteeing we’ll see 10 albums in the next 10 years, meaning that Jay-Z will potentially be 48 by the time he fulfills his contract making him the future Frank Sinatra of Hip-Hop, continuing to be a force in the music industry in his middle age.
Congrats to the Great Hov. Here’s some new Jay-Z that will most likely make it onto his last Def Jam recording set to be released sometime this year. Timbaland on the beat. HOT ISH!!!
Guess which member of the band downed a bottle of soju just before the performance?

So, if you didn’t catch the 50th anniversary Grammy Awards last night, you missed a great show. Lots of nods to great artists of the past and many of the performances paired contemporary artists with those from yesteryear. Here’s some highlights for any and everyone who missed the great performances.
Kanye set it OFF along with Daft Punk with their full stage setup to perform Stronger and finished it off w/ a heartfelt tribute to his late mother. I thought it was dope that the Academy gave him the extra time to perform the song for his mom. He walked away w/ 4 awards including Best Rap Song for Good Life.
Foo Fighters (awarded for Best Hard Rock Performance) melted faces w/ their Pretender and full backup orchestra. Love the fact that they focused on the Asian violinist, which proves that Asians with violins can thrash as hard as David Grohl.
And nothing beats Amy Winehouse’s reaction to winning Record of the Year. You can see everyone cheering behind her and she’s just standing there in disbelief for a good 5 seconds before she starts celebrating. Amy was the big winner with 5 Awards and it was much deserved.
Couple notables:
2007’s DJ/Producer Mark Ronson took the Producer of the Year award. I’ve been a big supporter of his for a while and feel in a way that I’ve won the award myself.
Biggest surprise of the award show was Album of the Year winner Herbie Hancock. I was expecting them to cut to Kanye to catch his reaction, but Herbie who is so influential and even considered a cornerstone in Hip-Hop must command some respect from the notorious award-show slamming Kanye. All-in-all, it was a great awards show
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