Smart & Angry

 Kanye West decided to add more dates of his Bay-tech tour to pump his upcoming album Not titled "Good Ass Job" today. Why is he visiting Social Media Web companies? Maybe he is re-evaluating the definition of "good ass jobs" with start-ups. Anyways lets see where he is going next.

Kanye West was going to visit Digg to be the first African American to shout out Digg, however the black guy on the Old Spice commercial beat him to it. He is butt hurt about it and will probably diss Digg and wear Speed Stick the rest of his life.

Kanye West is seen handing out Yelp badges to local businesses around the city. Unfortuantely badges look kinda fake.

Kanye Will stop by Oakland to visit is buddy Mr. Bentley at his new role at Ask.com

Since Kanye West hates MTV Music Awards, the Grammy's, NBC specials with Mike Myers, and SNL (but he is cool with the guys at South Park), he might as well try to get banned on internet TV.

While Foursquare is in NYC, you can still get the elusive Kanye "Crunk" badge if you buy Hennessy and hashtag #henny when you check in.

Last but not least Kanye will visit Steve Jobs to play him his latest single Power. Cause really, no man should have all that power. iPhone users should have the right to use their phones on other networks.

“As far as ‘The Fire’ is concerned, we wanted to balance the record out also, with a sign of hope, a ray of hope. ‘The Fire’ is almost an anthem, if you will. It’s like a hang-on-in-there, if you will, for us.”

-Roots drummer and co-producer ?uestlove on MTV News

The past few Roots albums have been pretty dark, almost depressing, which I tend to lean towards in my personal outlook. From 2pac speaking addressing urban economics, Blu rapping for the blue-collar workers, or even Kanye's bitterness towards college on his first album, I like when artist try to stand for something with an opinion. While we have whiny rich guy sleepy rap (Drake), emo scream over horrible production (Eminem), and overly exaggerated thugtastic music (too many to list), my choice for album of the year is The Roots-How I Got Over. It's dark, rustic, and moody, while not compromising with overly synthesized sounds, auto-tune, and club bangers.

"The Fire" at first glance sounds like the standard fare of a Do good and things will be ok" song. However when you listen closely its more in vein of "Stuff sucks, but you still gotta try hard" .The music video itself doesn't pull any punches back, its violent and unforgiving, in the same theme as M.I.A. - Born Free Video.

While the video may seem like a just a sad fare of prisoners being executed and used for food as the bad guys win at the end, the empty box leaves an ambiguous ending for interpretation of the viewer. While there are no right answers to what the box symbolizes, maybe it has something to do with the line "you don't say good luck, you say don't give up."

The other day I decided to check out this video of MTV2's Sucker Free Summit. I was expecting Drake, Gucci Man, and Eminem to occupy my the next 45 minutes accepting awards. surprisingly instead there was rap that I had never listened too and a few of my favorites as well on the list as well as your usual bigger named Hip Hop artist. Yet the surprise of the show was when group for Instant Classic announced its winner...

Yes!!!! The Voodoo Man, aka Mr Badu, was a winner! I mean this song was crazy, but for the masses to actually considerate this up for not just nomination, but also a win? Yeah, I almost cried as well. After all the Eminem, Gucci, and Drake hype, and that trash they play on the radio today, we finally have a public win for the other music. Music that isn't trying to fit the radio format, or end up in "da clubs" or the "da streets". What's especially surprising is the competition that he beat out. Could this be a the second coming of 1993 by chance? By 1993 I speak of when Arrested Development got the time to shine...

Maybe balance might be restored to "The Force" after all

Justa