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still yet to post my Lana Del Ray album packaging, A.K.A. Best fanmade creation ever 

sorry, just saw this! I'll try and get to it ASAP!
 
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also, did this lil piece recently (watercolor): 
 

I think she loved UV as an album, but it was recorded in a rather dark time for her emotionally. She probably moved on quickly after the release as a result of that. She also hates to promote and Interscope kept signing her up for TV/big radio programs, so she continually backed out.

Just watch her not releasing it AT ALL lol 

Just watch her actually release the vinyl with NO NEW BONUS TRACKS

Just watch her actually release the vinyl with NO NEW BONUS TRACKS

no shade!1!11
 
i think it's interesting that both Azealia Banks and Angel Haze, while rappers with distinct flows and indisputable ability, take their primary influence from outside the realm of hip hop. Azealia seems to breathe more Interpol and The Strokes than Biggie or Jay; Angel Haze talks about Sia and works with Markus Dravs. Azealia knows about house music - so interesting to me. i know absolutely nothing of it, and i can't help but feel that's what contributes to the truly original feel of her music. she also has the brain of talib kweli or q-tip in the body of a 20-something, foul-mouthed Harlemite, which is an awesome mix. I don't even know how to classify Angel. maybe pop rap that isn't really popular? the album was unbearably generic, but her mixtapes show a kind of genuine soul that transcends cheesy. she's special, maybe. 
 
another thing on those two - both are doing something very unique as far as their careers as women in the world of hip hop. look back at the last twenty years of female rappers - if any of them achieved fame, however fleeting, they always had a male figure right next to, if not directly overseeing, them. i don't even think it's arguable. (note: this is not an attack on the ability of any of the following artists, or the quality of their art. it's merely a list cataloguing my observations of how the industry tends to work. please don't hear me saying something i'm not.) 
 
examples: 
missy elliott (billboard hits, six platinum albums) had timbaland producing and collaborating with her on far more material than she did without him. lil kim had diddy, biggie, and everyone else in junior m.a.f.i.a. when she started getting big in the early 2000s. without biggie, especially, she probably never would have even signed a deal, a fact she has been keen to remind everyone (especially biggie's widow) since.  da brat had jermaine dupri, a driving force for her first one-hit wonder status and the so so def deal which carried her relevancy through the early 2000s.  trina had trick daddy and / or ludacris eve had the ruff ryders (particularly swizz beatz) and dr. dre on board from the breakthrough success of 'scorpion' foxy brown had jay-z (and nas, among others) along with her on her first (and only) hit 'i'll be' in 1996, and has had very little impact since.  rah digga had busta rhymes and "flipmode squad" for the brief period she was relevant in the early 2000s.  if we have to name the un-nameable, a certain australian rapstress owes almost all her success in the industry to t.i. i have a feeling she's by far his most profitable investment since his hits dominated the radio in 2008.  nicki minaj's relationship with safaree samuels is not something i have the tools or knowledge to evaluate, but it's definitely something to ponder here. if not safaree, her relationship with weezy will suffice for the sake of this article just fine.  lauryn hill is a bit of an enigma to this concept, but nonetheless started losing popularity and interest in music altogether after the split with wyclef and pras after the fugees were to reunite in '05. then again, both 'clef and pras have mentioned at points that she is totally crazy, and some of her blog posts and recent interviews lend themselves quite well to this theory. she and erykah badu should do a record together. 

She wrote two songs for the movie she's starring in, Coco, and she will be touring this fall!

100% Santa Claus is real

Paradise wasnt unwanted, they did it to get more money from BTD and promote her more with the excuse of the re release. 

Lord yes! The Score by The Fugees is one of the best albums ever made 

Lord yes! The Score by The Fugees is one of the best albums ever made 

This thread atm got me like. . . . . 
 
 

The musical compositions on Aventine are absolutely stunning. Such great music for quiet nights and thinking.

its 80% gays here what do you expect 

It is   one of my absolute faves 

Has anyone here listened to Mac Demarco? I tried drawing his 'Salad Days' album cover:
 
 
 
 
(I've tried drawing Lana but it never looks right  )

Ugh this doesn't even look like Lana but I tried 
 

(Bloodify is my username on the website)

The fashion pioneer himself!

I hope she has a good album cover for her next LP, the love club EP had a really pretty cover, but then Pure Heroine was just black with text...

IS THIS THE GUY FROM THE NATALIA KILLS FIASCO LOL

"Willy Mooooo-oooooon, Willy Mooooo-oooooon"

I really don't know much about her, but she's working with Timbaland and this song is my shiiitt.     You can download her mixtapes at datpiff

Cody Simpson and Iggy Azalea.