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  • This Is Insane!

    October 17, 2011 2 notes

     Jay-Z X Liv X Ace of Spades: Watch The Throne.

    Boom.

    Tagged With: Headliner Market Group - Jay-Z & Kanye West Present Watch The Throne @ LIV Nightclub, Fontainebleau Miami Beach Hip Hop Jay Z Kanye West Miami Watch The Throne Nightlife Music and Film

  • November 1, 2011 401 notes
    gq: GQ Goes Backstage For Opening Night Of The Watch The Throne Tour The biggest tour of the year kicked off in Atlanta on Friday in front of 20,000 people at the Phillips Arena, and GQ’s Will Welch was there to witness Jay-and-Ye history. Click over to GQ.com for his full running diary of the big night. Below, Will’s account of the minutes just before the superstars took the stage. 8:40 p.m. Kanye West’s road manager Don C opens a back door at Phillips Arena and lets us in. “They’re about to walk,” he says, meaning Jay and Ye are about to take the stage. “So let’s go right now.” Don C takes us back to Kanye’s dressing room. Kanye is standing in front of a mirror as two styling assistants hurriedly push pins into a leather kilt. He’s wearing an extra-long custom black T-shirt. It has the image of Kanye’s face melded with a saber-toothed tiger (or some kind of large cat) from the Watch the Throne album packaging screened on it, along with stars around the neck, and the initials JZ and KW in gothic font on the sleeves. Plus the kilt, black leather pants, and his own Nike hi-tops, the Air Yeezy 2. He says, “Pretty psychedelic, right?” We agree and then Kanye’s creative director, Virgil Abloh, politely asks us to maybe, you know, let the man finish getting ready for the tour that’s starting in a couple of minutes? #yikes #noprob 8:45 p.m. Backstage is buzzing. LeBron James is here wearing a snakeskin Miami Heat snapback cap made by Don C. We ask him for a GQ vs. LeBron rematch in Miami. He laughs. We take that as a yes? 8:55 p.m. About ten of us are bullshitting in a hallway backstage when the door to the dressing room marked simply “Hov” opens and Jay-Z walks out. He’s wearing a Yankees snapback pulled way low. Like, Kanye, Jay also wears an extra-long black custom tee with stars around the neck and the initials JZ and KW in gothic font on the sleeves. There is no Jay-Z cat face, leather kilt, or leather pants. He is gripping a glass of red wine. We can’t smell the wine, but the wine smells expensive. The whole hallway goes quiet and stares. He moves slowly and in silence—and his presence instantaneously sucks up all the oxygen in the room, all the noise. Nobody so much as breathes. Jay’s got a screwed up look on his face, like he’s disgusted by his own swagger, and like he’s about to kill a person. Or maybe 20,000 people—a whole audience. Everybody in the hallway knows Shawn Carter to one extent or another, but sometimes, like in this moment, they’re just fans like everyone else.

    gq:

    GQ Goes Backstage For Opening Night Of The Watch The Throne Tour

    The biggest tour of the year kicked off in Atlanta on Friday in front of 20,000 people at the Phillips Arena, and GQ’s Will Welch was there to witness Jay-and-Ye history. Click over to GQ.com for his full running diary of the big night. Below, Will’s account of the minutes just before the superstars took the stage.

    8:40 p.m. Kanye West’s road manager Don C opens a back door at Phillips Arena and lets us in. “They’re about to walk,” he says, meaning Jay and Ye are about to take the stage. “So let’s go right now.” Don C takes us back to Kanye’s dressing room. Kanye is standing in front of a mirror as two styling assistants hurriedly push pins into a leather kilt. He’s wearing an extra-long custom black T-shirt. It has the image of Kanye’s face melded with a saber-toothed tiger (or some kind of large cat) from the Watch the Throne album packaging screened on it, along with stars around the neck, and the initials JZ and KW in gothic font on the sleeves. Plus the kilt, black leather pants, and his own Nike hi-tops, the Air Yeezy 2. He says, “Pretty psychedelic, right?” We agree and then Kanye’s creative director, Virgil Abloh, politely asks us to maybe, you know, let the man finish getting ready for the tour that’s starting in a couple of minutes? #yikes #noprob

    8:45 p.m. Backstage is buzzing. LeBron James is here wearing a snakeskin Miami Heat snapback cap made by Don C. We ask him for a GQ vs. LeBron rematch in Miami. He laughs. We take that as a yes?

    8:55 p.m. About ten of us are bullshitting in a hallway backstage when the door to the dressing room marked simply “Hov” opens and Jay-Z walks out. He’s wearing a Yankees snapback pulled way low. Like, Kanye, Jay also wears an extra-long black custom tee with stars around the neck and the initials JZ and KW in gothic font on the sleeves. There is no Jay-Z cat face, leather kilt, or leather pants. He is gripping a glass of red wine. We can’t smell the wine, but the wine smells expensive. The whole hallway goes quiet and stares. He moves slowly and in silence—and his presence instantaneously sucks up all the oxygen in the room, all the noise. Nobody so much as breathes. Jay’s got a screwed up look on his face, like he’s disgusted by his own swagger, and like he’s about to kill a person. Or maybe 20,000 people—a whole audience. Everybody in the hallway knows Shawn Carter to one extent or another, but sometimes, like in this moment, they’re just fans like everyone else.

    Tagged With: jay-z Kanye Kanye West GQ Celebs Watch the Throne Music

  • Givenchy Watch the Throne Tour T-Shirt

    November 10, 2011 3 notes

    Check out the designer tees Jay-Z & Kanye have been rocking for their Watch the Throne Tour Designed by Ricardo Tisci of Givenchy.

    Tagged With: Riccardo Tisci Givenchy Kanye West Jay-Z Watch the Throne New York

  • Watch The Throne

    December 29, 2011 1 note

     Went to go see Jay-Z and Kanye West for their Watch The Throne tour here in LA at the Staples Center.  Wow.  Apart from them being two of my favorite rappers/artists, their live performance has definitely set the bar for other hip hop acts to follow.  Their close to 3 hour show was unreal, and had everyone on their feet the entire time.  The Five Four, Young & Reckless, and friends team got a box to watch the festivities.  Despite being a bit far from the stage, the experience we had all together in the booth was better than being in the crowd, and who can complain about non stop liquor flow and catered food.

     Here are some photos from Drama’s post on the Young & Reckless blog.



    Tagged With: Drama Beats Jay-Z Kanye West Staples Center Watch The Throne Young & Reckless

  • DeviantART of The Day

    January 16, 2012 7 notes

    DeviantART: Watch the Throne by ~FromPencil2Paper

    Tagged With: Watch the Throne DeviantART of The Day Jay Z Kanye West Art Deviant Art

  • William Lifestyle Track of the Day

    February 9, 2012

    Jay - Z & Kanye West - Ni**as in Paris (Video)

    Tagged With: Jay-z kanye west paris Will Ferrell Watch The Throne

  • Kanye & Jay in Paris

    February 21, 2012 2 notes

    Jay-Z & Kanye West Announce ‘Watch the Throne’ European Tour Dates

    Watch the Throne – European Tour

    MAY 2012

    Sunday 20th – O2 Arena, London
    Thursday 24th – Zurich Hellenstadion, Switzerland
    Saturday 26th – Herning Arena, Denmark
    Monday 28th – Oslo Telenor Arena, Norway
    Tuesday 29th – Stockholm The Globe, Sweden

    JUNE 2012

    Friday 1st – Paris Bercy, France
    Saturday 2nd – Paris Bercy, France
    Sunday 3rd – Antwerp Sportpaleis, Belgium
    Tuesday 5th – Frankfurt Festhalle, Germany
    Friday 8th – Dublin O2 Arena, Ireland
    Monday 11th – Manchester, UK – MEN Arena
    Wednesday 13th – Birmingham, UK – LG Arena

    Tagged With: Jay-Z Kanye West Watch the Throne