The N. Period

What? Kanye Kanye Kanye. Big ups for the Olympics timeliness.

Nice new video from Beck, this one for the song "Gamma Ray." Beck can seemingly do no wrong, evidenced by the fantastic release Modern Guilt

Announced last week, these fresh monsters are a collabo between Nike and the Roots, famed drummer ?uestlove. This KOTW selection is ?uest's take on the iconinc Air Force 1 shoe. In a nightmare move for driving search engine traffic, the shoe will be called the the (h)Air ?uesto 1, according to his blog.

We're just giddy waiting for the release of Bill Cosby's upcoming hip-hop album. What's that you say? Everybody's favorite poppa of the puddin' pop is gonna drop some verses? Well, not exactly. While Cosby has said that he will not be rapping on the project— perhaps some spoken word-type stuff will be going on — he has divulged that the unifying theme of the album is aimed to counter the misogyny and negativity that are so prevalent in today's popular rap.

I just heard Jason Kidd's 1994 attempt at rapping -- a sad song called "What the Kidd Didd" that features Digital Underground's Money B. It can be said with no hesitation that Kidd and B. have recorded one of the sorriest songs in the world's history. I have done my best to transcribe the lyrics here, but there were a few nonsensical parts that I could not comprehend. Jason Kidd, if you read this, please leave a comment and fill in the gaps. Enjoy!

The rapper Jay-Z has teamed up with fellow African-American enterpeneur Steve Stoute to launch Translation Advertising in New York City. The company's aim is to create advertising that caters to multi-cultural consumers without alienating them. Given his popularity, Jay-Z may very well be onto a new trend in advertising: marketing intelligently to groups who have previously been either misunderstood or ignored altogether.

Bay Area producer AmpLive has a remix album of Radiohead's In Rainbows that's recently became available. Includes tracks with verses from excellent Cali rappers Too $hort, MC Zumbi of Zion I, Chali2na of Jurassic 5, and Del the Funky Homo Sapien.

Yay! As of right now, this is the final scheduled North American stop before they hit the UK again for the summer.

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RADIOHEAD NORTH AMERICAN TOUR :: MAY 2008 May 5 - Cruzan Amphitheatre - West Palm Beach, Florida May 6 - Ford Amphitheatre - Tampa, Florida May 8 - Lakewood Amphitheatre - Atlanta, Georgia May 9 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - Charlotte, North Carolina May…

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This amazing video is the coolest use I've seen yet of the trend of light graffiti that has been in vogue over the past year or so.  The creators of this great video have published an amazing instructable of how they did it here, which they parlayed into a $15,000 laser engraver in a contest from the folks over at Instructables.…

It's about damn time. The iPhone beginning to approach a capacity that is actually usable to serious iPodders.  Beginning today, the iPhone will now be available in a 16GB model, while the iPod Touch has increase its top capacity to 32GB.  I don't think that I will get an iPhone until they are at least 30GB, so hurry up Apple!…