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The guys at Goods and Manik are some stand up folks for this one. The 2 companies collaboratively are donating 100% of all profits from these 4 shirts to the effort in Haiti, leaving you no excuse to not support the cause.

A couple days ago I had took a trip down to the Cloud for a meeting with my brother from another Tay. After business was finished, we took a listen to an almost finished version of the upcoming album HELLADOPE: Return To Planet Rock. I had my puter with me and was lucky enough to record some secret footage. Peep game.

If you were in awe as I was wondering who was on the hook, it’s none other then the lovely  @IsabellaDuGraf (follow her, I hear she wants 400 followers by her bday).

Keep tuned on here and Cloud Nice for more details about the release of the album and some surprises that go along with it…

To go along with the Jay-Z theme on the blog recently, here’s one of the dopest “commercial” I’ve seen in awhile (never seen it on TV though. I skip commercials all day).

But why Rhapsody? Does anyone even use that service??

Edit -- Rhapsody Press Release:

Jay-Z has teamed up with Rhapsody® and MTV to promote the highly-anticipated release of his new album, “The Blueprint 3.” As part of the partnership, the entire album will be available for fans to listen to for free on Rhapsody.com and from MTV’s “The Leak”, almost two weeks prior to its official release. In addition, Rhapsody will also make the new album available for purchase beginning September 8, three days ahead of the street release, and will include two exclusive bonus tracks.

Leading this partnership, three new Rhapsody TV spots will debut starting on September 1 across MTV Networks. In addition to two 30-second ads, Rhapsody will premiere a 60-second version of the ad in the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards on September 13.

The Jay-Z spots are the latest installment of Rhapsody’s ongoing “Fans Get It” campaign. Rhapsody’s “Fans Get It” campaign kicked off earlier this year with a massive promotion around Green Day’s hugely successful release “21st Century Breakdown,” followed with more promotions with top artists in genres from pop to country. The “Fans Get It” campaign has utilized a similar treatment through all the ads, which celebrate the culture and iconography of artists’ careers, enabling them direct involvement in the creative development of the spot. These high-profile promotions both serve as a great vehicle to further connect music fans with the artists they love.

-via herfection

Remember that brick pictured above? The original iPod is back for sale at a whooping $130 from the actual apple webstore. To be honest if you’re gonna tote something as big as that you’re better off with one of these, but the throwback iPod is cool none the less.

-via TUAW

Once it turns midnight I will only be able to be contacted through xbox live. It was nice knowing you all.

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OK I’m finally getting around to it. Cornbread where you at, cousin…

My brother showed me this shit the other day. It’s an application for the iPhone called Shazam. How it works is you play some music from an external source (computer, radio) and you hold your phone’s mic up to the source while Shazam captures a sample of the music. It then matches the sample with one of 4 million songs in the Shazam database and boom – positively IDs your song along with the album, art, record label, and links to download on iTunes or check out a video on YouTube. And its free for iPhone. Fuckin rad.

I guess Shazam is also a service that works on all phones via text messaging, however it costs you per ID. And I heard there are similar applications where you can do as little as hum the tune of a song and it will ID it for you!

Read more at Shazam.com.

And here’s a new beat for ya bitch asses.