Fri 10 Jun 2011
Kanye West Lifts Off In Brooklyn At Heineken’s Red Star Access G.O.O.D Music Event
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Mikey: Last night, Kanye West and Heineken kick off their Red Star Access G.O.O.D. Music Series at an enormous former bank in downtown Brooklyn. “Influencers” from around NYC were first sent secret invites packed with custom t-shirts and complimentary T-Mobile Astound cellphones. We weren’t even told the location of the venue until the day of the show. But when the call came, we all went to Skylight One Hanson St., where the NBA Finals played in the basement,and Q-Tip held down the turntables until Ye took the stage around 12:30 AM. Big Sean, CyHi The Prynce, Pusha T, Kid Cudi and Mr. Hudson all joined Kanye onstage too. And despite some mic issues, the performances were pretty damn electrifying. Big shouts to our friends at Team Epiphany for putting together an incredible event.
MissInfo: For all of the elaborate scavenger hunt before the event (getting your own cell phone to receive the location of the show, et al) this Kanye West concert was one of the most hassle free big time shows I’ve ever been to. Thanks to Jane Kim, Coltrane Curtis and Epiphany. The venue was jawdroppingly stunning (the same place where I shop for antique sunglasses and McClure pickles during the winter Brooklyn Flea markets, lol)…and they even had the NBA game playing in the basement so my buddies could keep score. Sadly, the amazing domed-ceilings made for not-so-great acoustics, but Kanye still rocked….and Kid Cudi stole the show because he looked like he was having more fun than anyone on or off the stage. Me, Mikey, Noah, Erica, and more had lots of twitter commentary…worth scrolling back for ; )
Links:
Brad Wete/Entertainment Weekly reminds spoiled New York event-goers that a show can still be great, even if Jay-Z wants to stay behind the vip glass, lol!
Village Voice- Live: Kanye West’s Big And Loud And Secret Show
BlackBookMag – Kanye West Brought G.O.O.D. Music to Brooklyn Last Night
more photos and video from the performances after the jump…
(photos by 13th Witness, YuMing/FreshnessMag, RichxNice)
Kanye West and Kid Cudi (along with Big Sean and Cyhi da Prynce) “All Of The Lights” (from Idoit4TV via Nahright)
Kanye West “Runaway” (from Idoit4TV via Nahright)
Big Sean feat. Kanye West “Marvin Gaye & Chardonnay” (via Amaya/RR)
Speaking of Kanye…he was at the Big Sean listening party when this aired on TV, but I hope someone showed him a video of Dia Frampton, the half-Korean, half-Dutch contestant on The Voice, KILLING her own version of Kanye’s “Heartless.”
Related:
Kanye West & Jay-Z’s Watch The Throne Album Has A Release Date (UPDATE: Don’t Hold Your Breath)
Big Sean Plays ‘Finally Famous’ In NYC With Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Swizz Beatz and More
June 10th, 2011 at 9:07 pm
“Marvin Gaye & Chardonnay” needs to be his next single, that or “Ass” if Sean wants to sell at least 300k, cuz the Finally Famous leaks I’ve heard seemed like subpar raps over great beats
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Young Scuba Reply:
June 10th, 2011 at 10:32 pm
what the Village Voice had to say about G.O.O.D Music performing had me dying
“Watching Kanye perform with his artists makes you wonder which of them does the best Kanye imitation. Big Sean? Maybe. During “All of the Lights,” there were as many as four to five Kanyes onstage, all doing the same Kanye moves and wearing the same Kanye clothes. It was like watching Kanye walk through a house of mirrors. (That’s probably a fantasy of his.)”
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Miss Info Reply:
June 11th, 2011 at 8:26 am
the Chardonnay song is def the next single
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June 11th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Incredible
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June 12th, 2011 at 12:58 pm
The stage set-up and scenery is crazy. The dome does make for horrible sound though. You can here it in the video,sounds like a loud speaker in a hollow trunk of a 91′ corolla lol bass combined with a cave gives you a horrible echo effect,instead of putting speakers near stage They should have set up more of a surround-sound speaker set up. I still think they still killed the performance though.
Either or looks like good music is coming together nicely as a label.
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June 12th, 2011 at 5:41 pm
Help me understand how Epiphany gets credit for this event! It wasn’t their event. It was supposed to an AA focused event in which Epiphany (who was the company doing the PR) had more non AA people in the building that the target consumer. It looked like a general market event. I heard Epiphany talking loud and taking credit for the event all night as well; which is completely preposterous. When is someone going to call a spade a spade about these folks….more flash than substance is the cruxt of the matter hear, and those really in the know REALLY KNOW.
Thanks to HEINEKEN! Great job!
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June 13th, 2011 at 7:08 am
I watched the vids. Is that what it sounded like in the venue?
If so, nah, i couldn’t do it. I’d rather be in a small club with a fucked sound system, listening to a rapper scream through a crackling mic.
Listening to those videos was just frustrating.
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