Interview too....

hey... it's all love today baby!!!

Show footage

hey... shout out to Raplord.com for the opportunity

"Too Late"

HEY!!! this is the new track from "The Best things in Life are...FRee". It is not the first single or anything like that, but it is the first song that I recorded off of the mixtape. I decided to post it, because I like the feeling of the song, and I like the vibe, and I think it's a great way to start off this movement. Shout out to the homie Danegurous, who will be Executive Producing "The Best things in Life...FRee". I hope y'all enjoy this one, and The Mixtape is around the corner!!!!!!
http://www.zshare.net/download/66804968f3a057d7/

JUST IN CASE YA'll FORGOT!!!!

Im BACK like I never left!!!!

Hardly home but always reppin!!!! AS my nigga Drizzy put it! what the fuck is up!!! I am sorry I have been away for so long.... I been putting in work with this music shit!!! I'm on overdose level with it!!! Hey, let's see what we got going on out here.... I made www.mindlesssouls.blogspot list for top 12 fall and winter releases for this year... so plz check that out. I'll actually post that this week. I put up a link for my mix-tape "The Freeworld" so plz support that!!!! Hey, i promise I will not be gone like that again!!!! u CAN count on IT!!!! -YF

"What's on your Ipod" part deux!!!!

Hey... Gotta keep in touch with the ish I'm rocking... And here are the songs that I'm rocking to prepare for "The Best things in life are... FRee"! Enjoy!

25."Chasing Pavements" Adele (when I first heard this song... I was amazed, and I am still amazed! Her vocals are out of this world... I got her "Hometown Glory EP", but I haven't had the chance to listen to it, but this song gives me butterflies)
24."Unbreakable" Alicia Keys (from the Mtv Unplugged show)
23."Tears dry on their own" Amy Winehouse - I am a huge Amy Winehouse fan! I love her voice, and Mark Ronson's production is incredible!
22."Violet Hill" Coldplay - the first couple seconds, and the drum rift are in a league of their own! Wtf!
21."Faithful" Common ft. Bilal, and John Legend. First and foremost, Kanye kills the sample, and the subject matter brings this record home. My favorite Common record. From my one of my favorite Common album's, "Be".
20. "Warwick ave" Duffy. Another amazing voice, and what she's singing about is crazy... The U.K. Has all of the soul singers now! Duffy, Adele, Amy, Estelle... Wtf!
19."Everybody" Fansworth Bentley, ft Kanye West, and Andre 3000. That "GOOD" Music!
18."History" Jay-Z - please be on BP3... I heard this election night, after Barack Obama brought it home! This is my motivation record... Jay is on point with this one!
17."Daughters" John Mayer. The evolution of a woman... I dig it.
16."Love Lockdown" KanYe West. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm still on 808s and Heartbreaks!
15."50 ways to make a record" Kid Cudi. I like Kid Cudi. Real different, and doesn't mind to be. I loved "day n nite", but going on Paul Simon's "50 ways to make love" is crazy!
14. "Pussy, Money, Weed" LiL Wayne. My favorite Weezy Baby track to date. This is the song for the wifers! (143 baby)
13. "Me and my drink" LiL Wayne. For all the lean heads out there. Shawty Red on the track!
12. "Growing Pains" Ludacris. What? Man.. I fucks with Luda to the max. I don't buy every album, but I am a fan. True story. He's top 10, and he gets no credit! Most consistent southern artist ever? I think so!
11."Brooklyn Girls" Charles Hamilton - ever had one... My man's put it down on this one. First time I heard it, I had to run it back a couple times! Good shit!
10."November 18th" Drake- this is when I realized he was for real....
9."Best I ever had" - Drake, and this is when I became a legitimate fan
8."Till the end of time" - Justin Timberlake. Fyi, my Ex turned me on to this when his last album dropped in 06'. He does no justice on this, I think this is JT's best track. Ever.
7. " I wonder" Kanye West. I love this song! I saw him perform this one too! He kills it!
6. "Sunshine" Lupe Fiasco - (insider) you remember having "relationship" songs, the "defining" couple song... Well here was mines.. And I still love this song!
5. "Valerie" Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse. This is straight out of 1964... Amy Winehouse's voice is one of kind... And Mark Ronson know's how to bring it out...
4." All I do" Stevie Wonder.... Thank you Mom, my mom's favorite Stevie track, and now my favorite Stevie track. My God. That's my description... All I do is think about you... ;-)
3."Artist integrity" Wale - this is off of Wale's "Mixtape about nothing". He talks about fame, the game, and change. This is one of my favorites right now. On constant repeat. "Never will I ever utter never to myself"!
2. Street Lights" Kanye West -"I'm just not there... Life's just not fair" the idea of evolving... Love it.
1. "Nike Boots" Wale. My dude makes sense of it all, for himself, his city, everything. Definitely a great song...

Well, that's it! That's what ya bumping! What are you bumping in your ipod? Leave a comment, and give me some insight! Till the next time... Free

"Best things in life are... FRee" Post 2

Half way done! True story!!! The intro is done, second song is done, the lead single is done! I been putting in work! I'm aiming for 14-16 tracks, and at this very moment I have 8 tracks that are solids, and have been approved! Next month won't get here fast enough as far as that goes! I'll be back in a few! - YF

Visit www.raplord.com...

Hey this is one of my dear friends, Sun Mu, and he trying to get shit organized, and up and running with this hip-hop shit down here in the Triangle area... and he is on it!!!! SO fuck with his website!!! Tell him YF sent you!!! Im gonna post the link with the others!!! YA DIG!!

"The Best things in Life Are... FRee" Entry 1(Dig THAT!!!)

HEY!!! I Promised Ya'll we would go all the way until my project was released!!!! And I'm a keep that Promise!!!! You see the Pic above me, or right beside me??? Thats me and my Uncle Frank, So shout out To uncle Frank!!! and shout out to my lil sis getting them papers last week!!!!!

I am currently working on "The Best things in Life are...FRee". I have about 8 tracks that are keepers, and I truly hope to increase that number by next week. We haven't even started working on "Paid Programming" yet... but i knew coming in it would be all over the place! A lot of people are submitting for it!, so I hope to be able to go through all of this music in the next week or two, and have a more concrete feeling on that!!!! The Best things... is coming along real smooth, IM hoping to record the first 2 singles this weekend, get em out on-line, and we are in talks to shoot the video in a couple weeks!!!! SO ALL GOOD NEWS!!!!! -FREE

OK....

ALRIGHT...... LET'S CLEAR SOME THINGS UP!

IF YOU HEARD THAT I WAS NO LONGER WITH BLACK SUNDAY MUSIC GROUP... THE RUMOR IS TRUE. I HAVE DECIDED TO GO FORWARD WITH MY OWN IMPRINT YounG ReVolutioN Inc. I (we) have an amazing team over here,and I look forward to releasing a few different projects this year, and I did not feel like I was in the proper situation to do that being a artist/exec at Black Sunday Music Group to do that. I do wanna wish all of those guys the best... I hope RipStar Ent blows, shout out to RipStar, Jae-Phils, and everybody else. With that said, there are no hard feelings.... it's time for YounG ReVolutioN Inc to make the moves that will put us on the next level. In my exit, I also bought MaGiC CiTy with me from Black Sunday Music, as well Spank, and Chris Mayo. They are all under the YounG ReVolutioN inc umbrella. We are also in talks to merge with another indie label, or possibly a major. So... things are good over here!!!! Now, with that our the way.... I did wanna let everybody know that I did finally complete an interview with MindLess SouLs. A very good piece, and I think you guys will like it! (www.mindlesssouls.blogspot.com) So... The "Paid Programming" mix-tape will be here in a few weeks, and will be available on this site. SO... GIVE ME A MINUTE... AND I SHALL DELIVER! TILL THE NEXT TIME... fRee. PS... I WILL BE POSTING THE INTERVIEW WITH MINDLESS SOULS, AND IT WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THEIR SITE AS WELL.

YounG ReVolutioN Inc presents..... PAID PROGRAMMING

THE WAIT IS ABOUT TO BE OVER REALLY....SOON!!! I'VE BEEN KICKING BACK WATCHING EVERYONE DO THERE "THING", MY HOMIES MONO DROPPED SOME NEW ISH, MY HOMIE T-TOP DROPPED SOME NEW ISH, MY HOMIE MADISON JAY DROPPED SOME NEW ISH, SHIT, EVERYBODY HAS DROPPED SOME NEW ISH!!!! NORTH CAROLINA IS IN THE BUILDING!!! TRUE STORY!!!YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO RESPECT OUR MOVEMENT NOW!!!! LIKE, IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, I (WE... DARE I SAY WE..) CAN'T GIVE YOU THE KIND OF HIP-HOP YA'LL GET FROM LIL BROTHER, OR FOREIGN EXCHANGE, OR INFLOWENTIAL, OR KOOLEY HIGH, LIKE WE N**g@S FROM THE STREETS WHO HAPPEN TO POSESS A GOOD GIFT... AND THAT GIFT HAPPENS TO BE GOOD MUSIC!!!! OR AS I SAY...DEFINITIVE MUSIC!!!! SO WITH THAT SAID.... I AM OFFICIALLY RELEASING MY FIRST MIXTAPE ON YounG RevolutioN INC, TITLED "PAID PROGRAMMING", AND THIS IS WHERE IT WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD!!!! WE ARE AIMING FOR A JULY RELEASE..... THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY @ THE MOMENT.... BUT IS REALLY CLOSE!!!!! THANK YOU FOR ALL, THINK FRee BABY!!! DIG THAT!!!

Just in case you thought I was lying about her ass....

JESSICA BIEL.....

THIS IS ONE OF THE BADDEST CHICKS ON EARTH!!!! SHE IS DOING A MOVIE, WHERE SHE'LL BE NUDE, AND SHE ACTUALLY PLAY'S A STRIPPER IN THE MOVIE!!!! THAT ASS IS OUT OF THIS WORLD!!!! PEEP THE PICS!!!!! frEE

Come f*ck with ya boy too!!!!!

Hey! You can follow me on so many different sites!!!! It's crazy!!!

1. Twitter.com/youngrevolution
2. Myspace.com/youngfree

I'll be posting my first few pieces on mindless soul's blog site in the next few days. I got 3 different entries. One is about my take on the "Greatest" rappers of all time. (Interesting by the way) I also finished the piece with the homie MoneY. So... They'll be posting that as well. I also updated the site! I hope you guys like that. New colors, and my blog list to the left. Shout out to "October's very own" Drake, and all of them. I also wanna shout out Mindless Soul, all the artist affiliated with YounG ReVolutioN inc, and all the people supporting the movement. It is deeply appreciated. Hey, till the next time... Stay up! -YF

Complex and Keri Hilson.....

TRUE STORY...KERI HILSON IS A PROBLEM.....


Men say: I can never be completely honest with my woman about her appearance.

Keri Hilson says: That’s definitely true. I’m 5'9''. So, my height’s an issue. If I’m feeling sexy, I’ll put on some heels—if that makes me a little taller than you, so be it. You have to be secure enough to stand next to a stallion. [Laughs.] For a woman to feel her best, her man has to support her.

Men say: Unless we’re engaged, you don’t need to meet my parents.

Keri Hilson says: That’s definitely some B.S. You can be boyfriend and girlfriend for more than three or four years without being engaged. Your parents, to a girlfriend, are a reflection of who you are. I’ve never dated a guy and called him my boyfriend until he met my parents.

Men say: A woman’s never faked it with me. If she did, I’d know.

Keri Hilson says: Oh, lord! Men think they know if we’re faking it, but they have no idea. [Laughs.] I know girls who are really good at it, and the men have no clue. Sometimes you have to feed the male ego.

Men say: Moving in with your girlfriend automatically kills your sex life.

Keri Hilson says: That’s probably true, because you see a woman in so many different lights. They see us in our shower cap or granny panties—not that I’m saying I own any of them. [Laughs.] But why put the cart before the horse? If you want to live together and act married, then why not get married?

YounG FRee Performance FOOTAGE!!!!

COMPLEX MAGAZINE PIECE ON KID CUDI

The LONELY STONER MC aims to make G.O.O.D. on his promise with an LP this year.
By Richard “Treats” DrydenPhotography by Shane Nash

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(LOCATION) DAVE AND BUSTER’S TIMEs SQUARE; (PHOTOS) BERRY, SHANNON, BONE: AP PHOTO; WALZ: EVERETT COLLECTION› WHO Scott Mescudi, 25-year-old Cleveland native who gained cult status and a Kanye co-sign last year with his astronaut anthem “Day N Night”; plans to release debut LP on ’Ye’s G.O.O.D. Music this year.
› HOW: Relocated to New York at the age of 20 carrying a five-song demo. He eventually pushed “Day N Night” as a single via DJ A-Trak’s Fool’s Gold label, following with the celebrated mixtape A Kid Named Cudi.
› OHIO LOVE: “You know what the East Coast sounds like. Ohio doesn’t really have an identity. That’s one of my goals: to establish that Midwest shit. The melodies play a powerful part because they really hit people and give you that catchy feel, like Bone Thugs and Nelly.”
› PRO-TE-’YE: “Protégés are people that are molded by somebody. I was molded by God. Yeah, everybody likes the title: ‘Kanye’s protégé Kid Cudi.’ But what’s cool about working with Kanye is that he understood my shit. He’s not trying to change anything that I have going on.”
› FEAR OF A KID PLANET: “A lot of people are going to be thrown off by my album. You’re going to think I’m a lunatic or a genius; it’s not going to be any in between.”

THE NIKE AIR YEEZY'S.

Oh yeah...... Here's KanYe's New Girl!

KanYe West Interview with Detail Magazine

Here it is......

THE UNRAVELING OF KANYE WEST
Just when the enigmatic hip-hop artist had willed himself to pop-icon status, he broke down in the spotlight. Now West says he is done with music and he's ready to pour all his "superhero" energy into conquering fashion—just as soon as he gets his flower arrangements looking right
"You look like a writer," he says warmly through the checkered scarf covering his face, as he guides me through a three-part power handshake."You look like a rapper.""Then I failed," he says with a shrug, eyes, hand, and warmth dropping as he opens the front door, hustles in from the cold, and loses the scarf in the marble lobby. "I was trying to look like an old man."
The past 15 months have indeed put years on Kanye West's life. Even for the 31-year-old workaholic, a man who invented his megastardom by obsessively burning the candle at both ends, they've been long. West didn't just lose, as he puts it, "more than I could ever picture losing": his mother, Donda West, to complications from cosmetic surgery, and his fiancée, Alexis Phifer, to a breakup after six years of dating. He shouldered his loss center stage. In the minds of many, he's lost it completely with his fourth and latest album, 808s & Heartbreak, and his announcement that his new goal is to intern for a designer like Louis Vuitton's Marc Jacobs or Jil Sander's Raf Simons.The breakdown began a week after his mother's death, when the opening chords of his ballad "Hey Mama" reduced West to tears before 6,000 at Paris' Le Zénith. It hit full volume as 2008's pyrotechnic Glow in the Dark tour cut a mass-venue swath across the globe. Intended as hip-hop's answer to U2-style stadium rock, it was more Samuel Beckett meets Philip K. Dick: galactic backdrops, fireworks, cosmic eruptions, enough dry ice to freeze the Florida Panhandle, with West rapping and dancing alone onstage as an interstellar voyager who has crash-landed waaay out there. As West continued to break down when he performed "Hey Mama," then tearfully freestyled a plea "to be a real boy" now that "there is no Geppetto to guide me" on "Pinocchio Story" (808s' hidden live track), one began to suspect that the real journey and crash were happening waaay in there.808s went platinum in just seven weeks and showed no signs of slowing two months later, but it polarized fans, critics, and fellow rappers. In 12 brooding, highly emotional, minimalist tracks, West abandoned everything that had taken him to the hip-hop summit. No more wit, wordplay, or skits. Not even any samples until seven tracks in. No more lust or profanity—it may be the first rap CD since Will Smith was the Fresh Prince to appear without a parental advisory.And no more rapping. West now sang, mostly through the Auto-Tune pitch-correcting device popularized by Cher in 1998's "Believe." As many have noted—including those who speculated he lip-synched during his December SNL performance (for the record, he didn't)—Kanye West isn't really a singer.The biggest about-face on 808s, however, was in how it was made. It was cut in three weeks in Hawaii, and the bulk of the beats were laid down on a drum machine that dated from the dawn of rap, a Roland TR-808 (hence the title). All of these departures hint at West's evolution: Beneath his provocateur/control-freak/drama-queen persona, the one that led him to call himself "the voice of this generation," to go off-prompter at a Katrina fund-raiser to tell the world, "George Bush doesn't care about black people," to "spazz out" at awards shows when he failed to win, there was something more primal calling out for attention. Even as West agrees that 808s is his first album as a card-carrying adult and calls it a product of a midlife crisis, he says he's working from "the gut," trying to unleash "the little kid who doesn't have all these voices telling him he shouldn't like it because." For West, that little kid is the true artist."First beat I did," he recalls, "was in seventh grade, on my computer. I got into doing beats for the video games I used to try to make. My game was very sexual. The main character was, like, a giant penis. It was like Mario Brothers, but the ghosts were, like, vaginas. Mind you, I'm 12 years old, and this is stuff 30-year-olds are programming. You'd have to draw in and program every little step—it literally took me all night to do a step, 'cause the penis, y'know, had little feet and eyes." Inspired by his preteen Super-Sexual Mario Brothers project, West makes a pop-Freudian self-analysis. "People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age," he says. "Look at the drive that people have to get sex—to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic . . . "West soon channeled it all into music. Devoting a year after high school to hip-hop, he sold enough beats—many at $200, $250 per to local drug dealers who fancied themselves producers—to get seed money for a move to the Big Apple. He made his name producing five pivotal tracks for Jay-Z's seminal 2001 album, The Blueprint, in New York's Baseline Studios, where he was an anomaly amid the street-hardened masters of the rap scene. A Chicago whiz-kid geek in jeans, a button-down shirt, and a baseball cap worn with the bill forward, he was "a real contradiction," says Lenny Santiago, an A&R man for Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella label.After West was signed as a Roc-A-Fella rapper, his trademark pink polos and pastel sweaters replaced the button-down shirts. When it came to his own records, he was still all about production and relentless creativity and diversity. He made music that was almost tapestry: West is one of those rare, synesthetic types who actually see sounds—as colors, shapes—and his hearing is freakish. At one point during our interview, he yells to a record-company flack in a distant room, "You might wanna take that out in the hallway. My whole crib is echoing." I hear nothing.That acuity and attention to detail—and an accident that almost took his life—shaped his rapping style. Driving home from a 2002 recording session, West fell asleep at the wheel of his Lexus and crashed. In the 10 minutes before he was freed from the car, he watched his face bloat in the rearview mirror to almost twice its normal size. Two weeks later, with his jaw still wired, he rapped out his first hit, "Through the Wire.""I had a style that was over-the-top, overly expressive, and it forced me to just lay back and be a little cooler," he says. "One of the problems with being a bubbling source of creativity—it's like I'm bubbling in a laboratory, and if you don't put a cap on it, at one point it will, like, break the glass. If I can hone that . . . then I have, like, nuclear power, like a superhero, like Cyclops when he puts his glasses on."They say you can't please everybody, but West's opening trilogy (2004's The College Dropout, '05's Late Registration, and '07's Graduation) came close. Sharing works in progress with up to 30 people, West addressed every criticism, and over a meteoric four years essentially willed himself to cultural-icon status. On a single Graduation track, "Stronger," he went through 50 takes and eight engineers, and wove in everything from French acid house and Nietzsche to couture and mid-1990s anime. The song earned a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance and No. 1 spots on six charts (including the U.S. pop chart—still a rarity for a rapper), and spawned a craze for the Alain Mikli shutter-shades he wore in the video: If not Cyclops glasses, they're certainly West's equivalent of Michael Jackson's white glove.Once we're upstairs, West invites me to sit at the white dining table that's the nucleus of his vast, sparsely furnished apartment. On his side of the table are a laptop he hops on and off all afternoon (mostly to update his blog, which he takes seriously), a cell phone, and a remote that seems to control everything in the crib. On my side is a scrap of paper with a phone number and the name MARC JACOBS, the creative director of Louis Vuitton, who will be introducing West's sneaker line at Men's Fashion Week in Paris in a few weeks. Critics and interviewers have questioned West's haste in making 808s, calling the album a first draft, a mix tape. Now they're asking whether he is even still a rapper.Kanye West is having none of it: "Oh my God, I'm one of the greatest rappers in the world," he says, rapping his words. "I'll get on a track and completely ee-nihilate that track, I'll eat it and rip it in half. I wouldn't have to think of it." Two nights ago, he and Mos Def spent half a red-eye from Los Angeles freestyling in first class. "'Yo, I was fuckin' the game./ You can call it statutory,/ But by the time I'm old/ You're building statues for me,'" West says. "I'm still catching up on sleep from that flight."He couldn't care less whether the sea change costs him part of his fan base. "Don't matter," he yawns. "This game's pass or fail. There's no Bs, Cs, Ds. Either you bricked or you won, and this product's gonna be an A. Fans out there don't like it, 'cause of their own snobbery or instant rejection of Auto-Tune?"—West starts singing the refrain from "Heartbreak" much better than you'd expect—"But you can't reject the melody, you can't reject the story, you can't reject the subject. That hook is fucking Broadway, that hook is like . . . 1940s."That's Kanye West in a nutshell: whimsical but dead serious. Take what he says and imagine it in comic-book speech bubbles and, shazam, you're on the same page.For example, I ask about his infamous "I am the voice of this generation" quote: "If not me, then who?" he says. "Someone could be a better rapper, dance better. But culturally impacting? When you look back at these four and a half years, who's the icon at the end of the day? Who broke down color barriers? What other black guy would a white person use as a fashion reference?"A question about the type of woman he'd settle down with elicits a classic hyperbolic yet self-evident response: "What I feel like—'cause I wanna be married, of course—I feel like the type of girl I would be with is a fellow superhero. So we get that 'already flying and now we're just flying together' thing."Solaris, a four-foot comic-esque Colin Christian fiberglass bust of a helmeted futuristic aviatrix, hangs on the wall above the table. Her eyes are as huge and her nose is as diminutive as Betty Boop's; her puckered pink lips are unnervingly realistic.West's crib itself is a work of art. Two lofts that he bought three years ago and reconfigured (with the help of Armani store designer Claudio Silvestrin), it looks less like an apartment than a hyper-masculine minimalist installation. An expanse of limestone flooring leads to the living-room area, where throughout the day the movie 300 plays without sound on a Bang & Olufsen wide-screen. Across from it, two brown leather couches frame a four-foot-square limestone monolith of a coffee table, on which an oversize hardcover of black-and-white Helmut Newton nudes is carefully placed. The sounds of Dark Side of the Moon come from a far-off bedroom, where I notice later that the sheets, at 3 P.M., conspicuously hang every which way from the bed. Solaris, it's clear, is not the only female presence to grace this apartment.The loft's massive windows are hung with solar blinds that let in most of the light but only fractions of the snow-covered cityscape. "If it were a blue sky it'd look like an Impressionist painting of the city," West says, gazing through the shades. Craving some visual stimulation, he reaches for the cell."I want some flower arrangements," he tells a woman at the other end of the line. "One on top of the kitchen thing, one sitting in the living room, in the bedroom, and both the bathrooms. Flowers that match themselves, so that it's just one idea in the pot. So either all white—I love cherry blossoms, I love roses—or just a shitload of peach roses so close to each other that you just see the buds. . . . And I want the pots to be very minimal, fit the vibe of the crib. . . . Frosted glass. Or a lacquer, or a matte lacquer, or stone."
Once off the phone, West takes care to specify that the woman given the task of realizing his hyperspecific horticultural vision is not his interior designer and not his gofer—but rather his apartment manager. "Titles are very important. I like to embody titles, y'know, or words that have negative connotations, and explain why that's good," he says. "Take the word gay—like, in hip-hop, that's a negative thing, right? But in the past two, three years, all the gay people I've encountered have been, like, really, really, extremely dope. Y'know, I haven't, like, gone to a gay bar, nor do I ever plan to. But where I would talk to a gay person—the conversation would be mostly around, like, art or design—it'd be really dope. From a design standpoint, kids'll say, 'Dude, those pants are gay.' But if it's, like, good, good, good fashion-level, design-level stuff, where it's on a higher level than the average commercial design stuff, it's, like, gay people that do that. I think that should be said as a compliment. Like, 'Dude, that's so good it's almost . . . gay.'"West's friends and professional adjuncts, who quietly pass in and out of his loft throughout the day, start cracking up, and he leaves his chair for a bit of stand-up: "'Dude, that's so good it's almost gay!' 'Dude, you pay real attention to detail—that's almost, like, gay!' 'You had a whole conversation with that girl without bringing up sex? That was, like, gay!'"Something besides floral arrangements is nagging at West today. But it's not his mom, or his ex. "I'm not feeling that overly emotional Oprah stuff," he says. "Dude, my life's actually better than it's ever been."No. Kanye is just ready to move on. "Put this in the magazine: There's nothing more to be said about music. I'm the fucking end-all, be-all of music. I know what I'm doing. I did 808s in three weeks. I got it. It's on cruise control. . . . Man, we talked about music for God knows how long!" he yells. "Now let's talk about how my fucking sweater didn't come back right from Korea. That's what's interesting me."West has long been a fixture in the front rows in Milan and Paris, but he's both anxious and cocky about his line of sneakers hitting the Paris runway. Anxious because he's the first to admit he's a fledgling designer. And cocky because he couldn't care less how clichéd the idea of a rapper taking over fashion with signature sneakers may seem. "I'm all about clichés now!" he says. "People base their opinions on cliché. There's a reason why they're clichés: 'I was gonna wear a coat today, but it would be so cliché.' How about some pants—if it's not too cliché?"West has had his own clothing line, Pastelle, for three years, and the fashion world has exacted its pound of flesh from him much as he once did from drug dealers eager to make it as producers. "The big payback," he calls it. "I work with different designers and they'll see me coming, saying 'I wanna do this line,' and they're like, 'Cool, give me $150,000 for two weeks' work'! It's like, 'This dude is so eager to get in—he's a millionaire who doesn't know his ass from his face, and we're gonna charge him up the fucking ass for a sketch, for an idea, for a sample.' Every time I did a sample line—it was over a quarter-million."Like the 12-year-old who lost nights to making a penis take a step, West is no dilettante playing at fashion design. He'll spend an hour in a Jil Sander store scrutinizing collars, devote days to freehand sketches. "I'm 31. I study now," he says, flipping through a designer's book, catching everything: the flow of material at the elbow crease of a jacket, the same face shape on different models. When Glow in the Dark hit Belgium, West went straight from the stage of Brussels' Forest National theater to the sea—a good hour-and-a-half drive—to make it to a party attended by Raf Simons, Jil Sander's chief designer, whom he texts almost every day."He talks to me a lot about fashion," Simons says. "He's very serious about it. I like him a lot as a person, but I'm not sure how an internship would work." Despite his celebrity status, West insists he's sincere about starting from the ground up. "It's like pressing reset on my life," he says. "I moved from Chicago to New York and all I had was a bunch of ideas and a few DATs in my pocket and a relationship with an A&R guy at Roc-A-Fella. Now I'm moving to Paris and I have a relationship with Louis Vuitton, and it's like, Look how far I took that relationship to the biggest record label, and look where I took it in music."West nods toward the scrap of paper with Marc Jacobs' number. "That was put there for you to see," he says. "Marc Jacobs is my fashion idol because of the way he merges all worlds, the way he's big in the hood and the head of the No. 1 fashion house in the world. For me, Jay-Z's my big brother, but what he was to me in rap is what Marc Jacobs is to me in fashion—the feeling I get when I look at him is exactly what I got when I'd look at Jay-Z in the studio."This isn't the first reset, of course, that West has engineered. "My story is so written, like God has a plan for me—an exact parallel, like I've seen this before, I'm back in Groundhog Day again," he says. "Like the Glow in the Dark tour—that was like going back and finally finishing up that video game. Except now it was me in the video game."I start to remind him what the main character and the point of his game were, but Kanye West is way ahead of me."Oh, that happened," he says, flashing a smile, "but after the shows."

YounG FRee is SLACKING!?!?

No new posts in a month? Wtf? I'll have to admit, I've definitely been slacking a little bit, but I'm back on it! I'm posting an interview that KanYe West did with Detail Magazine, as well as a couple excerpts from the upcoming issue of Complex Magazine. So.... Hang tight! I'm coming! -FRee

NCAA Tournament Time!

Guess Who's Back! (This would be the perfect time for that "welcome back drop") (Mase? Wtf?). It's March! March Madness! And if your from my area, ( Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) this is the most important time of the year! So... With that said: Go Tarheels!

Mind[less] Souls " I wanna get to know ya"

Funny shit! I did a piece with my bro Money a few weeks back, and they're doing a section with the artists they interview called " I wanna get to know ya". And... It's very candid, funny! So here's.... ME!

Mind[less] - What's your favorite albums? Like, if you had to have 10 albums, and only those 10 for the rest of your life... What would they be?

Young Free - Wow! Let's see. "Blueprint" (Jay-Z; Rocafella), "Sam Cooke's Greatest hits", definitely "2pac' greatest hits", "Stevie Wonder's Greatest hits" "Back to black" (Amy Winehouse; Island Records/ Universal Republic), "Graduation" (KanYe West; Rocafella) "Juice Soundtrack"(Island Def Jam), "College Dropout" (KanYe West; Rocafella), " Ice Cube's Greatest Hits" ( "Check yo self....my shit!) And the album I don't leave home without, it's on my ipod, laptop, and in my cd player in my car.... "808s and Heartbreak"(KanYe West; Rocafella). Amazing album, and probably my favorite of all time!

MS- Favorite movies? Same scenario!


YF- "Friday", "Godfather trilogy", " Fade to Black", "American Gangster" " Goodfellas", "Menace to society". I love sooo many movies, I would hate to even choose!

MS- T.V?

YF- I'm a nerd! History channel, I watch " The office", "Seinfeld "re-runs, same for "King of Queens", "Martin", " The office" (lmfao). I'll say this, I used to a big sports guy, (and I still am to an extent) watching every program sportcenter, (espn), Pardon the Interruption, etc, but I'm a nerd! I watch a small amount of tv.. So, everything I listed is what I watch when I get the chance.

MS- Reader?

YF- Yeah. Magazines. XXL, Blender, Rolling Stone, etc. Music mags

MS- Blogger?

YF - yep. Missinfo.tv, sohh, perez hilton, bossip. Shit is entertaining to losers like myself!

Aubrey.....OMG!!!!!

Umm.... You Welcome!!!!

"Swagger Like us" - Performed by the "Rat Pack" @ the Grammys

A performance of epic proportions!!!!! I would of posted the performance, but I decided not to. But I think this picture says it all! T.I., Wayne, Hov, and Mr. West, all on the same stage together at one time! Can't beat that! go to youtube, to check out the performance!

The Grammys...... was Wayne robbed????

I've been trying to make sense of the Grammys. I remember a few years back, when KanYe West made a huge deal for not winning album of the year for Late Registration. And last year, Ye' was nominated again, for Graduation, and lost to Herbie Hancock. It seems like the people who make these selections for album of the year go for the safe bet. I know Outkast, and Lauryn Hill have won the award for album of the year, but they are no where close to being as "radical" as say a LiL Wayne. I truly think Wayne deserved the award last night. "Tha Carter 3" was a masterpiece. It was hip-hop, r&b, rock, It was everything. Dare I utter "classic". Not to mention the "milli" he sold in the first week. I mean homie swept all the hip-hop awards, but when will the selection committee @ the Grammys start going with the right choice, and not the safe one???

-YF

Soul[less] Minds...... and YounG FRee.

What's going on everybody! One of my close friends Money and his people have started their own hip-hop blog! I'm working on a few projects, and we decided to hook-up and do a piece together. Now, his blog site won't be launching until, late March, early April, so he and I have been going back and forth, a little bit, and he sent me this piece to post on my site! So.... Once there site is up and running, I'll post their info so ya'll check them out! Ok, so enjoy. It's been hard to do this, but we just said fu*k it, and did it! So.... Enjoy!!!! -FRee

Soul[less]- what's going on in the world of Young Free?

Young Free- I'm keeping head above water, and trying to learn the road home, on this long journey.

SLM- How is our project coming along?

YF- it's great. I've been going back and forth with ideas. It's crazy how a person will evolve. When I first started this process, I wanted to drop a dope record. More of a "gangsta" album. And it's been almost a year and some change since we started working on the project, and everything with it has changed. The beats are different, the concept and outlook are different, hell, the title is different.

SLM- How so?

YF- Well, for one, I really started listening to a lot of different genres during this project. I got introduce to Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, and a lot of funk, and soul music. The Beatles, Queen, a lot of classic material. So, I want to incorporate a good heavy, rock sound in to this project, and not be scared to do it! Or be considered "non" hip-hop. So, I went back to the drawing board. The Departed was done (written), and I decided to scratch it. I know my label just loves that! But, you have to follow your heart, and run with what and how you feel. And The Departed was a dark album, filled with the epic falls, and the tragedy's of the streets. And there's nothing wrong with that, but at this point of my life, there is much more to talk about. So much has happen at this point of my life.

SLM- Like what?

YF- Personal things. Like, I lost a lot of friends in the streets. They are all locked up. Close people. And, the only woman I've ever had a very deep intimate love for, we called it quits. So, sometimes that changes your outlook. I wouldn't of been keeping it real with my self if I released it, knowing what I had going on in my life at the time. So, I did a complete 180. You'll be blown away with the first single.

SLM- I remember back in the day, when you we're on the Raleigh Underground scene, you we're a fierce battle mc, do you still battle?

YF- no. Definitely not my lane anymore. I don't see the point. Because, everybody knows somebody who is a great battle rapper. And, then that's all their known for. I don't want to limit my self to just that. It's fun to be a spectator, and to listen, but I don't take part in it. I've just past that point in my career.

SLM- How is your label situation?

YF- Great. I am on Black Sunday Music Group out of North Carolina. And, we have a great roster. Myself (myspace.com/youngfree), Magic, Rip, and Danegurous. Mean Max G, I mean we have a little bit of everything right now. We're going to be releasing so much new material. I only released 5 songs In 2008. Very quiet year. So, I'm gonna pick it up, and run.

SLM- So what do you have coming out in 2009?

YF- I'm. Finishing up " The Best things in Life are... FRee", which was originally supposed to be an EP. But I'm releasing a lot of music on it. So, it will be released in an album like form. More of an mix-tape, but with original material on it. Black Sunday is putting a compilation style project out, called " Fade 2 Black", and I'm really excited about that. I want to work with some different people, and really get a good sound out. And that's definitely the platform to do it on. Danegurous is releasing some new stuff, Magic, Rip, my little brother Spank and I will be doing a project together. And, I'll be releasing " Lost in Translation" in the fall.

SLM- Sounds like a busy year?

YF- And hopefully a very successful year! I thin this the perfect time for an indie act to release music. I mean, you don't have anything to lose!

SLM- So you like being an "indie" act?

YF- I do. I love it. I have the freedom to say and do what I want on a record. "Lost in Translation" couldn't, and wouldn't be released on a Major. They (major labels) would want to make a lot of changes to it. I mean it's a great hip-hop record, but, it's also appealing to a lot of "hipsters". I don't think the people who liked my music a year and a half ago, will like it now. And, I made the decision to do a different kind of music, and you can either grow with me, or go another direction.

SLM- Is this border line "808s and Heartbreak" ? (Rocafella/Def Jam)

YF- Not quite. But kind of. More of an universal sound. Not like world music or anything like that, we just eliminated the boundaries of tradition. I was reading in an issue of Vibe where Kanye West was saying he would rather have 20,000 fans that are his true, hard core fans, than 100,000 fans that fly by. People still yearn great music. And, "808s and Heartbreak" is just that. I mean I'm not singing (well, ok), but I'm pretty much open to just about everything.

SLM- Is that from a "growth perspective" or, setting a "trend" ?

YF- More growth. Because one day, you realize what matters in life. And that day happened to me at 21 years old. Like... I don't care about having the new Jordan's, or being the first person you see in these shoes, or that shoe, because that is the last thing I'm worried about. I don't care who won the game last night, I don't care who got the new Benz, etc. But a year or two ago, I would of. Evolution is great. I just entered adulthood, realizing the music could, and can be something a lot more powerful than I give credit for. So,I am more focused on releasing something great, and less concerned with all of the bullshit going on around me.

SLM- Do you still follow your city's local hip-hop scene?

YF- In a way. I know the people I did shows with. But, outside of that, no. None of these guys are doing anything worth following.

SLM- Damn....

YF- I guess the truth hurts.

SLM- Anything else?

YF- Yeah. Fuck good, Be Great. Prefer Brilliant. YounG ReVolutioN T-shirts. Free Spank, and God Bless.

The Best Things in life are...... FRee update

What it do???? I wanna get something out the way before I go on with the rest of this post.... I put up some " tit for tat" shit I had with a "nobody" last week, and a few people e-mailed me telling me it was a whole bunch of "non-sense" and I wasted my time with those posts. And, I agree. And, this site is for the HIPSTERS, THE TREND SETTERS, people, who MAKE MOVES. Not nobody's like .... Well the "Nobody" (ha!!!!) Hey.... FRee will Melt the Snow (insider...Kii what up!!!).....

Point of post- So, I've been putting my everything into this "Best Things in Life" project. " Give Me" (myspace.com/youngfree) is the first single off of the project. I also posted "Burnin" with Scion (Sci... What up!!!), and that is also going on "The Best Things".... So.... This means that I'll be getting away from "Departed". As bad as I wanted to release it, ans as epic as it might of been, my growth passed that project, and I've decided to move on. So.... "Lost in Translation" will be my day view album. Real instrument heavy, more indie/alternative. We (Black Sunday Music) are aiming for a fall release. So...I'm looking forward to working on this! First album! I'm really excited to go in the studio and make the best record that I am capable of. So.... We got "Best Things in Life are...FRee" coming, and we also got a compilation style project titled " Black Sunday Music Presents.... FADE 2 Black". So.... We're gonna release some good.... Fuck that GREAT music for you to enjoy! - YounG FRee(myspace.com/youngfree)

Aubrey's doing Playboy!!!!!!

SHE KIND OF THICK...... DEFINITELY GONNA GET THIS ISSUE WHEN IT DROPS! SHE'S ALREADY A PROBLEM!!!!

I WOULD MARRY HER!!!!

KanYe West's New Louie V' Shoe!!!!

What ya'll think?????

Some Raleigh Shit!!!!!!

SHOUT OUT TO THE HOMIE T-TOP.... HE DEFEATED MY NIGGA MADISON JAY ON THE FREESTYLE BATTLE SHIT ON THE K97.5 HERE'S THE LAST ROUND........

NIKE AIR YEEZY'S!!!!!

This is a picture of KanYe West show..... The NIKE AIR YEEZY's..... On Point????

Jay-Z "History" @ THe Neighborhood Inaguration Ball

My man HOV' comes through with that classic shit yet again!!!!

F**KING AROUND WITH SOME T-SHIRT DESIGNS

Make custom t-shirts at CustomInk.com

HEY THIS SHIT IS REAL BASIC..... I DID THIS ON CUSTOMINK.COM. THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL YOUNG REVOLUTION T-SHIRT, BUT I WAS HAVING SOME FUN, AND DECIDED TO POST THIS. I WILL BE POSTING SOME OFFICIAL YounG ReVolutioN t-shirts in the next few weeks.

THE NEXT BEST THING...... DANEGUROUS

THIS IS DANEGUROUS.... NEWEST MEMBER OF MY LABEL BLACK SUNDAY MUSIC. HE IS A PROBLEM!!!!! AND I'M NOT JUST SAYING THAT BECAUSE WE'RE ON THE LABEL!!!!! IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME, CHECK OUT HIS MYSPACE MUSIC SITE @ MYSPACE.COM/DANEGUROUS. AND THEN HIT ME BACK UP, SO I CAN TELL YOU I TOLD YOU SO!!!!!!! -FREE

This is CRAZY. SHE GOT THIS DUDE GOING LOW ON STAGE!!!!! I CAN'T EVEN FRONT.... LADY GAGA IS A BAD CHICK..... I'D PROBABLY DO IT TOO!!!!!!!!!

HiStory..... Barack Obama is the President of the United States

WoW!!!! We've come to the point of HiStory, where a man of color can lead this country..... President Barack Obama. Sounds good!!!! -FRee

Martin Luther King Day 2009

So today, we celebrate the memory of the KING, Martin Luther King Jr. Every year the federal government takes the day off, schools are off, and a lot of other institutes also take the day to commemorate the distinguished life, of MLK. On April 4th 1968, Dr. King was shot and killed in Memphis, TN. But his memory has been instilled in not only "Black America" or in "African Americans" but in America in general. 40-50 years ago, blacks we're not allowed to eat where we are allowed to eat now. Blacks couldn't ride the buses we can ride now, and Blacks couldn't live in the neighborhoods we live in now. So take a moment today, and honor the KING. Take a moment and realize he, like Jesus, lost his life, so we could live ours the way we are suppose to. With freedom, and choice, and prosperity. Though American History will be made tomorrow, with the inauguration of the first african-american President in United States History, remember, without the efforts of Dr. King, there wouldn't be an Obama.

-God Bless. All hail to the King.

Elijah "YounG FRee" Branch

YounG ReVolutioN Presents: The BEST things in LIFE are FRee......The Web Show!

Hey!!!!!!! What it do!!! So.... TWO-Thousand and O-Mine is here! And.... The creative bug is getting @ me! I'm working on sooo much NEW material right now, and, I'm gonna do my own "web" show! On this very site! It will be titled " The BEST things in LIFE are...FRee! So come check it out. I'll be posting something in the next few weeks. We're gonna have a lot of fun doing this! Also, we (YounG ReVolutioN, via Black Sunday Music) will be releasing some new music really soon! I got "Give Me" on myspace.com/youngfree right now!
Hey, til' the next time, be safe. Hey.... "YounG & FRee"- Fuck Good. Be Great. Prefer Brilliant.-FRee

P.S. Go see "Notorious" on Friday nite! B.I.G. Forever!

P.S.S. - shout out to Dangerous, the newest member of The Black Sunday Music Family. Definitely a great move for the team. And, I know your gonna love this guy!