The much anticipated official music video for ‘Ni**as in Paris’ by Jay-Z and Kanye West has been released minutes ago. Watch it now here below.

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The official video for Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “Ni**as in Paris” is set to debut tomorrow at noon. In the meantime here’s a “videojacking” of the track put together by a Parisian graffiti crew who go HAM in the Paris Metro with lyrics from Jay and Ye’s popular Watch The Throne track. Feels a bit like a Kidult job to us. What do you think?

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It has been confirmed that Kanye West will bring his second women’s collection to Paris Fashion Week. The rapper-turned-designer will show his eponymous collection at 9:30 pm on March 6, 2012. Mr. West’s debut showing last season drew a star-studded crowd but gathered mixed reviews. Will all those famous designers and celebrities show up again this round?

SOURCE: WWD

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Remember “Runaway,” Kanye West’s style-over-substance short film that dropped just before My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy? According to The New York Observer, Mr. West is getting ready to shoot another-nother film somewhere in the Middle East.

Sources tell The Observer that Mr. West sent members of his team to meet with film companies and government officials based out of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Doha, Qatar to explore the idea of a production. A number of local municipal officials and film companies are said to be engaged in what was characterized as a heated bidding war for the contracts involved in bringing Mr. West’s vision to life.

Kanye’s team is moving to the region for a few weeks to scout actors from the region and get a feel for the culture. No details on the content of the film have been released, but it’s safe to say it’ll probably look something like this.

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In a great new video, Scott Schuman aka The Sartorialist present ‘Lunch for 25′. During Pitti Uomo earlier this month, he invited the 25 people that had the biggest influence on the website and that sum up for him mens style. He brought them all together for a lunch in a traditional trattoria in Florence and thanked them for making The Sartorialist what it is and stands for today. From Nick Wooster, Kanye West to many other familiar faces, the get together is certainly an interesting one in the world of mens fashion. Check out the recap video here below.

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We present the next chapter of the KobeSystem video series, this time featuring Kanye West. Enjoy!

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On Friday, Kanye West attended the Givenchy menswear Fall/Winter 2012 show in Paris. Sitting front row with former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld, Mr. West wore a layered sportswear kit, complete with the long tees and leather pants he’s been seen in often as of late. What do you think of this look?

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When it comes to industry events, you can always be sure that a lot of people get the best pieces out of their closets to impress with impeccable style, yet the Pitti Uomo tradeshow in Florence gets out the most extreme in terms of menswear every season. Also the show is not short of celebrities checking in, including Kanye West this season, to see what the fashion world has coming up in the following months and seasons.

Take a look at this nice recap of style seen last week at the Pitti Uomo show in Florence.

Photography: Grazia

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In Nike Basketball’s newest campaign, Kobe Bryant steps beyond his role as a basketball superstar and into the role of a motivational speaker. Learning from his own lessons of success on the court, Kobe inspires some of the most accomplished business, entertainment and sports leaders across the globe to reach for even greater success in their own lives. Dubbed “The KobeSystem: Success for the Successful,” Bryant’s winning philosophy is grounded in his proven ability to adapt to succeed as a player and also reflected in his revolutionary new signature shoe, the Nike Kobe VII System Supreme.

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The cast features the following leaders from stage to screen, field to court, outer space to real-life motivational speaker:

Aziz Ansari, Acclaimed comedian and actor
Richard Branson, Entrepreneur and philanthropist
Landon Donovan, International soccer star
Larry Fitzgerald, All-Pro football player
Jerry Rice, Hall-of-Fame football player
Tony Robbins, Motivational speaker and best-selling author
Paul Rodriguez, Skateboard extraordinaire
Hope Solo, Gold-medal winning soccer player
LeeHom Wang, Award-winning Chinese entertainer
Kanye West, Multi-platinum recording artist
Serena Williams, Grand Slam tennis champion

In addition to the TV spot, the KobeSystem personalities will be featured in a variety of digital content films including testimonials proclaiming their affinity for “the system” and individual films showing where they fit on Kobe’s success pyramid.

Shot in Hollywood, the Nike KobeSystem “Success for the Successful” commercial spot was directed by Jody Hill. Known for his role as co-creator and executive producer of the series Eastbound & Down, Hill has directed, produced and acted in a variety of features films. The campaign was produced by Wieden + Kennedy of Portland, Ore.

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Nike continues with their big marketing push for the KobeSystem. In their latest video campaign, entitled ‘Everyone is on the #KobeSystem’, testimonials include Kanye West, Serena Williams, Jerry Rice, Richard Branson, Aziz Ansari, Tony Robbins and others.

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Yesterday we reported about Kanye West’s Twitter rant – in the matter of a couple of hours Kanye tweeted 86 times, explaining a lot of things around his fashion career, him designing, his aspirations as a designer and more. Most importantly though, he mentioned the creation of a new design company going by the name DONDA, named after his late mother.

Jimmy Kimmel took Kanye’s tweets and created the above commercial for Donda. Check it out!

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Last night Kanye West corrected some rumors with a series of tweets. He talks about his current fashion involvement and what we can expect from him in the coming months and years. One thing is for sure – he is excited and will make a lot of moves in this area.

First of all he mentions that his fashion line is called Kanye West and not DW by Kanye West. He also mentions that he is currently not represented by any agency for his fashion line. Also he says that there is no investors in his fashion line and that his first collection and show was all paid for by himself, with money that he made touring.

Kanye says that he has been offered to do urban clothing lines already 8 years ago and since then he is planning on doing something in the fashion world. Leave his mark. He talks about Bape turning down to produce his line and about shutting his first LA design office (which to our knowledge was for Pastelle at the time) after the MTV incident.

Afterwards he talks about interning at Fendi and being offered a position at Versace, which he could not take because of his working relationship with Louis Vuitton on sneakers. After 4 months at Fendi, Giuseppe Zanotti taught him to design women’s shoes already 2 years before starting the new fashion line. He goes and talks about designing a new Nike sneaker, the Yeezy, every 2 years.

Last he touches on his new design company, called DONDA, after his late mother. “DONDA will be comprised of over 22 divisions with a goal to make products and experiences that people want and can afford…”.

Well, as usual, the man has a lot of plans and we cannot wait to see which ones become reality!

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CraveOnline put together a comprehensive list of some of the most anticipated hip-hop albums of 2012. They definitely hit the nail on the head with most of these. Some albums on the list include the G.O.O.D. Music album, which is said to feature Pusha T, Common, John Legend, Mos Def, Mr. Hudson, Big Sean, Kid Cudi, Kanye, and others. If that’s not enough to peak interest in this release, then we don’t know what is.

Check out some more albums mentioned after the jump.

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It certainly seems like the DW by Kanye West fashion brand is not dead yet. Today the official Twitter account of the brand launched. Interesting is also the people that the account follows – Anja Rubik, Central St. Martins, Kanye West himself and Jean Touitou of A.P.C. The first three on the list are 100% involved in the brand, we did not know that Jean Touitou is involved. But it seems like he is involved in one way or another. Since there is no official website for the brand yet, this new Twitter account is probably the best way to keep up with everything new coming from the DW brand.

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Today reports have been released that Kanye West will be moving from Los Angeles to London soon, to take his fashion designer career more serious. After his fashion week debut in October 2011 with his first women’s runway collection, he wants to be closer to his co-designers and Central Saint Martin students helping out on the DW line.

One cannot exactly say that his fashion debut was an easy ride. Even though the who’s who of the international fashion world turned up at the show, critics were not very good. Knowing how ambitious Kanye is, he wants to ensure that that is not the case next time around. (Via Grazia)

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The Nike Air Yeezy 2 has not been released yet, and currently seems to have a March 2012 release date, yet Kanye West tweeted out late last night that he is already working on the Air Yeezy 3. It seems like the collaboration between the recording artist and the Swoosh is continuing. We will of course keep you posted.

A first more detailed look at the Nike Air Yeezy 2 is presented here.

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After numerous sightings of the upcoming Nike Air Yeezy 2 on Kanye West’s feet during the Watch The Throne tour, we now get a first more detailed look at the upcoming sneaker collaboration between Nike and Kanye West. With an estimated release date scheduled for early March 2012, you can expect the sneaker to come like last time it at least 2-3 colorways. With the following images you get a better understanding of the new design and choice of materials. If these are the final ones that will also release, we cannot confirm at this point.

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Canadian street style photographer Tommy Ton has produced the best images of Watch the Throne we’ve seen yet. Shot at Madison Square Garden over two nights, his photos of Kanye West and Jay-Z have just gone online at his personal blog JAK & JIL and are full of Givenchy, Jordans, Timbs and Air Yeezy 2s.

Photography: Tommy Ton (JAK & JIL)

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According to the @AirMag Twitter account, the Nike Air Yeezy 2 is dropping in just over 100 days, which pegs us at March 23, 2012. If you recall, the original Air Yeezys released in March, April and May 2009 respectively, so this countdown seems legit. Start saving.

NOTE: The @AirMag Twitter account is NOT affiliated with Nike, so this is only a rumor for now.

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Today VOYR published the second episode of their behind the scenes series of the Watch The Throne tour. In this second episode the tour stops in Chicago, Kanye’s home town. Kanye talks about school and he visits his old house and neighborhood together with Jay-Z.

The Chi von toobu13

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