What a Time to Be Alive: Kanye Unleashes Jimmy Fallon & The Roots-referencing "FACTS" ahead of New Year's Eve 2015-16 (G.O.O.D. Music)

"The "Wolves" song came from a conversation that me and Drake had, where we was going to do an album together and the album was called Wolves... me and Jay [started] talking about Watch The Throne, then Drake went and did all the records with [Lil'] Wayne and did the tour," Kanye unexpectedly revealed to The Breakfast Club radio host and one-time Catfish co-detective Charlamagne The God last February on the heels of his spirited SNL 40 medley. Lest we forget that Kanye once produced Drake's 808's & Heartbreak-reminiscent "Find Your Love;" making Kanye's recent "Yeezy, Yeezy, Yeezy, just jumped over Jumpman" What a Time to Be Alive interpolation and apparent Drake diss all the more perplexing. Not entirely unlike Paul McCartney-assisted "Only One" released over New Year's Eve 2014-15, "FACTS" was quietly uploaded to Soundcloud mere hours ahead of this year's annual New Year's festivities. Metro Boomin & Southside-produced "FACTS" likely stems from the same sessions that previously yielded "All Day," "FourFiveSeconds," "Only One," and the aforementioned Sia & Vic Mensa-assisted "Wolves," which will apparently all re-appear within Kanye's long-rumored Yeezus (2013) follow-up SWISH; having been described as "cookout music that feels good," even likened to the Nebraska to his Born In The USA, and "about embracing the music and embracing joy and [the] joy of being of the service to the people."

"I stuck to my roots, I'm like Jimmy Fallon / I ain't dropped the album, but the shoes went platinum," Kanye ferociously rhymes on "FACTS" making a clever allusion to Jimmy Fallon's Philly-bred Late Night & Tonight Show house band, The Legendary Hard-workin' Roots Crew. Throughout the nearly four-minute duration of "FACTS," Mr. West effortlessly manages to make similar-minded witty allusions to Bill Cosby's recent arrest and countless assault charges, Steve Harvey's December 20th Miss Universe-crowning announcement debacle, his wife Kim Kardashian-West's newly-launched custom Kimojis, and his previous Yeezy negotiations with with Nike: "Nike, Nike treat employees just like slaves." Metro Boomin & Southside chose a particularly menacing, lurching into and outro sample lifted from Funk-Soul group Father's Children's 2011 Numero Group album WHO'S GONNA SAVE THE WORLD? that goes a little something like, "Dirt and grime and filth inside. The story of my lifetime... of cheating, stealing, never feeling. Pain of a brother, your dirty mother. Ha, ha, ha... look how far we are. (Perfect!)" "I haven't worked on it at all, but everything I've heard is phenomenal and it has nothing to do with any of the other records that were released before," newly-elected G.O.O.D. Music President Pusha T recently gushed to Rolling Stone concerning Kanye's tentatively-titled SWISH, which is rumored to be nearly 80% completed. "That's all I can really say about it. He's super meticulous about the messaging about his album but you guys are in for a treat."

"Let Me Shine for You:" Lindsay Lohan for Playboy (Winter 2011-12 Leak)

Lindsay Lohan essentially embodies exactly "What NOT to Do In Hollywood :" Fame, fortune, success... sex, drugs & Rock "N" Roll . Within a fairly short period of time, Lohan somehow managed to obtain a plentiful helping of POWER @ a very young age. This gradual rise-downfall was captured on film; Between 1998-2010, she portrayed a wide array of roles across the silver screen in movies including: Mean Girls, Bobby , Herbie Fully Loaded , Georgia Rule, Machete , and Freaky Friday . Between rapid-paced film shoots, Lindsay Lohan also found time to record 2 Pop Rock albums for Casablanca , Speak (2004) and A Litter More Personal-Raw (2005). Needless to say, Lindsay Lohan has gotten roped up in a lot of troubles and woes with the law over the last 3-5 years... a vicious cycle of drugs, arrest, court, rehab, "daddy issues," jail time [Repeat]. That's the pure basics of it - But Google that shit for additional info, if necessary. Towards the end of...

[W]reckless, Topless American Youth: Lana del Rey - "Born 2 Die" (Britney Spears Birthday 30)

Lana del Rey [Lizzy Grant] effectively became 2011's "It Girl" with the release of her phenomenal debut single, "Video Games" (Stranger) . Like many struggling singer-songwriters, Grant has been signed, dropped, and significantly changed her public image since bursting onto the scene (2009). With that said, it can be assumed that Lana del Rey has collected just as many "haters" as she has avid supporters. To be perfectly honest, the only other artist I can think of that made this much commotion... garnered so much wide-spread buzz/hate and critical acclaim -- right out of the gates -- with just one track is Britney Spears . And maybe in this post- Mike musical era, that's the true synthesis of Pop Culture: Britney Lynn Spears . After months of repeated teasing and speculation, Lana del Rey 's major label debut, Born 2 Die will [finally] be released this coming Jan. 30-31, 2012. Pitchfork reports that it will feature "Off to The Ra...

Liberty Bell Cracked In 1/2: Ween - "Freedom of '76" (Gene Ween's Final Send-Off)

Chocolate & Cheese (1994) was one of the first albums I bought with my own money. I was in some sort of BMG Music Club , where you'd buy 5 CD's and then get 10 for "FREE." It was all sent through mail order and you picked the titles from some special booklet. I'm almost positive that Chocolate & Cheese's side boob-baring album cover was what initially drew me in... mind you, I was 12-15 and the zany Ween logo/middle finger CD graphic really didn't hurt either. Honestly, I forget how I really felt about it @ the time, but a few years later, my older cousin Josh told me that Ween were this BIG college "jam band." CKY did some sort pf 93.3 radio takeover to promote their new album and played "Freedom of '76" late that night on air. Needless to say, I re-visited Chocolate & Cheese @ about 20-something this go 'round and I fucking loved it! Ween were really weird, yet talented... almost too talented. I can vaguel...

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