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GEORGE CONDO VS. KANYE WEST

New York Magazine caught up with the illustrious George Condo following all the talk surrounding his work for Kanye West and his new album. Condo reveals “he was new to me.” “I was very old school rap, you know what I mean?” While preparing for a retrospective at the New Museum, Condo, who created five pieces of work for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy discusses Macbeth, ballerinas, and how he and West might have a few surprises up their sleeves.



Head with sword

“I really like that idea of a Shakespearian thing,” West told Condo about this painting of a severed head wearing a crown. The piece’s two contrasting styles — “cubism and classicism forged together in a single painting” — dovetail, Condo says, with West’s music, with its “layers of different styles happening simultaneously.” What did Kanye see in the picture that made him like it? “His tragedy was a kind of exile that Kanye imposed upon himself,” Condo says. “He was free from exile by having the cathartic moment in the image. He’s alive in the painting, you know what I mean? In a strange way it’s like, he opened his eyes.”



Ballerina

Condo remembers that West came to his studio between eight and ten times over the course of the summer. The ballerina — a concept that later worked its way into West’s “Runaway” film and performance at the VMAs — came from one of those visits. “We were hanging around one night, and we were listening to that tune ‘Runaway,’” Condo recalls, when his wife, Anna, showed West a a shot of French dancer Sylvie Guillem moving in slow motion. “And somehow Kanye grabbed onto that idea of the ballerina,” Condo explains. “He just said, ‘Hey man, I’d like to have a great ballerina painting.’ I thought of a ballerina toasting. You know, ‘let’s toast to the scumbags.’”



Naked sphinx straddling Kanye

“That’s a good painting,” Condo says matter-of-factly. “She’s a kind of fragment, between a sphinx, a phoenix, a haunting ghost, a harpy. And then Kanye is also in some sort of strange 1970s burned-out back room of a Chicago blues club having a beer — so far away from the real Kanye West that it’s just a scream.” In painting Kanye in such an outrageous situation, Condo says, “I was challenging him with the imagery as well. He said, ‘I’m shocked, but I like it, and I gotta go with my gut feeling.’” This cover’s already been banned by Wal-Mart and Apple’s iTunes Music Store, much to Condo’s disgust. “The superimposition of people’s perceptions on a cartoon is shocking,” Condo scoffs. “What’s happening in their minds should be banned. Not the painting.”

Source – Slamxhype

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RIHANNA - LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE (PT. 2)

You know a song has done well when the fans demand a sequel. On Nov. 3, Eminem and Rihanna's follow-up to their smash hit "Love the Way You Lie" leaked to the web, and now you can take a listen right here. The first song was on Eminem's album, "Recovery," and this second version can be found on Rihanna's upcoming "Loud."

His part is much less prominent in this version, as she sings an ode to the man who abused her in the first song: "But you'll always be my hero, even though you've lost your mind," the song goes.

Eminem's verse kicks up the violence. "I'm so lost, hug me/Then tell me how ugly I am, but that you'll always love me/Then after that, shove me," he raps.

Rihanna's album drops on Nov. 16. Will you be picking up a copy?

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