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Mikkey Halsted : The Uncrowned King
Chicago Il
“"I don’t feel like there’s anybody that can f*ck with me, line for line bar for bar, concept for concept" ”
Defsounds explored deep into the hip hop world in the city of Chicago, and was introduced to an artist that showcased incredible talent and determination not seen in the game since the, "Golden Era". We present Mikkey Halsted, and give you intimate details of his journey, dealings with Cash Money, wrong decisions with Kanye West, and display his swag and samples of his work that will only promise success.
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shit is hott
not bad at all....outside the box music.... myspace.com/3rdflow
Definitely feelin' this. Totally different. Kanye is always so creative. And his performances are always tight.
Nice work!
man kanye a smart man,old saying "strike while the iron is hot",hes got such a buzz around him now that it would only be dumb not to drop n album,thats wat i think hip hop artist should start looking at doing,instead of waiting another 2-3yr,unless your dr dre 9yrs minimum
well i couldnt disagree with you more kayare.. DONT oversaturate the market with a bunch of music all of a sudden just cuz u have a "buzz"... not 'strike while the iron is hot'.. "but familiarity breeds contempt"... and im a HUGE kanye fan.. but look at a rapper like DMX.. he put out a ton of music in such a short timeframe and he burned his whole flame up quickly... let us absorb your work, before you pile more on. take outkast for example..they dont rush anything..they put out an album, let fans take it all in, explore it, and appreciate it for what it is, ART... they could surely pump out albums back to back to back...but theyre more concerned with creating great music, great art..and not strictly all about cashing in quickly on a short term buzz.. which is the prototype for 95% of modern hip hop artists... when you put out multiple albums so quickly it leads REAL HEADS to grasp onto the fact that you dont put much INTO the albums..i.e. no substance, disposable trash. kanye will always get by on the strength of his overwhelming talent... but lesser 'rap acts' dont have that same luxury..so yes, they do have cash in on their buzz..cuz its usually short lived... but this all goes back to main point that most hip hop artists simply have no talent to begin with... theyre shiny glossy IMAGES sold to the ignorant..sucked of all their life & earning capacity..then disposed of... oh yea, i really like this song haha
good point tits
eatingretards thats a good point you made,but what i should have said that not all artist could do that,wat i was trying to say it that kanye at the moment is proabably at the hight of his career,his album which is about a yr old now is still getting radio plays,plus hes a had few other hit singles hes been on,so hes come off the back of a highly succesfull cd and tour(glow in the dark).so there is so much interest and demand for kanye at the moment,that if he was to wait another yr or something i dont think it would sell as good,as too if he drops something now hell breeze past fifty n all them other artist dropping this yr in records sales,so i do agree with your point and wat i should have done is directed it more towards kanye then all artist.but kanye aint no shiny ignorant rapper hes doing something different and i think he can pull this stuf off.
hell yea ye always steppin his game up. he can actually pull off the singing n vocoder shit unlike wayne. wish i could hear the sexy ass beat better tho im sure thats some fucking fire there
TIS SHIT IS RAW
Get em Ye. Song/performance was hott. Between Ye, Hov, TI, and Luda its gonna be a hot Q4.
He look like him wearing a neyo get up outfit
IIght joke this is fucking rediculous... how the hell you get the vid already b??
dope kanye like one of the sickest performer i ever seen in person... he's truly an artist, and notice i say artist and not a rapper
i got nothing against kanye but the outfit makes him look like a black peewee herman......
lol at black peewee herman....funny
son u so true on that note son^^
thats why he making it farther than these other artists
sometimes u gotta rap and sometimes u gotta sing to get yo point across
and fortunately it worked on this trck
co sign~
thats why he world wide, he decided he wanted to be a performer and not just a rapper, which means he'll be around alot longer...honestly i sometimes forget he was just a producer @ one time!!
matter fact i was thinkin da same thang
how da hell u get dis vid already & it was shot an
hour ago lol?
wit good ass quality 2
juss thought I should point dat out
I liked the song, but have any of you cats ever heard of "TV on the Radio"....I feel like Kanye stole their steez on this one..I fucks with the track though.
Good job defsounds on getting this. That was clearly the best performance of the night there at the VMAs. Not to mention he saved the VMAs thanks to his performance.
i guess rappers dont wanna rap anymore but that being said i guess the little light show was nice.
he's an ARTIST. thats a little beyond a rapper...
Gotta love Kanye's creativity.. every album he comes with something a bit more abstract and it keeps hitting. Love Lockdown is ill..
Song is kinda cool, but seein' Ye up there singin' had me laughin hysterically, especially when he hits the chorus. Man, I done watched this shit 3 times already and it just gets funnier. Weird thing is, I'll be one of the 1st cats knockin' the new album, even though he's singin' on the entire thing. Go 'Ye.
THIZ IZ STRAIT HE GONNA HAVE DA WHOLE WORLD ROCKIN WIT HIM ON THIZ 1 THIZ SOUND LIKE SUMTHIN U HEAR N JAPAN BUT ANYWAYZ KANYE NEVA CEASE 2 AMAZE ME
this vocoder is gettin like that choped and screwd was back in the day everyone fuckin on it now still a nice track tho kanye is one of the best ya digggggggg
man this shit is fuckin hot!!!!...i was jus losin faith in kanye after dat mediocre performance on swagger like us...but this SHIT RITE HERE NIGGA!!! THIS SHIT RITE HERE!!!...this is gon be an international banger....who said hip-hop was dead???
Not to be the "hater" but i really wasnt feeling this at all. The performance wasnt all that and the song was just ok. Sure im gonna get trashed for having my own opinion but whatever
This was a HOT track, cant wait for the CDQ version.
This was a HOT track, cant wait for the CDQ version.
i personally like this song....and just cuz you cant dance your ass off to this doesnt mean its a bad performance....and yall sayin its horrible maybe its cuz you dont grow....artists put there feelings and emotions into some songs and artists grow as well this kanye is different form the 1st kanye we seen (through the wire) its becuase he is growing....jay grew....eminem grew.....50cent is growing hopefully....
I don't like Auto-Tune Yeezy...BUT! i'll be bumping this.. I just miss "The College Drop Out" Kanye...No Homo
im liking this alot...The Performance was bananas
I wanna see real singers.. Its like cheatin on a test using the auto tune. Its giving people who cant sing a unfair advantage while real artists aint getting shine.. Some one needs to slap some sense into these cheater.. Real Hip Hop please people...
cosign your a rapper, RAP
STADIUM STATUS
damn, kanye has come a long way, i remember when he was talib kweli's hype man
wizewun u sayin that off one song of da cd i bet if kanye and jay drop da same day he will keep up wit jay z in sales but at da end jigga will come out wit more im callin that this new kaney will be straight fire like his 1st and 3d cd i wasnt feelin da 2nd one tho it had like 4 or 5 good songs
I didn't like that 2nd joint either. But, I didn't think he offered much lyrically on his 3rd one either, but the production made up for it. Kanye has gotten way to pop for me; he ain't marketing to me or any of you anymore so I don't see why u mothaphuckas are so upset
At this point, Kanye will outsell Jay, EASY. Kanye, Wayne 50, and T.I.(forgot Em because of his broad fanbase) are the only hip hop cats who are a threat to do a mil in a week. Jay is consistent but he doesen't do those kinds of numbers anymore. Kanye has more of a pop following which provides massive sales.
His new nick name from ya boi iz "Kanye all day" Uck the roc....Chi in da buildin !
This is White Girl Music..
where the real 'Ye go? i guess it "all falls down".
he's being creative, unlike your favorite rapper, that only raps about cars drugs and women, chi town stand up!!!!!
he gets props for doing something different in hip-hop. bruthas kill me acting like artists need to stay within their box. that's why a lot of rappers are irrelevant and show absolutely no growth. most rappers been in the business 10 yrs and still talking about the same shit??? really? kanye gets props for stealing that boring ass show with the simpliest of performances. the lyrics were really on point if you listened without prejudice. but since he's not talking about murder, sex, kill....it's bullshit? lol, how relevant are we for doing anything aside for giving props to someone staying true to their own vision?
Very very creative and different, and yes it does grow on you but I just can't consider Kanye just someone in hip hop so great, maybe in this new hip hop but not in the great era of hip hop with Big, Pac, Eminem, Dre, early 50, Jay-Z, when they did somethin everybody had 2 hear it but Kanye is just GOOD and that's it, He don't have wat them otha rappers have he don't have the formula
Kanye West using a vocoder making a song for the bitches....
RADIO PLAY
Bottom line
well at the end of the day hes just trying to get paid...
this shit was straight tho 7/10.
This is the Shit that makes Rap, Hip hopp or whatever u wanna call it, Widen it's Lane, n allow artist 2 b just that ARTIST!!! Eveery 1 on here who dissin, say n Kanye, this the song was that, is, well, sitting on there ass at home!! what the hell r u makin??? shut the hell up!! everybody not locked up, Gutter, Dope dealers, or what ever u think real rap is, oh by the way, b 4 u get upset, I do make music n im black bn black, bn n the hood up town down town and everywhere else n i didnt change, so big up to Kanye, n u haters!!! he sayin im noot like u, thats y i did it, cause im me!!! n thats real HIP HOP!!!! oh yeah shut the F up!!! love Lockdown is The Shit, i dodnt care if he sang or snapped his fingers, it was still doper than any singer that u ever saaW!!!
!!!!oh yeah shut the fuck up!!!
hard azz shyt!
this nigga wants to b lenny kravitz i swear
Naw not Lenny Kravitz bring out that Phil Collins sound and I line Phil Collins so eat one haters
*love* Phil Collins music
that was hott. kanye came correct with an outa the box idea but.. like most thangs kanye.. it worked. anybody know what the new ep/lp/cd is called?
...or the difference btwn an ep lp nd cd?
so when Kayne start singin its hot? yall some ole double standard ass niggas....bet if Wayne did this same song, yall would have every negative in the world about it...
this shit is not hot
well you see, the difference is.. this is creative.
Wayne.. is not. not mostly, anyway.
SONG IS FUCKIN AMAZING...... THAT NIGGA NEEDED A FUCKIN HAIRCUT THO
TO UNDERSTAND A GUY LIKE KANYE IS PLAIN AND SIMPLE. HE IS PLATINUM STATUS FOR A REASON. HIS MUSIC IS ON A DIFFERENT LEVEL WEATHER HE CAN RAP OR NOT BUT HE PULLS IT OFF. HE'S DIFFERENT AND THAT'S WHY HE HAD TO DO A TRACK LIKE "CAN'T TELL ME NOTHING" BECAUSE NOBODY CAN. HE WILL DRESS HOW HE WANTS AND WHAT HE IS COMFORTABLE WITH REGARDLESS OF WHAT ANY HATER THINKS. FROM WHEN YOU GET A DEAL WITH "LV" THEN LET HIM HANDLE HIS BUSINESS.
THE TRACK HE PERFORMED AT THE VMA'S IS FUCKING DOPE, THE BASS LINE IS SCREAMING IN THAT TRACK AND HE SHOWED SOMETHING DIFFERENT ON IT....."THE VOCODER".....LOL
WE ARE NOT GETTING AWAY FROM THAT SOUND...LOL.
FUCKIN AMAZING BOW DOWN TO HIP HOP
yo put this version on ur album kanye!!! the studio version sucksssssssss
This song is awesome. Looking forward to the next single.
WAT THE FUCK kanye bra trust me i met you at a concert my cuzin slept on your lap bra stop fuckin singing bra stick to rapping this shit is fucking awful please trash my sjit it is awful
he and t-pain master that vocoder
wayne is gettin there
but the song is hot
BIG TUNE!!!!!!!
It's a unique song and definitly outside the box but I heard the studio recorded version and it isn't as good as his live performance. I wish Ye would leave that voicecorder alone and and let T-Pain and Wezy Have it.
This song is about as HOMO as ever. I doubt he has the same fan base as he did when he dropped "college dropout" or "Late registration", what happen to that Kanye or is this him minus all the ghostwriting? HUH! Since LUPE, Consequence, and Rhymefest dropped albums ,Kanye as been more POP then ever cause you can't tell me this is hip-hop.
ok honest opinion and i dont give a fu** if you trash me.. Its cool that he treid that vocoder(auto-tune whatever) sh** but damn, get someone that can actually sing do the song.. he still produced it so its still a banger. Im just getting tired of everyone using that sh**. The lyrics is hot its just give the people who can really sing a chance to kill it. Next thing we gonna have DMX or Rick Ross or Bun B singing using that sh**. I'm not a kanye hater by far and like I said the song is crack but listen to the real version it could of been better with somone that could really sing. No hate at all he still my dude ya know.