Kanye West's "Glow In The Dark" book trailer

Books do indeed need promotion these days, their numbers are in decline. Literature isn't selling well, while celebrity books are outselling them by the truckload: this one is the latter.

So rather than a standard book signing for his book Glow In The Dark, this video trailer for Kanye's book surfaced yesterday on the internet, directed by Nabil Elderkin, who's photography features in the book.

It's not rare for books to have trailers, usually 30 second TV spots to fill up the late night advertising void on commercial television; Kanye's weighs in at just under five minutes!

KANYE WEST "Glow in the Dark" book promo from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.

A quick search of Amazon showed that it's been out since September though. Maybe the book isn't selling as well as they thought it might, and you need to have more than the world's biggest ego to make the bestsellers list?

If you want to cop the book then you can buy it here. Although, I'm really happy that you can buy it from Amazon, and I'mma let you finish, but Waterstones also should stock copies, because they're the best bookshop of all time!!

Oh Ye, O Ye, Kanye is the town fool on social networking sites

When the president of the United States calls you a jackass, you know you've messed up. This is presidential. This is Kanyegate!

So how Kanye must be feeling right now, I can't imagine! Since he jumped on stage at the VMAs to crash Taylor Swift's acceptance speech, fans and critics of the Louis Vuitton Don haven't reacted positively.

But the blogosphere has had a fantastic time tearing into the incident! Minutes after he made his stance on who the deserved best video award should go to, Twitter was set alight with negative tweets about his speech-crashing behaviour, and now everyone is in on the act, with "Kanye West" being a trending topic for the past few days.

Just a quick search for his name brings up results like:

@jwathen11280 "just heard that Kanye West plans on interrupting Patrick Swayze's funeral to inform everyone that Michael Jackson's funeral was better."
@thelastshow "Kanye West is talented & his music deserves to be acknowledged with awards, but his bad behavior merits #BanKanye at awards shows for 1 year"
@mathis86 "just voted "Yes, hence the crop circles on his head." on "Is Kanye West an Alien?" vote too ➔ http://bit.ly/1xQZFw"
@smokeymtnpowder "Watching this kanye west video on youtube...he must be needing a paycheck pretty bad."
@toomuchflavour: "I was going to update my Twitter, but Kanye West interrupted me and told me that FriendFeed was better..." (haven't a clue how this comment made it in...

Ouch. Guess people are poking fun quite a bit, right?

Then check out the picture website Immaletyoufinish.com's take on it, posting loads of badly photoshopped images of Kanye pasted on famous photos and film and TV moments:



But best YET has to be this video to the tune of Heartless from his recent 808s and Heartbreak album. We're sure this will fast become a top YouTube hit:



Make the most of the satire while you can, people will get sick of it pretty soon!

"It's the real... hip hop! Gangstarr's GURU at King Apparel store, London

It's the most authentic hip hop clothes shop in Covent Garden (maybe) that reigns supreme (ahem) with its line up of hip hop stars coming in to perform. King Apparel, the short term 'pop-up store' (once they're gone, they're gone!) always does stuff big, even if its premises has limited space and has to spill out on to the street.

Wednesday evening saw 50% of the legendary hip hop due Gangstarr hit up the store to promote his new album, Lost and Found 8.0.

As forecast, the store was packed with fans coming for Guru's performance and album signing with the occasional passer by on the street seeing what all the racket was about.

They who ventured in were probably happy to know that all drinks were free thanks to the gig being sponsored by Tequila Arette, including hundreds of ice cold cocktails being poured... and lots of return visits to the drinks counter!


In fact, with all the people crammed in to the store there was hardly any space to move without spilling your drink, but within the tightly packed space, Guru and Solar managed to find the space to perform a few songs, including the classic You Know My Steez, short cuts from Lost and Found 8.0 and a few freestyles too before heading to the basement to sign copies of the new abum.

I managed to film the performances, although with only a humble camera phone at hand the volume of the speakers caused sound muffling. Sorry.


Fear not though, for if you missed it there were plenty photos taken. Keep your eye on the King Apparel Facebook group for when they emerge.

In the mean time you can sample the new album below:



Guru and Solar's website is http://www.7grandweshare.com/