Microsoft + Common = SOFTWEAR

Microsoft has teamed up with hip-hop legend, Common, on a line of clothes called Softwear. It launch in Cali earlier this month. No word on where to buy or what retail prices will be. (Got this from raysbleujuice, thanks Ray)

TUNE IN: Q-Tip Concert with Janelle Monae and The Cool Kids

First and foremost, WOW! I love all of these artist and they were in concert together, lets hope they tour. Q-tip is pretty much as close as you're gonna get to OG hip-hop these days, he's a classic. Janelle Monae is a newly signed artist to Bad Boy records, I consider her to be a female Andre 3000, but this girl has vocals for days, she can SANG! The Cool Kids are kinda new to the hip-hop scene, but they have an old school vibe that just rocks (I featured them on my blog before). Check the vid from studio43:


Q Tip Concert Featuring Janelle Monae & The Cool Kids from KENNY BURNS on Vimeo.

GUT BUSTER: Beyonce "Single Ladies" x SNL (Saturday Night Live)

Beyonce "Single Ladies", Saturday Night Live parody.

Bee skit @ (Nov 15 2008)
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FRESH LOOK: Original Fake Footwear x Commonwealth

Original Fake is putting in work. Kaws, innovative genius behind original fake, has teamed up and dropped a line of shoe wear and they're truly eye catching (if I do say so myself). They are like hospital socks meets bed slipper meets sneaker. Here's what Commonwealth has to say:

"New Jersey's own, Kaws, has teamed up with Medicom Japan to form a new joint venture: Original Fake. The world renowned artist has gained international acclaim from the street scene and art world for his bus stop posters, and billboards in the late 90's to his paintings of reworked iconic pop culture cartoons."

Commonwealth VA x Clipse

Commonwealth in VA is hosting the "Play Cloths" event with a guest appearance from the Clipse. Here is the flyer:



will you be attending? (I know I will be)

Artist Spotlight: The Cool Kids

You can't really consider yourself to be a modern day hip-hop head if you don't know The Cool Kids. These midwest natives who met on myspace have been in commercials, opens concerts, and most recently have been touring with Ryan Leslie, Tyga, and Shwayze as headliners on The New Skool Music Concert. They have a new single, "Delivery Man" which can be downloaded off http://greenlabelsound.com

Had the pleasure of hearing them live and it rocked. They have another cd coming out and they played some tracks off it. It will be dope.

Check out this artwork of them (song titled "Black Mags"):

Tech: Giorgio Armani x Samsung

The Samsung P520 Armani phone has been officially unveiled during the Giorgio Armani fashion show. The Samsung SGH-P520 is a sexy looking device and of which gets rid of that boring old conventional keypad. The Samsung P520 Georgio Armani is a credit-card-sized touchscreen handset with a 3 megapixel camera.

It has a full touch activated interface and a QVGA touch-sensitive display in 320 x 240 pixels, capable of showing 262K colours. Samsungs P520 uses a microSD memory card slot on top of the 50 MB of internal memory.

Battery life is good for such a slim handset (only 8.9mm thick) with 6 hours of talk time. Bluetooth connectivity is provided along with the A2DP stereo option and


The phone comes with J2ME™ games already embedded and it is possible for the user to download many games from the Internet. The user can stay in contact with friends, family and business colleagues by creating either a SMS text message, email or MMS multimedia message. The MMS message allows the user to share photos and video with other MMS contacts.