Got Next:Jupiter Rising

They have that pop/soul type vibe going on & im diggin' it. I spotted them over at Nylon,visited their myspace & liked what I heard so I decided to do a post on them.

Growing up in Sacramento, he started out on saxophone at age 9. Spencer also took up beat-boxing, and loved underground hip-hop and club grooves. By the time he got to college, he’d shared stages with Busta Rhymes and The Clipse. Spencer started out studying International Business. But when he saw what Pharrell Williams had achieved with the boundary-pushing productions of the Neptunes, he decided to go for it.
Jessie Payo ran around the house singing show tunes and classic rock as a little girl in the Los Angeles area. But by the time she was 13, her natural talent was so pronounced she was fronting a band that went on to play the blues circuit for the next decade.
Momentum has been building around Jupiter Rising even since the group’s inception. The 2006 single “Go!” was a Billboard dance hit, and featured prominently in multiple movies and commercials, while their hit song “Electropop” has received over a million plays on MySpace. They have opened for The Black Eyed Peas and Lupe Fiasco, and their music has also popped up everywhere from sporting events to MTV’s Making the Band.


Here's the video for their single 'Falling Away'


Check out there live performance on Imeem


For more info check out there official site HERE.

Lloyd- I Can't Wait

Techtronic- Pump Up The Jam

I discovered this song in this compilation of 100 dances on a 100 songs by Ely Kim. Asians are badass!

BOOMBOX from

You- I Hate You

I HATE YOU! - YOU! from YOU! on Vimeo.

The only words that were going through my head while watching this video were, lol, wtf, weird, & dope! It's crazy as hell but I like it. It's got that Justice-Dance type vibe going on, minus the animations..

Kanye West- VH1 Storytellers mixtape

That was quick as hell! The show just ended about a hour ago. But this should be as dope as the show was! Check back for video footage of the event in case you missed it. It comes back on in about a hour..DOWNLOAD HERE

Kanye In Hollywood

And he's with that Amber chick again.Oh look they have matchin haircuts ^_^

Freeway & Jake One album coming this summer!

Don't really know too much about Jake but I know Free gets it in! I can honestly say that I'm looking forward to this album

R-Les gets Interviewed by Bossip

Bossip: So, tell me how you went from Harvard to the music industry.
Ryan Leslie: My parents are immigrants from the Caribbean Islands. My mother whom is Dutch, Chinese and African descent would meet my father who was born in Barbados and raised in Trinidad, and connect based on their love for music. Music is something that comes from my parents, but also from my parents comes a strong sense of education. Being, immigrants, they wanted to make sure that my sister and I had a fair shot at achieving the American dream, which would be to live our passions. They knew that education was an essential building block in the foundation of that pursuit. I was a precocious youngster, and was getting into a lot of trouble in school. Finally one of my teachers suggested that I go for testing. I tested into the talented, gifted program. Initially I wanted to be a doctor because I wanted my parents to be proud of me. As a kid (15) I tested out of high school. I applied to Harvard, Stanford and Yale. With great pride and honor my parents shipped me off as a teenager to Harvard.

Bossip: You were a pre-med major? When did you decide to do music?
Ryan Leslie: During that time I was introduced to the music of Stevie Wonder and was resolved to chase the contribution and the legacy. I called my father and said that I’ve found my calling in life and I’m switching majors, I’m no longer pre-med. I’m going to go to a humanities major which would allow me more time to focus on music. There was a studio in the basement of my dorm, and I taught myself to produce records. Four years later with three academic probation slaps on the wrist, I did graduate on time.

Bossip: When did you hook up with Diddy?
Ryan Leslie: Fast forward to 2003, after many thwarted attempts, and producing for independent acts, I started interning for a producer who introduced my music to Diddy. Diddy signed me on the spot after a chance meeting and hearing a record I produced for New Edition called “Hot Tonight”. All at once in 2003, my life changed. I was looking at six figure checks and was able to repay my father who invested some credit in my career. From 2003 to 2005, I was under the mentorship of Diddy. After a very fruitful relationship two year management with him, I signed my first artist to the Next Selection Imprint. Her name is Cassie. I wrote and produced our very first single, Me and You went on to write and produce her entire first album.

Bossip: Tell us about your album, Ryan Leslie.
Ryan Leslie: My cd is about six years in the making. After many delays, we’ve been able to come to an agreement. This album is a snapshot of my life. It’s self titled for the simple fact that if you know the name of album, you know the name of the singer, producer and background singer. When I would read the credits in the albums of people like Prince, James Brown and Stevie Wonder, I would see that it was written, arranged and produced by the artist. I wanted to make that type of contribution.

Bossip: What’s your genre?
Ryan Leslie: I find it challenging to categorize myself because I just do the music that I love, the music that inspires me. I wouldn’t personally categorize my music in any specific genre.

he's so articulate! I feel smarter now that I know he had a couple academic probation threats! lol Check out his unreleased track, 'One In A Million'

WE'RE GLOBAL!

I was just checking out this google analytics stuff that I added to the site and I just wanna let you all know that theunusualsuspects are officialy WORLDWIDE! Thats right, not only do we have about 200 regular followers in the U.S. but we've got 4 in France, 6 in Germany, and a diehard out there in the Netherlands...and thats just Europe! So we just wanna say thank you for your support! You know we're gonna keep bringing that hot ishhhh!

and a special HI HATER OVER TO YOU IN ATL!!!! lmfaoooooo

Jadakiss- Cant Stop Me

This is another video off of Jada's upcoming album The Last Kiss which drops March 10th.