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Chris Brown  hit the  Pink + Dolphin  store in Los Angeles Wednesday (Nov. 7), to celebrate his "Black Pyramid" collaboration with the company. Breezy was on had to greet fans, sign merchandise, and speak on the limited edition fashions, alongside Pink +Dolphin founders  Neima Khalia , and  Cena Berhaghi .  According to Brown, he felt that working with the brand was the right decision based on the respect that he has for their fashion movement, which continues to grow. Inspired by his own artistic talents, Brown came up with the name "Black Pyramid" feeling that no one in his generation has ever mastered the art of making a perfect pyramid. Fans of Brown's work can pick up the designs at www.pinkdolphineonline.com The 23-year-old has been spreading his creative wings a lot these days. His latest album  Fortune  dropped in July, and Brown plans to embark on a world tour which he promises will push  performance and visual boundaries . ...

Outkast ... The boys are back IT’S been three years since OutKast gave us their 11-times platinum selling album Speakerboxx/The Love Below. The duo — André 3000 and Big Boi — have notched up an awesome six multi-platinum albums in their career so far. Now they’re back with an album  AND  their first Hollywood film. Idlewild — no, nothing to do with the dreary Scots band — tells the story of lifelong friends, mortician’s son Percival (André) and bootlegger Rooster (Big Boi). The album shares the name. SFTW met up with the Atlanta duo at The Metropole on Park Lane, where they’re recovering from too much absinthe and vowing “never again”. That is until Axl Rose invites them to join him at his party. Read on about Idlewild, those rumours that they don’t get on — and what the future holds for OutKast ... You launched the album at a party on the London Eye. How was it? André:  Oh man that was good! It was the first time we’d been on The Eye. We h...

by  KEVIN  on  NOVEMBER 14, 2012 Here’s the first leak from Wale’s upcoming mixtape, Folarin, dropping December 24th. “Freedom of Speech” produced by No Credit. DOWNLOAD

NOVEMBER 14, 2012  BY  JD  IN  VIDEO  WITH  0 COMMENTS AND 0 REACTIONS Cinematic TV & Ecko Unltd presents another episode of “Ecko Studio Sessions” with Trinidad James. After catching a crazy internet wave, the “All Gold Everything” rapper rolls thru to the studio and recorded some tracks & handled some business while New York City including performing at some the Fools Gold CMJ Showcase.

NOVEMBER 14, 2012   BY   JD   IN   MUSIC   WITH   0 COMMENTS AND 0 REACTIONS I actually thought that the version that was released was the CD-Quality version, but Def Jam just sent through this mastered single. Big Boi’s album drops in a month. You already know it’ll be packed with heat.

NOVEMBER 14, 2012   BY   JD   IN   INTERVIEW   Looks like the Wall Street Journal couldn’t get Andre 3000 to budge on the future of Outkast: “I really can’t say. I don’t know what the future holds for OutKast don’t know, I really don’t know.” Andre 3000 tells  WSJ Update: NEW YORK —  In order to capture his best version of Jimi Hendrix for an upcoming biopic, Andre 3000 said he had to think of him as a regular dude and not a rock star. "I didn't look at him as an icon because when you're in it, you don't know you're an icon. You don't know you're an icon until another people say you're an icon," the 37-year-old said in an interview Tuesday. "So I had to take it as a person, you know what I mean? And I just tried to say, `Well, what would Jimi want people to know that they can't get off of YouTube?' And that's how I approached it," he said. Hendrix died at age 27 in 1970. He was ranked No. 1 on Roll...