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Kanye Zone is the best Watch the Throne -themed, HTML5-based, interactive Kanye West game online. It's the best because it's the only game I've found that fits all these criteria. Kanye Zone was created by my coworker Stephen Barlow and his roommate Michael Frederickson as a fun project to use HTML5. It was released today for the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco. The game is based on Kanye West and Jay-Z's #1 Billboard hit Ni**as in Paris . It features 10 seconds of audio from the end of the song repeating where Kanye West says "Don't let me get into my zone." Kanye's head randomly floats on the screen, and you have to move a blue bumper pushing the left and right arrow keys to keep Kanye from entering his Zone. If he gets into his Zone, Jay-Z joins him and a You Lose sign flashes on the screen. Pressing Return gives you another shot at playing the game. The more times you bump Kanye's head with the blue bumper, the more mo...

Zach Galifianakis made this funny video to "Can't Tell Me Nothing" by Kanye West. This is the best quality video on YouTube:

Innovative hip hop video filmed in 1 take: Nyle "Let The Beat Build" from Nyle on Vimeo .

At $399, Auto-Tune is an expensive software program, but essential for higher-level music production and editing. I currently use my two turntables and mixer, which I purchased years ago from a friend for $100. On my computer, I mainly use free audio editing software like Audacity and Garage Band. While a great deal for being free, I'm ready to take sound design to the next level, ready to purchase the pitch-perfecting software which has made T-Pain's career , and I need your help to do it. Please follow the Pay Pal link below to donate to The Help DJ Matt Werner Buy Auto-Tune Fund. (Please note that The Help DJ Matt Werner Buy Auto-Tune Fund is not a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit, donations are not tax-deductible, and the donations will be used by DJ Matt Werner to buy Auto-Tune). Thank you! Matt

Here's a mix I made of hip hop music mixed to Obama's first Inaugural Address. Part I: Part II:

For those of you who wondered what Robert F. Kennedy would sound like mixed with Kanye West, you're in for a treat. I just posted this mashup of RFK's historic "Day of Affirmation" speech at the University of Cape Town, South Africa on June 6th, 1966. Excerpts of Kennedy's speech are mixed with "Amazing" by Kanye West, feat. Young Jeezy. The full text of RFK's speech in Apartheid South Africa can be found at http://www.rfksa.org/