Playlistings 10: The END

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I’m overcome with great sadness to announce that this will be the final Playlistings mixtape to release. Some of you may have noticed that past links have been removed by the RIAA because of copyright infringements. Although the VivdUnderground and the DKALife attempt to bring you each day’s newest worry-free tracks that circumnavigate the globe within seconds each day in a legal manner, we can’t guarantee that each track doesn’t slip through the cracks and somehow inevitably prevents a multi-millionaire from making that down payment on a Bentley covered in gold. Despite coming under fire from an organization that reminds me of the last few hours of a horrible episode of diarrhea (the aforementioned R.I.A.A. for the slow kids in class); Playlistings Volume 10 drops in a very pissed off fashion. Eat it up world, because apparently T-Pain has another BIG ASS CHAIN to buy.

The AWESOME tracklist emerges from the pile of shit surrounding your boy here, nothing new.

Kanye West . Looking For Trouble (Feat. Pusha T, CyHi The Prynce, Big Sean & J. Cole)
Lupe Fiasco . Show Goes On
Lil Wayne . 30 Minutes To New Orleans
J. Cole . I’m Coming Home
Los . Incredible (Feat. Carmen)
Wiz Khalifa . Stuntin’
Nelly . Go (Feat. Talib Kweli & Ali)
Kid Cudi . Maybe
Kinetics . Sign Language (Feat. One Love & Wynter Gordon)
T.I. . Dying In Your Arms (Feat. Jazmine Sullivan)
Kid Ink . Double Take (Feat. Bei Maejor)
J. Cole . Home For The Holidays
Lil Wayne . Fire Flame [RMX] (Feat. Birdman)
Sam Adams . Lion’s Den
Kanye West . Chain Heavy (Feat. Talib Kweli & Consequence)
The Cool Kids . Big Talk
Wiz Khalifa . Huey Newton (Feat. Curren$y)
Los . Cuttin’ Up (Feat. Courtney Owens)

Download now before it gets covered in shit.

Gracefully and respectfully yours,

Bendey

 

Playlistings Vol. 9

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Just as the beautiful fury (a.k.a. Autumn) begins it’s annual decay, Playlistings 9 drops in appropriate fashion. Soak in the color while it lasts friends, because I have a feeling the most fun we’ll soon be having outdoors exists only while writing our names in the snow.

Break out the hoodies and hand warmers. Hold on tight.

Tracklist:

1   Joe Budden – Inception
2   Sterling Simms – All These (Feat. Kid Ink)
3   Rihanna – What’s My Name? (Feat. Drake)
4   Kanye West – Dark Fantasy
5   Kid Cudi – Maniac (Feat. Cage)
6   Petey Pablo – Down Here (Feat. Lil Wayne & Rick Ross)
7   La Roux – In For The Kill [RMX] (Feat. Kanye West)
8   Wiz Khalifa – Know Your Name
9   Nelly – Long Gone (Feat. Chris Brown & Plies)
10   Jamie Foxx – Living Better Now (Feat. Rick Ross)
11   Chiddy Bang – Young Blood [RMX]
12   J.Cole – I’m On It
13   UNKLE – The Runaway (Feat. Lupe Fiasco)
14   Kanye West – Don’t Look Down (Feat. Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco & Big Sean)
15   Wiz Khalifa – In My Car [Tha Puff Bus]
16   Tabi Bonney – Make A Killin’ (Feat. Clipse)
17   MIMS – Winter Is My Summer (Feat. Gudda Gudda)
18   Nikki & Rich – City Lights (Feat. Fabolous)
19   Kanye West – Take One For The Team (Feat. Keri Hilson, Pusha T & Cyhi The Prince)
20   T.I. – Get Back Up (Feat. Chris Brown)
21   Loggy – Free To Be [RMX] (Feat. Philip Michael & Akon)

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–Bendey

Sketch of Voronoi

Not sure about anyone else, but I could spend an entire day playing with this…

Sketch of Voronoi

–Bendey

MSU Snowboard Club Goes Underground

Finally.

For those of you who don’t know, I’m an avid shredder upon the ol’ snowboard and naturally I had to jump on MSU’s 2010 Club shirts, not just because I love snowboarding, but because I knew it would be an awesome project.

My fellow shredder and good buddy, Chad, threw the project at me a few weeks ago…shit took off like a storm. A blizzard actually.  Despite me being physically deprived of internet for almost a month, Chad and I were able to make ends meet and help this season’s MSU SBC club shirts become something to reckon with. Props to Nathan Urban for providing some reverse side graphic genius.

A HUGE shoutout to Chad, Nathan, and the entire MSU SBC family, ya’ll are too much! Good luck on an awesome year, Park City is going to shit their snowpants.

Want one? Get at me:

–Bendey

Playlistings: Vol. 5

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Volume 5 is released despite things heating up down in Chicago and Miami. The DKA Life will be squeezing the work in between medical classes from now on, while The Vivid Underground is busy earning those dead presidents. This Playlistings edition has got a bit of everything; reggae, remixes, R with-a-little-bit-of-B, radio destined rips, and some regular ol’ ridiculous rap bangers.

Mr. Hudson – Love Never Dies
K-OS – Faith (feat. Drake)
Big Sean – Whatever You Want (feat. Kanye West)
Pill – My Team
Wiz Khalifa – Radio
Lupe Fiasco – Go To Sleep
Kid Cudi – Mr. Rager
Keyz – Go Home (feat. XV)
Wale – Hold You [Freestyle]
Big Boi – Tangerine (feat. T.I.)
GLC – Got Me Gone
Mickey Factz – Paradise
3OH!3 – Double Vision [Remix] (feat. Wiz Khalifa)
Kanye West – Power [Remix] (feat. Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz)
Iyaz – Pretty Down (feat. Rick Ross & Richie Wess)
Big Sean – What I Do
Sizzla – Give Me A Try
Diggy Simmons – Oh Yeah (feat. Lupe Fiasco & Pharrell)
Sean Garrett – Feel Love (feat. Drake)
Young Ca$h – Stack A Million (feat. Field Mob)

Lincoln couldn’t say it any better–download this shit.

–Bendey

Playlistings: Vol. 4

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Playlistings Volume 4 has dropped. The cover design I might add; has been in development from the start of Playlistings (back in June). Literally getting tweaks every night accompanied by my Vitamin Water infused concoctions. Not really, that’s gross, but seriously.

While 50 Cent does NOT make an appearance on this mixtape, you’ll get your recommended daily dosage of Vitamin OG.  We’ve got some sophomore leaks, some tunes from the veterans getting the itch, and some fresh squeezed Underground jams. This is one you don’t want to miss. Click that download link above; Mom always said to take your vitamins.

Tracklist:

Lil Wayne – Right Above It (feat. Drake)
Bei Maejor – Drinks On Me (feat. Trey Songz)
Wale – Black N Gold
Kanye West – See Me Now (feat. Beyonce & Charlie Wilson)
Josh Sallee – DreamLand
Wiz Khalifa – Hey Girl
Spitfiya – Got Me Gone
Bun B – Real Live (feat. The Gator & GLC)
Wale – The Breeze [Cool] (feat. Wiz Khalifa)
DLRN – Trill Cosby (feat. C-Plus & Task1ne)
Flo Rida – Why You Up In Here (feat. Ludacris & Gucci Mane)
Kid Cudi – Wylin’ Cause I’m Young (feat. Kanye West)
Bei Maejor – I’m On It (feat. T-Pain)
Mansions on the Moon – She Makes Me Feel (feat. Richie Sosa)
J. Cole – Blow Up

Glug, glug, glug..  ahhhh Urban Rawberry, so good.

–Bendey

Eighteen

Just something else from the UAC Tabloid Series…and I’ve been sitting on it.

Art done with crayon (and of course, the Heart).

bump da-bump

bump da-bump

bump..

–Bendey

Playlistings: An Introduction

With great delight, I’d like to introduce a new collaborative project through the world of music and graphic design titled, “Playlistings.”

The Vivid Underground has recently linked up with The DKA Life to bring you a constant flow of brand new hip-hop music combined with all-original “mixtape” covers as often as we can.  The music is certified fresh and hand-picked straight from the vines around the interweb each day.  The Playlistings mixtapes will be a shared release through both blogs for now, but we are actively looking for additional blogs to help market/feature the downloads. Who knows, maybe even an exclusive website someday?

THINGS TO EXPECT:

-Brand new hip-hop music from today’s hottest artists, as well as selected up-and-coming artists.

-Easy download of .ZIP file that includes mp3 files, track listing, and original cover artwork. Virus-free of course.

-Releases hopefully every two weeks, but realistically expect at least 1 every month.

THINGS TO BE AWARE OF:

-All music is legal to download (to our knowledge) via free artist mixtapes/official leaked tracks.

-All artwork is being released under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs).

-All music is individually available after a simple Google search. We’re just making it easy to share our favorite music with ya’ll and having fun doing it.

*Stay tuned for the 1st release later this evening.*

–Bendey

UACTP: The Lost Files (PREVIEW?)

Some of you may be familiar with the handful of posters I released a while back under the title “The UAC Tabloid Project.” What you didn’t know is that there were several that I chose not to release, due to their very personal and somewhat inappropriate subject matter.

Well it’s been a weird past few weeks and I have been thinking it might be “about that time” all of a sudden. But who knows? Maybe I’ll change my mind and never release the posters befittingly titled, “The Lost Files.”

Aside from my uncertainty, here’s one I call, “Plagued” that I’ll leave you to think about.

–Bendey

UAC Viral: “Inhale, Exhale”

Figured I should get up on this whole “viral video marketing” biz. Here’s the first official ad for Underground Art Concepts. Nothing spectacular; just a seizure-inducing clip of projects and artwork I’ve done in the past few years.

Hope you enjoy, and try not to pass out.

Inhale, Exhale:

♥Bendey