Hooking up with The Rock to produce a mock mini-musical about millennials isn’t the only thing Lin-Manuel Miranda’s been up to on YouTube. The creator of the mega-hit Broadway musical Hamilton will be live streaming a live performance of The Hamilton Mixtape on the world’s largest video sharing site, too.
The hip hop musical centered around Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Fathers of the United States immediately pre and post-Revolutionary War has seen unprecedented acclaim and sustained success since its Broadway debut at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in August 2015. (Just last week for instance, the show had its highest-grossing seven-day stretch yet, tallying up over $3.2 million in ticket sales.) And because of that white hot reception, Miranda decided to remix the musical’s soundtrack with several of the rap, hip hop, pop, and indie music scenes biggest stars.
The Hamilton Mixtape is composed of 16 tracks and features The Roots,...
The hip hop musical centered around Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Fathers of the United States immediately pre and post-Revolutionary War has seen unprecedented acclaim and sustained success since its Broadway debut at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in August 2015. (Just last week for instance, the show had its highest-grossing seven-day stretch yet, tallying up over $3.2 million in ticket sales.) And because of that white hot reception, Miranda decided to remix the musical’s soundtrack with several of the rap, hip hop, pop, and indie music scenes biggest stars.
The Hamilton Mixtape is composed of 16 tracks and features The Roots,...
- 12/1/2016
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Whether you know George Watsky as one of the Internet's fastest rappers or as William Shakespeare (or both), he wants to deepen your understanding of his life. Watsky, whose supersonic verbal delivery has made him into a popular act on YouTube and beyond, has written How To Ruin Everything, an essay collection that will hit shelves on June 14th.
In How To Ruin Everything, which is published by Penguin Random House imprint Plume, Watsky reflects on past events in his life as seen through his own eyes. In that sense, it sounds similar to other books authored by digital media stars, but Watsky is trying to avoid some of the same characterizations that apply to those works. “I was self-absorbed enough to write a book about myself,” he said in a video introducing his literary project, “but I wanted to avoid the douchiness of calling it a memoir, because no...
In How To Ruin Everything, which is published by Penguin Random House imprint Plume, Watsky reflects on past events in his life as seen through his own eyes. In that sense, it sounds similar to other books authored by digital media stars, but Watsky is trying to avoid some of the same characterizations that apply to those works. “I was self-absorbed enough to write a book about myself,” he said in a video introducing his literary project, “but I wanted to avoid the douchiness of calling it a memoir, because no...
- 5/4/2016
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
The second half of the third-season of the biggest YouTube series ever concluded on Monday, July 14, 2014 with a collaboration that’s worthy of the exclamation, “Cowabunga!” Epic Rap Battles of History’s release of Artists vs. Tmnt pits the four revered Italian masters Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo against the heroes in a halfshell that bear their names thanks to an anthropomorphic rat with an affinity for art history. The historical Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo are played respectively by YouTube stars Link Neal, Rhett McLaughlin, Ian Hecox, and Anthony Padilla, while the turtle versions are Lloyd Ahlquist (aka EpicLloyd) in an epoxy and carbon fiber costume designed by Dragan Radic. Erb’s resident martial artist Xin Wuku also provided the jump kicks and any other fancy footwork you see on screen. The epic, collaborative finale is a very nice send off for a very successful third season of Erb.
- 7/14/2014
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Over the years we've seen lots of horror heavyweights do battle until the last "thing" was standing... In the tradition of King Kong vs Godzilla, Freddy vs. Jason, Foreman vs Ali, the good folks behind Epic Rap Battles of History have come up with one for the books! Literally!
Season 3 of the prolific web series continues with the great Edgar Allan Poe taking on none other than The Maine Man Stephen King! Watch as the master of horror, Stephen King, faces-off against Edgar Allan Poe, the author of mystery and the macabre in the ninth battle of the season. The battles stars rapper and poet George Watsky as Poe and rapper and comedian Zach Sherwin as King. Who won? You decide.
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Season 3 of the prolific web series continues with the great Edgar Allan Poe taking on none other than The Maine Man Stephen King! Watch as the master of horror, Stephen King, faces-off against Edgar Allan Poe, the author of mystery and the macabre in the ninth battle of the season. The battles stars rapper and poet George Watsky as Poe and rapper and comedian Zach Sherwin as King. Who won? You decide.
Great job guys! Enough jabbering... dig it!
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- 6/3/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Reason #427 to avoid mosh pits at rap concerts -- rappers like George Watsky launching themselves like a missile into the crowd from 35 feet in the air!Watsky -- an up and coming rapper from San Fran -- was performing in London on Sunday when he climbed onto the light rigging above the stage, and hurled himself into the first few rows of the crowd.Watsky survived with just some bad bruises ... but his fans didn't do so well.
- 11/18/2013
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Speaking of George Watsky, the second season of his web series (produced by Principato Young Entertainment) is once again taking off on the Loud YouTube Original Channel. The first season, titled Watsky's Making An Album, was a dramatized version of the genesis of its protagonist's recent release, Cardboard Castles. With the album already produced, any more episodes featuring actual recording are impossible. Therefore, the new season is titled Watsky's Releasing An Album and focuses on the YouTube rapper's efforts to distribute his release his work to a wide audience. As with shows like Flight of the Conchords, Watsky's Releasing An Album is a fictionalized and dryly funny fictionalization of a real life musician. The main indicator of the series' fiction is the unpopularity of Watsky's music in the show's setting, which is the exact opposite of real life. Watsky must utilize a shady record label executive, fittingly played by Rhys Darby...
- 3/13/2013
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
George Watsky, who turned a video where he raps remarkably fast from the comfort of his own bedroom into more than 400,000 subscribers and a starring web series role, has joined DeStorm on the list of YouTube rappers who have released an album in 2013. He dropped Cardboard Castles this week, his second full length recording to a hot reception at #10 on the Itunes Albums Charts. The album features Watsky's trademark vocal attack, with his mile-a-minute pace and extremely verbose lyricism as present as ever. Cardboard Castles has two other elements working in its favor. The entire CD case can fold into a cardboard house, thus giving people an actual reason to own a physical copy. Secondly, it's Phil DeFranco approved, which could lead to increased sales. Let's call it the sxephil bump. Sure enough, initial sales have been strong, with the album debuting in between Pink's The Truth About Love and Eric Clapton's Old Sock.
- 3/13/2013
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
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