The psychedelic eroticism on songs like “Heartbeat” featuring vocals by Karima Harrison (Noot D’ Noot) serve as pit-stops on the digital safari that is Planet of The Ape$. The effort has an infectious smoothness that you can’t deny and makes the more avant-garde musicality of everything surrounding the lyrics easier to swallow (pun, intended). “Yellow Gran Torino” sounds like something plucked straight out of Top 40 Radio from 1978, and it just feels good for no reason.

If there ever was such a thing as altruistic music, this would be it. Some songs are more adventurous like “Nu Africa” that finds female rapper, Corrine Stevie, boasting about how many gangsters she knows and how she likes to text her lover. She returns tenderer on the song, “Home (I Think about You).” She raps, “Tagging on the streets, just for the love of art.” That lyric explains the entire sentiment of the mixtape. Planet of the Ape$ is simply for the love of art and the desire to create, nothing less and if you feel something more, GREATeclectic isn’t taking responsibility. Each artist has made their niche in this distinctive planet that GREATeclectic has been so kind to let us journey into. Some places feel dangerous like the high-energy, vocoder-laden, Jay Scott-controlled dance floor anthem, “Light$.” “Bea$t” is the softer sister song to “Light$,” but with just as much attitude and danger present in the music. Think if The Eurythmics and Lisa, Lisa & The Cult Jam decided to do a duet, it’s that addictive and seductive.

Planet of the Ape$ creeps in your ear like something new, but on further investigation you can hear the inspiration and the more vintage references as the album has deep roots in downtown, New York in the 1990’s. I’m talking Larry Levan. I’m talking Paradise Garage. It’s probably 2012, but it could very well be 1992. GREATeclectic has curated a tour de force of youthful sounds and ideas, and has consequently made a whole new planet out of his creativity, just in time for Earth’s eminent apocalypse. We just have to learn to share it with a lot of great music and a few primates.

The Social would like to introduce you to some new hawt wearable art coppables at GREATeclectic‘s online superstore.

First up is the new “Janelle” tee of my favorite collage of Janelle Monae. People kept asking for it, and hey, he aims to please. The DJ, Artist also dropped the three new t-shirts to celebrate the release of his upcoming musical project Planet of the Ape$. Due Jan 31, the album finds GREATeclectic collaborating with an array of guests including Karima Harrison (Noot D’ Noot), Madam CJ, Sye Spence (Arrow in the Air) and many more. Take a closer look at the t-shirts which display the album and single art for “LIGHT$” and “BEA$T.” At $25 a pop, this isn’t a bad deal.

Nu AFRICA (feat Corinne Stevie x Jack Preston) by GREATeclectic

Sex, Lies & Bass. “Yellow Gran Torino” is as much an ode to backseat love as it is 90′s dance. Because, we just “want to get you high.” Let’s go for a ride. Watch the video for “Yellow Gran Torino” featuring singer/songwriter NAIRA. GREATeclectic‘s musical bilgunsroman “Planet of the Ape$” drops Jan 31.

DRIVE FASTER BABY, DRIVE FASTER BABY, DRIVE FASTER BABY

YELLOW GRAN TORINO (feat NAIRA) by GREATeclectic

I suffer from hypoglycemia which means that a missed meal or snack results in shaky hands, blurred vision and heart palpitations. A few weeks ago, I had an episode followed with all of the extreme symptoms. This time however the scenario was worst for it was eleven o’clock and I was stuck in Buckhead. My glucose tablets were not on me and of course I could have just stopped at a fast food place to order a meal, but my bag which contained my debit card, I had left at home earlier that morning. With the petty coins that were in my pocket, there was nothing I could do, but buy a Coke and hope that the sugary caffeinated drink would provide the boost that I needed and attempt the trek home.

I was on the road for about ten minutes before I started swerving and had to pull of at the nearest closest exit. In my sugar deprived stupor, I made no note of the exit that I had gotten off of until I had stationed my car at the nearest gas station. During the two hours that I spent at this gas station waiting for my emergency contact to rescue me, I was solicited by a disease stricken prostitute and a homeless man before I realized that I was stranded at the infamous Fulton Industrial Boulevard. I watched for two WHOLE hours as a cheap African American prostitute clad in absolutely nothing, charging absolutely nothing for her services went from car to car…and was denied. Watching her try so hard, only to get rejected over an over again, began to remind me of Keri Hilson.

Keri Hilson’s recently debuted video “The Way You Love Me” features a musical snippet with Rick Ross and theatrical appearances from “big” names such as Faith Evans, Jojo, Dawn, and Columbus Short. In this six minute and forty six second video, viewers are treated to clips of Keri Hilson’s barely covered crotch, hip gyrations that would make Mother Teresa faint, and dry humping that would make a neutered dog jealous. In between all of these hip grinding scenes, viewers are also given an extra bonus of several which contain Keri sticking out her tongue and licking and sucking on her fingers. As if the video itself wasn’t already oversexed, the song itself is a musical orgy in which Keri is screaming as if she is in the midst of an orgasm yelling, “Fuck me, fuck me” and other obscene things such as “Ooey, It’s so juicy” and “I got that kind of pussy that will keep you off the streets”.

My first time watching the video, my mouth was hanging agape in shock, fear and disgust and I was reaching for my nearest Bible to ward off the evil spewing from my computer screen. Then I noticed the number of views that the video had gotten and laughter took a hold of me. Keri Hilson and her crew had basically uploaded a porno, unto youtube and the number of hits that the video had gotten was a pathetic 500,000. Not to mention the fact that this video has been up on the internet for over a month now. Clearly, no one wants to buy the sex that Keri Hilson is selling. She’s just like the prostitute that I encountered on Fulton Industrial: cheap and desperate. I can’t even begin to imagine how she feels, image prancing around with your vagina propped open and…nothing, not even a whistle.

I give Keri Hilson a few months before her fifteen minutes are over. She came on too thirsty at a time when the industry was at a drought. Her ‘beef’ with a barely famous Ciara was way to juxtaposed with her throwing darts at the queen Beyonce. Everything about Keri Hilson’s career is ill timed, if she had hopped on the scene five years ago when talentless babes such as Cassie and Amerie were getting media play, then she might have had a chance. The competition that is out right now, surpasses that of Keri Hilson. She is attempting to play a game that she has no chance in winning. She is playing a game where her opponents are Lady Gaga, Kesha, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna and Beyonce and those on her side are Dondria, Ciara, Tiffany Evans and Shontelle.

Keri Hilson is not that great of a singer, her live performances are mediocre and it isn’t as if she is pulling out these awesome dance moves that would give her an excuse for her voice to sound so strained when she isn’t lip singing. She isn’t a good dancer: watch the “The Way You Love Me Video” clips below and how she is pathetically doing a spiced up version of the macarena and two step. Keri Hilson has no style, she is a ghetto girl playing dress up in Forever21 clothing and Melody Ehsani accessories. A least with Rihanna, when she wasn’t getting any play on MTV or VH1, she had Vogue, Seventeen, and other well known fashion magazine all up her ass. However, what Keri Hilson does have is a cute face. Keri Hilson thought that she could play that to her advantage, do some collaborations with Kanye, Trey Songz and trick us into thinking that she was a great singer, when in fact she isn’t. She came on the scene thinking that she could wow us with her city girl style and country girl smile, but we’re living in an age where beauty doesn’t get you that far anymore. Alas when she realized this, she tried to sell us sex, however we don’t want that shit. For a girl who two songs ago was telling us to “recognize a lady” she seems to have her racy routine down pat having dry sex with Chris Brown at performances and talking about her favorite sex positions on radio talk shows. Maybe Beyonce was right…Keri Hilson should stick to writing music.

….The Light$ are so bright they blind me

It may be December cold where you are, but where GREATeclectic is, sunshine is a year round affair. Warm up with the latest single from his upcoming album Planet of the Ape$. Due Jan 31, 2012, he describes the project as a “musical bildungsroman.” The celebratory track “Light$” finds GREATeclectic and singer/songwriter Jay Scott throwing troubles to the wind and dancing “like there’s no tomorrow.” By the end of this funky track you will be too. Make sure to check out the insane beat-switch so unexpected but so needed it’d make Timbaland blush. Listen and download “Light$” below.

Light$ (feat Jay Scott) by GREATeclectic

I’m your groupie, introduce me to your group…

GREATeclectic
Planet of the Ape$
Jan 31, 2012
(BASS CHIC)

1. Welcome to the Freak$how/Animal (feat karen.alise)
2. Yellow Gran Torino (feat NAIRA)
3. Nu Africa (feat Corinne Stevie & Jack Preston)
4. Light$ (feat Jay Scott)
5. Bea$t (feat Sye Spence)
6. Heartbeat (feat Karima Harrison of Noot D’ Noot)
7. End of Your World (feat Ben Carson & Madam CJ)
8. Home (I Think About You) (feat Corinne Stevie)
9. Bored of Atlanta (feat Boreas Matthews)
10. Sometimes I Wonder (feat Jay Scott)

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FAMEKILL$, a conceptual mixtape presented by GREATeclectic & Swiper Bootz which, intertwines the music of Kanye West & Lady GaGa is finally available for free download now.

“For some people, fame kills their passion and becomes more powerful than the music or the performance.” -GaGa

“There is no astronaut training for this whole celebrity thing… even though this whole life is so outer space” -Kanye

They shot the lights out, hid until ’twas bright out… and though it was just another lonely night, they birthed life in the sinful sacrifice.

Leaning on the Fall, in the wake of of Pop’s crystal ball looking back, looking ahead, looking down, and looking point-blank in the face of the Post-Apopcalypse – where The Fame killed fame.

Paws, processes, cacti, credenzas… follow down the Pop path, a Monster’s memory lane where the Glitter Way meets Elm St… where Fame Kills was not a concert, but rather an immaculate conception…

… where the greatest show you couldn’t believe, became the greatest show ever conceived – and just as swiftly became the greatest show never to see the light of day – only to become the most glorious mourning, and the greatest show money could never buy. The tandem didn’t cancel the concept, they canceled convention, and soundtracked culture.

Watch This Space: Art Lives, Fame Kills, Revolution Resurrects.

Art is everywhere in Miami. And with Art Basel this week the city is turned out by artists and art enthusiasts worldwide. A simple trip to see a friend DJ at Awarehouse Gallery turned into a beautiful surprise quickly when we bumped into the world’s largest street level mural installation The Kohn Compound

Firstly, the beat finds us…

Then the Art takes our mind…

This the part where we go too far down the rabbit hole…

just dance, to the beat with ye…

“It’s like Born This Way candyflipped – which is fatal fame’s genesis..”

- Swiper Bootz

Art Lives, Fame Kills, Revolution Resurrects.

Watch This Space

“bad POWER” is taken from the GREATeclectic & Swiper Bootz presented mixtape “FAMEKILL$” which intertwines the music of Kanye West & Lady Gaga. “FAMEKILL$” is set to be released Nov 30.

From the creative mind behind Art Nouveau, comes a new art statement. But this time its wearable. GREATeclectic embarks upon another adventure that will appeal to the artist in you. There’s nothing cooler than being cool, and now you can become an art collector.

This is the first drop from my new t-shirt line with my art as the design. This is a 100% “Super Soft” High-Quality American Apparel T-Shirt featuring an all-over print of original collage of GRACE JONES and in another an original collage of NICKI MINAJ.

Click here to purchase.

Welcome to the world’s nightmare: hold it against me – we about to go H.A.M on Grey Poupon. Bourgie girl, grab her hand, f-ck that – she dont wanna dance; excuse my French, but I’m in France… I’m just saying: when in Rome – if you weren’t born a Caesar, might as well bard with Brutus #empirestateofdemise So do as the Romans do, and in such sit among those the elite who naturally bleed blue. Prince William ain’t do it right if you ask me, if I was him I woulda married Kate and Ashley – #jiggerishthings. Overt supremacy, with strong undertones of servitude to the throne of inherited American royalty at its most Shakespearean… Britney Jean Spears – don’t let she get in her zone, #toxictragedies Louisiana-style Lady Macbeth, Ophelia, Juliet… the illiterate that could write an American tale of nouveau riche royalty; Hov and Yeezy – Othellos in tow. Miami swelter, Carribean vibe, Bahamian drum and bass, Bermudian Triangle of Pop – inverted everything. Hov would never share the mic with Spears, but Yeezy would – and did; though they are at two ends of the spectrum, Hov and Jean earned their passports the old fashioned way: crime pays, sex sells – passports please. They played to our devious vices, you are the company you keep: welcome to The Crackhouse; where this is a problem, this is not music/I hope you find it – ‘cos we about to lose it.

Gorillas in Chinchillas (Slaves in Paris) by GreatEclectic