Another great issue of eLIFE 242 magazine is here. This issue’s cover story features Bahamian artist, Allan Wallace. The latest issue also features R.A.P.P. Quelle, Tatiana Roberts and The Illest Band. The issue drops tomorrow, the 5th of November. Just text 242-454-0264 to get yours.

Naomi Campbell, for the first time in 25 years of modeling covers Interview magazine. Campbell discusses her life: the past and present as only she can. Read two of the more outstanding quotes from her feature:

“I mean, look, I’m controversial. It’s not that people don’t know who I am . . . If people want to work with me, then they want to work with me. If they don’t, they don’t. You also have to create your own things. I’ve had my own perfume now for how many years? I’m doing my twelfth perfume and I’m with Procter & Gamble. If something doesn’t come your way, then you find another way. I was brought up with a very broad mind. I am a woman of color and I will always be proud of that. I also know that I will always have to go that extra 10 miles. And that’s fine. I’m okay with that. I’m okay with doing the extra 10 miles . . . My whole career is a challenge. I’m a challenge.”

I don’t get depressed. When I feel an attack, I withdraw. I disappear, I replenish, and then I come back. I’m not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going.

After reading the entire piece (READ HERE) you get a feel for the “majestic” being that she is. Oh, you can view the accompanying pictorial after… it’s something serious.

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In the latest issue of Complex magazine, KiD CuDi is letting nothing but his opinion flow with his feelings towards being dropped from Lady GaGa’s tour, fighting the mainstream, going against a Wale statement, his drug usage, amongst many other things.

On being incomparable to his contemporaries:

Did you see that Wale interview that he just did, comparing us to sports? Let me clear this up: I’m incomparable to anybody. I don’t care how people take that. No one can compete with me. I’m unfuckwittable; no one can knock me off my shit. I’m an unstoppable force, I’m a bullet. My trajectory is to the sky. Niggas got to do something really spectacular to fuck with me and my realm, and niggas be so bitter that you hear it in their voice.

The sound of his next album:

It’s explicit, but smart explicit. I’m not holding back. I have no regard for what people consider right or wrong. Some things I follow—like the law, from here on out. But other than that, I’m doing whatever the fuck I want to do. I’m not holding back. That’s why I’ve been so excited about this move to L.A., because I just want to keep growing creatively, all over, as a human being.

His heavy drug use:

I started doing cocaine to get through interviews, ’cause people wanted to know a lot about my personal life and I wasn’t prepared for a 60 Minutes interview every time. Doing bumps I was able to get through the day, but then I would smoke weed to calm me down—it was the only way I could get through the day without people noticing I was doing it. (more…)

All the images are here and we can now post Nicki Minaj’s editiorial in the latest issue of OUT magazine. Minaj’s latest feature in OUT is her best to date. The photos are outlined with the glamour of the 70′s filled with the quirky nature of a Graces Jones surreal photo. To read Minaj’s entire article, click HERE.

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Images via: C.L.

Hot on the promo trail for his upcoming album is Kanye West covering the 2010 October issue of XXL magazine. Besides adding a little art effect to the cover, West penned his entire article himself, below is an excerpt:

Mr. West said that, following his VMA outburst, he immediately dedicated himself to the studio. “I knew I wasn’t in a great spot publicly after the incident, but I would just block it out and work as hard as possible and let my work be my saving grace,” he shared. “In a way, I had thrown a Molotov cocktail at my own career, and it gave me an opportunity, for the first time, to go away and find out who I was. Because I felt very alone.” [SOURCE]

Kanye West also revealed that the video for his next single, “Runaway,” will have a runtime of 40 mintues:

“I’m color-correcting this film I shot in Prague a couple weeks ago. I want to edit the film on a boat. Where are the good editing boats?” — is called Runaway, and is a 40-minute noir piece based on his new album. “It’s the story of a phoenix fallen to Earth, and I make her my girlfriend, and people discriminate against her and eventually she has to burn herself alive and go back to her world,” he told us. “I’ve been feeling the idea of the phoenix. It’s been in my heart for a while. It’s maybe parallel to my career. I threw a Molotov cocktail on my career last year, in a way, and I had to come back as a better person.” [SOURCE]

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Woohoo, would you look at that… The official cover for the latest issue of Stylezine magazine just dropped and the cover people are rapper R.A.P.P. Quelle and photographer Lyndah Wells. The cover looks so detailed and just plain damn good. Those red shirts make the photo pop; a great photo for what will surely be a great issue.

This past Saturday was the launch party of eLIFE242′s 2010 Swimsuit Edition. The event was tied in with Saturdays In the City hosted at the British Colonial Hilton‘s Bullion Lounge. Many were in attendance and guests got the chance to interact with the swimsuit models including covergirl Ariel Garraway.

We were just as surprised to see the see the finished version of the magazine; everything happened so quickly and it was a great result. After the success of the party and magazine, these next few months should be very exciting. View photos from the launch party after…

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Radio personality, The Natural Empress, covers the 16th issue if eLife242. The Free Ya Mind host gives insight into her life, what she loves to do and more… You can pick up your FREE copy at The JukeBox, Airbrush Junkies, ProPhoto (Nassau Street), Radio House Lobby and all Bristol Cellars Locations.

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For the cover of the July Summer issue of Rolling Stone magazine Lady GaGa poses in a look inspired by her “Alejandro” video. The issue is a double issue but we haven’t seen covergirl or boy 2.

Bra and panties, the times are changing. Just ten years ago that would be shocking but nowadays, it’s the norm. View Lady GaGa and Oprah at the Met Costume Institute Gala 2010 after…

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The-Dream is on the promo course for his 3rd LP, LoveKing, and he lands the cover of FADER‘s upcoming summer music issue. M.I.A. is doing the same for her /\/\ /\ Y /\ album:

Although it’s already been blazing hot on a level that makes the doomsayers in our office predict a city-wide blackout any day now, we’re officially not allowing summer to start until June 22nd, when The FADER #68—aka The FADER’s Summer Music Issue, aka over 100 pages of wall-to-wall jams—hits stands. Conveniently, that’s right after summer actually begins, but let’s pretend it’s starting because of us. As you’ve no doubt already seen above, we wrangled four artists with four of the most eminently listenable, exciting, addictive albums of the year into this crazy quadrant-gatefold cover situation. We’ve got MIA’s controversial global pop (insert truffle fry joke here if that’s still your thing), Ariel Pink’s warped vision of the last three (or so) decades of music, Wavves’ snotty SoCal punk taken to the next level and, of course, our current king of pop, The-Dream. It’s all here, along with stories on Freddie Gibbs, Sleigh Bells, Active Child, Tame Impala, Best Coast and so, so, so much more. Both physical and digital versions of the issue drop June 22nd, so keep your eyes to your local newsstands and, of course, this very website. After the jump, check out each individual cover, because that stuff up above is kinda small. [SOURCE]

After watching that behind-the-scenes VEVO video the album is sounding much better. There are sure to be a handful of songs on LoveKing that keep us mesmerized. Listen to M.I.A.’s new album is a must right now becuase the singles released from it have been so different from what we usually hear from her. See Wavves’ and Ariel Pink’s cover after…

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