​See also:
*Odd Future's Syd the Kyd Joins The Internet
*Syd the Kyd On Odd Future, Her Sexuality And Why She Hates The Word "Lesbian"

It's here! Earlier today we announced we were premiering the new video "Fastlane" from The Internet -- aka Odd Future's Syd the Kyd and Matt Martians. You can see it below. The song comes off the duo's new album Purple Naked Ladies, and on the heels of our recent cover story on Syd. (She also outted a few big name female urban artists for us.)

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​Here's the video!

See also:
*Odd Future's Syd the Kyd Joins The Internet
*Syd the Kyd On Odd Future, Her Sexuality And Why She Hates The Word "Lesbian"

Last week's cover story focused on Syd the Kyd, Odd Future's DJ cum crooner. Her group with Matt Martians is called The Internet, and they recently released their first album, Purple Naked Ladies.

Tonight, West Coast Sound has the honor of premiering the video for next song off the album, "Fastlane," right here at 9 pm pacific time tonight. The piece takes cues from Natural Born Killers and will definitely freak out some more members of the lesbian media. We think it's amazing, so be sure to check for it, as it won't initially be available anywhere else.

Below, Martians speaks on the "Fastlane" video.

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Brandon Showers

​In our cover story this week, Jeff Weiss investigates the life and times of rapper Game, finding the prankster and West coast hip hop titan to be "an open book with an unreliable narrator." With his fourth record The R.E.D. Album released last Tuesday, Game could have another big one on his hands. The work is projected to sell just shy of 100,000 units, and, depending on how Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch The Throne holds up, it could go to number one.

It's an exciting time for Jayceon Taylor, and we're covering the hometown anti-hero more thoroughly than anyone. Which isn't to say that the models flanking him in our photo shoot were particularly covered; in fact, other than gold paint and pasties, they weren't covered at all. (You can see for yourself in this exclusive video from our cover photo shoot.)

We've also got a brand new eight-minute clip of Game in motion, talking with Weiss during a recent press junket and driving around town in his fancy Benz. It's a very impressive behind-the-scenes look at Game, and features him describing some traumatic moments from his childhood, such as when his mom ran into his dad with a car, and the time he was shot up in his apartment. The video, produced by Jeff Weiss, Jon Casey, and Forest Casey -- who also did teamed up for that amazing Quik video -- is below.

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Pusha T and Tyler the Creator before mass destruction

​We knew when we visited the set that director Jason Goldwatch's video for Pusha T and Tyler, the Creator's "Trouble On My Mind" was gonna be one of the dopest visuals we'd seen in awhile.

As Pusha T told us on set:

I said to Tyler, if I'm gonna do a record with you, if we're gonna shoot a video, we need to be causing chaos. And he was like 'Oh my god! I was thinking the same thing! Aahhh!' So I said, let's just tear up L.A. I want to show people that I can hop in your world and you can hop in my world, and it ain't fucking up nothing. It's gonna be beautiful.

Red Bull just premiered the video, which finds the boys egging strangers, collecting a motley crew down on Skid Row, destroying a hotel room (which was far scarier live than it looks here), and trashing a convenience store. (We really were hoping Tyler would try on Pusha's Balenciagas, but looks like Odd Future pulled another one under.)

Maybe the Beastie Boys stole a tiny bit of their thunder, but hey, there's always room for terrorizing the streets and tearing shit up. WATCH:

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Now, everybody wants to know the truth about a brotha named Quik

I come from the school of the sly, wicked and the slick

A lotta people already know exactly where it's at

'Cause it's the home of the jackers and the crack

(Compton) Yeah, that's the name of my hometown

-"Born and Raised in Compton," DJ Quik

DJ Quik covers the LA Weekly this week. But the West Coast legend can't be confined to a couple thousand printed words.

So we went to Compton with Quik, and made a video.

Sitting in his studio in a Papa Smurf t-shirt, or sliding through Compton in his gleaming black Mercedes, DJ Quik talks about driving through Crip territory as a Blood, Eazy-E's offer of a million dollars to sign, and his disbelief that he's still alive. It's a trip through his hood, but also his life.

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Isaiah Toothtaker co-opts a meme to warn his enemies of imminent death.

​In his new song "Intruder," Tucson rapper, brawler and tattoo shop owner Isaiah Toothtaker puts an impressively aggro spin on Antoine Dodson's "Bed Intruder" web hit. Wavves drummer Jacob Safari provides the beat--made from the marching band version of the original--while Isaiah delivers a menacing message to any who would cross him. It's an anti-snitch opus hailing from his pending January 25 LP, Illuminati Thug Mafia. Isaiah is the co-founder of the rising, L.A.-connected rap crew Machina Muerte and, trust us, he's earned his name. Toothtaker was kind enough to offer West Coast Sound debuts on both the MP3 and the horrifyingly NSFW video debut for "Intruder." Could you say no to the face above?

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Ballerinas will soon bludgeon one another with balloons.

​A ballerina balloon fight, spontaneous hula- hooping and a glitter-filled piñata come into play in the video for "B.O.N.I.Z.H.E.A.R.T.," an upbeat single from L.A. pop conglomerate Big Whup.

For the unfamiliar, this fourpiece employs tap shoes, singing saw, viola, triola, organ and the usual suspects to craft its larger-than-life, smile-inducing tunes. But there may be a darker side to the band bubbling beneath the surface.

Things start out smooth in this Kate Gill-directed clip, but by the end, the pirouetting posse has been decimated and a large heart violently smashed to pieces. This is one of two videos the band is premiering in person at Pehrspace tonight. They'll be playing that event too, along with Kid Static and a handful of others.

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Psychedelic new Neon Indian video by Lars Larson

​Neon Indian brought in electronics wizards Lars Larson and Edward Leckie to construct their trippy new video for "Mind Drips" in which a girl is swallowed whole by her bed with a gigantic teddy bear and falls through ceilings.

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His wonderful weirdness, Gary Wilson

​Gary Wilson, the weirdo king of Endicott, New York, just premiered his new music video for "In the Night" from Electric Endicott, out now on Western Vinyl.

As predicted, it's freaky and groovy, full of doll heads and odd body parts, teenagers dancing the sand with beach balls, and nostalgia-filled basement-genius Gary Wilson wandering around a beach at night sporting a huge grey wig, smeared dark lipstick, yellow cleaning gloves and white cat-eye sunglasses.

Check out the psychedelic strangeness:

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Juliette Commagere gives the Dougie a yogic noogie.

​In a brand new video for the buoyant tropical-tinged single "Impact," L.A. pop chanteuse Juliette Commagere dons some fancy frills and dances around in a room full of rainbows.

There's something hypnotizing about the whole experience -- that beguiling voice matched with those made-up eyes, the luminescent tones accompanied by the bright colors, the bubbly bass inspiring the hypnotic choreography. Wait ... did she just do the Dougie?

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