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How long have we been waiting on Kid Sister to drop that debut LP?? Mmm... feels like just about forever and a day. A month and a half ago she told Pitchfork, "I work at a really comfortable pace. It'll be done in the next couple of months." She told us the same thing yesterday (and a year ago), but we're not mad at all. Dream Date will come, and it will own our lives, and it will have been worth the wait. I know because I heard the latest cut yesterday, and DAYUMN, Kid Sis. How much nasty does one album really need??

Let's step back a minute now. I stumbled on a private photo shoot for the Reebok Classic Remix collection, starring Ms. Melisa Young, aka Kid Sister, herself. When she wasn't on stage twerkin' those knees for the cameras, it was a mellow time consisting mostly of make-up application and casual celebrity gossip (Onlooker: "I don't trust celebrities with three names." Kid Sister: "Sarah Michelle Gellar... she looks weird."), with Kid Sister's eight-pound Shetland furball Betsy scampering between our feet.

Buzzworthy: Dream Date... What's taking so long?
Kid Sister: Right now we're adding some songs and taking some other songs off. There were just a couple things on it that irked me. That I didn't feel all that comfortable with. So I was just like lemme take this back a minute because if i can't sleep at night... you know. You only get one first album. So we got some new songs and some new producers. Swedish House Mafia, A-Trak, Flosstradamus. And they are so nasty with it! You ain't ready, America, YOU AIN'T REH-DAY!

BW: Is there any end to that self-editing process?
KS: You know Matthew Santos? He's doing an album right now. Matt's very much like, 'Let's change this, let's change that.' Your perception [of what's good] changes everyday and, in a way, I guess you could never be done. But I'm ready to be done (laughs).

BW: How long have you been working on Dream Date now?
KS: It's been about a year. But before a year ago I wasn't even really sure that I was a real artist. I didn't think of what I was doing as an album. It was just silly drunken dirty party stuff. I worked three jobs. How do you call yourself a musician when you work at Bath & Body Works? It's just something you do at a party to have fun. But getting signed felt like it legitimized... well, let's just say that they PAIIIIID me, baby!

BW: What was the first thing you bought?
KS: A van! It's a baby mama van, and it's real old, but I like it a lot.

BW: You ever go back into Bath & Body Works?
KS: Yeah I go back in there like (singing) "I used to work here, nah nah nah nah nah nah." Naw. Really I'm like, "can I get a discount?" I'm a cheap-ass.

+ Check out exclusive photos of Kid Sister's Reebok Classic Remix (@Foot Locker March 10) shoot below.

photos by Daniel Arnold

Tags A-Trak, Flosstradamus, Kid Sister, Matthew Santos, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Swedish House Mafia

We've been obsessing over Lupe Fiasco's new ish for way too long now, so thank Gawd we finally got ahold of Lupe's latest album, The Cool, and a week ahead of schedule too.

Lupe's sophomore LP is packed with diverse musical guests like Patrick Stump, Snoop Dogg, Matthew Santos and UK electro outfit UNKLE (and despite the fact that Lupe's got a cameo on Blake Lewis' just-released solo album, the beat-boxing Timber-like does not appear on Lupe's joint), but The Cool's also chock-a-block with lotsa heady elements too: matrix-like pseudo-humans, quasi-demonic details, otherworldly spirits and other things that freak us out if we think about them too much really late at night.

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Tags Blake Lewis, Celebrity, Fall Out Boy, Lupe Fiasco, Matthew Santos, Music, Patrick-Stump, Snoop Dogg

Is Lupe Fiasco starting to remind anyone else of a bizarro Kanye West? Minus the Celine Dion-level of ridang-donculous superhuman egotism upon which Kanye's constructed his empire, and besides their similar delivery styles and predilection to shades and leather jackets, they've both spent plenty of time recently knee-deep in he-said-they-said-we-said drama -- in Lupe's case we're talking about the Tribe Called Quest/Fiascogate saga from last month; in Kanye's case: Kanye vs. Everybody. Read more...

Tags Celebrity, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Matthew Santos, Music, News, video, Videos