Beyonce has been sharing sketches from the designers of her On The Run Tour wardrobe throughout the tour and she recently shared two designs and accompanying descriptions from Nicola Formichetti for Diesel. As usual, though they may look rather simple, they took hours and hours of work.

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The leather jacket and #jorts combo that Bey wears was inspired by the Bonnie and Clyde style of the show. The leather jacket she wears includes homages to Texas–her home state–and Blue Ivy. The rhinestone-encrusted Texas text across the back of the jacket took over four hours alone.

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While the full denim look may seem more straight-forward–there are no rhinestone words, for example–it’s all an ~illusion~. You don’t typically think “Beyonce” when you think of sweatpants, but all of that is about to change. This full denim look? Not denim at all. Fomichetti revealed that the outfit is actually made from a *special* kind of denim called Jogg Jeans. “Jogg looks and is treated like denim but feels like sweatpants, offering for whoever wears it optimal movement,” Formichetti said.

So a denim-sweatpants hybrid must be pretty easy to make, right? LOL…no. “Jogg Jeans cannot be distressed the same way as regular denim so our team developed custom treatments exclusively for Beyonce,” Formichetti said. “Each dangling thread was pulled out one-by-one over the course of three days by a team of four people. The entire piece was then hand painted and to ...

One minute, you’re just bicken back being bool, and the next, gunshots ring out.

That’s the tale YG tells in his My Krazy Life standout “Bicken Back Being Bool,” and the accompanying video, which dropped on Monday (July 21).

(That means “kickin’ back being cool,” by the way.)

After a minute-and-a-half spoken word intro, which sets the stage for the song and video with some hood tales of its own, the DJ Mustard-produced beat drops, and YG and some homies are, well, bicken back in the front yard. Before long, though, some rival gang members drive by, and soon bullets dart back-and-forth. And that’s not bool. Or cool.

Things don’t particularly turn around during the second verse, as the Compton native and others get chased by the cops.

YG makes it through the day, but the Alex Nazari-directed video can serve as a reminder and an illustration of the dangers and potential perils of gang and gun culture.

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She’s back at it.

Just a week after snapping on the remix to “No Flex Zone” and having some fun on Cam’ron’s “So Bad,” Nicki Minaj does a little of both on August Alsina’s “No Love (Remix).”

After Nicki teased the track on social media over the last few days, the new version of the favorite from Alsina’s Testimony album dropped on Monday (July 21), with Ms. Minaj hopping on the track with that lovely singing voice of hers.

“August you know I’m here to save you/ Me and them girls, we ain’t the same, boo/ You know I hate it when you leave me,” she sings, making everyone listening wonder why someone would dare leave the Young Money MC.

Then it’s on to the raps: “You can’t treat me like you treat them/ Yes, I am the creme de la creme/ Yes, I am from one to ten, ten,” she raps.

Tell ‘em.

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Photos by Radhika Marya

Chicago, IL – You know that one dude/chick at work with blue hair? You probably call him/her “the office hipster” and s/he just laughs and smiles and plays along — but will totally steal your yogurt out of the communal fridge later as revenge.

At Pitchfork Music Festival, friends, said blue-haired girl/boy is the norm and you are the weird one — dyed hair is as common here as ants swarming a fallen slice of pizza. #Seapunk isn’t dead.

We’ve got our favorite Technicolor heads here at Pitchfork Fest below (Not included: the author’s own tinted hair. Sorry I took your yogurt, dude!).

Now curl up and dye.

1. Katie’s red hair had us green with envy

We bet Kendrick, who she’s here to see, will be able to see this Chicagoian from stage.

2. Grace’s purple hair don’t care

She brought her awesome follicles all the way from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to see Grimes.

3. Chloe’s locks go perfectly with her sunnies

The better to see St. Vincent with.

4. Emily’s green hair is definitely money

Her love of Deafheaven, however, is free.

5. Kendra’s blue ‘do is angelic

Just like her favorite, Grimes.

6. Check out Tae’s bold red locks

As bold as Earl Sweatshirt’s rhymes.

7. Josh, Alisha and Aleena look pretty blue

Perfect Pussy probably cheered ‘em up.

8. Morgan’s hair basically won the weekend

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As did, for a lot of people, Neutral Milk Hotel.

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The Westboro Baptist Church is an organization built on hate. The church is well-known for picketing popular musical acts who embrace and support messages of, you know, awful stuff like compassion, equal rights for gay and straight couples, and general respect of everyone’s human rights.

Recently, the group announced their plans to picket Panic! At The Disco‘s Kansas City, Missouri show tonight (July 20).

On Thursday (July 17), the church members even went so far as to record a homophobic parody of Panic! At The Disco’s 2006 single “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” off the record A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out , dubbing their version “You Love Sin What a Tragedy.” You can listen to the terrible rendition at their website: godhatesf-gs.com.

Their song blatantly mocks queer sexuality, even including slurs in its lyrics. Panic! At The Disco frontman Brenden Urie has opened up before about his own fluid sexuality—though he’s now married to wife Sarah Orzechowski.

But today on Facebook, the band found a great way to troll these trolls. In a Facebook post the band wrote: “Today the Westboro Baptist Church is going to picket us. For every member of WBC that actually shows up we will donate $20 to Human Rights Campaign ‪#‎pride2014‬.”

As of now, the post has over 18,000 likes. We’re guessing that’s probably more than the number of picketers who show up at the show tonight. They also tweeted their plan, ...

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Chicago, IL – We’re having a pretty amazingly rad time at Pitchfork Music Festival, but there’s one fest-goer jangling through the fray who just knows how to do this thing right. That fest-goer’s name? Marnie The Dog. You heard me. The dog.

A 12-year-old Shih Tzu from New York City, Marnie has more celeb selfies than Macklemore — and nearly 50,000 followers on Instagram. Throw her a follow if you haven’t already. You’ll thank me later, I promise.

We hung out with Marnie for a bit at Pitchfork and watched her make the festival rounds — and let me tell you, kids, this dog has more star power than headliner Kendrick Lamar.

Take a peek at Marnie’s average fest day below and try not to hate your life.

Just moshing at Perfect Pussy. No big

Marnie may be 12 in dog years, but she’s 84 in dog years — and ready to rage

But first she hit up the ATM

And the bathrooms. They look dubious

Here she is refueling with popcorn

And picking up some sick vinyl

The fans were clamoring for photos!

To avoid the hoards, she hopped a golf cart to VIP

And chilled with the Dum Dum Girls…

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DIIV…

Empress Of…

And Perfect Pussy. NaptimeVille, USA, population Marnie and Meredith!

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Uh oh Beliebers, you’re not going to like this. Saturday night (July 19) in a baseball stadium in Charleston, South Carolina, the crowd blew up a bunch of Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber merchandise.

For those of you who may be unaware, back in the late ’70s there was this thing called “Disco Demolition Night” that became the stuff of sports history legend.

On Saturday, MiLB team the Charleston RiverDogs attempted to recreate the magic in the name of destroying, not disco, but Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus.

Guess they’re not Beliebers then, huh?

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“Like so many, we have taken special exception to Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus’s music along with his numerous run-ins with the law and her controversial performances,” said RiverDogs General Manager Dave Echols. “‘Disco Demolition 2′ is dedicated to the eradication of their dread musical disease, like the original Disco Demolition attempted to do.”

The original Disco Demolition was the brainchild of current Charleston RiverDogs president, Mike Veeck, who 35 years ago crafted a promotion so outrageous — to eradicate disco music on July 12, 1979 — that it resulted in the last American League game to ever be forfeited. (The hooligans in attendance got so into the destructive affair that they ruined the field.)

This go-around, the ire of Veeck was geared towards Beebs and professional tongue-wagger, Cyrus. “We are going to take Bieber and Cyrus’s merchandise and memorabilia, put it in a giant box, and blow it ...

21-year-old Skye McCole Bartusiak died on Saturday (July 19) in her Houston home. She was found in her bed in the garage apartment next to her parent’s home by her boyfriend. Skye has suffered from epileptic seizures since she was a baby, and though cause of death is still unknown, it’s likely she died from an attack.

Best-known for her role as Mel Gibson’s daughter in the 2000 film “The Patriot,” Bartusiak also appeared in “The Cider House Rules,” “Don’t Say a Word” and other movies, as well as TV shows like “24″ and “CSI.”

“We lost our girl,” her mother Helen McCole Bartusiak told CNN. “She was a kind and really beautiful girl.”

The investigation into Skye’s death is ongoing, but she had been reportedly struggling with epileptic seizures again after a long hiatus. Epilepsy attacks can be completely random — and fatal — if the victim’s airway passage becomes blocked, or if they are alone during the attack.

“We think she had a seizure and choked and nobody was there,” her mother said. “They were working on her for 45 minutes and could not get a heartbeat. I’ve done CPR on that kid more than one time and it just didn’t work this time.”

Helen began to perform CPR on Skye before the paramedics arrived, but sadly, it was too late to restore a heartbeat. CNN reports that on Sunday morning, her mother was looking through photos of Skye’s wonderful life in order to find some images for the funeral. ...