Musician/producer Pharrell Williams and his new artist Rhea, who was recently welcomed as the newest member of Pharrell’s group N.E.R.D., opened up for Jay-Z Saturday night (Oct 31) at the Air Canada Centre in Canada.

N.E.R.D. is currently working on their fourth studio album titled Instant Gratification, set for an early 2010 release. Pharrell says with Rhea a part of the team, they have a new sound that’s very “3-D.”

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Hip-hop artist Pharrell Williams, along with N.E.R.D.’s Chad Hugo & Shay Haley, was spotted at the Perth Airport in Perth, Australia yesterday. N.E.R.D. performed at the Future Music Festival in Perth yesterday. Click here for a review of the show and continue reading for more photos of him and his boys arriving at the airport.

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The official video premiere of “Sooner or Later” – N.E.R.D.’s brand new music video from their latest album, Seeing Sounds, which is in stores now!

T.I. & LUDACRIS PERFORMING TOGETHER AT THE 2008 BET HIP-HOP AWARDS

ATLANTA // SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18TH 2008 »
AIRDATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23RD 2008 ON BET @ 8 PM EST. Hold up! Is that T.I. and Ludacris performing? Together? On stage? In front of people? Apparently the 2008 BET Hip-Hop Awards were full of surprises: from T-Pain replacing Katt Williams as the host at the last minute, all the way down to T.I. and Ludacris sharing the same stage. And from the looks of it, the show looked to be pretty good. Be sure to catch it when it airs on BET this Thursday – October 23rd – at 8 PM.

Follow the break to check out photos of Nas, Rick Ross, Young Jeezy, Lil Wayne, and more performing at the 2008 BET Hip-Hop Awards.

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Cassie, Lupe Fiasco & N*E*R*D* all have their own cover for the August/September issue of Complex Magazine. In the multi cover issue, Cassie will be talking about her upcoming album, training with vocal coachs and the haters. Here is a few questions Complex asked her and responses:

The Internet helped launch you, but it’s also home to extremely harsh anonymous sh*t-talkers. How do you feel about that?

Cassie: I love it.

You do?

Cassie: I do. It’s ammunition. I used to be really offended by it. It didn’t motivate me before; I didn’t get that concept. I get it now. At this point, the ridiculousness of the Internet and the things that people say—it’s funny.

What’s the harshest thing that’s been said about you?

Cassie: “She’s f****ng for checks.” I don’t f**k for checks—I’d rather live on the street.

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Here’s the official T2W music video premiere of T.I.’s brand new video for “Whatever You Like” off of his new album, “Paper Trail,” which is due in stores September 30th 2008!

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BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA // SUNDAY, JULY 27TH 2008» Rapper Jay-Z hit the stage last night during day 3 of the 2008 Pemberton Music Festival, a weekend long event in British Columbia (Canada).

The sun had just set behind the mountains on Sunday evening as Jay-Z took the stage to a roar of cheers – and quickly stole the show. Backed by a brass band, the legendary producer and rapper worked the 30,000-person strong crowd into a frenzy. The ground shook as the audience thrust their fists in the air to hit after hit, including “99 Problems” and his breakthrough “A Hard Knock Life.”

“To come up and here and get this much love, don’t think I don’t appreciate it,” Jay-Z shouted to the thundering crowd. “I appreciate each and every one of y’all out there.” [ SOURCE ]

N*E*R*D took the stage as well earlier in the day, so check out photos of them when you continue reading below!

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MILAN, ITALY // JULY 15H 2008 » Pop superstar Rihanna (y’all might as well accept the fact that this girl is HUGE now) recently performed overseas in Italy at the MTV Mobile Bang Concert. According to various sources, she performed “Breakin’ Dishes” and her smash hit, “Umbrella.”

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Here is the official T2W video premiere of ♫ Spaz by N*E*R*D from their latest album Seeing Sounds (Interscope) in stores and online now!

First up, I’d like to let everyone know that T2W is back online for good now! Some of you may have noticed that we experienced a few “testicular difficulties” (copyright Fresh lol) all day yesterday and for most of today, which made posting not only difficult, but 100% impossible. At one point I was afraid that I had lost everything (posts, comments, pages, etc.), but you’ll be glad to know that I fixed the problem and we’re back in action now! Now back to the updates!

The guys of N.E.R.D. and Fonzworth Bentley made a special appearance on yesterday’s episode of TRL to premote their respective projects. Fonzworth, who plans on releasing an album later on this year, also premiered his new video, featuring Andre 3000 and Kanye West, Everybody. You can also catch Fonz on VH1’s latest reality series, From G’s to Gents every Tuesday at 10 PM.

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We haven’t had an exclusive giveaway in a while, so I thought I’d give away two N*E*R*D t-shirts to two random Think2Wice readers who leave a comment before midnight tonight (Eastern)! So when you leave your comment, be sure to leave a valid e-mail address so that we have a way to contact you so that we can collect your names addresses and all of that good stuff. Good luck!!

CONTEST NOW CLOSED. THANKS TO ALL WHO ENTERED!

LONDON, ENGLAND // TUESDAY, JULY 1ST 2008 » Pharrell Williams hosted an afterparty for N*E*R*D’s concert from the KOKO Club at the Maddox Club yesterday night in London. Jay-Z made a quick appearance on Pharrell’s behalf. I’m digging that SpongeBob Tee on Pharrell! Kennesha, you know where I can find that? Lemme know! Check out the rest of the pics after the cut.

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Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo (of production team The Neptunes) and Shay Haley, collectively known as N*E*R*D, return to release their third studio album, Seeing Sounds (Interscope), available June 9th, 2008; but you may pre-order the album on AMAZON now!

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The very beginning of the video for N*E*R*D*’s latest single, Everyone Nose, displays a URL: EveryoneNose.com. So you know my curious ass had to check it out to see what was up. Unfortunately, I’ll have to wait until tomorrow, because the splash page is a blank black page with the words “COME BACK TOMORROW ;-).” So curiosity got the best of me once again, as I right-clicked and “viewed the source.” And the description in one of the meta tags (you’d have to be html/code literate to know what the hell that is) reads:

“Everyonenose.com features uncensored photos and videos from the new n.e.r.d. music video everyonenose.”

So I’m guessing the site will feature uncensored photos and videos from the new n.e.r.d. music video everyonenose. Yes that’s me. Mr. Obvious. But anyway, check out N*E*R*D*’s new video above, which features a cameo from Hollywood’s biggest cokehead, Lindsay Lohan! And if you didn’t already know, the song is a tribute to ladies who … snort coke. Duh, everyone NOSE!

Here is a new track from N*E*R*D’s forthcoming project Seeing Sounds (Virgin) also releasing sometime this Summer. The song is called Spaz and I totally spazed when I heard this song on a commercial!! I was like, “that must be new!” So I went to searching all over the Internet and apparently I was right! The song is fun and energetic, I just rocked out to it in my room a few minutes ago, my Mom thinks I have gone mad and I love it! N*E*R*D is back peoples…

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO SPAZ

Hip Hop Group N.E.R.D is on the June 2008 cover of the Source Magazine. Not sure of the actual content of the magazine, but I do know that they are currently touring on the Glow In The Dark Tour with Lupe Fiasco, Rihanna, and Kanye West. Click the following link to see when N.E.R.D. will be in your area.

Glow In The Dark Tour Dates

Kanye has been dropping hints all week, but he finally let the cat out of the bag in an entry on his blog titled “The End of the World As You Know It!”. Kanye West will be hitting the road pretty soon with Rihanna, N.E.R.D. and Lupe Fiasco in the “Glow in the Dark” tour. Besides the promo poster above, he hasn’t released any major details yet, like dates and what-not, but I expect those will come along shortly. Am I excited? Hell no … I’m ECSTATIC! I don’t really too much care for Lupe and N.E.R.D., but they’re okay. Rihanna’s pretty cool too. But Kanyizzle? You better believe I’m gonna be breaking open my piggy bank and scrounging up some dough for this! Because you know he’s gonna charge a grip or two lol. All I know is that he better bring his ass to Greenville, SC. I don’t feel like driving all the way to Charlotte or Atlanta…

By the way, when is that Flashing Lights video coming? . . . 

Here music producer and mogul Pharrall can be seen in this television commercial for his Blason jewelery line, in association with Luis Vuitton. In the commercial you can also peep a clip of N*E*R*D’s new single “Everybody Nose”! Oh, and you might as well check out the final mix over at Pharrell’s Blog. No dramatic changes really, just synth-pop. [ SPOTTED @ Rap-Up.com ]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOMINIQUE!! A HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS? LOOK AT-CHU, AT-CHU!!

OK, huge N*E*R*D fan, took me a couple of listens to get into this. “Everybody Nose,” I’m guessing, is the lead single from N*E*R*D’s upcoming LP, the follow-up to 2004’s Fly or Die, N.3.R.D. set to release in Spring of 2008. I’m really excited becos I loved Fly or Die, I still bump it every now and then when I’m in my rebellious-phase. But man, did that album go hard!