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Showing posts with label Kanye West. Show all posts

Kanye West Slams Taylor Swift Again at Intimate New York Concert

11/25/2010 01:58:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments

The rumors began Monday evening, when Teyana Taylor, the former 'My Super Sweet 16' star and guest vocalist on Kanye West's recently released new album, tweeted, "Just got to rehearsals for my performance with Mr Ye West tomorrow at the Bowery Ballroom tomorrow Dark Fantasy Baby!" This being 2010, the electronic snowball became an avalanche overnight and by Tuesday morning, it was music's worst kept secret that West would be performing his new album, 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,' at the 550-capacity Bowery Ballroom in New York's Lower East Side later that night.

At around 1AM last night, West finally hit the stage to perform the widely-acclaimed album for the first time from start to finish. As Diddy, Q-Tip, Spike Lee, Aziz Ansari, Ivanka Trump, The Roots drummer ?uestlove and fashion designer Tory Burch looked on, the rapper brought out numerous collaborators involved in 'Fantasy,' including rapper Rick Ross, Pusha T, Nicki Minaj, John Legend, producer Swizz Beats and singer-songwriter Justin Vernon of Bon Iver.

'Lost in the World' feat. Justin Vernon from Bon Iver

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Kanye West: 'I Don't Hate Matt Lauer'

11/13/2010 02:14:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

In today's least surprising news, Kanye West won't be returning to the 'Today' show, no matter what Matt Lauer says.

Yesterday Lauer stood by an increasingly notorious interview that grievously upset West, saying there was nothing "improper" or "unusual" about the segment. Lauer closed on a conciliatory note, saying, "We look forward to Kanye's return for a special live concert on the plaza on Friday, Nov. 26."

Not so, blasts Kanye over Twitter. "I'm not performing on the Today Show for obvious reasons," he wrote, adding, "I blatantly said I'm not performing on a tweet and to everyone around me and the next day they still announced a performance."

During the segment that pushed West to say he was finished doing press, an affronted 'Ye said, "Please don't let that happen again, it's like ridiculous," after archival footage played while he was speaking. Now, Kanye has clarified that he doesn't hate Matt Lauer.

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Kanye West responds to George W. Bush about Katrina controversy: 'I definitely can understand the way he feels'

11/04/2010 10:58:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Kanye West has responded to former president George W. Bush’s recent statement regarding his controversial post-Hurricane Katrina remarks. West’s surprising reply: Now that five years have gone by, he can sympathize more with the man he once said “doesn’t care about black people.”

Bush recently told Matt Lauer that hearing West say those words during a Hurricane Katrina benefit telethon was “a disgusting moment.” He recalled telling his wife at the time that West’s comments were in fact the single worst moment of his presidency. Today, an interviewer from a Houston radio station asked West for his thoughts on the matter.

“I definitely can understand the way he feels, to be accused of being a racist in any way, because the same thing happened to me, where I got accused of being a racist,” West replied, referring to the aftermath of his run-in with Taylor Swift last fall. “For both situations, it was basically a lack of compassion that America felt in that situation. With him, it was a lack of compassion of him not rushing, him not taking the time to rush down to New Orleans. For me, it was a lack of compassion of cutting someone off in their moment. But nonetheless, I think we’re all quick to pull a race card in America. And now I’m more open, and the poetic justice that I feel, to have went through the same thing that he went [through] — and now I really more connect with him on just a humanitarian level.”

That’s an extremely gracious way of looking at things, to say the least. Listen to the radio clip after the jump (via Rap Radar), then let us know: What do you think of Kanye West’s new attitude toward Bush?

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George Bush Reflects on Kanye West's 'Racist' Remark

11/04/2010 01:57:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments


George W. Bush sat down with Matt Lauer for an interview surrounding the release of his presidential memoir 'Decision Points,' and yes, Kanye West's "George Bush doesn't care about black people" remark came up.

"It was one of the most disgusting moments in my presidency," Bush tells Lauer. Read on.

"That [means] 'he's a racist,'" Bush says of West's comment. "And I didn't appreciate it then. I don't appreciate it now. It's one thing to say, 'I don't appreciate the way he's handled his business.' It's another thing to say, 'This man's a racist.' I resent it, it's not true."

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Fancam of JYJ’s MV for ‘Ayy Girl’ featuring Kanye West revealed

10/31/2010 11:58:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , 0 Comments


As many of you patiently wait for JYJ’s MV for ‘Ayy Girl’ featuring Kanye West, a fancam for the music video was recently revealed.

A fan recorded the MV as it was played for the audience at the Nangang Exhibition Center for JYJ’s album showcase in Taipei, Taiwan. Check it out below!

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Kanye West, Rapper and Director, Premieres His Fiery 'Runaway' Video

10/25/2010 01:44:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Call it a short film or a long video, Kanye West is now a director.

Flames, feathers, and some fancy footwork by ballerinas stand out in the new, 34-minute clip conceived by the controversial rapper.

'Runaway' is essentially a mashup of two classic tales: Phoenix rising, and 'Pygmalion' (in which a wealthy benefactor helps make over, then falls in love with, a girl looked down upon by society).

Of the romance in the video, West recently told MTV News that previous relationships inspired him: "I wanted every girl I ever been in a relationship with to feel like a piece of her was being represented."

Selita Ebanks (pictured with her director earlier this month in Paris) plays a voluptuous woman-bird rescued from a fire by West. Under his watchful eye, she crawls among his menagerie of backyard pets, until he brings her indoors and inspires her to dance to his hypnotic beats, coaches her to drink from teacups, takes her to a surreal parade and introduces her to haughty pals at a dinner party.

But she's unhappy in "his world," and a feathery, sensual encounter between them ends with (spoiler alert! subtlety alert!) an explosion.

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Kanye West: Walmart denies banning his racy cover artwork

10/19/2010 11:24:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Walmart had nothing to do with nixing Kanye West’s NSFW cover artwork for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, reps for the retail giant tell EW.

West referenced the chain in a snarky tweet last night, writing, “In all honesty … I really don’t be thinking about Wal-Mart when I make my music or album covers #Kanyeshrug!” A report in the Los Angeles Times cited concerns within West’s label about “whether or not mass-market retailers such as Best Buy and Wal-Mart would carry an album featuring venomous nudes.” But Walmart is doing its best to stay out of this story.

“We’re excited about Kanye West’s new album and we look forward to carrying it in our stores on November 22nd,” a Walmart spokesperson says in a statement provided to EW. “As always, it’s our standard practice to carry the edited parental advisory version. We did not reject the cover artwork and it was never presented to us to view.”

Note especially that last part: Walmart never even saw the cover artwork, let alone “banning” it. So any internal Def Jam debate involving the store must have been a strictly hypothetical one.

What do you think of this latest update? Sound off in the comments.

JYJ Announces Global Album “The Beginning”, Kanye West helps on the production

9/29/2010 01:08:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , , , , , 0 Comments


Some big news coming from the JYJ (Jaejoong, Micky Yoochun, Xiah Junsu) camp as they’ve just announced a new global album release for “The Beginning”.

Here’s the exciting information below:

JYJ Announces “The Beginning”

New album from the ex-members of Asia’s top selling male vocal act “TVXQ” collaborates with international music superstars on global debut

JYJ, which includes 3 main members from arguably the biggest selling male vocal group in Asia “TVXQ” has teamed up with A-list US producers Kanye West and Rodney Jerkins for their global album debut “The Beginning”. The title of the album is synonymous with their journey to date and marks a first for the group to release an English language album.

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Taylor Swift “You’re Still An Innocent” Lyrics Express Forgiveness For Kanye West (Video)

9/13/2010 12:04:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , 0 Comments


Lindsay Lohan made her first post-jail and rehab TV appearance, host Chelsea Handler got spanked, Lady Gaga thanked “The Gays,” and after a year of silence Taylor forgave Kanye (at least it seems that way) during Sunday night’s 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.

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Taylor Swift sings about Kanye West (we think, sort of) at the VMAs: Is this the official end to the saga?

9/13/2010 10:39:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Taylor Swift “surprised” the audience at the VMAs (though word of the performance leaked last night) with a song “about” Kanye West’s now-all-too-infamous stage-crashing incident at last year’s ceremony. And a good thing word leaked yesterday, or we’d barely know this song she sang was vaguely, possibly, inspired-ish by said lapse in manners. The replay of the incident at the beginning of her appearance helped make it clearer, but then it was all moody lighting and red lipstick and sparkles. She looked gorgeous, as she is wont to do, but, um, the actual song was a pretty opaque: She seems to be saying Kanye “lost [his] balance on a tightrope” and “lost [his] mind trying to get it back” and also “who you are is not where you’ve been,” thus he is “still an innocent.” Perhaps the clearest reference to the rapper was when she said “32 is still growing up now” — lo and behold, he was that very age when he crashed the stage.

At any rate, she seems to have forgiven him: “Time turns flames to embers,” and “minds change like the weather — I hope you remember today is never late to be brand new.” So, yay. Let’s all toast to the (hopefully) final note in that moment that launched a thousand blog posts, apologies, and replays on YouTube. Everyone’s been wondering if her new album full of confessional tunes, Speak Now, would address the debacle — and now we have our answer! And she’s had the last word. There, don’t we all feel better now?

How do you feel, Music Mixers? Do you have proper closure on Taylor/Kanye-gate?

Taylor Swift to perform song about Kanye incident at the VMAs?

9/12/2010 11:01:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , 0 Comments


According to the Associated Press, Taylor Swift has written a song about last year’s Kanye West incident and will unveil it with a surprise performance tomorrow night at the VMAs. That means the two probably won’t team up as some had hoped (here are some of our suggestions for such a pairing), but we’re still dying to hear Swift’s musical take on the now-infamous encounter.

What do you think? Are you excited to hear it, or should they move on, already?

Taylor Thinks Kanye Can Take His Song and Shove It!

9/11/2010 12:42:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

One year after Kanye West stole Taylor Swift's thunder in epic fashion at the MTV Video Music Awards, the attention seeker is at it again, however, this time she's fighting back.

Last weekend, West tweeted that he "wrote a song for Taylor that's so beautiful," and if she rejects it, then he'll perform it for her. Well, warm up that Auto-Tune machine, Kanye, because sources tell me she wants nothing to do with it.

"Taylor writes her own sounds and has been very successful at it," a record executive tells me. "Why would she want to sing one of Kanye's songs? The last thing she wants to do is give him any more attention or make him any money."

It's true that songwriters often make more money than performers on song royalties. Dolly Parton, who wrote 'I Will Always Love You,' famously said that when she wrote the iconic song, she opened a bank account, but when Whitney Houston recorded it, she bought the bank.

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Kanye West Is Still Talking about Taylor Swift—No, Seriously, He Even Wrote Her a Song!

9/05/2010 11:16:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

As crazy, semi-coherent, typo-laden Twitter rants go, Kanye West's often take the cake.

Today's example is no exception.

The controversial hip-hopper went on a nearly three hour tweet bender Saturday morning, expressing in great, 140-character depth his thoughts on Taylor Swift and last year's VMA debacle—and guess what? He's "sorry" and he's written the country music darling her very own Kanye West original.

"I wrote a song for Taylor Swift that's so beautiful and I want her to have it," Kanye tweeted in the wee hours of the morning. "If she won't take it then I'll perform it for her."

This declaration came on the heels of an ongoing Twitter diatribe about his hard knock life in the public eye, and the trauma that came from his now infamous interruption of Miss Swift at the 2009 MTV VMAs.

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Kanye West 'Runaway Love' Remix With Justin Bieber

9/01/2010 04:52:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

It's official: Kanye West and Justin Bieber have teamed up with Wu-Tang Clan's Raekwon to remix Justin's 'My World 2.0' song 'Runaway Love.' They debuted the track on Hip Hop Connection. Twitter brought the unlikely trio together after West tweeted, "Listening to @JustinBieber 'Run Away love.'" The two pop stars then exchanged messages, and the rest is music history.

Raekwon spits two verses, while Kanye takes just one verse on the track. "Last name West, and my teeth diamonds," West raps. "She said, 'Yo, what's your occupation: crazy rhyming?'"

Bieber's vocals from the original recording remain intact.

Earlier this month, Raekwon announced to XXLMag.com that the song was "definitely gonna happen."

"When you got these kinda talents merging together to do something exciting, I think it's something that's gonna make the fans check it out. I'm big fans of both of these guys. I think, at the end of the day, shorty is a sensation," he added.

Justin Bieber and Kanye West possibly to record together: Good idea?

8/18/2010 11:59:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Justin Bieber. Kanye West. Raekwon the Chef. Those might not be three names you ever expected to read in the same sentence. Thanks to Twitter, they seem to be well on their way to forming one of the strangest supergroups in recent memory.

MTV News has a good run-down of how the teen-pop whiz, the cutting-edge rap genius, and the rugged Wu-Tang Clan vet linked up. It all started when Kanye voiced his appreciation for Bieber’s “Runaway Love” on Twitter this past Sunday. Mr. Biebs was duly psyched about this shout-out, and said as much. “So bugged out me and @JustinBieber are tweeting at the same time,” West then reflected. “Social networking is pretty awesome.” West followed this thought with a boldly random suggestion: “Maybe we can do something together. Me, You and Raekwon.” Bieber’s reply: “me, u, and the chef 2gether on a song = EPIC. haha.”

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No Hard Feelings: Kanye West Returns to VMAs

8/13/2010 12:16:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments

Well, that was fast. And predictable.

As soon as Kanye West's name was spotted among the nominees for MTV's Video Music Awards, speculation began as to how he would take part in the ceremony—and whether a certain country cutie was gonna let him finish.

Now we know.

In addition to fellow nominees Florence + the Machine and Drake, the music net has announced that God's gift to Twitter will indeed be taking to the stage Sept. 12 to perform on the as yet hostless show.

"Just met with MTV and it's about to go down!" he tweeted this morning. "VMA's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Gee...wonder if any "surprise" appearances during his set could be the cause of such unbridled enthusiasm?

On a completely, um, unrelated note, Taylor Swift is also up for an award and expected to be present at the ceremony.

Kanye West debuts new Beyoncé-assisted track 'See Me Now'

8/12/2010 11:10:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Kanye West premiered his new "See Me Now" song, featuring Beyoncé and Charlie Wilson, and revealed that his album will be released on Nov. 16 during an interview this afternoon with New York radio station WQHT (Hot 97).

"Beyoncé finished those vocals at 5am this morning," West said of the track. "I couldn't be the only person this summer riding around with that." The rapper added that Nicki Minaj and Kid Cudi will appear on the as-yet-untitled album and that Jay-Z will be featured on the remix to first single "Power," which will premiere this coming Friday (Aug. 13) on the same radio station.

"I swear my whole collection so cool, I might walk in Nobu with no shoes/He just walked in Nobu like it was Whole Foods/That n*gga crazy, I told you," Kanye raps on the airy beat to "See Me Now," produced by Lex Luger ("MC Hammer," "I Go Hard in the Paint") and longtime collaborator No I.D.

"I know one thing, my momma would be proud/And you see me looking up cause I know she's looking down right now," Beyoncé sings on the bridge before Wilson jumps in for the hook. "I know you see me now right now, I know you see me now right now," he repeats in his deep tenor.

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Kanye West “Power” VIDEO

8/06/2010 11:38:00 AM kenmouse , Posted in , , 0 Comments


The video promo for “Power” — the first single from Kanye West’s eagerly- anticipated new album, titled Good Ass Job — was expected to be epic. In fact, this week, Yeezy Tweeted a message to fans hinting that the video wasn’t going to be a video at all, but instead a “painting.”

He wasn’t joking.

Get on the edge of your seats for a moving display of art that features Everyone’s Favorite Gabby Hip-Hopster standing front and center of a platform surrounded Michaelangelo-inspired figures.

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Kanye West's big comeback performance on the BET Awards: How did he do?

6/28/2010 01:11:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , 0 Comments

Kanye West just finished performing his new single “Power” to open the 2010 BET Awards. Even more than usual, all eyes were on Mr. West tonight: This was his first major televised appearance since that ill-fated open mic moment during the MTV Video Music Awards last September. So how did he do?

The man definitely still knows how to make an entrance. Dramatically backlit, West stood on top of a periodically erupting volcano set piece with images of majestic mountain peaks projected behind him. Shades and shadows hid most of his facial expressions, so all we could see was his stylish red suit and enormous chain. But that body language was all Kanye. Striking a defiant pose, he began bellowing out the thoroughly unapologetic lyrics to “Power.”

For some reason, the network kept bleeping those lyrics, but it sounded as if he was already self-censoring all the profanities from the song. (They inexplicably muted Dwele’s recorded backing vocals, too.) That’s because Kanye is a consummate professional. If he left viewers thinking he’s shouting mad, ready to take on the whole world at once, that’s exactly the impression he wanted to leave. “Power” is an angry, conflicted, brilliant song. As I’ve said before, it’s a very unconventional choice for a comeback single. And tonight, Kanye West gave it a masterful rendition that pulled no punches.

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JaeChunSu to join forces with Kanye West & Timbaland?!

6/16/2010 12:02:00 PM kenmouse , Posted in , , , , , 0 Comments

And no, that’s not a misleading title – it looks like Jay Park isn’t the only one touching base with mainstream American artists, because the Triforce of JYJ, Jaejoong, Yoochun and Junsu will be teaming up with Kanye West and Timbaland for what may become a collaboration of epic proportions!


Hitmaking wonder Jae Chong recently posted an update blog on the online artist community alivenotdead.com, outlining his upcoming plans and collaborations for 2010. Although this post went public near the beginning of June, it’s been spreading like wildfire among Cassiopeians as of late for obvious reasons.

Decked out with countless music awards and a star-studded track record, Jae Chong is one of Asia’s revolutionaries of music. His professional musical career kicked off in Los Angeles’ underground hip hop scene back in the nineties, and has since migrated to the Asian music world. Jae first gained widespread fame as a member & producer of the immensely popular R&B group Solid (솔리드), selling over four million records in Korea in just four years – and to put that in context, TVXQ has sold around seven million records (Japan + Korea sales for all discography) since their 2003 debut seven years ago.

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