I can’t wait to see what Kanye West says about this. From MTV, where you can read more of the story:
According to several reports, during her upcoming appearance on BBC One’s “The Graham Norton Show” (which airs in the UK Friday night), Allen will reveal that she’s calling her third album Sheezus, a none-too-subtle salute to West’s most recent record.
“It’s a confident title choice and a little nod to Kanye West,” Allen tells Norton.
I forgot all about this, but Bonnaroo had previously had Kanye West headline back in 2008, which didn’t exactly end on a high note. That year, Kanye didn’t even go on until after 4am in the morning, and ended up giving a half-ass performance before blaming Bonnaroo, the previous act (Pearl Jam) and pretty much anyone within eyeshot for the debacle.
Fast forward to 2014, and Superfly (the festival’s promoter) has once again booked the Chicago emcee/producer….below is a message released explaining exactly why they decided to so:
First and foremost, we think Kanye is one of the most prolific and groundbreaking artists of this generation. He’s hugely influential. His albums are as great and as acclaimed as they get. He’s also a great live performer. He takes a lot of chances and he’s adventurous with the live space. All those things are what Bonnaroo performers are about. That’s why we booked him [in 2008].
Everyone has moved on—it’s in the past. We’re happy he wants to come back to Bonnaroo and is embracing this. It’s a great opportunity for everyone to look forward, and we think it’s a great opportunity for the Bonnaroo community to show what it’s made of. It goes back to what Bonnaroo stands for: It’s about having good time, radiating positivity and that whole message. We couldn’t be more excited about what we think has the potential to be another historic Bonnaroo moment. – Superfly’s Rick Farman, as explained to Relix
Looking at the lineup, this could be a top 3 festival for this year easily (at least in the United States), with the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Frank Ocean, Elton John, Vampire Weekend, Jack White and more…..and now they’ve locked in Kanye West.
Get your tickets here….the festival goes down in Tennessee June 12th-15th.
On Wednesday night, Kanye West made a stop in Albany, NY on the second leg of his Yeezus tour…during his (you guessed it) 9-minute speech, Kanye West says he was humbly top 5, dead or alive. What do you think?
“When I say genius, why is that offensive? Like I hurt somebody… Rap is all geniuses. When you go to school don’t they talk about poets, like they geniuses? What y’all witnessing; Wayne, Eminem, Drake, Jay Z, right now in front of you, doing genius work. But because we’ve got gold chains and we’ve got gold teeth they don’t wanna think we’re geniuses.”
After hearing an advanced copy of Kanye West’s Yeezus, American Psycho author Bret Easton has apparently agreed to do a new film project with Chicago emcee. In an interview with Noisey, he had this to say below:
“He came and asked me to write the film. I didn’t want to at first. Then I listened to Yeezus. It was early summer last year and I was driving in my car,” Easton explains. “He’d given me an advance copy and I thought, regardless of whether I’m right for this project, I want to work with whoever made this. So fuck it, I said yes. And that’s how it happened. That was seven or eight months ago. We’ll see what happens.”
During his stop in Montreal, Canada, Kanye West spoke on the importance of quality of life, how he made a mark in the game, comparisons with Disney, the goals he plans to achieve in the fashion world, the different sounds in his discography and more.
Amber Rose recently sent out a tweet which seemingly disses Kanye West’s inclusion onto Beyoncé’s ‘Drunk In Love’…..naturally, she denied the implications soon after. You can check out all tweets above….what are your thoughts?
During Kanye West’s tour stop in Newark, New Jersey last night, he defended Drake against Rolling Stone in his latest rant. Kanye also talked about his opinion on Macklemore’s Grammy wins, being a “genius”, rappers doing well in the music industry, picking Adidas for his latest deal, Tim Cook getting artists to perform at the iTunes Festival for free and more.
You knew that Charlamagne was going to respond to Kanye West following his latest rant.
If Kanye wants to do radio interviews and he doesn’t want the host to talk, he might as well just do video blogs. I just want him to calm down and not get high blood pressure. And Kim, please go buy Kanye some chocolates or some flowers, some balloons for Valentines, please. He’s acting like a single bitter bitch right now. I just wanna know, where was all that when he was here on The Breakfast Club. How can y’all respect that? How did you get mad after the fact? If you felt that way, you sat here in the studio for over an hour and didn’t say none of that. But now, 3 or 4 months later you’re ranting about me again.
Beyoncé resumes the (reverse?) cowgirl position in the above trailer. You can check out the full remix with Kanye West here until the video premieres.
Just in case the above clip gets shut down (and it probably will), you can check out the amended Instagram clip below.
Late pass…
Long-time Kanye West associate Ibn Jasper revealed pics of Kanye, friends and family in celebration for The College Dropout‘s 10th year anniversary, complete with a bear mascot cake. Check out his Instagram pics above.
12 years later, Complex unearths some antique bars from Kanye West that apparently went down following this interview.
Kanye West restarted his Yeezus tour in Philadelphia, and got back into rant mode in the middle of performing. Two of the subjects this time? Sway (again) and (not surprised) Charlamagne.
“What the fuck did you do? What have you done with the past 10 years of your motherfucking life? Charlamagne1? Sway!? What have you done? Fuck you did? … I AM YEEZUS.”
Below….Kanye gets positive and shows his fans some love…
I’d like to thank everybody that came out tonight in the snow. I really thank y’all for coming and supporting tonight.
After all these years, you know, of making music…dreaming out loud…dreaming, dreaming out loud…dreaming out loud, standing out in the crowd, standing out in the crowd, still dreaming out loud. Anybody tonight, anybody tonight has a dream? If you believe that you can be anything, put your hands up one time if you believe that you can be anything, if you can be anything
You know people used to say, they used to say I like to talk a lot of shit, but i want to clarify that, in 2014. I ain’t talking a whole bunch of shit. I might talk a whole bunch of truth. My truth. I might express myself out loud. Out loud, out loud, out loud…they say it’s not allowed, they say it’s not allowed…they say i’m way too proud…they say yeezy can you calm down…oh not right now.
You know when I be in the studio, this is exactly how i do. I get in front of the booth, and like, I just freestyle – i don’t know if you’ve ever seen on YouTube, this part of the show will be 20 minutes sometimes.
That’s cause I really feel like y’all are my family…like y’all are in the studio with me. I really feel like I can say anything in front of y’all.
I hope I didn’t keep y’all too long tonight…playing all these records. Talking all that truth. I couldn’t be standing here right now if it wasn’t for all of y’all supporting me all these years. Screaming on people on my behalf. Like y’all in my family. Like “don’t say shit about Ye!”
I know y’all keep that. I appreciate that. Y’all love me no matter where we go. Y’all don’t give a fuck what happen…y’all don’t care if I have a red suit on…y’all don’t care if I have a kilt on…y’all dont’ care if I’m on a motorcycle. “Don’t say shit about Ye!” You know what I’m saying?
It’s y’all that give this the power. The whole idea behind Yeezus is “Yeez…is…us”. It’s so when y’all that be in situations when people be trying to hold y’all back, suppress y’all ideas, talk shit when you’re at work, whatever…and you just can’t say nothing.
So I just took 2013 to try and say everything that couldn’t nobody say. I got in trouble, but what’s a little trouble, you know what I mean? Everybody’s so scared of trouble.
But I’d be more afraid of not having the love of y’all. I’d be more afraid of not giving you everything that I got. I’d be more afraid of turning into one of these people inside of the system that’s so scared to do anything. To say anything. And controlled by everything. And they don’t believe in anything.
It’s like you just can’t hold on to nothing no more. You can’t believe in nothing. You can’t believe in yourself. You dont’ stand for something, you fall for everything. You don’t stand for nothing, you fall for anything.
Complex keeps the vintage Kanye clips coming for the 10th year anniversary of The College Dropout. This one comes from Coode.
This is dope, as well as other clips that’s we’ve been getting from The College Dropout era. Above, Kanye West reveals an unfinished version of the JAY Z-assisted ‘Never Let You Down’ to Pharrell Williams during a studio session.
I’ll be honest: I don’t know if this has already come on, I don’t know when the show premieres…I don’t even watch the show. But for those like me who have been intrigued by the proposal since we first heard the news, E! has this for you.
Kim Kardashian lives every girl’s dream in this magical moment from San Francisco’s AT&T Park. Join her family as they watch the couple from the stands!
Yesterday, Rolling Stone put out the first part of the interview with Drake where he shared his opinion of Macklemore sending Kendrick Lamar an apology text after his Grammy win. In the second part, Drake questions some of Kanye’s lyrics on Yeezus, and even seems to throw a shot at Fabulous. In addition, he spoke on his relationship with Rihanna. Check out some candid quotes from the article below.
There were some real questionable bars on there. Like that ‘Swaghili‘ line? Come on, man. Even Fabolous wouldn’t say some shit like that.”
“Kanye’s the reason why I’m here. I love everything about that guy.”
[ON RIHANNA] “She’s the ultimate fantasy. I mean, I think about it. Like ‘Man, that would be good’. We have fun together, she’s cool and shit. But we’re just friends, she’s my dog for life. I’m not after p*ssy like I was three years ago, when I was trying to make up for all the years when no girl would talk to me. But I haven’t met somebody that makes everybody else not matter.”
From TMZ:
You’d think the rapper would’ve been in a better mood last night … since he sat courtside at a high school basketball game in Brentwood to support a friend’s nephew — but nope, he looked MISERABLE.
Sources on scene tell us … one of the kids playing in the game is the nephew of Kanye’s designer friend Tracey Mills … and Yeezy was there to show his support.
Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the release of Kanye West’s debut album The College Dropout. Kanye turned to his Twitter to reflect on the milestone:
“Ten years ago today we finally released what had been my life’s work up to that point: The College Dropout.
I say “finally” because it was a long road, a constant struggle, and a true labor of love to not only convince my peers and the public that I could be an artist, but to actually get that art out for the world to hear.
I am extremely grateful to each and every person along that road who helped, lent an ear, lent their voice, gave of their heart to that project, and to all the projects that followed, and are to come.
I am honored and humbled by my fans, for the unwavering support and love over the past ten years. I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.
Ten years later I am still the same kid from Chicago, still dreaming out loud, still banging on the door. The doors may be heavier, but I promise you WE WILL BREAK THEM.”
The full special airs tomorrow at 10am (EST) (the network airing on REVOLT TV is at 10pm):
On Monday, February 10, the music world will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the release of Kanye West’s barrier-defying and genre-defining debut album, The College Dropout.
While some will mark the occasion with think pieces and retrospectives, here at REVOLT, we’ll commemorate the date with a thorough and vivid profile of the album, as told by its contributors and those voices who helped shape Kanye’s persona in the public eye.
Now, despite all of the new and challenging music that emerges every week (and every day, as chronicled by Amrit Singh’s daily music report right here on REVOLT), sometimes in order to look forward to where music is headed, you have to look back at the albums that shaped its current sound, feel, and aesthetic. And really, perhaps no album from the past decade dictated modern music, or more specifically hip-hop music’s future, more than Kanye West’s The College Dropout.
Released on the heels of his mentor Jay Z’s The Blueprint and 50 Cent’s Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, Dropout was a thoroughly weird and idealistic album from an equally weird and idealistic visionary who has continued to turn music on its head throughout his illustrious, decade-long career.
From Graduation’s stadium-status anthems to 808s’ robot-heartbreak love songs to Yeezus’ futuristic punk-rap, Kanye’s proved time and again that he’s always a few (or a dozen) steps ahead, but it all started with Dropout.
In our look back at the album, we spoke with an esteemed list of Kanye’s collaborators, the execs who helped him perfect his vision, and the journalists who chronicled his rise, including Dame Dash, J. Ivy, Miri Ben Ari, Freeway, Common, John Monopoly, Emmanuelle Cuny-Diop, Kenny Burns, Coodie & Chike, GLC, Syleena Johnson, Ferris Bueller, Al Branch, Jon Caramanica, Rob Stone, and Matthew Schnipper. – REVOLT
We also threw up some unreleased footage during that era as well.
According to Chief Keef’s manager Peeda Pan, Kanye West & Chief Keef have several new songs together on each other’s projects….the comments come following a recent picture that showed the two Chi-Town artists in the studio. No release date yet for Bang 3.
“Yeah, they working on a few songs for each other’s projects”
According to TMZ, George Zimmerman wants to get in the ring with Kanye West because of his history of attacking defenseless people such as the paparazzi and the 18-year-old kid who called his fiancée a “nigger lover”. I think this is a bad idea for George Zimmerman, because it doesn’t matter who he gets in the ring with; it will not end very well for him unless he has a gun to defend himself.
Chief Keef and Kanye West were once again spotted in the studio…..I honestly look forward to the result of this meeting (it could be for a new track off of Keef’s Bang 3 project).
