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Listen to Chief Keef’s new song ‘Nobody’ featuring Kanye West. The ’12 Million’ produced track features auto-tuned background vocals from Kanye and may have a familiar sounding beat for many hip-hop fans. The track, which samples Willie Hutch’s ‘Brother’s Gonna Work It Out’, sounds very similar to another recent Chicago rap track which samples the Hutch song in almost the same way, Chance The Rapper’s ‘Lost’. Compare the two tracks below.
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After U2’s performance for (RED)’s World AIDS Day was jeopardized due to Bono’s November 16th bike accident in New York’s Central Park, Kanye West and Carried Underwood have stepped to the plate to fill in. West and Underwood will perform at the (RED) event, which starts at 7:30 PM EST. Also, singers Chris Martin and Bruce Springsteen will join U2 (minus Bono), as Bono remains under doctors’ orders to refrain from performing until fully recuperated from his injuries.
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For our Hate It or Love It series we take a current hot topic in music news that polarizes reasonable minds in the music and entertainment world, and we have one of our writers advocate for one side of the argument and have another one of our writers advocate for the other side (trying our best to always stay fair and balanced). One debatable topic in music has resurfaced with today’s release of Rick Ross’ Hood Billionaire album, Ross’ second album release in 2014. While artists like Ross do not let long periods pass before releasing new projects, other artists take noticeable hiatuses between releases, but which model is better for the musician?
Continue reading Hate It or Love It | Do Long Hiatuses Help or Hurt Musicians?
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Kanye West just may have the best fans in music. Although a Hype Williams directed Yeezus Tour film is coming to theatres, one fan compiled a vast amount of fan footage of different tour dates and angles from Kanye’s most recent tour and created a movie of his own. The KanyeToThe.com user ‘Jediswag’, describes his film as a project “compiling footage from almost every stop on the Yeezus tour to make one cohesive film. Using professional and gorilla style footage. The film flows beautifully and not a single major aspect of the Yeezus tour goes unnoticed.” While the project will be released on November 28th, the fan made film runs at 2 hours and 19 minutes and is available now for streaming.
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Unless you were one of the subscribers to Kicker! Magazine circa the early 2000s, you probably never read Kanye’s interview with the youth soccer publication’s Final SCORE segment.
Continue reading Check Out a Rare 2003 Interview with Kanye West Given by a Youth Soccer Magazine
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During an interview with Sway (Shade 45), producer/DJ Million Dollar Mano opened up about being dropped by Kanye West, as Kanye’s touring DJ. While Mano had nothing but good things to say about Kanye, he did take time to share his thoughts about why his termination received attention from blogs, indirectly blaming things on the Kanye fan forum KanyeToThe.com.
Continue reading Kanye’s Former DJ, Million Dollar Mano, Blames Negative Press on KanyeToThe Forum
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Looks like Grammy winning producer Hit-Boy is calling it quits when it comes to being one of hip-hop’s top producers. Chauncey Hollis (Hit-Boy), of Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label, announced on his Twitter that he will no longer be producing. Hit-Boy is best known for his production on Lil Wayne’s ‘Drop the World’, G.O.O.D. Music‘s ‘Clique’ and Kanye and Jay-Z’s ‘N*ggas in Paris’.
Continue reading Grammy Winning Producer Hit-Boy Announces Retirement
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Listen to Kanye and Lorde’s collaboration ‘Flicker’, a rework of Lorde’s ‘Yellow Flicker Beat’.
Continue reading Kanye West Reworks Lorde’s “Yellow Flicker Beat”
On Thursdays we review albums that are considered “classic”. This week it’s the classic album that introduced us to Kanye West, The College Dropout. This album is still today considered one of the best, if not the best, freshman albums of all time (up there with Nas’ Illmatic and 50 Cent’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’). This album, released by Roc-A-Fella Records, was the album that people told the young producer that he could never make. Instead however, not only was it pressed, but it was received with wide critical acclaim and gave us classic hip-hop tracks like ‘Jesus Walks’ ‘All Falls Down’ ‘Through the Wire’ and ‘Slow Jamz’.
Continue reading Throwback Thursday Review: The College Dropout | Kanye West
We FINALLY get this track in it’s entirety from Theophilus London. We originally heard the snippet which had Ye’s verse in it’s entirety. We now get the full version and it’s better than we could have ever thought. This is in my top 10 tracks of 2014 for sure. Definitely check out the entire, Kanye executive produced, Vibes album from Theo.
The Early Registration 