We have said it before, no one is better at what they do than “Nardwuar the Human Serviette”. His interviews are not only informative and entertaining, but he will bring out information in an artist that even their closest friends and relatives don’t know. His research is top notch, and with every classic Nardwuar interview comes a new artist who is blown away by the Canadian native’s skills. Everyone from Drake to Pharrell and more have been left more than impressed.
And for sometime, Nardwuar and Kanye West fans alike have prayed that the two would one day meet for an exclusive interview. The type of information and gifts that Nardwuar could pull out for Kanye are almost unimaginable. And that day may finally come, as a recent post by Kanye West’s producer and engineer Mike Dean, seems to suggest that Nardwuar and Kanye met today (or are meeting today) during Kanye’s Vancouver stop on the Saint Pablo Tour (where Nardwuar is from).
While Dean doesn’t directly confirm that an interview took place, or is taking place, he posted a photo with Nardwuar on Instagram minutes ago, backstage at the Rogers Arena. This seems to suggest that the interview we have all been waiting for has finally took place!
Last night, Kanye West put on a memorable show for his hometown as the Saint Pablo Tour traveled to Chicago’s Allstate Arena in Rosemont, IL. As with the previous dates on the tour, Kanye brought his one-of-a-kind floating stage, which creates for a huge party on the floor.
Check out our photos from last night’s performance below and check out the tour’s remaining dates here.
Last night, Kanye West brought his critically acclaimed Saint Pablo Tour to the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Not only did Kanye bring a hip-hop show to a market which rarely sees an appearance from such a marque name in rap, but he brought the hottest tour in the world right now.
As with the previous dates on the tour, Kanye brought his one-of-a-kind floating stage, which creates for a huge party on the floor. With Kanye stopping the show to demand that security allow fans to go wherever they want on the floor, and with fans moshing beneath the stage, Kanye’s Michigan fans lived a night that they will never forget.
Check out our photos from last night’s performance below and check out the tour’s remaining dates here.
Despite vowing never to create an Instagram account, Kanye West has finally joined the party by creating account on the popular social media app. And what did Kanye choose for his very first post, on his account which has already been verified? A scene from the popular 1990 film, “Total Recall”, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
What is the significant of this scene? Does Kanye just love Mexico City? Is he a huge Arnold fan? Is he dropping hints about his next album? We don’t know, but let’s just be excited that Ye finally jumped on the Instagram bandwagon.
Trigger fingers turned to Twitter fingers earlier today as former GOOD Music rapper Kid Cudi has sent shots at his rap peers, Drake and his former labelhead, Kanye West. Although the relationship between Kanye and Cudi has been rocky ever since Cudi left GOOD, it seemed that all was well again when Cudi appeared on Kanye’s The Life of Pablo for his track, ‘Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1’.
But apparently not, as earlier today Cudi tweeted “the days of the fuckery are over”, continuing “the fake ones wont be lasting too much longer.” Kid Cudi also added, “everyone thinks they’re soooo great. Talkin top 5 and be having 30 people write songs for them.” While many speculated who Cudi was talking about, he later put any speculation to rest when he called out Kanye and Drake specifically.
“My tweets apply to who they apply. (Kan)Ye, Drake, whoever. These niggas dont give a fuck about me. And they aint fuckin with me.”
This isn’t the first time Cudi has called out Kanye, which Ye has yet to ever respond to publicly. While the two always seem to make up and hop back in the studio, it will be interesting to see if that happens again following Cudi’s most recent tweets.
After a ton of anticipation and hype, it appears like fans will finally see the release of Cruel Winter, the GOOD Music collaborative album and follow up to 2012’s Cruel Summer. According to Travis Scott, who spoke with Hot 97 this morning, Cruel Winter will likely drop in February of 2017.
“It’s coming very soon. I’m saying February.”
Although it certainly isn’t a hard release date, if we get Cruel Winter anytime in 2017, we will be more than excited, since Cruel Summer brought bangers like ‘Mercy’, ‘Clique’, ‘Don’t Like’ and more. Scott said that a lot of songs are finished for the collaborative LP, but only a handful of songs have been picked to make the cut. La Flame also added that the project is very youthful, so expect a lot of the future on this one (no Desiigner pun intended).
Kanye West and Taylor Swift have had a rocky relationship ever since his “Imma let you finish” moment at the VMAs years ago. And just when it looked like the two were good (friends even), things got crazy when Kanye released his new album, The Life of Pablo, with the record ‘Famous’, where Kanye claims he feels like “Taylor (and Kanye) might still have sex.”
That’s when all hell broke lose. Taylor was publicly upset, then rumors swirled that Swift actually gave Kanye the green light for the lyric, then Kim Kardashian West posted video evidence of a phone call where Taylor is okay with the lyric, then Taylor claimed she wasn’t aware of the “making that b*tch famous” part of the song and threatened legal action over the posting of the phone call. It’s not clear exactly what to believe, but many viewed the whole situation as a big W for Kanye and a big L for Taylor, helping Kanye’s public image and damaging Taylor previously perfect image.
But despite coming out ahead and despite Taylor threatening Kanye with a lawsuit over the release of a phone call which she previously denied even happened, Kanye has just shown love for the ‘Bad Blood’ singer on Twitter. Sharing a photo of a t-shirt that blends Kanye’s album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and Swift’s pop LP, 1989, Kanye writes “unity love”.
Let’s just hope that the two can finally make up and make some dope music together one day, so everyone wins.
After debuting the video during the MTV Video Music Awards earlier tonight, Kanye West has released his newest music video, this time for his The Life of Pablo record, ‘Fade’. The visuals for the Post Malone assisted track are another hit for Kanye, but unfortunately for a lot of fans, it’s also another TIDAL exclusive. So all the more reason to subscribe, right? If you didn’t catch the video at the VMAs, you can get a free trial to TIDAL and watch the new video now.
Watch Kanye’s new music video for ‘Fade’, here at TIDAL.
Following a huge inaugural year in 2014, Chicago’s AAHH! Fest took a year hiatus and many wondered if the Common-led festival would return to the Windy City. With huge performances from big Chi-town names like Common, Lupe Fiasco, Twista, Jennifer Hudson, a superstar surprise headlining set from Kanye West, comedy from Dave Chappelle and other memorable performances from MC Lyte, De La Soul, Jay Electronica and more, AAHH! Fest had a monumental first year, which left many disappointed when news broke that the festival would not be returning in 2015.
But fear not! AAHH! Fest is returning this year, as Common will surely bring another great lineup to his hometown in 2016. Coming back to Union Park on September 24-25 (now a two day festival), we couldn’t be more excited to see what Common has in store. While the lineup has yet to be announced, you can now buy pre-sale tickets for the festival’s main stage, which will take place on Sunday, September 25th.
AAHH! Fest isn’t just a great music fest either, it’s also Common’s dedication to bringing education programs and jobs to Chicago, by raising funds to support the Common Ground Foundation and Donda’s House, the charitable organizations of Common, Kanye West and Rhymefest.
Get your presale tickets now and check out our photos from 2014’s AAHH! Fest below.
Everyone and their mother has an opinion about Kanye West and his new music video for his The Life of Pablo record, ‘Famous’. The video, which debuted last Friday night to a sold-out crowd at The Forum, depicts a number of nude celebrities that have played some sort of huge role in West’s life. Whether it’s Taylor Swift to his right, Kim Kardashian-West to his left, or even George Bush, a number of life-like wax figures were created for Kanye’s newest piece of art. While there is a lot of speculation whether some of these celebrities will sue Kanye, Mr. West is gladly inviting everyone to try him with a lawsuit, however he may be safe due to an unlikely source.
Decades ago, the U.S. Supreme Court made a unanimous decision in the case of Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell. The 1988 case was a result of a parody advertisement that Hustler placed in its November 1983 issue, that depicted the famous minister and political leader (Falwell) as a drunk who had a sexual relationship with his mother in an outhouse. As a result, Falwell sued for libel, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and at the lower court level, he won $150,000 in damages for the offensive advertisement.
Lucky for Hustler and a future Kanye West however, the magazine’s attorneys decided to appeal and the Supreme Court took on the question of whether the First Amendment (freedom of speech) protects offensive statements about public figures, especially when it results in the suffering of emotional distress. And in an unanimous decision, the Supreme Court answered yes. Since Falwell was a public figure, he was not able to recover for intentional infliction of emotional distress because a person would not reasonably believe that the offensive speech in this case was an actual fact. Therefore, because no one would actually think that this ad in Hustler was real and accurate, their speech was protected by the First Amendment.
This decision was huge for free speech in relation to public figures and celebrities, and fast forward over two decades later, this very case applies to the protection of Kanye West’s newest music video. While we still live in America, and people can sue for almost any reason, that does not mean they will be successful. And because of the decision in Hustler v. Falwell, anyone that takes on Kanye West in court over his ‘Famous’ video will have a tough time. Not only is the video arguable not offensive or defamatory, since nudity is artistic and beautiful (one could easily argue) and not by itself offensive, but no reasonable person, especially given all the press this video has received, would actually think that the video showcased the actual nude body of Taylor Swift, George Bush and more. While the wax figures were remarkably life-like, they were obviously not the real celebrities that the figures portrayed.
I can easily understand why a celebrity would be upset, but they can blame the attorneys from Hustler. If the Supreme Court unanimously decided to protect a porn magazine from suggesting that someone is a drunk who has sex with their mother, then the majority of courts could certainly decide to protect an artist (inspired by well-known painting) from simply using nude wax figures of famous celebrities in his piece.
Kanye may not have to wait too long before someone calls his bluff and sues him, but I have a feeling he will be just fine.
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