"These are not real, though," Kanye West recently told a fan when presented with a pair of the rapper/designer/overall creative's Air Yeezy sneakers to autograph. (In the video, he seems to be finishing autographing them as he's saying this.)
On Tuesday's Late Night with Seth Meyers, Kanye West truly cracked the Matrix. Without raising his voice or spiraling into narrative curlicues or providing any of the intensity necessary to render this 2+ minute verbal essay on his creative prowess a "rant," West lucidly explained what he's been saying for a while now…
Kanye West blasted Charlamagne tha God and Sway during a recent show: "What the fuck you did the past 10 years of your past motherfucking life? Charlamagne! Sway! The fuck you did?" Imagine how much more interesting their interviews would have been had he said that then. Imagine how much less cowardly he'd look now.
"I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then," begins Kanye West in his Interview interview with Steve McQueen. It only gets better from there, with Kanye being equally reasonable and outlandish, just like we like him.
Here's a great lede: "Kanye West just attacked an 18-year-old guy inside the waiting room of a chiropractor's office..." Of course he did.
"And Yeezus is the top one or two album on every single list. But only gets two nominations from the Grammys. What are they trying to say?" They're trying to say that they don't like it, Kanye.
Kanye West reportedly filled fewer than 4,500 seats in Kansas City's 18,500-capacity Sprint Center last night. This Yeezy season's a particularly cold one.
As briefly noted, after what would have been a humbling interview with Power 105's Breakfast Club to just about any other person on the planet, Kanye West went on to appear on the Sirius show of MTV personality, Sway. We used to just have audio, and now there is almost 35 minutes of video. Thank Yeezus.
Kanye West has been so present in the media lately, between promotional appearances and his regular mid-concert "visionary streams of consciousness" (as he calls them), that any interview warranting a mention must be pretty damn special. His showing earlier today on New York's Power 105 is one such interview. For over…
"I felt like the main character [in 12 Years a Slave]. And what I'm dealing with even as a mega-popular rich celebrity, you know, 'Fuck you, who do you think you are to complain about anything?' situation that I'm in." - Kanye West
Question: Why won't Kanye West let himself be great? Answer: Kim Kardashian.
The first thing you should know about Kanye West's manic episode on tonight's Jimmy Kimmel Live is that he had some shit in the left corner of his mouth for a large portion of it. That was very distracting, and made everything he said that much harder to take seriously.
I really hope that in a few months' time, we don't find out that Kanye West has some personality disorder or other mental-health issue, because watching him react to the world is just too damn fun and I never want to feel bad about enjoying him.
The public unveiling of North West wasn't the only thing that made Kanye West's hour-long sit down with his baby's grandmother notable. The whole thing had a the stilted air of an infomercial (missed opportunity: a segment in which the quasi-in-laws vacuum-sealed shit for a segment). Kanye was alternately sedate,…
Kanye "Little Mac" West has finally unveiled the official "Black Skinhead" on his website. Aside from a few added transitions of CGI dobermans snarling and some removed CG-eyes that peered out of the periphery, it is the exact same video that leaked earlier this month. That leak prompted a string of tweets from the…
Gawker has obtained audio of an alleged Kanye West erratically justifying his interruption of Taylor Swift's acceptance speech during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards ("Because I wrote my ['Run This Town'] verse in two days, Taylor Swift cannot beat Beyoncé"), ranting about not being asked to perform at the ceremony…
Don't Talk by Kanye West
Once prolific tweeter Kanye West has again taken to Twitter to vaguely explain yesterday's "Black Skinhead" video debacle. The video, which appeared not on his own official site as we initially reported but a site run by his label group Universal Music, he says was unfinished and prematurely leaked. To whomever is…
Earlier today, Kanye West posted the official video for the Yeezus single "Black Skinhead" on his official site. [Update: MTV News points out that the site on which the video was posted is actually a Universal Music Group "development" page.] It features a CGI Kanye dancing to song's Gary Glitter-esque shuffle. It's…
I’m from Chicago.1 I was always on my own island.2 Ever since I was at preschool I had little kids following me around. The teacher just said I was a natural born leader.3 I was in fourth grade painting nude women, because I was a proper artist!4
