Kanye West

Kanye West crashes Occupy Wall Street, says nothing, still makes headlines

​Kanye West has never been one to let a big, zeitgeist-y moment pass without seizing and babbling narcisistically through it. So it comes as something of a shock that at the Occupy Wall Street protests the other day, he let hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons do all of his talking for him, which in rap ... More >>

Kanye West offers subscription to his life, here are 13 possible special features

​Talk about putting your business in the street - or out on the Internet, as it were. Basically, for between $3.99 and $4.99 per month, you get to watch a carefully edited version of Kanye West's Life. As Pitchfork reported yesterday, this quasi-Orwellian cash-in includes concerts, rehearsals, det ... More >>

5 most ridiculous lines on 'Watch the Throne'

​Kanye West and Jay-Z's collaborative effort Watch the Throne sees two of rap's hugest artists team up to become even more hugest-er. Prior to listening, I had mixed feelings about the whole concept: Both rappers are so gigantic and rich and bored that I figured the album would be like an episode ... More >>

Prince, Kanye West to somehow share stage at Swedish festival Way Out West

​We just received word that Prince will be joining the lineup for this summer's Way Out West festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, which already includes -- wait for it -- Kanye West, Pulp, Robyn, Fleet Foxes, Janelle Monae, Wiz Khalifa, the Jayhawks, Explosions In The Sky, James Blake, oh my god, where ... More >>

Kanye West's next album: 26 possible titles

​In case you hadn't guessed by now, Kanye West will not relent, he will not back down, he will not take a non-working vacation, he will not seclude himself on a remote island in a toga with Buddhist monks or exploit his life story in self-help book form or film a Twitter infomercial.No, West will ... More >>

Explained: Kanye West and Jay-Z Announce 'H.A.M.'

​Originally announced last August, Yeezy Baby and Jay-Z's collaborative album is sort of nearly upon us, with West announcing the first single's release last night on (where else?) the Twitter thing.That first single, titled "H.A.M.," is set to be released this coming Tuesday, and boy are there so ... More >>

Kanye West engineer and local Andrew Dawson helping P.O.S. record new album

Photo by B FRESH​While there has been plenty talk locally about Justin Vernon's involvement on the new Kanye West record, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the LA Times pointed out another local tie today: engineer Andrew Dawson, a Hopkins native who worked in the studio with Kanye.

Kanye West & friends send out their best Christmas wishes

​And just like that, Kanye West's long, strange art-rap journey of a year winds down with a Christmas posse cut, of all things - a Christmas posse cut that leaks, then is hoisted for sale on iTunes, then is issued as the final, long-delayed piece of the canny/self-aggrandizing G.O.O.D. Fridays puz ... More >>

Top 5 most overrated artists of 2010

Photo by Stacy SchwartzMumford & Sons at the Varsity Theater last May​Now, before you get all bent out of shape with this list, let me point out that just because I feel a band or an artist is overrated doesn't mean I don't like them or their music. It just conveys my belief that the massive ... More >>

Lupe Fiasco's Modest Mouse-cribbed single 'The Show Goes On'

​It's been close to three years since Lupe Fiasco's The Cool was released, a follow-up to his Grammy-nominated and universally-lauded debut from 2006 Food & Liquor. In the mean he's announced and abandoned as least as many projects as he's completed, including a novel, his group ... More >>

The Week That Was: P4K knights Kanye, Black-Eyed Peas at Super Bowl

​Holiday weeks are hell on columns like this one. Not because nothing happens, but because nobody's around to report on what's happening. In any event, here's what we were able to find out about what went down while we were hanging Christmas lights, getting sick, and stuffing ourselves full of tur ... More >>

Justin Vernon of Bon Iver on Kanye West

​Quite a few revelations abound in this fascinating in-depth report on the vibe in Kanye West's Hawaii studio during the creation of his just-released My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Seriously. We can't stop chuckling about the rules Ye tacked up on the studio walls, including "No Tweeting" and ... More >>

Eight G.O.O.D. reasons to buy 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' today

​Finally! After tons of build-up, Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is out in stores today. Here are eight reasons you should buy it immediately.

Kanye West and the Today Show incident

​How do you know when you're really, really, really ridiculously famous? When a tweet you compose about how you're not going to appear on a morning talk show gets picked up and reported by every news outlet in the country.

Delta won't confirm Kanye West's in-flight rap

Kanye West gave a rapper's in-flight delight.​It's there on video: Kanye West got a hold of the public address system on a Delta flight from Minneapolis to New York and treated passengers to some high-altitude rap. But for privacy and security reasons, Delta won't confirm that Taylor Swift's ... More >>

Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Fridays: What's Really G.O.O.D.?

​Like death, taxes, and incomprehensible, wrongheaded Fox News/Tea Party memes, we've become used to Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Fridays series. Unlike death, taxes, and the GOP, G.O.O.D. Friday eucharists will cease to arrive at about the same time that Santa Claus begins his annual international rever ... More >>

Kanye in Minneapolis: A superfan reflects on her experience

Photos by Stefanie Odberg for 96.3 NOW​BY HANNAH SILK CHAMPAGNEWhen is a listening party not just a listening party?When it's a Kanye West listening party.

Kanye breaks into cockpit to rap for MSP-to-NYC flight

​Just a few short hours after elating fans in the Twin Cities with an intimate meet-and-greet and listening party, Kanye West decided to perform an impromptu show aboard his flight from Minneapolis to New York City.

Kanye West airplane rap: Will pulling a cockpit Taylor Swift have repercussions?

Would you want this man in the cockpit of your flight?​My first reaction to the leaked video of Kanye West rapping from the cockpit on a Delta flight from Minneapolis to New York City was: That is so cool. I wish I was on that flight.My second reaction was: I wonder which Delta employee is going t ... More >>

Kanye West drops into Minneapolis for a meet-and-greet

Via @justbrad​Fans of the Top 40 station 96.3 NOW (formerly B96) were treated to a special meet-and-greet today with Kanye West amidst a whirlwind week of promotion for his new album. Thanks to Twitter, we got to sneak a peek at the action -- our quick Tweecap of the afternoon is below, and check ... More >>

Kanye West's "Runaway": We watched it so you won't have to

​It's kind of an unwritten law of modern pop stardom: if you're a power-player, you need a movie. It doesn't have to last for two hours, but it needs to run longer than a traditional music video, it should let you flaunt your acting chops, and it should tell a story.

Kanye penis pictures: Does West have a Brett Favre problem?

​Hot on the heels of Brett Favre's sext scandal, Kanye West is facing his own penis pic problem.Yesterday celebrity gossip site Radar Online reported that they'd seen two pictures--currently for sale--in which Yeezy displays his dong."These pics have been floating around since he hit so many girls ... More >>

Kanye West's "Runaway" is bait and tackle for fans and haters

​"You've been putting up with my shit just way too long."Coasting up the charts after his announcement yesterday and sidling out of the gate with a beat that Beth Gibbons could eat alive, Kanye West's new single "Runaway" featuring Pusha-T is polarizing, arguably meh, and more ordnance targeted at ... More >>

Kanye West flips Bon Iver's 'Woods' into modern classic of epic proportions

​Let's not get it twisted. Bon Iver's "Woods" is an amazing, mesmerizing song, a sort of Daft-Punk-gone-acapella existentialist mediation on loneliness and self-doubt that deftly exploits repetition and Autotune to make a gothic, isolationist point about how every man is, ultimately, an island.

Kanye West's top three recent leaks

​In case you've been living inside of a Louis Vuitton handbag, Kanye West is kind of back. In a big way. As in, making himself totally unavoidable. Everywhere you turn, there he is again: popping up as an animated character on The Cleveland Show, closing out the Video Music Awards in the most bomb ... More >>

The VMAS: Goddammit

​The most vapid and useless event in the music industry happened last night - no, not the Grammys/Country Music Awards/Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inductions/Band Aid/Entourage season premieres/American Idol/issues of Rolling Stone - it's MTV's 42nd Annual Video Music Awards, a myopic perineum desp ... More >>

Kanye West apologizes to Taylor Swift in the stalkeriest way (not about race)

​Two opinions crossing my mind at the moment: Kanye West is ridiculous, and Twitter is dumb. Highly unoriginal opinions to be sure, but still, I possess them. Hey, remember when Kanye pulled that stunt with Taylor Swift at the VMAs like a year ago? Of course, we all do. Is it worth talking ... More >>

Kanye West calls in Bon Iver: Hawaii 5-OMG

image by: Matt Bardins​"I called [Vernon] and we ended up becoming like really good friends, playing basketball together everyday, and going into the back studio and just record his parts," West told Rolling Stone. "He's similar to me, like where he just does shit just so people would be like, ... More >>

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image by: Matt Bardins​"I called [Vernon] and we ended up becoming like really good friends, playing basketball together everyday, and going into the back studio and just record his parts," West told Rolling Stone. "He's similar to me, like where he just does shit just so people would be like, ... More >>

Kanye West's "VH1 Storytellers": inanely great

Storytellers arrives at a moment when West's rep could maybe use a little polish.

Kanye West's top 5 guest raps of the '00s

We're countin' em down, end-of-decade style.

The Songs We Can't Escape

We're countin' em down, end-of-decade style.

The Songs We Can't Escape

We're countin' em down, end-of-decade style.

The Songs We Can't Escape

We're countin' em down, end-of-decade style.

Are You Ready for the Country: How to tune a turd

Ten ways I'd put the hurt on Kanye West.

Kanye west to appear on American Idol as guest vocalist

The rapper savant will join the ranks of American Idol singing mentors, alongside such vocal luminaries as, you know, Kenny Rogers.

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The rapper savant will join the ranks of American Idol singing mentors, alongside such vocal luminaries as, you know, Kenny Rogers.

From Cool Kids to Kanye: Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums Of 2008

Kanye's Crate

The Songs We Can't Escape

Robber Barons

Kanye Bests 50 Cent, But Is Either Album a Winner?

5ingles

The songs we can't escape

12/13 Morning Communiqué

The songs we can't escape

Twenty Damn Records That Can Make You... Break Down and Cryyyyy. Or Dance or whatever.

One man's journey through 2005's best recorded music

Record review round-up declares Atmosphere "pretty good"

One man's journey through 2005's best recorded music

Edutainment

Kanye West gets an honorary degree in Afro-American studies

Rare

Common's 'Be' dreams a new vision for hip hop, begs us to become

Last Year a DJ Saved My Life

Radio Gaga's 10 best pop singles of 2004

Kanye West: College Dropout

Radio Gaga's 10 best pop singles of 2004