This. I certainly had never heard of her. I wouldn't be surprised if her people somehow paid him for that.
She seems like a lovely gal, and it's a shame seeing KW be so nasty toward her. Maybe not my kind of music, but she has a certain je ne sais quoi.
At least ten million people did and those are just the ones who bought her debut album. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS238032+08-Sep-2009+PRN20090908
The map to the Holy Grail is carved into his head. Or it's the newest version of Ms. Pac-Man. It's in the eye of the beholder is what I'm gettin at.
Nah, Kanye's just a dumb-ass. But don't get me wrong, what he did was stupid and he shouldn't have done it. He ruined the moment for that woman. Another take: that guy, IMO, has been pretty consistent. I think his real problem was with MTV, but him being the way he is, he didn't get that there are different forums for him to share it. He he'd said this after the show? Probably no problem. But he used that platform to show his distaste. As a matter of fact, I don't even know if it was so much about him really, truly believing Beyonce's video was the 'best of all time'. I think West likes publicity, etc. I do think that he speaks his mind. Again though... I'm not condoning the venue and manner that he choses to do so. Another $h!tstorm I'll kick up - I don't think the president of the US should've said anything about it. Even if someone asked him, he could've just said there are more important things to address right now, and if he had to say something, that he wished West hadn't done what he did and left it at that. But probably shouldn't have called him a 'jack-ass', if it's true what people reported.
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Plenty of people/bands have made good music recently. Kanye's just not one of them, nor has he ever been one.
Oh please... follow the logic, will you? Nothing good has been done or happened in the last 8-10 years... not one single thing. Of course, it is still better than what will be done in the next 8-10 years, and by the time the next 8-10 year phase after that comes along, what is being made now will be classic and brilliant. Fact.
Obama can express an opinion any time he wants about any thing he wants. He didn't give that up going into the White House.
You mean the band that rips off half their tunes and puts the beat to 'clocks' behind everything else? A Rush of Blood.. was a great album. Everything since has been schlock. BTW for a revolutionary you are well steeped in popular commercial culture. Or do you just have that murderous jizbucket as your avatar because it's cool?
I agree. I'm waiting for the day when he's exposed as some kind of sociological experiment by a comedy troupe or something. Because he wasn't be put on this earth to make music.
You can hate him as a person, or hate him as a rapper but he's an excellent producer. He's created trends in popular music while at the same time evolving and not trying to make the same record twice. The rise in popularity of sampiing old soul and R&B records in hip hop is for the most part thanks to him. For a period of time everyone was copying the type of beats he made for Jay Z's The Blueprint. The introduction of more electro/dance elements that we've seen the past 2 years or so in hip hop and pop music was also triggered by the stuff he did on Graduation.
I rest my case! Of course he can. Just like I can say or do whatever I want and so can Kanye West. However that doesn't mean that those expressions are always free of consequences. Also - the rise of sampling a lot of soul and R&B material was NOT largely thanks to him. Artists have been doing this for particularly long time.