• Kanye West Time 100 Gala Performance Includes Hit-Packed Set: 'Gold Digger,' 'All Day,' 'Black Skinhead' & More

    If you want a free Kanye West performance at your celeb-packed event, it may be a good idea to name him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Or, at least, that's what Time Magazine got. Last night (April 22), the "All Day" rapper and his wife Kim Kardashain West appeared at the Time 100 gala, and he delighted the crowd by performing a short set of some of his biggest hits.

  • Coachella Tweets Drop 83 Percent During Weekend Two (Because of Nicki Minaj and DMX?)

    Coachella's second weekend featured a massive drop off in social media mentions, despite being an easy sell-out, like the first weekend. Billboard reports that while 3.5 million tweets mentioned Coachella directly during the event's first rendition the previous weekend (with Nicki Minaj and AC/DC driving traffic), only 600,000 mentions went out over the past weekend. What's the story?

  • Kanye West Denies Illuminati Membership, Talks Racism, Altruism, Beauty, Mentoring Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift & More In Paper Mag Essay

    In the new issue of Paper Mag, which last year featured his wife Kim Kardashian nude on the cover, Kanye West pens an essay on his vision of the "American Dream" or as he calls it a "world dream." He addresses his thoughts on race, inequality, altruism, beauty, fashion, music creation, innovation and accusations of him being a part of the Illuminati, among other topics.

  • Kanye West Made Surprise Appearance During Stromae's Coachella 2015 Set For 'Alors On Danse'

    Though Kanye West was not on the bill at Coachella, he appears to have stole the show. The "Only One" rapper made a surprise appearance during The Weeknd's set on Saturday night to perform a medley of different songs including "All Day" that span the Chicago rapper's career. On Sunday he showed up once again, but to perform alongside someone rather unexpected - Belgian electro-pop star Stromae. Kanye came out as the sun had set over in the Indio valley during the Frenchman's 7:55-8:45 set to perform his verse from the remix Stromae's hit single "Alors On Danse" that gave the worldwide hit even more legs. The second and often forgotten rapper on the remix Gilbere Forte was not in attendance.

  • Diddy Announces Kanye West As The Hitmen's Newest Addition Ahead Of 'MMM' Release

    Kanye West got his start as a producer, making beats for the likes of Ludacris, Lil Kim and most notably, Jay Z when West. On Kanye's 'College Dropout' track, "Spaceship," he notes that he made five beats a day for three months to hone his craft as a producer. The "All Day" rapper has made it big time as an artist, a producer and most notably as a rapper, but he is now joining an elite group of beatsmiths called The Hitmen who helped craft countless singles as a part of Diddy's Bad Boy Records in the 1990s and early 2000s.

  • Coachella 2015: The Weeknd Brings Out Kanye West As Surprise Guest During Set

    As Coachella has become bigger and bigger as a festival, it is has become more about the spectacle and which artist can pull off the bigger stunt with some sort of marketing gimmick or special guest that will have more people write and talk about it over the next few days. The Weeknd understood the magnitude of his role as the final performer on the main stage at Coachella Saturday night and brought out a very special guest for the occasion. The "Earned It" crooner invited Kanye West to perform four tracks alongside him.

  • Cassandra Wilson Reinterprets Billie Holiday Nicely on 'Coming Forth By Day'

    Society always celebrates the records that top the Billboard 200 album chart. Back of The Billboards is a Music Times weekly segment that looks at the opposite end: the new record that finished closest to the back of the Billboard 200 for the previous week. We hope to give a fighting chance to the bands you haven't heard of. This week we look at Cassandra Wilson and her tribute to the discography of Billie Holiday, 'Coming Forth By Day.'

  • Kanye West 'All Day' Kendrick Lamar Full Remix Appears On Web [LISTEN]

    After hearing snippets and tantalizingly short teasers over the past few days, it appears as though the full version of Kendrick Lamar's remix for Kanye West's recent single "All Day" has hit the web. The version that just appeared online does not sound finished and could be a demo or a reference track, but it gives a more complete picture as to how the full remix is will sound when it is at last released. Stream it below via MTV.

  • Glastonbury 2015 Lineup: Foo Fighters, Kanye West, Pharrell, Florence + The Machine Headline

    One of the largest festivals in the world, Glastonbury, has announced the first wave of artists on the 2015 lineup. As one of the oldest and proudest festival institutions in the UK and internationally, Glasto prides itself on getting some of finest acts in the world and this year, in the first wave of artists alone they have accomplished just that. The June festival will be headlined by the likes of the Foo Fighters, Kanye West, Florence + The Machine, Pharrell, Alt-J, Lionel Richie, deadmau5, The Chemical Brothers, Motörhead, Alabama Shakes, Mary J. Blige and many more.
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