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Kanye West And Naoto Fukasawa Reimagine McDonald’s Packaging
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ronald Martinez / Getty Kanye West is adding his magic touch to the world’s most famous fast food chain. He and Naoto Fukasawa are reimagining McDonald’s packaging. As per The Grio the Chicago, Illinois native has teamed up with popular chain for a collaboration that has taken the world by surprise. For many weeks his social media channels have been largely inactive but on Tuesday, May 24 he returned with the announcement. “Ye teams up with industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa to reimagine McDonald’s packaging” the caption read. The accompanying visual features a square McDonald’s sandwich wrapped in what seems to be a cellophane wrapper. As expected the iconic double arch logo is prominently featured on top. Related Stories In a since deleted Instagr...
Kanye West’s 2020 Presidential Campaign Claims They Got Fleeced In Fraud Scheme
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty Kanye West’s doomed 2020 Presidential Campaign claims they were the victims of fraud. According to the campaign committee, they were defrauded of thousands of dollars that went to pay off someone’s credit card. Scammers gonna scam. Per TMZ, Ye’s campaign committee sent a letter to the Federal Election Commission notifying them that someone who was not part of the campaign used the committee’s bank account to pay off a $3,999 credit card bill. Related Stories In a letter fired off Tuesday to the FEC, and obtained by TMZ, Kanye 2020 says an investigation determined someone accessed the account three times between December and February, and the campaign was unable to get the money back from the First Bank of Wyoming. The FEC...
Kanye West aka Ye’s ‘DONDA 2’ Is Still Arriving In Final Form, Allegedly
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Gotham / Getty The enigmatic, extended and elusive path toward the release of Kanye West’s 11th album, DONDA 2, continues. The announcement of a new soundtrack tied to the documentary on late rapper XXXTentacion includes a song that features Kanye West and is scheduled to be on the “proper” release of the aforementioned, mythical album. Donda 2 was technically released in late February, but it was only available via a Stem Player and it was not the completed project, with plans to release new songs in batches after an initial four songs. The initial singles for the project included “Eazy,” whose video featured Pete Davidson getting murdered and “City of Gods,” featuring Fivio Foreign. The critical reception to the album was tepid, and since it is sti...
Ye/XXXTentacion Song ‘True Love’ Getting Proper Release on Friday
The Ye / XXXTentacion song “True Love” is the lead track on the rapper formerly known as Kanye West’s recent album Donda 2, but unless you purchased a Stem Player or scoured the Internet for a bootleg, odds are that you haven’t heard it. The track is now getting a proper release at midnight ET Friday (May 27) via Columbia Records in conjunction with the Hulu documentary Look at Me: XXXTentacion and will also appear on XXXTentacion’s Look at Me: The Album, a release date for which has not been announced. The cover art for the track was designed by Ye and sports handwritten notes from XXXTentacion (“am I supposed to pretend to be heartless?,” “love love love” and “a feeling you just can’t explain”) from a journal recently discovered by his mother. The controversial rapper was murdered in 201...
Kanye West Drops His Kids at School in a Fire Truck in Adorable ‘Kardashians’ Scene
Sure, the new season of Hulu‘s The Kardashians has been filled to the brim with drama surrounding Kim Kardashian and Kanye West‘s divorce, but in the episode that premiered Thursday (May 17), fans got to enjoy a sweet moment of fatherhood from Ye. In the adorable scene, the “Praise God” rapper made what might be a mundane everyday activity into a fun one for his four children. Eight-year-old North, 6-year-old Saint, 4-year-old Chicago and 3-year-old Psalm are all seen coming out to the driveway of their home to a massive red fire truck that Ye hired to bring his kids to school. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Kanye is here to pick up the kids to take them to school. He loves to do that,” Kardashian tells the camera. “So, of course...
Kim Kardashian Says Kanye West Told Her That Her “Career’s Over” Due To Suspect Fits
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images / Getty Kim Kardashian is continuing to use her family’s new reality show, The Kardashians, as a stage to air out all of the toxic details regarding her former relationship with Kanye West as well as their post-divorce interactions. In fact, in the latest episode, Kim recalled how Ye told her that her “career’s over” now that she’s no longer taking his fashion advice and confining her wardrobe to whatever he has approved. From BuzzFeed News: Within months of them getting together in 2012, Kanye literally reworked Kim’s entire closet after apparently telling her that she had “the worst style.” Related Stories And for the next nine years, Kanye would go out of his way to ensure that Kim’s out...
Kanye West Drops New Visuals To “Life of The Party”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Yeezy GAP / YEEZY GAP In celebration of Mother’s Day yesterday (May 8), last night FOX premiered Kanye West’s new visuals to Donda‘s “Life of The Party” during Family Guy and not only was it actually pretty cool, he didn’t even threaten Pete Davidson in it. Progress! Though this isn’t the version that saw the legendary André 3000 drop a ridiculously creative verse and Kanye call out Drake in his bars, Kanye did get his bars off on this version too. For the video Kanye uses old pictures of himself during his childhood years while incorporating some CGI to make his younger self rap his verses. Ultimately the visual concludes with a home video of a young Kanye in 1990 rapping at a family gathering while the adults went about their business not knowing they w...
Kim Kardashian Talks About How Kanye West Walked Out During Her ‘SNL’ Monolog On Latest Episode Of ‘The Kardashians’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Will / Getty Sometimes it seems like the entire post-breakup drama between Kanye West and Kim Kardashian was a long, elaborate trailer for Kim’s new reality TV Show The Kardashians. I mean, I’m not a faithful viewer of the shadow, so I can’t say for sure, but it seems like Ye’s name is always coming up, don’t it? Anyway, according to Variety, in the last episode, Kardashian talked about last year when she hosted Saturday Night Live and she revealed that Kanye Jesus walked out during her opening monologue because she had jokes regarding their divorce. From Variety: Related Stories Kim quipped at the time about West, “I married the best rapper of all time. Not only that, he’s the richest Black man in America,” she said onstage. “A talented, legit geniu...
Pastor Sues Kanye West For Sampling His Sermon on ‘Donda’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Michael Reaves / Getty Kanye West might’ve used Donda as a way to spread the gospel according to Yeezus, but a pastor in Texas wasn’t too happy when he realized his sermon was sampled without his knowledge or consent and found it’s way onto the hit album. According to TMZ, Bishop David Paul Moten is suing Kanye West claiming that Kanye West sampled his sermon without his permission and used it on his Donda cut, “Come To Life.” [embedded content] Related Stories In the docs, obtained by TMZ, Moten claims his sermon is used for 70 seconds of the 5-minute, 10-second track … which is more than 20 percent of the song. Moten says his voice and sermon are used in the song intro and looped throughout the song … and he says it’s the latest example of Kanye and the...
Pastor Sues Kanye West For Sampling His Sermon on ‘Donda’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Michael Reaves / Getty Kanye West might’ve used Donda as a way to spread the gospel according to Yeezus, but a pastor in Texas wasn’t too happy when he realized his sermon was sampled without his knowledge or consent and found it’s way onto the hit album. According to TMZ, Bishop David Paul Moten is suing Kanye West claiming that Kanye West sampled his sermon without his permission and used it on his Donda cut, “Come To Life.” [embedded content] Related Stories In the docs, obtained by TMZ, Moten claims his sermon is used for 70 seconds of the 5-minute, 10-second track … which is more than 20 percent of the song. Moten says his voice and sermon are used in the song intro and looped throughout the song … and he says it’s the latest example of Kanye and the...
D.L. Hughley Says Pete Davidson “Out Of Pocket” For Getting Kanye & Kim’s Kid’s Initials Tattoo
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bobby Bank / Getty Apparently, the messy and public feud between Kanye West and Kim Kardashian‘s current boo Pete Davidson is still ongoing, and while Ye typically seems to be the aggressor in the reality TV-ish shenanigans, this time it’s Pete causing folks online to raise their eyebrows. It appears that Davidson has tattooed the first initials of Kanye and Kim’s children’s names on his neck in the order of the children’s ages. Yikes! Related Stories “Yeeeeah, I gotta say I’m team Kanye on this one. While it might be true that Pete treats his body like it’s the inside of a high school yearbook and is constantly getting simple-word tattoos to represent various things in his world, getting the names of someone else’s children tattooed on his neck is weird,...
Authors Say Jared Kushner Used Ye FKA Kanye West To Direct Black Voters Away From Biden
HipHopWired Featured Video Jared Kushner rose to infamy as a notable, if inexperienced, member of former President Donald Trump’s political inner circle. A new book makes the claim that Kushner employed the spectacle of Ye FKA Kanye West‘s failed presidential run as an attempt to divert Black voters away from President Joe Biden. In a report from Raw Story, New York Times reporters Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin write in their joint book This Will Not Pass that Kushner used the Chicago superstar’s name for an ultimately botched political advantage. West, who aligned himself with Trump ahead of his aims to run for president, found himself an unlikely candidate running on a platform that didn’t exactly mirror campaign runs in times past. “The president’s son-in-law possessed limited cam...
