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Kanye West ‘Donda’ Album Has New Release Date, Again
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Kanye West’s 10th album, Donda, has yet another new release date. Don’t say we didn’t tell you that Yeezy’s pump faking is nothing new. It was way back on Thursday, July 22 that Kanye West held a listening session at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the new album. The reviews were generally positive—hey, a last-minute Jay-Z verse—but at the strike of midnight on Friday, July 23, there was no album to be found on streamers. Then it turned out that Kanye West was shacking up in MB Stadium and was holding yet another listening session Thursday, August 5. Once again, the reviews were generally positive and it seemed like an even lengthier project—this time The LOX got a last-minute look. But besides the most devout of Yeezy Stans, most ...
Former GAP CEO Says Kanye West Shouldn’t Have Made Deal With Brand
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty A fashion veteran has his opinion on one of the biggest deals in recent history. The former CEO at The GAP says that Kanye West shouldn’t have done a deal with the San Francisco brand. As spotted on Hype Beast the Chicago, Illinois native is getting some free jewelry from someone who is familiar with his newest venture. In an interview with Yahoo Finance Live Mickey Drexler, former CEO at The Gap, expressed his concerns regarding the partnership. “I probably shouldn’t say this but I told him he shouldn’t do the deal because it doesn’t make any sense in my opinion,” he told the outlet. “He is not a corporate person and Gap is a big corporation.” If any executive would be best qualified to comment on the deal his first pie...
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Producer DJ Toomp Tells The Truth About Kanye’s ‘Donda’ Thus Far [Video]
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty While this might be one of the most anticipated albums of the year it is clear Donda is quite ready yet. DJ Toomp wasn’t totally impressed by what he heard from Kanye and gives his reasons why. As spotted on HipHopDX the famed producer sat in on an interview with B High ATL. While they discussed several topics during their sit down he was asked about his experience recently at Yeezy’s album listening event at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium. He admitted he was floored by vibes during the live event but walked away feeling underwhelmed by the material. “I would really love to help him put that album together,” he admitted. “I want to hear some more lyrics, man. Definitely beats. But as far as the artist, I want to hear lyrics. W...
Balenciaga Creative Director Slotted To Curate Kanye West’s 2nd ‘Donda’ Listening Session
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Kanye West is switching things up for his second Donda listening session. He has selected Balenciaga’s Creative Director to curate this week’s event. As spotted on High Snobiety the rapper is hosting an additional get together for his fans to soak in all the vibes from his forthcoming album. According to the media outlet Yeezy has enlisted the talents of Demna Gvasalia, Creative Director of Balenciaga and co-founder of Vetements, to oversee the festivities. Naturally the announcement took not only his fans by surprise but also the fashion industry alike. Demna is one of the game’s most influential figures and has the track record to prove it. Under his reign the luxury brand produced the Balenciaga Triple S sneaker....
The 40 Greatest Music Video Artists
Music videos are the perfect bastard child of art and commerce, even more than pop music itself. A promotional visual accompaniment to a popular song doesn’t need a coherent narrative (although on rare occasions, they do). It just needs to suit the song, sell the record, and possibly make the artist look cool. But since the launch of MTV 40 years ago this week, a select few recording artists have helped raise music videos to an art form — sometimes by accident, and sometimes by carefully curating the work of brilliant directors like Mark Romanek, Hype Williams, and Spike Jonze. Here are 40 artists from the last four decades that helped video kill the radio star. 40. Lil Kim [embedded content] Although earlier female MCs like Salt-N-Pepa and Queen Latifah used music videos to help launch th...
Kanye West Shows Off Dorm Set Up In Mercedes-Benz Stadium
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @kanyewest / Instagram Kanye West isn’t doing anything the easy way nowadays. After once again pump-faking on the release of his Donda album (with no repercussions?), Yeezy has decided to hunker down in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta to finish the project, and recently showed off his living situation. First, let us reiterate that Kanye West is in Atlanta, home to plenty of top-notch studios like Tree Sound or Patchwerk to name just a couple, that would surely be willing to accommodate his recording needs. However, the multi-hyphenate Rap star has chosen to complete the Donda album in the same place he held its fame listening session. while sleeping in what looks like a bare-bones dorm room in a college with a modest budget. West took to Instagram to...
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And You Say Chi-City: Common Regrets Not Making A Third Album With Kanye West [Video]
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Sakura/WENN.com / WENN Even though he has a couple of classics under his belt, Common wishes he could have done things differently. During a recent interview he revealed he regrets not making a third album with Kanye West. As spotted on Complex the Chicago native recently talked to Andrew Barber on The Coda Collection. While the two discussed a myriad of topics regarding his storied career, one talk track stood out immediately to fans and media outlets alike. When reminiscing about his lengthy discography he admitted that he would have loved to make another album with Yeezy. “If there’s anything that I sometimes wish is I wished I would have did a third one with Kanye,” he explained. “I will say that. It’s very red, I’d be like, ‘Man, I should’v...
Kanye West Is Living At The Mercedez-Benz Stadium To Finish ‘Donda’ Album
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Kanye West’s album listening concert for Donda at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta did not disappoint as fans vibed from beginning to end with the controversial MAGA rapper. What did disappoint was the fact that the album did not drop the next day as promised. As a matter of fact, it didn’t drop the day after either. Nor the day after that. Finally word got out that Kanye was not only re-working some of the songs on the album, but that he even moved into the Mercedes-Benz Stadium to finish off his long awaited project. TMZ is reporting that after Kanye held the listening session at the MBS last week, he never left and remained in the building to put the finishing touches on Donda which is now slated to release on August 6...
Homecoming: Kanye West Premieres New Momma-Dedicated Album DONDA In His Birthplace, Can The Sinner Be Saved?
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Last night (July 23), it seemed as if the entire city of Atlanta gathered at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium to hear what Hip-Hop’s most polarizing character, Kanye West, has cooked up for his tenth solo studio album, DONDA. It goes without saying that general public sentiment toward Yeezy has been soured significantly after several years of incoherent rambling, his entrance into Kardashianville, his stating that “slavery is a choice” and his full-throated support of MAGA miscreant Donald Trump. None of that even takes into account the fact that the music Kanye has released during this tumultuous time period has been lackluster, to say the least. We’ve certainly seen more than one musician maintain their status as an elite artist despite the...
Gesaffelstein Produced a Song on Kanye West’s Upcoming “Donda” Album: Listen to a Preview
Gesaffelstein and Kanye West have officially reunited. The French electronic music virtuoso announced that he’s behind the production of a new single from West’s upcoming 10th studio album, Donda. The track is called “No Child Left Behind” and it’s due out this Friday, July 23rd along with the rest of the LP, according to announcement by Beats Electronics. Gesaffelstein confirmed the collab after it was featured in a Beats commercial aired during Game 6 of the NBA Finals. The ad features America’s fastest woman, Olympic track and field sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, and was directed and edited by West. The hype surrounding Donda was briefly overshadowed by a legendary, championship-sealing performance by Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo, but it’s now b...
MAGA Ye Gives Back: Kanye West Donating DONDA Listening Party Tickets to HBCUs
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Neil Mockford / Getty Ahead of the release of his highly anticipated new album, Kanye West is making sure that his fans at HBCUs will be able to tune in. The rapper/producer has been hard at work on Donda, his latest album which is now slated to be released this coming Friday (July 23rd). In his usual grandiose fashion, West is throwing a listening party at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia this Thursday (July 22nd) at 8 P.M. and he’s donated 5,000 of those tickets to faculty members, staff and students of area HBCUs Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, Spelman College, Morris Brown College and ITC. This event is the latest listening party for Donda, which was to have been released last year but was shelve...
Kanye West to Release Donda This Friday
Over a year after announcing that it was in the works, Kanye West will (finally) be releasing Donda this Friday, July 23. Though clips and rumblings have circulated since the weekend, now (and in addition to the listening event that will take place at Mercedez-Benz Stadium in Atlanta), it’s actually coming. Last year, West released a single titled “Wash Us in Blood” that featured Travis Scott. In a new 60-second Apple ad featuring sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, West previewed a new song from the upcoming collection titled “No Child Left Behind,” which you can check out below. [embedded content] West’s last proper album was 2019’s Jesus Is King. He also released Jesus Is Born and Emmanuel on back-to-back Christmases that featured the Sunday Service Choir. This is the 44-year-...
