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The Most Influential Artists: #23 Kanye West
As part of our 35th-anniversary, we’re naming the most influential artists of the past 35 years. Today, we’re at #23. From Chicago, Illinois here is Kanye West. Credit: Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images You can’t discuss the last two decades of rap without mentioning Kanye West. Navigating the club or listening to the radio, watching award shows or scrolling your timeline, it’s been impossible to ignore him. For the first decade after he got his Roc-a-Fella chain, he was untouchable. His talent and mounting accolades eclipsed his ego. West made thundering chipmunk soul and turned a spiritual crisis into a club record that spoke to the Black community in his hometown of Chicago and beyond (“Jesus Walks”). Following a multi-platinum classic (College...
Failed Candidate Kanye West Sued For $1 Million Over Unpaid Wages
Source: Neil Mockford / Getty Has anyone seen Is Kanye West? A couple of disgruntled Sunday Service employees want to settle a stack of overdue invoices after working for the rapper last year. Apparently, staff that worked on a live performance for the musical live production of “Kanye West Nebuchadnezzar Opera” claimed they were never paid for their work, so they’re suing the rapper and Live Nation via a class-action lawsuit for a cool $1 million. The Blast reports that a hair assistant claims she is owed “unpaid wages, continuing wages, damages, civil penalties, statutory penalties and attorney’s fees and costs.” Her day rate was paid late and the production team, consisting of background actors, performing as audience members also faced charges with their delinquent checks. &...
Larsa Pippen Feels Kanye “Brainwashed” The Kardashians Against Her, Reveals She Dated Tristan Thompson
Source: Hollywood To You/Star Max / Getty The fallout between Larsa Pippen and the Kardashian family left many dumbfounded and confused as to what could’ve gone wrong between the celebrity friends, but now we’re getting an idea as to what might’ve played a role in the souring of the relationship between Pippen and the Kardashian klan. During an in-depth interview with The Hollywood Raw podcast, Larsa Pippen explained that she feels that none other than Kanye West himself might’ve been behind the Kardashian sisters turning their backs on her and “brainwashed” them into thinking she’s a villain. While one might think that she and Ye might’ve had a heated exchange or something, Pippen says that the two of them never had any kind of altercation that would lead to Ye having an aversion to her a...
Kanye West Went Double Wood With 60K Votes In The Presidential Election
Source: Neil Mockford / Getty As election day kicked off and Joe Biden battles Donald Trump for control of the Oval Office, Kanye West seems to be content in defeat knowing that though he didn’t get to even sniff Washington with his “third-party” run, he did take his pound of flesh from the American electorate. Deadline is reporting that the rapper turned fashion designer turned GOP operative had received at least 60,000 votes for President of The United States as of 7:45pm last night with 10,000 coming from Tennessee. Kanye’s updated state-by-state breakdown is as follows, according to the AP: Arkansas: 4,040 Colorado: 6,254 Idaho: 3,631 Iowa: 3,202 Kentucky: 6,259 Louisiana: 4,894 Minnesota: 7,789 Mississippi: 3,277 Oklahoma: 5,590 Tennessee: 10,216 Utah: 4,344 Vermont: 1,265 Taking to T...
Ego Trippin’: Kanye West Is Voting For The First Time In His Life, For Himself
Source: WENN/Avalon / WENN Kanye West is voting for his first time ever. So it’s on brand that the struggle Presidential candidate who has absolutely no chance of winning says he will be voting for himself. Yeezy took to Twitter—where else?—to reveal his latest life accomplishment. “God is so good,” tweeted West on this Election Day (Nov. 3). “Today I am voting for the first time in my life for the President of the United States, and it’s for someone I truly trust…me.” This should come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. In the previous season of David Letterman’s Netflix series West admitted to never voting in his life when asked if he voted for Donald Trump. West has also copped to running for President as a spoiler to Biden. But Yeezy, despite help from GOP operative...
Black Ops: Kanye West Makes One Last Plea For President In A ‘New York Times’ Ad
Source: Neil Mockford / Getty Even with only days left for people to cast their ballot for President of the United States, and millions of people already having done so, Kanye West is still holding out hope that he can spoil Joe Biden’s Presidential aspirations and help keep Donald Trump in the White House. According to Page Six, Yeezy took out a page in the New York Times on Friday to continue to sell himself to voters as the choice to be the next President even though Kanye’s name is only on the ballots in a handful of states. Penning a plea to voters in the full-page political ad (actually 2-pages if you count the dove on the opposite page—see below), Yeezus attempted to reach out to the Christian evangelical base as he wrote that “We will see families anchoring on faith. Our future hol...
Kanye West Spoke To Joe Rogan For 3 Hours, Says Oprah Told Him Not To Run
Source: Neil Mockford / Getty Kanye West is quite loquacious. The struggle Presidential candidate spoke to Joe Rogan for three hours, and even detailed how Oprah Winfrey urged him not to run. Of course, Yeezy didn’t actually listen to Oprah. Just like he said he would, West sat down with the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, and it was a doozy. For nearly three hours, West hit a myriad of topics including his relationship with God, building a soundstage in Atlanta, making his kicks more affordable, the Titanic and all types of other random or not so random sh*t. But the Oprah moment did stick out. “I remember running into Oprah two days or one day after that, and she’s like you don’t want to be president,” said West. “One of the things Oprah said is she said, ‘You got to bone up on your foreig...
Kanye West Tells Joe Rogan Idea to Run for President Came in the Shower: ‘God Put It in My Heart’
Kanye West’s highly anticipated appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience has arrived, and it lives up to the hype. During the nearly three-hour-long conversation, the rapper-turned-presidential-hopeful revealed the exact location where he got the idea to run for office. “It was something that God put in my heart back in 2015. A few days before the MTV awards, it hit me in the shower,” West recalled. “When I first thought of it I just started laughing to myself. All this joy came over my body, just through my soul. I felt that energy; I felt that spirit.” “I believe that my calling is to be the leader of the free world,” he added before explaining why he thinks he’s the man for the job. “There couldn’t be a better time to put a visionary in the captain’s chair,” West declared. “I’m not h...
Amber Rose Blasts Op Kanye West, Calls Him A “Narcissist” & “Bully”
Source: Phillip Faraone / Getty Amber Rose still has some things to get off her chest when it comes to Kanye West. Amber Rose didn’t have anything nice to say about her ex, Kanye West, during a recent interview on the No Jumper podcast. Speaking with Adam22, Rose slammed West. Rose, who is now a mother of 2 children, called out the Chicago rapper and now bootleg presidential candidate for his 2015 comments when he disgustingly said that he had to take “30 showers” 5-years after they decided to dead their relationship. Rose let the chopper sing, “I don’t know if he says things to make his wife (Kim Kardashian) more comfortable but to slut-shame me and say you needed 30 showers?” she added, “You took me around the world. Since when do you need 30 showers?” Rose would go onto say that even af...
Teyana Taylor Enlists Elton John for ‘Lose Each Other’ Video
Teyana Taylor’s dream came true when superstar Elton John agreed to play the grand piano in the “Lose Each Other” video, a single from The Album, her No. 1 Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop record. “When Teyana Taylor released her debut album, I became a huge fan,” John said in a statement. “She was a guest on my Rocket Hour and I fell in love with her original spirit. Aside from her brilliant music, Teyana is one of the most visually dazzling artists working in music today. So I jumped at the chance to be in her latest video ‘Lose Each Other.’” The Album is Taylor’s third studio record and was released on June 19 through GOOD Music and Def Jam Recordings. It is her second No. 1. Taylor, who also directed the video, recalls her amazement at hearing from John: “As we were working through ...
Black Ops: Kanye West Says He’ll Be Appearing On ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’
Source: YouTube (Supplied by WENN) / WENN Ask, and you shall receive. After putting it out in the universe that he wanted to appear on The Joe Rogan Experience, alleged Presidential candidate Kanye West is getting his wish. In case you’re unaware, The Joe Rogan Experience is an immensely popular podcast which books a wide array of guests for the comedian/host/UFC to commentator to chat it up with. Also, it’s where Elon Musk was seen smoking weed in the studio. On Saturday (Oct. 17), Yeezy took to Twitter to reveal he’ll be sitting down with Rogan next week on Friday. “Joe Rogan said it’s cool for me to design the set for our podcast this Friday,” tweeted West along with a photo of what looks like him and Rogan on a Facetime call. In case you missed it, on Oct. 12, Kanye West twe...
Kanye West Wins Billboard Music Awards In Gospel Category, Killer Mike Honored
Source: Kevin Mazur/BBMA2020 / Getty Last night’s Billboard Music Awards went down and while Post Malone walked away the night’s biggest winner with 9 extra trophies to display on the mantle in his home, Kanye West also got some recognition for his new venture into the world of gospel music. Though his gospel album Jesus Is King was received to mix reviews and mostly praised by Donald Trump Jr. (we wonder why), Yeezy walked away with Top Gospel Artist, Top Christian Album, Top Gospel Album, and Top Gospel Song awards by the time the night was done. Kirk Franklin is somewhere cursing the heavens over this, maybe. Still, at the end of the day it is basically a popularity contest and no disrespect to Mr. Franklin, but Kanye West is way more known outside of gospel circles so we’re not surpris...
