
How Kanye West ‘Cracked the Pavement’ of Rap on ‘Yeezus’
On the season finale of our 500 Greatest Albums podcast, hear how Kanye West recruited vanguard acts like Hudson Mohawke to help him tear down everything we thought we knew about hip-hop
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Subscribe NowOn the season finale of our 500 Greatest Albums podcast, hear how Kanye West recruited vanguard acts like Hudson Mohawke to help him tear down everything we thought we knew about hip-hop
The song is a callback to the classic 2009 episode “Fishsticks” where Kanye West believes that he’s a gay fish
Meanwhile, the film is expected to premiere this weekend as part of Sundance
Rapper has been in the studio working on the follow-up to Donda
West was named a suspect in an LAPD battery report filed early Thursday morning
Swedish House Mafia, Phoebe Bridgers, Megan Thee Stallion and Doja Cat also set for fest’s back-to-back April weekends
One says the rapper/entrepreneur is plotting concerts, musical collaborations, and business opportunities with some Trump-connected billionaires; another calls the whole story “entirely fabricated”
Act 1 of the three-part film ‘jeen-yuhs’ drops Feb. 10 and will be distributed by Iconic Events, the company behind the release of ‘David Byrne’s American Utopia’
The rapper ran through some old and new classics, and freestyled a bit on Future’s “Fuck Up Some Commas”
“No counseling or reconciliation effort will be of any value at this time,” new document states