Kanye West released the characteristically-eccentric video for his new song, "Love Lockdown", on Ellen today. While he was there, he said he is trying to do his mom proud by "not [getting] hung up on the small things." He hasn't quite perfected that one yet:
Kanye West, with his clothing line and suspiciously-active blog and new Comedy Central show, is obviously trying to expand his reach in the entertainment and business world. But one of his ventures has hit a road block. West recently shot a pilot for a new scripted-but-improvised comedy show on HBO with Larry Charles, the producer behind Curb Your Enthusiasm, Borat, and Bill Maher's upcoming Religulous. We might not ever see it.
Kanye won't be prosecuted for assaulting a photographer at LAX airport, despite the attack happening in front of police, and caught on tape by TMZ.
While it may strike some people as unfair that Kanye gets away with so blatantly breaking the law, so are the full body checks at JFK for "suspicious" passengers, i.e. anyone of color with a beard.
Either Kanye West is feeling less than confident in the selling-power of his new album, 808s and Heartbreak, or he doesn't want anyone stealing his thunder. This is Kanye West we're talking about, so it's definitely the latter.
A couple years back, Stephen Colbert held a contest to find his new black friend after the old one started mouthing off to the press.
Did Colbert ever find an African-American buddy?
Looks like he did. (Hint: It's not Barack Obama, those two need to keep their love a secret):
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The paparazzi have been having a tough go at it lately when it comes to celebrities in airports: First was the epic fight with Kanye West, and now the photogs have been duped by a Jamie Lynn Spears decoy. Just a note: If a Spears outsmarts you, you know it's time to pack it up and call it a day.
In a hurried post on his blog, Kanye mentioned yesterday's arrest briefly and promised to throw a tantrum about it later. He knows what his audience wants:
Here is the video of Kanye West attacking a paparazzo, filmed by a fellow pap at TMZ, who doesn't deserve to get beaten, per se, but these guys are jerks. West was arrested after the altercation, before he could make it through security at LAX. TMZ's Harvey Levin rushed the tape back from the scene to headquarters so it could get posted right away; the turn around was actually quite impressive. There is a lot of static at the end of the clip, though, which was the videographer's cinematic way of staying THIS IS ALL JUST NOISE.
If Kanye West were a politician he'd be a flip flopper. Since he's a mercurial, egotistical pop star, no one will pay that much attention to the fact that he has decided to return to MTV to close out Sunday's VMAs.
Entertainment Tonight last night sent its blackest reporter out to interview every African American celebrity he could find. Lucky for him, many of them had converged on Denver's football stadium to watch Obama's speech.
Did you know celebrities are all friends? They are! Oprah was hugging Mary J Blige! Kanye was answering questions for Oprah! And then Forest Whitaker came out of nowhere to use words like "pride," "humanity," "beautiful," "core" and "destiny."
This Louis Vuitton trash bag is fake. News that Kanye West is designing for Louis Vuitton is not.
This Absolut ad is fake. This Absolut infomercial ad featuring Kanye West is not.
And this screaming rant written by Kanye West? Alas, it is also true.
SQUIDIOTS! KANYE AIN’T GOING TO NO FUCKING ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASSES! HOW COULD ANYBODY BELIEVE THAT BULLSHIT?!!!!1!! WHAT, DID THE LOUD, CURSE-FILLED, UNTHINKING RANTS THE RAPPER SPEWS FORTH FORTNIGHTLY LEAD U 2 BELIEVE HE MIGHT HAVE A PROBLEM APPROPRIATELY EXPRESSING HIS EMOTIONS???? WELL, LOL 2 U, DIPSHIT! U ACTUALLY THINK THERE’S A PROBLEM WITH THAT SCREAMING AND YELLING SHIT?! UR CRAZY! IF ANYTHING, MOTHERFUCKER NEEDS 2 GET ANGRIER!
Good news, everyone! Kanye West has yet another bone to pick with a random victim, but this time he forgot to use his caps lock key. Evidently Harper’s Bazaar misrepresented a piece of artwork in Kanye’s home in a feature on his decorating skills in the September 2007 issue. No, seriously. This was almost a year ago.
The money, which often isn’t as much as one might think, that recording artists make off of their music these days is enough to make the average person very happy, but not quite enough to fund the crazy, extravagant lifestyles that they like to publicly flaunt. Hence, the ubiquitous clothing lines, colognes, footwear lines, and other branding deals. In recent days there have been a flurry of such deals, from high brow to low brow.
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