Drake was utterly and completely dominant on the latest Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart, taking control of the entire Top Ten with songs from his new album Certified Lover Boy. The leader was “Way 2 Sexy,” a goofy yet thunderous collaboration with Future and Young Thug that earned more …
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In 2013, Kanye West made his ambitions known. Between taking shots at Hedi Slimane and sincerely asking what Lady Gaga knew about cameras as a stunned Zane Lowe looked on, West talked about money — the money he no longer had, the money he needed to knock down barriers, and, …
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Kanye West became hip-hop establishment because he was never willing to conform to other artists’ styles. But in the last few months, the 41-year-old visionary reversed course, skewing his own sound by ingratiating himself to the SoundCloud generation. In some cases, it’s been commercially successful (albeit creatively bankrupt) like“I Love …
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UPDATE (11/13):Es Devlin, Lorde’s collaborator on herMelodramaTour stage design, took to Instagram to share other examples of her work in which glass boxes are featured heavily. Devlin posted three stills from the 2007 staging of ‘Carmen’ at the English National Opera, which also used a suspended glass box with performers …
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The night before President Trump signed the Music Modernization Act, a long-awaited bill that allows artists and publishers to earn royalties on recordings made before 1972 and helps songwriters and producers get paid more efficiently in the streaming era, 100 songwriters and lobbyists gathered at City Winery in Washington, D.C., …
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Kanye West visited President Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday. It was something. Sitting across the Resolute Desk from Trump and surrounded by a gaggle of reporters, the rapper and self-proclaimed “Free Thinker” delivered a 10-minute soliloquy about a perplexing array of issues. He pitched the president on a …
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Donald Trump praised Kanye West again on Twitter after the rapper reiterated his support for the president during his interview Thursday on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “Thank you to Kanye West and the fact that he is willing to tell the TRUTH,” Trump tweeted Friday afternoon. “One new and great FACT …
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In a Vanity Fair cover story,Kendrick Lamarreacted to Kanye West‘s controversial comments about slavery and President Trump, enthused about his recently awarded Pulitzer Prize for Music and addressed a white fan’s usage of the “n-word” onstage during one of his shows. Lamar mostly remained neutral in his comments about West, …
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Less than a day after Pusha-T appeared to diss Drake on the Daytona song “Infrared,” the Views rapper fired back at Pusha-T and the song’s producer Kanye West in a new track titled “Duppy Freestyle.” On “Infrared,” Pusha-T reignited his Drake feud – a beef sparked by Drake’s “Two Birds, …
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