NatStar - All Day (Kanye West REMIX)

NV Entertainment sends NatStar's remix to Kanye West's banging track "All Day".

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10 Ways Kanye West Changed Sneakers Forever

You can't deny the impact Kanye West has had on sneaker culture. Even before the release of his Nike Air Yeezys, he was influencing sneakerheads without the help of social media (besides KanyeLive circa 2007-2010, of course). He made us pay attention to the kicks he wore at shows. He made it cool to wear unbranded, obscure international labels. And he even made sneakerheads step up their fashion game. Anything 'Ye did on the footwear front created sparks, and once he partnered with Nike and Louis Vuitton, his influence ignited a wildfire. You can expect nothing less once his collection with adidas is officially revealed. Until that chapter in Kanye's footwear history begins, here are 10 Ways Kanye West Changed Sneakers Forever.  CLICK HERE



Source: Complex

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BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe (@zanelowe) Talks Music Business + Creativity w/ Rick Rubin

BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe has an intimate sit down with the legendary music producer, and Def-Jam Co-Founder Rick Rubin. Zane takes us inside the gentle world of this creative genius at his home in Malibu. In a calm and earthy setting, the two talk spirituality, music, and collaborations including Eminem, Kanye West,Black Sabbath, Johnny Cash, Jay Z, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and more. Ricks's love for music isn't bound by genre, pay rate, or time. He describes the process as a true artist would, "It's magic."

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Kanye West Announces New Yeezys Will Drop In June (Video)

Kanye West took the stage at the adidas Global Brand Conference to announced that he’s dropping the new Yeezys in June. Ibn Jasper posted on Instagram a picture of Kanye at the conference with the quote ”You will see the next Yeezys in June,” as the caption. Check the video regarding the announcement.





Source: XXL & Andrew Hopkins

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Coinye: Rapper Kanye West strikes back at Yeezy-inspired cryptocurrency

Coinye seemed like such a good idea at the time...Kanye having a currency named after him, oh Yeezus!!!

Via Yahoo Finance:

Create a new digital currency, name it after rapper Kanye West and delight the online world with this clever, consumer-friendly take on the Bitcoin trend. And it appeared to be working as of last week, when the idea for the cryptocurrency “Coinye West” was first announced, complete with a cartoon version Kanye’s face on its logo and a currency “mining” program called “Gold Digger,” presumably inspired by West’s 2005 hit of the same name.

“We chose Kanye because of his trendsetting abilities and his originality,” the anonymous developers told PC World at the time. Coinye was set to launch on January 11.

Trouble is, nobody asked Kanye about all this, and on Monday his lawyers sent the Coinye developers a cease and desist letter, alleging copyright infringement and accusing the currency’s backers of attempting to profit off of West’s public image.

"Interviews with the founders of the Coinye West cryptocurrency leave no doubt that your clear intent is to trade upon the goodwill associated with the Kanye West mark and Mr. West's international fame and notoriety,” wrote Brad Rose with the law firm of Pryor Cashman LLP. “Consumers are likely to mistakenly believe that Mr. West is the source of your services or is, at the very least, affiliated with, or has sponsored or endorsed the cryptocurrency.”

In response, the currency’s developers pushed Coinye out earlier than planned, on Tuesday. “We want to get this into the hands of the public – after all, it’s peer to peer and unstoppable,” they wrote on their site. But they also appear to be bowing to the legal pressure in some ways, updating their logo to look less Kanye-inspired (by adding a fish tail to the side of his head), changing the name of their currency from “Coinye West” to just “Coinye” and moving their website to a hosting service based in India.

Coinye is, of course, just the latest entrant in the rapidly-growing digital currency space. Buoyed by the success of Bitcoin – the original cryptocurrency that’s now valued at more than $840 per “coin” – the online marketplace now includes competitors like Litecoin, Peercoin, Ripple and Dogecoin, which was launched in December 2013 and features an image of a Shiba Inu dog on its virtual logo. According to The Guardian, there are now more than 60 of these digital peer-to-peer currencies available for online use.

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Farrakhan to Kanye West: Don't Bow to Jewish Pressure! (Video)

During Pt. 49 of his weekly "Time and What Must Be Done Series" Minister Farrakhan commented on the harassment of Hip Hop artist Kanye West by the National Director of the ADL, Abraham Foxman.




Via AllHipHop:

Earlier this month the Jewish Anti-Defamation League released a statement asking Kanye West to apologize for comments he made during an interview with The Breakfast Club.

During the discussion, Kanye said, “Black people don’t have the same level of connections as Jewish people.” ADL’s National Director Abraham H. Foxman called the comments “classic anti-semitism” and said they reinforced the stereotype that Jews are “all-powerful and control the levers of power in government.”

While some in the Jewish community were offended by Kanye’s quote, Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam has defended the rapper and his comments. According to Farrakhan, Kanye should not apologize because nothing that he said was untrue.

“Did he lie? No, he told the truth,” says Farrakhan in a video address.

He goes on to add:

You know what Mr. Foxman? I wish you and I could have a dialogue. You wouldn’t put that small time stuff over on me that you put on scared to death negroes, that if they mention Jew and you call them anti-semitic they start bowing to you and your pressure. Kanye West don’t bow to the pressure to apologize to anybody. You said nothing wrong.

Farrakhan and the NOI is preparing for their annual Saviours’ Day convention. The 2014 edition will be held February 21-23 at Detroit, Michigan’s Cobo Center.

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VladTV’s True Hip Hop Stories: Pharoahe Monch Tells Crazy Kanye West Story (Video)

In this episode of VladTV's "True Hip Hop Stories," Pharoahe Monch shares a story of going to a party and feeling like he's looking fresh until he runs into Kanye West. This story is hilarious!!!

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Adidas Officially Confirms Its Partnership With Kanye West

It's official, Kanye has taken his talents to Adidas!!!

Via Complex:

Before, the venture was all but official after Kanye went on Hot 97′s Angie Martinez show and said “I took the adidas deal because I have royalties and I have to provide for my family.”

But when Angie pressed on whether this deal was official, Ye replied with a vague, “Whatever is official, non-official, official—what y’all gonna see is I’m gonna be the Tupac of product.”

Well, now it is official. A statement from adidas outlines why Kanye was brought into the company’s family, and the big plans that will come to fruition in the next year. The full statement reads:

“For 2014, we welcome to the adidas family one of the most influential cultural icons of this generation, Kanye West. Well known for breaking boundaries across music, film and design and partnering with our history in street wear culture and leading innovations in sport, we look forward to creating a new chapter. Details to follow.”

Looks like Yeezy season will continue into the new year.

Kanye has touched on why he decided to sever ties with Nike, saying that his creative freedom was inhibited, and that he was refused royalties on the mega-popular Air Yeezy sneaker. But his recent “visionary streams of consciousness” have focused on the past and been vague on what’s next. With adidas making it official, and the deal reportedly erasing any financial concerns, it appears that the path is clear for Kanye to indulge his fans on what the future holds in terms of him achieving his designer aspirations.

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Kanye West, Eminem & Pusha T's Albums Make Rolling Stone's Top 50 LPs Of 2013 List

Grammy-winning emcee Kanye West along with fellow emcees Eminem and Pusha T solo albums are on the list of Rolling Stone’s Top 50 LPs of 2013. Kanye’s Yeezus and Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2 both has managed to land within the Top 25 on the list.



Via Sohh:

1. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City 2. Kanye West – Yeezus 3. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories 4. Paul McCartney – New 5. Arcade Fire – Reflektor 6. Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork 7. Lorde – Pure Heroine 8. The National – Trouble Will Find Me 9. Arctic Monkeys – AM 10. John Fogerty – Wrote a Song for Everyone 11. Parquet Courts – Tally All the Things That You Broke 12. Jake Bugg – S/T 13. Disclosure – Settle 14. Drake – Nothing Was The Same 15. Atoms for Peace – AMOK 16. David Bowie – The Next Day 17. Danny Brown – Old 18. Ashley Monroe – Like a Rose 19. Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks 20. Laura Marling – Once I Was an Eagle 21. Sky Ferreira – Night Time My Time 22. Phoenix – Entertainment 23. My Bloody Valentine – MBV 24. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2 25. Elton John – The Diving Board (Brooklyn Vegan)

Pop star Miley Cyrus’ Bangerz and Roc Nation protégé J. Cole’s Born Sinner landed spots in the Top 50.

26. Chance the Rapper – Acid Rap 27. Miley Cyrus – Bangerz 28. Kacey Musgraves – Same Trailer Different Park 29. Bombino – Nomad 30. Tegan & Sara – Heartthrob 31. Haim – Days Are Gone 32. CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe 33. Pusha T – My Name is My Name 34. Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You 35. Best Coast – Fade Away EP 36. Waxahatchee – Cerulean Salt 37. The So-So Glos – Blowout 38. Kurt Vile – Walkin on a Pretty Daze 39. Keith Urban – Fuse 40. Pearl Jam – Lightning Bolt 41. J Cole – Born Sinner 42. Earl Sweatshirt – Doris 43. Savages – Silence Yourself 44. Valerie June – Pushin’ Against a Stone 45. Avicii – True 46. Franz Ferdinand – Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action 47. MIA – Matangi 48. Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus 49. The Flaming Lips – The Terror 50. Beck – Song Reader (Brooklyn Vegan)

A few months back, Bad Boy Records CEO Diddy highlighted the importance of Kanye’s Yeezus.

“I think that this Kanye album, the only way I can describe it, it’s art, it’s an emotion and it’s him at his realest in its rawest form. It’s a confidence level that I feel like, blackness especially; it needs to be a theme song for them. They need to believe that all that crazy sh*t that he’s saying is the truth and I stand by it and I stand by the emotions if that’s how he felt, then that’s how records should feel. If Revolt was on air right now we probably would be dedicating the next three days to the back stories to making sure that we are promoting and being a useful tool to get their message out to get back to the mainstream media who doesn’t understand at times that’s who we are and how powerful we are.” (VIBE)

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Kanye West Flips Out On Sway During Radio Interview (Video)

If you haven't heard about the interview Sway had with Kanye West here it is...One thing it proves is that you can have a misunderstanding, talk about it, apologize and move on!!!

via XXL:

Kanye took to Shade 45 earlier this afternoon to talk with Sway about the tour and the fashion industry, among other things. When Kanye began talking about how he’s been shunned from the industry—a common theme of his recent rants—Sway then posed the question, “Why don’t you empower yourself…and do it yourself? ” The question set Kanye off. He began yelling at Sway and telling him that he hasn’t been doing his research and doesn’t know anything about the topic. Eventually, Sway told Kanye to calm down and that “ain’t gotta turn up” and that their conversation wasn’t a “fucking show.”

 After a couple minutes of yelling on both sides, both guys calmed down. Kanye eventually apologized and said he didn’t mean disrespect. It’s hard to tell what exactly about Sway’s question irked Kanye so bad, but ‘Ye did seem to hint that he’s lost a lot of money—a $13 million figure was thrown out—on trying to start his own fashion line. If that’s the case, his anger may be justifiable.

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Michelle Obama "Responds" to Kanye West

Hi, it's Michelle.

Michelle Obama, Barack's wife. Barack Obama, the President of the United States of America. That makes me the First Lady of the United States of America. Me = Michelle Obama.

I hope all is well.

You know, Kanye, I woke up this morning. In the White House. And one of my aides told me she had something to show me. Something that would make me laugh. A "cute" thing, if you will. It was a series of quotes, Kanye. About my husband and me. About my Vogue magazine cover. And fashion. And classism. They were your quotes. You were the cute thing, Kanye.

And my aide was right. It did make me laugh. Oh, what a hearty White House laugh it was. Tell me, Kanye, what's your goal with this? Why us? Are you still mad about my husband calling you a jackass a few times? Is that why you're focusing on me instead of on all the other women who have been on the cover of Vogue?

That's what this is all about, isn't it? You're out here all mad simply because we're stylin' on you? I know Barack never did apologize for the name-calling, because you know how you men are with your stubbornness. But it's more than that. It's bigger than fashion. To you, this has become a couple vs. couple thing. I once overheard some of our summer interns talking about you — about how mad you get when you're compared to other rappers, because your peers are Jesus and Jobs and Walt Disney. I heard it and actually respected that. It shows you have some drive to be a great man. You should fight to get your respect. I see my husband, the President of the Free World, get disrespected every day. And it tears me apart.

So you have to understand where I'm coming from when I say it's laughable for my 21-year marriage to be mentioned on the same website as your thing with Kim. Imagine if someone compared you to Papoose, Kanye. Well, you're Barack's Papoose. And yes, Kim is my Remy Ma. My husband's not moving our family out the country so you can't see where we stay. Because he runs the country, you see. And, again, we live in the White House. Very visible.

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Sue YouTube Cofounder Over Leaked Proposal Footage

According to E! News, Kanye and Kim allege in court documents, that YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley "tagged along with someone who was invited" to witness Kanye popping the question, but he was allowed to stay after signing a confidentiality agreement prohibiting him from posting videos or images from that night. How cheesy we've become as a society man this is really sad. Apparently a number of sites participated in the distaste once the fuzzy 2 and a half minute video surfaced courtesy of Hurly's new venture, MixBit, a collaborative video app. Ye of course allowed cameras to shoot for possible show footage, and naturally with Keeping Up With the Kardashians airing on E!, E! News obtained an exclusive clip of the official footage to televise and post online the next day. 

The law suit says: "Exclusive rights, such as those sold by plaintiffs to publication of video of the event, are particularly valuable. If people violate these rights... they are of substantially diminished value. Hurley proceeded to try to turn the event into one starring himself, broadcasting the images he knew were the exclusive property rights of someone else."

E! News says, "the couple is asking for unspecified damages for alleged breach of contract, fraud and unjust enrichment. Hurley has not returned requests for comment." 

Image Credit: NY Daily News

Speculation that friends and family members, posted photos on Twitter and Instagram from the proposal are irrelevant in my opinion. No one had authorization to video document the event, and share as stated in the aforementioned confidentiality agreement. The shameless plug was super obvi by Hurley using his app to share the video. Don't bother with the cold stare Chad, you were dead wrong. North West might end up owning YouTube for that silly little error. Moral of the story here guys, respect each others' privacy, and don't market your products at someones event (of any kind) without their consent. 

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This Week In Fashion With Tamra Simmons (@iamtamrasimmons), Karmaloop, and More!

The legends of R&B/Hip Hop cool were radiant on the carpet! Everyone has been asking who they're wearing; so Let's GO caramelmochiatans! I'll have something cool for the person who can tell me first. The VH1 red carpet premiere of 'CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story' in NYC (pictured from left) Rozonda 'Chilli' Thomas, Drew Sidora, Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins, Keke Palmer. Check out their BRAND NEW song here! 

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some of his custom work today, and I'm thrilled to

share them with you. He has designed for high profile clients like Scarface, Method Man, Rick Ross, and many more! Worldwide shipping available. Contact @Choparelli 678-561-6655 to order.

Some of my fav this week are in Karmaloop's Fall Footwear line up. Zigi Shoes is above the crowd with a variety of fab styles and colors! I also love, love, love the London Trash collection this season. Don't forget to use discount code RMGMME or SIMMONS to make your purchase and save BIG!  Just in for you gents are an enticing variety of Vans, ranging from $40-$140. Styles include the classic Vans of course, boot styles such as this one, and Mid/Hi Sneakers. Karmaloop is on it! 

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Maison Martin Margiela Designs Custom Outfits for Kanye West’s ‘Yeezus’ Tour

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Meet North West

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So far Kanye has made a favorable impression on the audience. Fans of Kris Jenner seem to be impressed with Kanye's kindness and human nature. PUSH through the hype guys. Family is what it's all about! 

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