Word on the curb is that Kanye West’s sixth solo album is finished. According to Hot 97’s Peter Rosenberg (and a Mole), Yeezy held a listening for the suits at Def Jam last week. Peter says the music’s dark, but only time will tell if it actually sees the light of day.
Initially off of the G.O.O.D. Music signee’s compilation album D’ Kings Men, the track gets an extra boost from the boss Kanye West for the remix. hhnm
Yasiin Bey performed at La Bataclan in Paris earlier today. During his set, Kanye crashed the set with an interesting rendition of “Can’t Tell Me Nothin” along with Robert Glasper. Ohhh. info
Not to be out done by Jay-Z, Kanye released new music featuring Pusha T. Ironically, the track features a soundbite from Hov’s “Rhyme No More”. My Name Is My Name coming later this.
Produced by Kanye, OKP liberates the CDQ of an unreleased track presumably recorded during his Tru3 Magic session.
The World Famous Tony Williams adds more Mid-West flavor to his Kanye collabo “Another You” by bringing along King Chip and Freddie Gibbs for the official remix. Produced by Bink! thesource
Kanye broke his press silence a few days ago regarding the MTV Hottest MC list. Today, YN fires up The Truth cam to see if it all was necessary. In October of ’09, I gave RR my first post and they need to remember that.
Kanye West gave his first interview in years yesterday and told DJ Enuff that he gave Sway his first TV. Well during today’s RapFix broadcast, Sway introduced the world to Yeezy’s old 36″ Sharp television. Sway said that he saved the clunker to remind Kanye how far he’d come. One man’s trash is another man’s come up. UPDATE: Later that evening, he hit up Streetsweeper Radio to elaborate further on the situation.
Kanye West broke his “no press” rule this afternoon and called up DJ Enuff on Hot 97 regarding his placement on MTV’s Hottest MC List. He says he disagrees with Cruel Summer criticism, calls Lil Wayne the number one rapper in the world and says he gave Sway his first TV before hanging up. UPDATE: Sway and Weezy react to Yeezy’s call after the jump.
He doesn’t do press, but he continues to make headlines. Holding down the number seven spot is G.O.O.D. Music founder, Kanye West. Kanye West has proven time and time again that as a soloist, he can single-handedly shift rap’s sonic focus, but over the past year Yeezy made sure that there wasn’t anybody messin’ with his clique. So even during a period when he put out G.O.O.D. Music’s Cruel Summer compilation, ‘Ye was enough of a force to land him at #7 on […]
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This is a great reminder of how powerful and lasting Lauryn Hill’s influence has been in music. The fact that The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill eventually reached diamond status after so many years shows that truly meaningful music can continue finding new listeners long after its original release. I also like how the article highlights the combination of hip hop, R&B, neo soul, and reggae that made the album so distinctive. Achieving more than 10 million sales is an incredible milestone, especially considering how much the music industry has changed since 1998. The album’s success feels less like a temporary trend and more like proof that strong songwriting and authentic artistic expression can remain relevant across generations. It is interesting to see how numbers can tell part of a story, whether we are looking at album sales or using a proportion calculator to understand relationships between different figures.