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  Dropping the Ball: 2013's New Year's Eve Concerts in Photos

  January 2, 2013 –  …
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  Kanye West Had a Busier Weekend Than You

  December 3, 2012 – When you have, at the very least, a baby mama jet at your disposal, it ain't a thing to spend a weekend stage-hopping. Such is the life of Kanye West, who began his Friday night in Brooklyn at a TNGHT show at Music Hall of Williamsburg. As Nah Right points out, when the trap-rave beatmakers cued up Cruel Summer single "Cold," the G.O.O.D. …
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  'Cruel Summer,' One Month Later: 10 Records That Explain G.O.O.D.'s Group Misfire

  October 26, 2012 – <p>G.O.O.D. Music's <I>Cruel Summer</i> just kind of came and went, didn't it? It sold pretty well, and I still hear songs from it crawling out of car radios, but overall, it was an underwhelming release. And so, we of the up-to-the-second rap Internet all just pretended like it never really happened. It was better to do that than get bummed out about it not living up to the hype, right? …
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  Kanye West Deflates Ego for 'Cruel Summer' Promo Video

  September 20, 2012 – If the prevailing verdict on Kanye West's G.O.O.D. …
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  G.O.O.D. Music, 'Cruel Summer' (G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam)

  September 17, 2012 – Everything about Cruel Summer, the first compilation album from Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music crew, should play like a victory lap — run in Oscar De La Rentas on a Persian rug adorned with images of cherubs. …
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  Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music 'Cruel Summer' Leak: Our Impulsive Reviews

  September 13, 2012 – Some version of Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music Cruel Summer leaked last night. Here, five SPIN editors give their hasty and completely impulsive opinions... …
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  Play Kanye West G.O.O.D. Music 'Cruel Summer' Leak Bingo

  August 27, 2012 – Kanye West has been promising to finally drop his G.O.O.D. label's first comp, Cruel Summer for about a year now. Since Mother Nature has a special way with major label rap album release dates, spring turned into summer and summer ultimately turned into September, and 2012's Yeezy-less summer feels especially cruel indeed. …
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  See Kanye West Join 2 Chainz and Big Sean Onstage at SXSW

  March 15, 2012 – At this point wouldn't it be a bigger surprise if Kanye West didn't show up for SXSW? He closed out the festivities in Austin last year with a concert that featured an unannounced appearance by Watch the Throne partner Jay-Z, he previously hit the Fader Fort a couple of years earlier, and he's a veteran stage-stealer. With Lil Wayne, 50 Cent, and Jay-Z all in town this year, was anyone expecting Kanye to just stay home? …
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  Big Sean, 'Finally Famous' (Def Jam)

  June 28, 2011 – Big Sean's new home Def Jam leaves nothing to chance in trying to keep this Kanye West protégé from getting Wale'd in the marketplace like so many mixtape-circuit graduates. His major-label debut proceeds efficiently, offering cloying Chris Brown choruses, canned guitar solos, and plodding beats that fail to highlight Sean's nimble flow or provide shameless pop pleasure. …
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  Breaking Out: Big Sean

  September 14, 2010 – A child turning down a college scholarship to pursue a career in rap sounds like most mothers' worst nightmare. Luckily for the Detroit rapper Big Sean, his mother isn't like most. "My mom went to Hollywood to act in movies but became an English teacher to support me and my brother," says Sean Anderson, 22, who bailed on Michigan State. "She gave up her dream. So when my dream came around, she was like, 'Oh baby, you got to do it. …
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