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  Watch Kanye West's Dystopian 'Lost in the World' Video

  May 4, 2012 – 18 months after the release of his Grammy-winning My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (our favorite of 2010), Kanye West and his artistic team have graced us with visuals for his Bon Iver-sampling "Lost in the World." In line with his recent dealings in high fashion, the clip was directed by London-based fashion filmmaker Ruth Hogben, who takes the song's existential lovesickness to a seriously dystopian place. A Kanye video with a fashi …
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  Birdman Trying to Sign Chief Keef to Cash Money

  May 4, 2012 – Birdman isn't stopping at signing Limp Bizkit. The Cash Money CEO has also stepped into an apparent bidding war over the ever-buzzing Chief Keef, the Chicago rapper whose breakout song was recently blessed by Kanye West. Birdman keeps pressing on as a musician, too, most recently releasing a music video for his cameo-studded track "B Boyz." Birdman is looking to bring Chief Keef into the star-studded Young Money fold, MTV reports. …
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  Chicago Bulls: Kanye West Hops on Chief Keef's Aggro 'I Don't Like' Remix

  May 2, 2012 – "This is Chi, right?" sneers Kanye West at the end of a characteristically swaggering verse on his G.O.O.D. …
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  Kanye West Forced to Address Ridiculousness of Ridiculous Kim Kardashian Rumor

  April 18, 2012 – Kanye West is best known for making public proclamations on telethons and awards show stages, but the 34-year-old rapper was forced to respond to a recent outrage in a fairly conventional manner — he issued a statement to Us Weekly, the publication that originally ran a story in which a source said West referred to rumored girlfriend Kim Kardashian as "his Beyoncé." "Of course there are a lot of media inaccuracies surroundi …
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  Kanye West's 'Theraflu' Will Hereafter Be Known as 'Way Too Cold'

  April 16, 2012 – Kanye West's "Theraflu" got good reviews from its subject (Kim Kardashian) but bad ones from its namesake (the makers of the titular cold medicine). …
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  Watch Director Ice-T's 'Art of Rap' Trailer

  April 13, 2012 – Original gangster and legendary rhyme-ripper Ice-T has long been directing his upcoming production, Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap, the world's first documentary about the ins and outs about constructing uncut dopeness. The Iceberg is one of the greatest ever, beloved by everyone (except maybe Aimee Mann and her bowl of dicks), so the guest list is naturally formidable: Eminem, Kanye West, Dr. …
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  Kanye West Quietly Joined 2 Chainz on '106 & Park'

  April 10, 2012 – Kanye West stole the stage again last night on BET's 106 & Park, but this time he did it without saying a word. A jewelry-bedecked 2 Chainz, who is currently riding a wave of high-profile collaborations including Nicki Minaj's "Beez in the Trap" and West's G.O.O.D. Music track "Mercy," came on the show to offer up some humble bromides about hard work and prayer before calling Yeezy to the stage as a surprise guest. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five

  April 6, 2012 – For the second week in a row, I am going to use this space to mourn the death of a weirdo cult figure only tangentially related to hip-hop. This time, it's director African-American filmmaker Jamaa Fanaka, best known for the 1979 prison fight flick Penitentiary. Dialogue from the film is sampled on plenty of hip-hop songs and it's the origin of cult rapper Lil 1/2 Dead's name. …
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  G.O.O.D. Friday: Hear Kanye West and Co.'s Slinky 'Mercy'

  April 6, 2012 – Kanye West has granted his platinum-plated cosign to Daft Punk, Can, and Bon Iver, among other once-unlikely hip-hop touchstones — King Crimson, hanh? When the pungent smoke clears from West's new G.O.O.D. music single, "Mercy," featuring Big Sean, Pusha T, and 2 Chainz, the big winner might be another artist previously little-known to a mass audience: Warp Records' Scottish electronic producer Ross Birchard, a.k.a. …
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  Kanye West's 'Theraflu' Upsets PETA, Theraflu, Laws of Decency

  April 6, 2012 – Within the past 24 hours, Kanye West has given the world a gentle reminder that despite his general amicability of late, he still has a gift for annoying everyone within a 3,000-mile radius. Because that's exactly what has happened since the arrival of his DJ Khaled-assisted track "Theraflu" yesterday. …
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