The season is changing, and with it, the state of Kanye West. Over the last year, we’ve seen Kanye on a lot of things: The soapbox, the defensive, his hustle, and the couch of an ABC talk show, talking about his tastes re: jerking off. But now the Ye rapper is back at last on his home turf: His bullshit. (And also the…
On the occasion of his first PornHub Awards as creative director, Kanye West premiered the video for “I Love It,” a short-and-sweet collaboration with Lil Pump, Adele Givens, and Spike Jonze. West directed the video, in which he and Lil Pump dress like Stop Making Sense extras and trail after Givens, who fires off a…
In what we can only assume was a courtly, measured affair of shared admiration, light ribaldry, and only the gentlest of flirtations between woo-er and woo-ee, Pitchfork reports that Kanye West has finally agreed to help the professional masturbation facilitators at PornHub creatively direct their first annual awards…
In the past few weeks Kanye West has set out on something like an image rehabilitation tour. Step one was to apologize (kinda, mostly, sort of) for that whole “slavery was a choice” thing. With that out of the way Kanye was free to move on to steps two and three: wearing very small sandals, and following that up by…
There are few means of promotion more coveted than the celebrity endorsement. As we’ve seen time and again, a Beyoncé lyric can revitalize a fledging brand, while a rebuke from a Jenner can crater a company’s stock. When Kanye West unabashedly flew his freak flag for Pornhub on Jimmy Kimmel last month, the streamer…
Kanye West has had an unpleasantly eventful 2018, managing to piss off vast swathes of the American people—first by seeming to embrace Donald Trump as some kind of (far more dangerous) fellow provocateur, and then by giving a TMZ interview in which he said that “400 years of slavery” “sounds like a choice” to him.…
Last week the rapper and national treasure 2 Chainz wed his longtime partner Kesha Ward at the Versace Mansion in Miami. By all appearances it was a celebration fit for a man with a $3,000 microwave: 2 Chainz’s very adorable children were in the ceremony! There was a big cake! Lil Wayne, who is much shorter than 2…
Kanye West is having one of his periodic resurgences this week, presumably dictated by the lunar cycle, or extra atmospheric pollen count, or possibly just the fact that he’s just been feeling kind of horny lately. After all, he talked about his porn habits on Kimmel this week—scoring himself a lifetime Pornhub…
Kanye West went on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, talking about all the things you’d expect a mercurial superstar to chat about on national TV: His wife, his work, his politics, his preferred masturbation habits. That last one came up when West responded to a question from Kimmel about his attitudes toward women in…
After wife Kim Kardashian appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last week, Kanye West followed suit with a wide-ranging, 20-minute interview with Kimmel on Thursday. Actually, “wide-ranging” is selling the scope of their talk short, as Kimmel followed West’s conversation through the multi-hyphenate star’s discussion of his…
Kanye West doesn’t appear on late-night shows very often, possibly because he has a tendency to say and do controversial things when people give him a platform like that (or when he just hops on stage and takes the platform for himself), but West is set to make his big return to Jimmy Kimmel Live! later this week.…
If you thought Yeezy season was over, you were woefully mistaken. After releasing five albums in five weeks—albeit five extremely short albums in five weeks—rumors have started to emerge that Kanye’s got a whole lot left in the tank. Following the publication of a revealing interview with West in the New York Times…
Drake’s always been good at controlling the narrative around him, alternately leaning into his corniness and his penchant for drama, aligning himself with other emcees and labels as best fits the landscape. But his narrative was ripped out of his hands when Pusha T released the withering “Story Of Adidon,” a…
Nine Inch Nails’ live shows are typically big and dramatic events, with lights, elaborate video screens, and transforming stages, but frontman Trent Reznor says that’s not the sort of thing he wants to do anymore. Speaking with BBC Radio (via Billboard), Reznor explained that he remembers watching some Coachella…
Note: This review is based on last night’s livestream of Nasir, which hasn’t been officially released at the time of publication. You can watch the stream below.
What is freedom to Kanye West? The answer to that question is becoming exceedingly difficult to understand. He’s always positioned himself as a free thinker in the mold of Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, and other titans of industry (without pausing to note the irony that his free thought brings him to the conclusions of the…
It makes a certain inevitable sense that Kanye West would be a Rick & Morty fan. First—and, we’ll admit, it gets harder to remember this part with every passing day, as the platonic image of the show’s “Pickle Rick!”-screaming fanbase continually threatens to overshadow its actual merits—the Adult Swim series remains…
Kanye West may not be God, but nobody can deny that he’s just about as close as we’re ever going to get. On Saturday, he descended to our mortal realm to try and break up the feud between Drake and Pusha T—though “feud” is a little generous considering that Drake essentially brought Socker Boppers to a knife fight…
Clearly worried that all this online drama, outsized public egotism, and needless divisiveness will distract people from the important things in life—i.e., the life and antics of one Kanye West—the Ye rapper is now attempting to put his foot down to stop the feud between his frequent collaborator Pusha T and Canadian…
In a way, Ye is what everyone wanted. The word “Trump” appears nowhere on the album. Kanye only acknowledges his risible claim that “slavery was a choice” obliquely, and with regrets (“I ain’t finna talk about it another four centuries”). He doesn’t attempt to fit the hateful rhetoric of his YouTube thought leaders in…
