As with so many places where entertainment and emotion intersect, rap beefs exist in a weird, semi-real space. On the one hand, they’re pure marketing moves—a way for two performers to raise each other’s profiles, show off their lyrical cleverness, and hopefully sell a few extra albums. But they’re also often the…
Leonard Cohen passed away in 2016, but the game-changing songwriter left behind a trove of unpublished material. That included several poems, the likes of which were recently published in a collection, The Flame, which counts among its pieces one called “Kanye West Is Not Picasso.”
Kenan Thompson joined old Saturday Night Live pal Seth Meyers on Monday’s Late Night, with the two SNL veterans swapping the requisite stories from the live comedy trenches. Meyers, who’s hosting SNL for the first time on October 13, praised Thompson’s recent Emmy nomination for his unprecedented 16th year on the…
We’re as exhausted by all these latest twists in the hat-based antics of Kanye West as everybody else by this point, so let’s keep this short and sweet: West announced today that his much-mentioned album Yandhi—which missed the September 29 release date he’s been hyping for it for weeks—has now been officially…
When Kanye West indulges in his, shall we say, extracurricular activities—up to and including dumbass social media posts and poorly received rants on late-night sketch comedy shows—people will often say he’s doing it for the attention. If that’s the case—if Kanye is simply dabbling in the world of Trump in order to…
Kanye West was the musical guest on last night’s Saturday Night Live season premiere, and as literally everyone on the planet could’ve predicted, he did some weird shit that seemed specifically designed to generate news stories like, oh, this one. As noted in our review of the episode, his first song involved him…
And Kanye West scoopity-poops all over the place.
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, September 28 and Saturday, September 29. All times are Eastern
God, but does the Kanye fatigue set in fast some times. Which is to say, professional rap contrarian Kanye West is on a diamond-encrusted roll today, proudly throwing down his support for alleged (and admitted!) sexual abusers of all shapes and stripes, which is definitely something America needed to put up with on…
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.…
