Kanye West On The ‘Racist’ Grammys: “Fuck Those Nominations” [VIDEO]
During a concert Tuesday night in Phoenix, Arizona, Kanye West shared who he felt about not being nominated in for a Grammy Awards for Album of the Year. "I’m 36 years. Continue reading
Kanye West Doesn’t Just Need Cosigns For His Genius. He Needs Money For DONDA!
Kanye West may actually be the hardest working ego in show business today. And he also may be building to a gigantic meltdown cause he's been giving off lots of. Continue reading
Viral Video Propels Kayne West’s ‘Gone’ To Billboard #18 Debut 8 Years After Release
"Gone", a song from Kayne West's 2005 sophomore album "Late Registration" debuts in Billboard's Top 100 songs at #18 thanks to viral video by writer and comedian Marina Shifton. The. Continue reading
Who Are The World’s Best Paid Hip-Hop Artists?
Fortune Magazine has released it's latest list of best paid artists Cash Kings 2013: The World's Highest-Paid Hip-Hop Artists. Sean “Diddy” Combs hasn’t always agreed with Forbe's calculations. “[Screw] the Forbes list,”. Continue reading
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Kevin Spacey On Stopping Piracy: Give The Fans What They Want Why Jay-Z Premiered His "Holy Grail" Video On Facebook Upward Spiral Podcast #29: Fractured: The State Of The Online. Continue reading
“Summer Of Hip Hop” Continues On This Week’s Sales Charts
“The ‘Summer of Hip-Hop’ continues this week with the newly hyphen-less Jay Z topping the charts for a second straight week with Magna Carta… Holy Grail," writes NARM President Jim Donio,. Continue reading
Major Artists Increasingly Opt To Record In Secrecy
By Tom Dillon of Evolver.fm. Recording artists often publicize that they were headed into the recording studio. A web, or more recently, Twitter update sends fans into a tizzy of. Continue reading
Kanye West Debuts At #1 As Weekly Sales Rebound
(UPDATED) Kanye West should be smiling. This week he led a trio of rappers to the top of the Nielsen SoundScan sales chart published by Billboard. His new album, Yeezus,. Continue reading
Do Pinterest Changes Matter For Music? Is It Time To Follow Kanye To Fancy?
Pinterest is clearly a social media powerhouse from time spent on site to traffic referrals. But Pinterest still feels like a poor fit for many musicians and changes that could. Continue reading
WHODAT.BIZ: OKFocus PR Web Trick Or A Kanye West Internet Head Fake?
When news hit the web that the first product resulting from Kanye West's epic DONDA Twitter rant was a WHOIS domain registration lookup tool called WHODAT.BIZ, the world stopped and. Continue reading