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Listen to Kanye West, Pusha T, CyHi Da Prynce, Big Sean & Common kill it for the 2010 BET Hip-Hop awards!
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While the “critics” have been “lauding” the “visionary” effort by Kanye West in his directorial debut film that serves as an accompaniment to his upcoming new record, Runaway, the film, when treated as either a short or an extended music video—leaves much to be desired. Being a decidedly arthouse film, Kanye West takes poetic license and shows us some of the twisted images coming from the mind of a self-named genius, a creative polymath capable of combining disparate elements like those exemplified by the cunning of a Picasso, the deconstruction of a Derrida, the creativity of a Warhol, or the glam avant-garde of David Bowie. Kanye is, at the moment, none of these (my apologies).
His music video/film hybrid reads like an incoherent montage of sequences with only the most basic of connections being made, through what seems to …
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Kanye West is pop culture’s ultimate villian these days, but he is hardly the first to challenge the sense and sensibility of mainstream culture. The news today that the album artwork for his upcoming album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, has been “banned” just makes him the latest in a long line of artists who album art pushed the limits. …MORE
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I’m a very big fan of superstar musicians taking not so mainstream creators and taking them to the highest level of stardom. Kanye previously has collaborated with Takashi Murakami, which I suspect he fell in love with after Murakami had done all that work for Louis Vuitton. If anything in times like these where the arts and humanities are being cut in funding, I am giving Kanye West a high five for showing how important both fields are. Kanye West tweeted the banned album cover for his upcoming album. The cover already looked censored to me, and looked similar to the New Pornographers Mass Romantic cover. You know, even if this is banned-George Condo can create something just as beautiful (that is if he did make that cover), check out some of his work below. …MORE
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Before our conversation, I listened to the new album, watched the video for DoomTree’s “Drumsticks” a million times. I’ll have to wait a month or two till he comes to play West Hollywood to shout it at him at a show. At at 28, he’s already logged a considerable amount of time in the studio, and four hundred plus some odd tracks which is definitely a professional average. Spin has even called him a child prodigy, various mainstream media corporate outlets bowed at his feet as well in previous write-ups. He was down for the exchange, and I was unbelievably ill. It was decided via text message would be mutually beneficial way to proceed.
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