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| | Kanye West: Late Registration - PopMatters Music Review |
 | | West not only creates a great sound, he knows how to work it, bringing it in and out of the mix for impact, re-charging the song at any moment the rappers (or the listeners) need to be directed back to center. | | | West still brings the social commentary and humor, but it was his conflicted personality that made the first album so endearing; now the focus turns from artistic self-expression to ambitious music consummation. | | | Kanye's flow has improved, which ameliorates even the weaker moments on the album. |
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| | Kanye West [dot] ORG |
| | Kanye West is to release a live album and DVD of his celebrated appearance at London& Abbey Road studios. | | | Kanye West and Sam Roberts will join in musical matrimony for an April 18 concert at Toronto& historic Masonic Temple that will be taped and broadcast across Canada as a 60-minute CTV special. | | | Kanye West has put his own spin on the famous hard-hitting “MI: 3″ theme song. |
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| | The man who can save hip-hop. By Sasha Frere-Jones |
| | West's "Through the Wire," holding steady at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, will likely be the weirdest pop hit of the year. | | | This is also somewhat corny, since West himself put many of the album's tracks on four different mix-tapes last year.) Whatever argument you want to mount against or on behalf of West, there is one thing he can't be called: corny. | | | West did it repeatedly in songs like Jay-Z's "This Can't Be Life," Cam'ron's "Dead or Alive," and Talib Kweli's "Good to You." It became the overnight standard for East Coast thug rhymes. |
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| | Straight.com Vancouver Concert Reviews Kanye West |
| | Kanyeâs lyrical talents were plainly evident on his first album, 2004âs The College Dropout, but his initial run of concert appearances left critics doubting heâd ever be a great live performer. | | | Westâs concert at GM Place last Sunday was a celebration of music in all its forms, quoting everything from classical music to Swedish synth-pop over its delirious 90-minute span. | | | Because they spend so much time sifting through old records, hip-hop producers tend to have an exceptionally deep and broad appreciation for music. |
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| | Kanye West - Uncyclopedia |
| | In 2004, West was reincarnated as a bear and released his highly anticipated follow-up CD "The College Dropout", which, according to Mozart, is 20 percent more phat that the last one. | | | One time at Band Camp Kanye West inserted a musical instrument into his rectum. | | | In a parody of Kayne Wests comments, Chris Rock said, on TV, "George W. Bush doesn't care about midgets", but by then it wasnt funny, like that Rick James 'bitch' shit after all the white people played it out. |
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| | Amazon.com: Late Registration: Music: Kanye West |
| | Kanye is definitely an exception in the industry, while all other rap artists seem more interested in laying out as many albums of synth bass and bling-bling lyrics as possible(gotta get paid while you're hot). | | | Compared to the rest of the CD, the song may not measure to the other tracks but the song is still worth listening to. | | | Ladies and gentlemen, Kanye has outdone himself on this track. |
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| | Ban Kanye West from the Grammys |
| | But this isn't a critique of Kanye's album. | | | In conclusion, Kanye West's album was nothing new, and it didnt influence anybody. | | | Sure, but that was not Kanye's influence, rather, Kanye was influenced by older producers who sped-up songs before. |
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| | Kanye West News |
| | Kanye West is to release a live album and DVD of his celebrated appearance at London's Abbey Road studios. | | | Legendary Concert Hall Reborn April 18: Kanye West and Sam Roberts... | | | Kanye West dropping new album, names festival slot |
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| | Kanye West: Late Registration (2005): Reviews |
| | Kanye West does absolutely excellent with this album. | | | Late Registration really wants to be an album album, which makes all the more frustrating and undermining the fact that it mirrors the flaws of its predecessor: the glut and the stilted sequencing. | | | Kanye West is my life.Late Registration is the best album of the hystory.From Italy |
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| | MTV Music Kanye West - Profile and Biography |
| | More high-profile productions followed, and before long word spread that West was going to release an album of his own, on which he'd rap as well as produce. | | | Then, just as "Through the Wire" was breaking big-time at the tail end of 2003, another West song caught fire, a collaboration with Twista and comedian/actor Jamie Foxx called "Slow Jamz" that gave the rapper/producer two simultaneously ubiquitous singles and a much-anticipated debut album. | | | That bang happened during the opening weeks of 2004, when not one but two songs featuring him as a rapper ("Through the Wire" and "Slow Jamz") were downright ubiquitous, saturating music video television and urban radio all the while skyrocketing to the top of the charts. |
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| | AskMen.com - Kanye West |
| | Initially recognized for his production skills on a number of chart toppers in the music industry -- primarily in the hip-hop community -- Kanye's signing to the almighty Roc-A-Fella Records label was the ideal gateway to the highly anticipated release of his solo effort. | | | With these natural talents, it was only a matter of time before Kanye's talents crossed paths with his appreciation for hip-hop music. | | | His debut album, The College Dropout has gone double platinum since its release earlier this year and his name has in some way, shape or form been attached to anything and everything successful in hip-hop music as of late. |
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| | Kanye West Home - Kanye West Fans Website |
| | The triumphant track, in which he relives his traumatic experience, later become the lead track for his first album 'The College Dropout'. | | | From the 47th Grammy Music Awards, where Kanye topped ten nominations to millions of albums sold and a sold-out tour grew from being an artist to watch to an artist to feel. | | | Several weeks after having encountered with death, Kanye began recording in a hospital bed his first track 'Through the Wire'. |
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| | Kanye West: The College Dropout: Pitchfork Review |
| | One begins to wish there were even more examples of Kanye's mic-work, as the album is also laden with distracting guest appearance speed-bumps-- spots that safety-net the album's bottom line but dilute the spotlight on its lead performer. | | | Deleting the skits also cuts down on the strange logic of the album's anti-college stance-- someone should tell West that not everyone on the street has the ability and/or luck to make a living in the music biz. | | | And when words fail, Kanye can always fall back on his day job, camouflaging even less-inspired lyrical moments with affably absurd beat constructions like the vocoder/strings/handclaps amalgamation that carries "The New Workout Plan" past its lyrical juvenilia. |
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| | universalurban.com :: Kanye West |
| | There are new flavors and voices in the mix, but it's still 100% Kanye, still the voice of the underdog tackling the highs and lows of everyday life through pointed lyrics and emotionally charged music. | | | The track became a breakout hit, and Kanye again went against the script by giving away the single rights to "Slow Jamz" - a track he originally recorded for Dropout with Jamie Foxx and Twista. | | | Enlisting composer/producer Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann) to lend his skills to the album& production, West's newest offering is a big album in every sense of the word. |
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| | AllHipHop.com : Features |
| | Kanye West: Well you know John Legend is doing his own tour. | | | Kanye West: Sometimes I like to not slang my lyrics out. | | | The set changes constantly, depending on the song, and Kanye evokes a mood that stretches beyond mere music. |
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| | Kanye West: Late Registration: Pitchfork Review |
| | Conjecture about West revolutionizing the sound of modern hip-hop is mostly a fallacy. | | | The sprawling Late Registration is the year's most accomplished rap album, and in turn, he's done something that his heroes-- the Pharcyde and Nas, and father figure Jay-Z-- couldn't do: deliver on a promise the second time around. | | | A case in point is "Hey Mama", a track that leaked more than a year ago. |
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| | AllHipHop.com : Features |
| | But, in between albums, Kanye has seen himself the subject of scorn and worship alike. | | | They said, “Kanye West is crazy, by saying he should be put on the cover.” | | | Read up on what's poppin' in the non-Hip Hop world of music. |
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| | Putfile - Kanye79 |
| | Okay listen, Kanye West is the one that is racist he is full of crap. | | | oh okay so do you think that kanye is racist for saying bush doesn't like black ppl. | | | Also, the black people that say stuff like "Oh my ancestors were slaves and blah blah blah" are idiots. |
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| | Kanye West Tickets - Buy Kanye West Tickets |
| | Megastar rapper Kanye West, punk rockers AFI, and '90s "art" rappers A Tribe Called Quest lead the lineup of Bumbershoot 2006, Seattle's 36th annual music and arts festival set for Labor Day weekend. | | | Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest and Atmosphere Set For Seattle Music Fest (SOHH) | | | Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest headline Bumbershoot lineup (Tacoma News Tribune) |
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| | Blogcritics.org: Kanye West's racism |
| | To the dumb asses who think Kanye did this for cd sales you are as stupid as that comment suggest. | | | Kanye West, a wealthy African American rapper whose recent hit has the profane lyric: | | | "was instructed to listen for a curse word, and didn't realize (West) had gone off-script," |
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| | Kanye West Rips Bush During NBC Telethon |
| | To give her smash 2004 album "Breakaway" one last push before she heads back into the studio, Kelly Clarkson will hit the road this summer on her Addicted tour. | | | There was a several-second tape delay, but the person in charge "was instructed to listen for a curse word, and didn't realize [West] had gone off-script," said an NBC spokesperson. | | | September 03, 2005, 11:50 AM ET It began, fittingly enough, with jazz from New Orleans natives Harry Connick Jr. |
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| | Blogging the Hurricane Relief concert - Concert for the Gulf Coast - MSNBC.com |
| | Glad she can come in with another song. | | | Myers, clearly stressed, goes into another point about the hurricane and how New Orleans is forever changed. | | | 5:47: Missed most of Aaron Neville's last song, "Amazing Grace," trying to figure out exactly what Kanye said. |
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| | VIBE.com: Opinion: Kanye West For President |
| | Kanye West is making heads turn and opening ears across America, and it’s not because of his new album, Late Registration. | | | Comedian Mike Myers, Kanye’s co-presenter during the TV broadcast, stood there frozen by what many called “brazen and bold” comments. | | | Kanye’s comments were so powerful because it didn’t come from a former artist, defunct low-level record executive or disgruntled stylist. |
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| | Democracy Now! Kanye West: "Bush Doesn't Care About Black People" |
| | West was one of several celebrities and singers participating in a live telethon and concert produced by NBC News titled “A Concert for Hurricane Relief.” Performers included New Orleans natives Harry Connick Jr., Wynton Marsalis and Aaron Neville. | | | The magazine reported that his eagerly anticipated latest album titled "Late Registration" and released on August 30th,is widely expected to be the biggest selling record of the year. | | | West has become increasingly vocal on political matters of late and recentley used the video for his Diamonds from Sierra Leone single to highlight the highlight the suffering caused by conflict dimonds and the Human Rights abuses that occur in mining them. |
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| | Kanye West Escapes Brawl - Apr 04, 2005 - E! Online News |
| | West, who previously produced records for the likes of Janet Jackson, Ludacris, Alicia Keys, Jay-Z and Britney Spears, hit the big time last year with the release of his multiplatinum-smash debut, The College Dropout. | | | The Chicago native took home three Grammy Awards in February, including Best Rap Album. | | | But fans of the hip-hopster weren't exactly happy to have someone rain on their parade. |
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| | CBC Arts: Rapper Kanye West accuses Bush of racism; NBC apologizes |
| | NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 2: Music artist Kanye West performs on the Good Morning America Summer Concert Series in Lincoln Center on September 2, 2005 in New York City. | | | There had been a several-second tape delay during the live broadcast, but the person in charge "was instructed to listen for a curse word, and didn't realize (West) had gone off-script," said NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks. | | | West, born in 1977 in Atlanta, Ga., is a rapper and hip-hop producer who has produced singles for Alicia Keys, Jay-Z and Ludacris, and has his own clothing line and record label. |
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| | Kanye West lends support to Millions More Movement |
| | Kanye West, a three-time Grammy Award winner and owner of the G.O.O.D. (Getting Out Our Dreams) record label with such notables such as platinum-selling recording artist John Legend and Chicago native rap artist Common. | | | On his way to the event, as he read from the agenda of the Millions More Movement, Kanye shared with the audience that every issue he read was like a verse from lyrics in his upcoming sophomore album “Late Registration” (due in stores August 30). | | | Chicago (FinalCall.com) - Before an audience of excited supporters and local Chicago news media, multi-platinum recording artist Kanye West stopped by the Nation of Islam's headquarters July 24 to show support for the Millons More Movement, 10th Anniversary Commemoration of the Million Man March. |
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| | Kanye West, Unplugged |
| | Yet on the other hand West has also begun speaking out against the routine use of homophobic slurs in rap lyrics. | | | The hip-hop music genre has been rightfully criticized for glorifying violence, misogyny and hedonism. | | | West has been a mercurial presence on the music scene for nearly five years, and his persona has always been full of contradictions. |
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| | CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - West, Kanye |
| | Hip-hop sensation Kanye West ousted veteran rockers the Rolling Stones from the top of the Canadian retail album chart this week. | | | A hip-hop sensation, a Canadian rock quartet, and an up-and-coming rapper debuted atop the Canadian album charts this week. | | | With Scary Movie 4 to open tomorrow, which of the earlier Scary movies did you like best? |
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| | Kanye West Artist Info >> liveDaily |
| | Briefly: Kanye West, All Good festival, 'High School Musical,' Loudon Wainwright III | | | see all 21 releases in our full Kanye West discography section >> | | | see all 47 Kanye West stories in the news archives >> |
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Music Rap star attacks Bush at benefit |
| | Kanye West's comments were cut from a recorded version of the show | | | West also claimed the US was not set up "to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off as slow as possible". | | | The comment went out live on the US east coast, but was cut from a taped version seen on the west coast. |
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| | TIME.com: Why You Can't Ignore Kanye -- Aug. 29, 2005 -- Page 1 |
| | The first time Kanye West asked the folks at Roc-A-Fella records to let him rap, there was an uncomfortable silence. | | | As a producer, West had churned out hits for Roc-A-Fella's intimidating trio of stars--Jay-Z, Cam'ron and Beanie Siegel--and earned praise for his great ear and tireless ethic. | | | More GQ than gangsta, Kanye West is challenging the way rap thinks about race and class--and striking a chord with fans of all stripes |
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| | Kanye West Tickets - Kanye West Concert Tickets Available!! |
| | Don’t miss your chance to see Kanye West perform LIVE on tour in support of his new album “Late Registration”! | | | Kanye West has hit it big in the hip-hop scene with songs “Diamonds From Sierra Leone,” “Gold Digger,” “Jesus Walks,” and many others! | | | Kanye West Tickets for all Kanye West Concerts on the Touch the Sky Tour |
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| | Kanye West comments cause stir at concert - Access Hollywood - MSNBC.com |
| | Kanye West comments cause stir at concert - Access Hollywood - MSNBC.com | | | Kanye West, shown with Mike Myers, left, went off the prompter and became the talk of Friday night's benefit concert for Katrina victims. | | | Over the weekend, Hollywood continued to do its part to help at various telethons, including "A Concert for Hurricane Relief," benefit that aired on NBC and other networks Friday night. |
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| | Welcome to Kanye West for President 2008 |
| | The next president must be able to produce sick beats and kill em on that lyrical shit. | | | When asked whether or he expected any of Kanye's candidates will be "borked," the new political buzzsword of demonizing an appointee, Dash dismissed such guessing games as trivial. | | | liberal that’s quick to play the race card,” a clearly inebriated O’Reilly slurred on air, also taking time to discredit Kanye’s tax reform plan and his choice of co-producer Jon Brion for his latest album, “Late Registration (Rocafella).” |
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| | Kanye West |
| | Kanye West: College Dropout - Video Anthology (2005) (V) (songs) | | | Find where Kanye West is credited alongside another name | | | Kanye West: College Dropout - Video Anthology (2005) (V).... |
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| | Kanye West Music |
| | Help build the largest human-contributed music project online | | | Music » Bands and Artists » W » West, Kanye |
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| | Kanye West - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | Kanye West - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links | | | Browse artists: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # | | | Click here to download the Kanye West skin on the Free ARTISTdirect Instant Messenger |
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| | Kanye West at the NBC Concert for Hurricane Katrina Relief |
| | Kanye West at the NBC Concert for Hurricane Katrina Relief | | | C&L is averaging more than 200,000 hits a day via Blogads. | | | Fuller transcript from Tracy and Eric: Kanye West at the NBC Concert for Hurricane Katrina Relief: |
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| | Urban Legends Reference Pages: Hurricane Katrina (Kanye West) |
| | Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West ruffled feathers with his remarks during the "Concert for Hurricane Relief," a | | | This may sound a little crass, but as a generation X'er I feel like I'm well positioned to voice my opinion regarding my own generation. | | | (That comment was heard live by the East Coast audience but excised by the network from the tape-delayed West Coast broadcast). |
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| | Kanye West - Wikiquote |
| | Kanye Omari West (pronounced "KAHN-yay") (born June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American record producer and rapper based in Chicago, Illinois. | | | You know that’s not how you were raised." — Ray West (Kanye's father) on Rolling Stone magazine | | | "The one thing I fear for [Kanye] the most is if you keep talking about being the greatest, people eventually are going to want to watch you fail." — John Mayer (From MTV.com) |
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| | Kanye West Receives 2005 Million Man March Image Award |
| | On Sunday July 24, 2005, Kanye West was presented with the 2005 Million Man March Image Award on behalf of the Board of Directors of Million Man March 10 Anniversary, The Millions More Movement. | | | Kanye West Receives 2005 Million Man March Image Award | | | Join Us Saturday, October 15th 2005 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Kanye West Shows Support |
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| | DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2005® |
| | Fri Sep 09 2005 10:30:28 ET The chart topping hip hop rapper star who used a network hurricane fundraiser to charge "George Bush doesn't care about black people" was loudly and lustily booed during last night's NFL kickoff show. | | | The appearance of Kanye West, who was beamed into the Boston stadium via remote from Los Angeles, received a strongly negative response from the crowd. |
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