Drake‘s Certified Lover Boy easily repeated at Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. The 21-song set amassed more than 200 million streams, led by four different Top Ten singles. In addition, songs from Certified Lover Boy picked up 12,300 downloads. If Drake hadn’t dropped an …
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We may be approaching the apex on sneaker culture, but when it comes to music, it’s hard to remember a time when kicks and beats weren’t intertwined. From Run-DMC’s “My Adidas” (stream here) to Nelly’s “Air Force Ones” (stream here),music – and especially hip-hop – has always embraced the athletic …
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Kanye West recently hosted a second Sunday Service, the rapper’s “inspirational jam session” that features a choir delivering gospel renditions of West songs. West sat on a stool in the middle of the performers for the majority of the session, but at the 36-minute mark of the above video (via …
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The producer and songwriter Jeff Bhasker has worked on four albums with Kanye West.808s & Heartbreakwas their first collaboration, and likely the most memorable.“It was probably the easiest Kanye West record that ever got made,” he said. “It flowed the most effortlessly because we basically did it in three weeks.” …
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Earlier this month, radio personality (and future HBO talk show host) Charlagmane Tha God announced aNew York Times-sponsored speaking engagement with Kanye West to discuss anxiety and success. The talk — which was to be moderated by theTimes‘ pop critic Jon Caramanica on Wednesday, October 17th — was billed as …
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Adam Driver and Kanye West will lead off Saturday Night Live’s 44th season as its host and musical guest when it premieres on September 29th. The show announced the news via a tweet on Monday showing the celebrities’ names pinned to a corkboard. It will be Driver’s second time hosting …
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At first, Pusha-T wasn’t on board with the idea. Kanye West pitched him on a series of albums from their artists on G.O.O.D. Music: An album every week, for five weeks, each with only seven tracks. Pusha’s would be the first to be released, and the seven track limit would …
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When Kanye West released Graduation on September 11, 2007, it was the candy-colored, beatwise album that, famously, beat 50 Cent for a battle over release date bragging rights. But, 10 years later, we can see how it also pointed the way towards the AutoTuned vocals, EDM and arena rock influences …
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