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"It's like nothing anybody has ever seen," says a fan that went to Kanye West's Glow "In The Dark" tour opener last night (April 16th) at Seattle's Key Arena. An incredible light show created by the man behind Daft Punk's mind-blowing pyramid tour last summer and at the center of it all...Mr. West, traveling through space, who never fails to entertain. West performed an eighteen song set in ninety-minutes last night with songs from all three of his albums. Here's a video... MORE

They say he can’t sing, can’t rap, wears wack clothes, and isn’t street enough. Now Kanye West has turned to face the haters, looked ‘em right in the eye, and agreed with everything they said. Well, almost. They also think he can't write a decent rhyme to safe his life, and cite as exhibit A “Like Kathy Lee need Regis, that’s the way I need Jesus!” They complain, too, about his “samples”. Or as his detractors call 'em, “whole songs.” But West, on soulful new album trac... MORE

  Lets play a game. The game is: What time do you think it is in the picture below?  


The snapshot, taken during Kanye West’s Bonnaroo set, might look like midday, maybe around 3PM. But the photo was taken at sunrise - 5AM - midway through his shorter than usual, late night/early morning set on the main stage, which started two hours late. It seemed like half of the entire festival came out to see West’s Glow In The Dark production, but after an hour and a half of wai... MORE

There may have been a tornado of angry fans at Kanye West’s Bonnaroo performance, which started two hours late, but the following night at his Moline, IL concert a literal tornado nearly missed the arena he was closing up his Glow in The Dark tour in. Captured by crew and security is a video of the funnel closing in on the venue as tornado warning sirens are goign off in the background. Massive flooding followed. Seems the rapper was totally jinxed last weekend.

  Kanye West resurrected himself from his Bonnaroo performance with his toned down set Sunday night, closing out Lollapalooza 2008. West along with industrial rock's Nine Inch Nails shut the 3 day festival down, in a year that marked the highest attendance ever for Lollapalooza.

With no video wall or any other extravagant set-up to delay the start of his set, West jacked the crowd up giving shout outs to the city. Musically the set started off like all of West’s other... MORE

At the tail end of his "Glow In The Dark" show in NYC last night, Kanye West delivered a five minute speech in defense of Soulja Boy and spoke out against homophobia in hip hop culture. Soulja Boy has taken an incredible beating from fans and some artists due to his lack of lyrical content, and Kanye stressed the idea that we need to be accepting of all kinds of music. He then went on to name off different types of hip hop artists he enjoyed, noting that it's okay to broa... MORE

My throat is sore, my feet are blistered, and my ears are still ringing: the chaos of Lollapalooza has finally subsided. Due to the wear and tear of the past two days, this third day of music was particulary hard to stomach. Not only was the weather the hottest and stickiest it's been, but there seemed to be even more people than the previous day. It literally took over five minutes to go up a flight of six stairs. Grant Park reeked of garbage and thousands of cups and bot... MORE

When I first caught wind that Kanye ranted on Entertainment Weekly, i assumed they said something really mean about him. It turns out they simply had the audacity to rate his "Glow In The Dark" tour a B+ instead of an A+.... check out what he said on his blog.

"Yo, anybody that's not a fan; don't come to my show. For what?! To try and throw ya'll two cents in? Ya'll rated my album shitty and now ya'll come to the show and give it a B+. What's a B+ mean? I'm an extremist. I

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By now you've probably already heard of the resentmant toward Kanye West's Bonnaroo set, which started two hours late with no apology. The crowd threw glowsticks and got all crazy with spray paint. Well, the people at Animal New York have captured some of the messages. "Fuck Kanye" "Kanye Sucks" and "Kanye West Done Not Care About 'Roo People" all make the wall art. My personal favorite is the hippie chick holding the no frills sign "Kanye Hates Hippes." Oh the wonders of... MORE

Those that can, make music. Those that can't, latch on to musicians and subsequently squeeze every penny they can out of the situation... Hopefully this isn't a common theme, but it's an easy mistake to make these days when Rita Marley, Yoko Ono and others continue to lay claim to someone else's art. It's sad when the spotlight exposes the strife over the intellectual property rights of artists they must have really admired at one time. But money talks. And sings and... MORE

Kanye West can be tagged as a hip-hop star, blogger, egomaniac and travel site entrepreneur, but at Tuesday night’s concert at famed Madison Square Garden with a tag team that includes Lupe Fiasco, Rihanna and N.E.R.D., Mr. West proved first and foremost that he is a visionary. Let me, or him for that matter, explain. “You know we started making all of this two days ago,” Kanye told me. He was talking to me about Rihanna’s re-vamped stage set during sound check. Less tha... MORE

Here's the video for Kanye West's hometown shout-out on Graduation, which features Coldplay's Chris Martin on the piano. And if you don’t know by now, I’m talking about Chi town...