Apr 19, 2008 -
Jawn Murray of AOL Black Voices says that Kanye West and longtime girlfriend/fiancé Alexis Phifer have broken up. Murray claims Kanye dumped Alexis and didn’t give any specific reasons – just the good old, “It’s not going to work out.” The pair have been dating since 2002, though the broke up for a while in 2004. Murray announced the news during his segment on the nationally syndicated ‘Tom Joyner Morning Show’ on Friday morning.
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Jul 22, 2008 -
Puffy has a $100 million deal to promote Ciroc vodka and Kanye West is the face of Absolut in new egocentric ads that don’t even reveal they’re promoting anything more than Kanye-ness.
There are new “Be Kanye” spoof ads featuring little tablets that promise to turn you into Kanye West that are actually ads for Absolut. According to the “Be Kanye” ads, vodka can solve all your problems and make you rich, arrogant and attractive to women.
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Apr 24, 2008 -
Check out the Rolling Stone review of Kanye West’s Glow in the Dark Tour which Rihanna is opening for:
No apologies were necessary from Rihanna, whose stage set-up included light-up speaker stacks that glowed yellow, pink and aqua. The singer and her dancers’ clothes were basic black accented by pink and lime neon; the entire presentation was very new wave, down to Rihanna’s bright pink lipstick. The show was tightly choreographed but never felt laborious, and she got some traction doing “Hate That I Love You,” a duet with Ne-Yo on record, by herself.
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Nov 13, 2007 -
Kanye West's family issued a statement Monday after the death of the singer's mother, Donda West, of possible surgical complications:
"Kanye West, his family and friends would like to thank everyone for the outpouring of support and kind words that have come in from across the country since the death of his mother, Dr. Donda West.
"After working in higher education for 31 years, Dr.
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Nov 12, 2007 -
Donda West, the mother and onetime manager of rapper Kanye West, died Saturday in Los Angeles.
Her publicist, Patricia Green, told BBC News she passed away "as the result of complications from a cosmetic surgical procedure," but gave no more details. West's spokesman said the family "asks for privacy during this time of grief."
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Jul 01, 2008 -
Amy Winehouse better watch her back, she's pissed off a lot of people by calling Kanye West a c**t. During the Glastonbury Festival over the weekend, Winehouse introduced Jay-Z to the stage with the words, "Imagine if it was a c**t like Kanye West. 'C**ts like Kanye' should be his next album title'."
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Sep 05, 2008 -
Does Kanye ever sleep? He's always up to something, and now Billboard Magazine is reporting that he might even have a new album for us to listen to before we know it! They say Kanye may have a follow-up album to Graduation as early as this Fall.
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Nov 28, 2008 -
Kanye’s music video for Heartless has just hit the web and it features him, but in animated form.
This video doesn’t use the Japana-mation style that he did with Good Morning, but it’s still really cool. It’s kind of like one of those Charles Schwab commercials that uses animated characters, but it’s easy to see their emotions.
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Aug 12, 2008 -
Kanye West is even cool as a Muppet! He has released a video for his single Champion, and appears as a Muppet Olympian alongside fellow athletes.
Great timing on his part!
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Jun 26, 2008 -
Kanye West has been ordered to cough up $600,000 to settle the mortgage on his late mother's Illinois condo.
When Donda West passed away in November of '07, Kanye inherited $250,000 of assets from his mother, but she owed more than $600K (plus interest) for the condo at the time of her death.
Since Kanye is the co-executor of the estate, he is ordered by the Superior Court to pay up!
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