So Kanye put a new single out this week

To be exact, it was two days ago (Tuesday, January 11) and it’s called “H.A.M.” The single is taken from the forthcoming album he made with Jay-Z called Watch The Throne, due out sometime in March. Oh, and he (originally) released it on the official Facebook page for the album. I kid you not. In order to hear it (or, rather, have heard it), you have to like the page. It’s worth your time, of…

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Kanye West’s banned awesome cover art

THIS IS NASTY!

Kanye’s fifth studio album in six years, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”, will be due at the end of next month, and as always the graduate always knows how to create controversy and flame spirits. Whether releasing tracks for free on his blog/twitter or making some of the most monstrous television appearances, Kanye is at the top of his game when creating turmoil around his persona or work…

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Kanye West vs Bon Iver – ‘Lost in The World’

I never thought Kanye West and Bon Iver can be pronounced together in a sentence, let alone a song. Seems like discrepancies and unlikely collaborations make up for a unexpectedly solid track – Lost in The World, a Kanye West production that heavily samples Justin Vernon’s 2008 eery autotune Woods. Yeah, you probably expected something like Justin spitting rhymes in the mic side by side with Kanye, but aside from it looking extremely awkward, that…

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New Kanye: “Power”

Supposedly this new leaked Kanye West song, “Power,” will appear on his upcoming Good Ass Job. (I linked to this usershare account because the song doesn’t stay on youtube long enough for anyone to fully stream it.) As for the song itself, it drives the African chant-influenced vocal hook into the ground before the end of the first minute. That said, there’s a King Crimson sample! And Kanye is rapping again! Lyrically, he’s still got…

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The Top Albums of The Decade: 2005

This post is part of our “Top Albums of The Decade” series. Follow the series to read about the best music to grace our ears in the 2000s. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty) At the beginning of the decade, one of the nation’s most talented songwriters Sufjan Stevens endeavored in a project as ambitious as it was preposterous, called The Fifty States project. Sufjan intended to share his vision on American life and culture…

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Songs of the decade: “Classic (Better Than I’ve Ever Been)”

Kanye West, Nas, KRS-One and Rakim | “Classic (Better Than I’ve Ever Been)” | 2007 The Aughts have been rather stingy with its worthwhile posse cut output. In fact, besides “Better Than I’ve Ever Been”* I can’t recall a notable example. It’s a shame, really. Posse cuts used to be a place where a half-dozen or more emcees could all rock the mic together – even while rapping about unrelated subject matter – and it…

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Kanye’s ‘Imma Let You Finish’ meme still in full swing – lamer than ever

Since Kanye’s epic fail VMA crashing the Internet has been soaring under various satires and parodies to his, now all too notorious, “Imma Let You Finish” routine. Moreover, if Kanye didn’t manage to produce a world class album last year, he can rest assured this year he has one of the best meme of all time. OF ALL TIME! We posted a few of our favorites a few days back – don’t eat while reading….

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Wednesday Smilejerker: Kanye memes – even Obama says he’s a jackass

Yeah, Kanye West is a douche; a really big one too, really. He probably wasn’t even stoned or something, which wouldn’t have made his deed any better, but it would have made him somewhat a less of a douche/loser (protip: you’re not scoring any points with Beyonce either). Of course the internet was all on it, which is what you expect, because, well, it’s the internet. He became a meme overnight and even president Obama…

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This isn’t news

Ugh, I hate this rampant compulsion that’s been eating at my brain since early Monday morning stemming from this ridiculous situation involving Kanye West, but there’s a burning question that’s been bothering me ever since this “story” broke. And it’s simply this: Why is this news? It’s an absurdly simple question to ask but an important one. I mean, this is Kanye we’re talking about: The man who appeared on the cover of RS as…

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The Death Knell of music?

It’s been called one of the defining sounds of this era as well as a trend [that became] a gimmick. TIME Magazine acknowledged it as a rare gimmick  that can lead to innovation. Rick Rubin has called its use lazy and argues that using it can remove the emotion from a performance. All this over a simple computer program? Yes, Auto-tune has both captivated audiences and caused tidal waves of hatred usually reserved for Twilight…

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