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Kanye West Documentary Jeen-Yuhs Is Coming to Netflix
Netflix is prepping a documentary about Kanye West called Jeen-Yuhs. As Variety reports, the project follows Ye over a 20-year period, filming his rise as a rapper and businessman. It will also touch on his failed 2020 presidential campaign and the death of his mother, Donda West. The streaming platform teased the doc with a first look that shows Yeezy and Mos Def rapping their song “Two Words” off 2004’s The College Dropout two years before the album comes out. Jeen-Yuhs was co-directed by Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah, better known as Coodie and Chike, who previously worked with West on his 2004 music video “Jesus Walks (Version 3)” and “Through the Wire.” A release date has yet to be revealed, though it’s slated to premiere in 2022. Watch the trailer below. [emb...
Steve Aoki Shares Story About Remix for Kanye West, Drake, Eminem, and Lil Wayne That Never Dropped
Steve Aoki is one of the most accomplished DJs on the planet, but even those most veteran artists sometimes fail to rise to the occasion. In a recent interview with Emmy Award-winning journalist Graham Bensinger, Aoki shared a story about a remix for Kanye West that will never see the light of day. He recalls listening to a freestyle from West over the phone and later being sent stems to remix a song. However, Aoki was stunned when he realized the song included verses from the likes of West, Drake, Eminem, and Lil Wayne. As many may have deduced, this was likely a remix of the mega-collaboration “Forever.” Unfortunately, it never saw the light of day. Aoki himself deemed the remix not good enough, but having the opportunity to remix it today would be a completely dif...
Hypebeast Alert: Kanye Drops Yeezy Knit Runners, Ye or Nay?
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Yeezy Supply / Yeezy Supply People have slandered Kanye’s latest adidas releases like the Foam Runners, the Slide slippers, and even the 450 Slates, but his latest and weirdest release might be getting the most hate of them all, and it’s lowkey well deserved. The new Yeezy Knit Runner’s no doubt resemble a blimp on feet, but they not only have hypebeasts drooling, they actually sold out within minutes of their release today (September 23). Needless to say Kanye’s been pushing the envelope with his designs all across the board, from his zipper-less Gap down jacket to now his shapeless footwear, but regardless of how weird and eccentric things may get, it becomes a hot commodity amongst customers so he seems to know what he’s doing. Looking like some knitti...
Kanye West Drops $57 Million On New Crib In Malibu
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: WENN.com / WENN Looks like Kanye West might be trading in the calm of the country for some fun in the sun as word is he just put down a Galactus sized grip on some new beach front property. According to TMZ the Donda artist just plunked down $57.3 million on a Malibu beach house because, well, it’s basically as the “Do The Right Thing” Air Jordan 4’s (sneakerheads understand). The 4,000 square foot home next to the ocean was designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, so Ye is basically going to be occupying a work of art. Yes, $57 million still seems like a helluva lot of money to drop on a crib regardless of who designed it or where it’s located, but when you got Kanye cash that’s basically a drop in the bucket of his pockets. Also, the crib was on the m...
Kanye West Rises Above It All In Latest “24” Video
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MEGA / Getty Looks like Kanye West is gonna make using his concert footage a thing for all of his visuals off his Donda album. In his latest video for Donda cut “24,” Kanye once again uses footage of one of his Donda album listening concerts where he floats into the air, but the in the visuals Kanye ends up floating outside of the venue and into the heavens. Directed by Nick Knight, Yeezus finds himself traveling around the atmosphere in a visually entrancing video. Though we don’t ever see Kanye actually rapping or even get a good closeup of his face, it’s still a pretty original and entertaining video. Members of his congregation might even call it a spiritual experience at the end of the day. Check out the visuals to “24” below and let us know your tho...
Kanye West Made Collaborators Wear ‘Donda’ Merch & Yeezys In The Studio
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MEGA / Getty We all know that Kanye West likes to be extra in different ways and forms when it comes to him creating his art, but apparently he also reels his peers into whatever he feels is aesthetically appropriate when in the studio with him. According to HypeBeast, Fivio Foreign revealed that Yeezy actually enforced a fashion rule on his fellow Donda collaborators that they’d have to be rocking Donda merchandise along with Yeezy sneakers whenever they were in the studio with him. In a recent interview on Power 106 FM Los Angeles’ The Liftoff/L.A. Leakers show, Fivio broke down how things went down in the studio saying, “When we went to ’He made us all wear DONDA merch,” said Fivio. “I thought we were on DONDA timing, I guess to get us in… he gave ever...
It Only Took 3 Days For Drake’s ‘Certified Lover Boy’ To Blow Kanye’s ‘Donda’ Out Of The Streaming Waters
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Todd Williamson/NBC / Getty If you were invested in the Hip-Hop culture feud that emerged across social media after Kanye West’s 10th studio album, Donda, dropped in late August and then Drake’s 6th studio album, Certified Lover Boy, dropped five days later, just know that, if the number of streams each project got is an indicator as to who the victor of the “beef” is, the guy from Toronto is taking that W. And it isn’t even close. According to Rolling Stone, it took eight days for Donda to garner 423 million on-demand audio streams in the U.S. The album’s success even earned it the No. 1 spot on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart. But in only three days—Friday, Sept. 3, through Sunday, Sept. 5—CLB had already seen more than 430 million streams, accor...
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Diddy Shows Love To Both Drake And Kanye West Albums [Video]
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz The culture’s most pettiest Rap war rages on but Diddy is making sure we still celebrate the artistry. He recently gave flowers to Drake and Kanye West for their recent album offerings. As spotted on Hype Beast the mogul recently took time out of his day to congratulate both performers on their album releases. “I just want to say that you guys are true kings of creativity” he said. “Both of you guys are so special and necessary. Thank y’all for the inspiration! I want to make sure that what Hip-Hop knows is the reach and the power that we have. I really wanna take my hat off to both of these brothers for sharing their truth.” But when it was time to pick which he felt was the better project he took a diplomatic st...
Andre 3000 Explains Why “Life Of The Party” Didn’t Make ‘Donda’ Album
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Tommaso Boddi / Getty Drake dipped into his petty bag and “leaked” a Kanye West song called “Life of the Party” that features a standout lyricism from Andre 3000. Speculation about why the song wasn’t on Donda and debate over the bars aimed at Drake on Ye’s verse soon started running rampant, but 3 Stacks himself has shed some light on what went down. While on Andre 3000’s verse is deeply personal as he raps about the passing of both of his parents, Yeezy’s has some introspection but what most people are talking about are its shots at Drake and his once again doubling down on his Team MAGA affiliations. But 3 Stacks issued a statement to Rolling Stone explaining where his head was at when he created his verse. “A few weeks ago Kanye reached out about me b...
You Care: Kanye West Cheated On Kim Kardashian During Their Marriage
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Sheri Determan/WENN.com / WENN Kanye West cheated on Kim Kardashian while they were married, allegedly. Although the former couple agreed to joint custody and things went relatively smoothly due to a prenup, and the revelation of infidelity was made on a song off his Donda album. According to Page Six, of course, their sources are claiming that Ye stepped out on Kim sometime after they had their second kid (Saint West, born in December 2015). The scorching tea now being confirmed, allegedly, was referred to in the song “Hurricane.” Multiple sources confirmed the meaning behind the telling lyrics in the track off “Donda,” West’s latest album that was released with plenty of fanfare and controversy. “The song is in a way his testimony of everything he did w...
Kanye West Drops Visuals To “Come To Life”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MEGA / Getty With Donda officially out and rocking eardrums across the Hip-Hop community it was only a matter of time before Kanye West dropped some visuals to accompany his latest project. That day is today. Releasing some “new” visuals for his album cut “Come To Life,” Kanye West uses footage from one of his Donda listening concerts while incorporating scenes of himself on fire and even includes Kim Kardashian when she showed up wearing a wedding dress. Well, at least these shows that the two still kinda get along. While this isn’t so much a new video as it is just footage of a concert turned into one, it’s still something for Kanye West fans to take in and decipher as everything the man does has some sort of meaning (for better or worse). Can we get a ...
“Would You Release New Music If You Were Me?”: Chrisette Michele Responds To Kanye Comparisons And Cancel Culture
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marcus Ingram / Getty Every time Kanye West finds (or puts) himself in the news and trending on social media—usually behind some controversial comment he made or tweeted and, of course, when he drops a new album—anti-hypocrisy and misogynoir Twitter comes through with a fresh discussion about the curious career demise of singer Chrisette Michele. There are a lot of different arguments here. Some say if Kanye was never “canceled” after all the MAGA-fied Trump-humping and disrespecting of the ancestors he’s done, then Michele should never have been “canceled” for performing Donald Trump’s inauguration. (I put “canceled” in quotes because I don’t believe “cancel culture” is an actual thing for various reasons, but that’s a post for another day.) Some argue t...
