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Kanye West’s ‘Gone’ 15 Years Later: How an Otis Redding Sample Spawned a Prescient Song
Written and performed by Chuck Willis and released as a 1956 single, “It’s Too Late” is a languid torch tune that verges on doo-wop — it’s prom slow dance bait. Willis’ singing and the over-stylized arrangement lends a febrile schmaltz to what should be a heartbreaking conceit: The narrator’s love affair is an extinguished flame. There’s simply no more there, even if the song — which seems to end before it’s even begun — isn’t all that broken up about it. Nearly a decade later for his Sings Soul Ballads LP, Otis Redding cut a drastic reinvention. The lyrics were altered dramatically; among many other changes, “you”s were largely replaced by “her”s and “she”s, so the speaker might be mourning his loss to someone at a bar, as opposed to a chagrined lover trembling in his bed. So too ha...
Kanye West Accused Of Ripping Off Black-Owned Company, Slapped With $20M Lawsuit
Source: NurPhoto / Getty Kanye West might soon have to dip into his billion-dollar coffers, this after a company he was associated with claims that he ripped them off. MyChannel, Inc., which specializes in video and e-commerce technology, says they helped West get his Sunday Service events off the ground. The Blast reports: “The founders of MYC reasonably relied on a series of promises made by Mr. West and other leaders in his organization that for six (6) months convinced them to focus 100 percent of their attention on Kanye and Yeezy, and to invest $7 Million in company resources for good measure. In fact, the MYC founders and other personnel moved for their Pennsylvania headquarters to Yeezy’s headquarters (first in California and then in Illinois) and worked full-time for Defendents, a...
Op Alert: Kanye West Won’t Be On Missouri Ballot Either
Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty Kanye West‘s blatant spoiler campaign for President is taking all the L’s. The rapper won’t be appearing on the Missouri ballot after failing to get enough signatures. Today our office issued a letter to Kanye West informing him of the insufficiency of his independent candidate nomination petition for President. The petition was determined to have 6,557 valid signatures of the required 10,000. pic.twitter.com/vxOSk8WCD3 — Missouri SOS Office (@MissouriSOS) August 25, 2020 In order to get on the ballot, Mr. West needed 10,000 signatures. However, as reported by the Kansas City Star, Yeezy came up short by 3,443 of the signatures he needed to get a spot on the November general election ballot. The info comes from Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s office, wh...
Kanye West Sued for Alleged Copyright Infringement By MyChannel
Kanye West has been sued by video e-commerce company MyChannel, which alleges that the rapper-mogul-presidential candidate promised to invest $10 million in the company, but didn’t and instead, copied its video technology allegedly for his company’s use. In the suit, obtained by SPIN, MyChannel alleges that in their initial agreement, it would provide “tens of thousands of hours in investment in Yeezy,” which is West’s apparel company. However, the company claims it was never paid for the over $7 million worth of work it provided West’s company over six months. It also alleges that in June 2018, West promised to make a $10 million investment in the company, which never happened. The suit says that he “reneged on his promises seemingly on a whim and walked away from the successful partnersh...
Kanye West Presidential Campaign Blows Deadline, Rosie O’Donnell Asks Him To Take His Meds
Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty Kanye West’s alleged presidential campaign just hit a major snag. Yeezy missed a campaign donation deadline, which hints that run for President is as struggle-filled as anyone with sense predicted. If you’ve been following Yeezy, and his album release dates, you know that missed deadlines have become the norm. That doesn’t fly when you’re running for office. Reports TMZ: Kanye, the presidential candidate, is required by FEC rules to file a financial report if he raises or spends $100k on his campaign. The filing deadline was August 20, but according to an FEC official … the agency hasn’t received it. So this means one of 2 things, and neither is good for Kanye — either he missed the filing deadline or he didn’t raise $100k … and how do you run for Prez if you can’...
Wisconsin Takes Kanye West’s Name Off November Ballots
Source: Kanye West Purchases Second City In Wyoming To Bring Yeezy Production / Kanye West Purchases Second City In Wyoming To Bring Yeezy Production To The US Looks like Kanye West‘s presidential spoiler bid has suffered another setback thanks to campaign rules that kept his name from becoming a candidate on the ballot in Wisconsin come November. After Illinois denied Kanye entry onto their November ballots TMZ is reporting that Yeezus was denied the opportunity to have his name checked out on ballots in the cheese state after the Wisconsin Elections Commission voted 5-1 to “exclude him from the state’s ballot because he did not file signatures and paperwork before the state’s August 5 deadline for independent candidates.” Even with the help of Jared Kushner, GOP operatives, and...
Sunken Place Soldiers Kanye West & Steve Harvey Stop By Chick-fil-A
Source: Byron Cohen / Getty In what happens to be one of the most random moments in 2020, sunken place soldiers Kanye West and Steve Harvey decided to stop by Chick-fil-A for some of the blessed fast food. West rocking the most ridiculous fit ever and the Family Feud host decided to make a pit stop at the Chick-fil-A restaurant while in Georgia for some of the religiously-run fast-food franchise’s food. The two celebrities were also joined by the company’s co-owners Dan and Bubba Cathy. The “presidential candidate” shared footage of his adventure on Twitter and even posted a video of himself imploring the locations white workers to sing the lyrics to his song “Closed On Sunday” which is inspired by the chain’s policy to close on the “Lord’s day.” As you can imagine the flavorless bunch let...
Fans Drag Travis Scott After CyHi The Prynce ‘SICKO MODE’ Reference Track Leaks
Source: Kevin Rawls / Radio One Digital Continuing the tradition of 2020 exposés, Travis Scott is in the hot seat after rap fans learned one of the biggest hits off ASTROWORLD wasn’t penned from his creative genius. Over the weekend, a Twitter user with low follower and tweet counts posted a very rough reference track snippet for “SICKO MODE,” Scott and Drake’s 2018 multi-platinum smash hit. The caption claimed G.O.O.D. Music artist and songwriter CyHi The Prynce “singlehandedly wrote most of Travis Scott’s hit songs off of Astroworld.” Soon after, another snippet posted for “Coffee Bean.” HipHop-N-More did a little digging on “SICKO MODE” in Tidal and found 30 artists and composers credited on the song, include CyHi under his real name, Cydel Young. Anyone following the breadc...
Kim Kardashian Joins Kanye West For Sunday Service in Wyoming
Source: Splash / Splash News In less than a month “Kimye” went from potentially doomed to under reconstruction. And judging from the looks of this past weekend, the turbulent celebrity marriage seems to be back on a stable albeit shaky ground. This past weekend saw the return of Kanye West’s religious sect commonly known as Sunday Service and who was there to take in the musical religious experience? Why Kim Kardashian of course. TMZ is reporting that over the weekend the reality TV star joined her Presidential race spoiling husband at his Wyoming ranch along with their two children to take in the service. Kim posted a video of the family affair with a caption that read “Guess who’s back?!?!” in a sign of marital solidarity while showcasing what seems to be a new song from Kanye’s choir. L...
Jared Kushner Konfirms Kanye West Meeting
Source: The Washington Post / Getty We have more proof that Kanye West is indeed the Ops. Yesterday (August 13), during a White House press conference, Senior Advisor Jared Kushner confirmed that he had recently met with Yeezy. It was previously reported that Kushner, a Harvard graduate who allegedly only was admitted into the university because of his father’s money despite being. a lackluster student, met with the struggle Presidential candidate while in Colorado. Mr. West had been receiving aid from known GOP operatives to get on ballots across the nation. The “Power” rapper has essentially copped to running as a spoiler, criticizing presumptive Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden. Reports the New York Times: During a press briefing to discuss the Middle East, Mr. Kus...
Op Alert: Kanye West Says He Misses Jay-Z, Kris Jenner Has Good Musical Taste
Source: NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 15: Kanye West leaves the Yeezy show fashion during New York Fashion Week at pier 59 on February 15, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Pierre Suu/GC Images) Kanye West’s social media often gives the world some insight on what is on his mind. Apparently, he is reminiscing on some of his best years. As spotted on TMZ the Chicago native’s stream of thought took over his Twitter account on August 11 and the day after. On Monday he randomly revealed that his very famous and very wealthy mother in law Kris Jenner makes him mixes. “My mother in law Kris Jenner … makes the best music playlist” he wrote. The caption took a lot of people by surprise considering that he was just slandering her a couple of weeks ago by alleging she ...
Kanye West Met With Jared Kushner In Kolorado, Has Secured 2% of Black Vote
Source: The Washington Post / Getty Kanye West is on the wrong side of history. The outspoken yet whole underinformed multihyphenate with classic Hip-Hop albums under his belt reportedly met with Donald Trump emissary Jared Kushner. At face value this would be perplexing considering Kanye West is running for President of the United States, which is ridiculously unlikely of ever occurring. However, Yeezy has already gone on the record to say that he is campaigning in order to hurt the prospects of presumptive Democratic candidate Joe Biden, who just tapped Sen. Kamala Harris to be his running mate. The New York Times reports that Kushner, a senior advisor in the Trump administration, met with West privately in Colorado while he was in town with his wife, Ivanka Trump. West was reportedly ca...
