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Kanye West
Grammy Award-winning rapper/songwriter and producer Kanye West has earned six nominations, including album of the year and rap album of the year for this year’s 50th Grammy Awards which is set to broadcast via CBS live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 10.
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T.I., Kanye West, Jay Z and Lil Wayne
‘Swagger Like Us’ by T.I from off his album ‘Paper Trail’ featuring Kanye West, Jay-Z and Lil Wayne.
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Kanye and Hot 97’s Peter Rosenberg
Kanye West talks about Primo to Peter Rosenberg and DJ Premier (Gang Starr). In the interview Kanye calls DJ Premier, “King of all beats.”
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Video: Kanye West Talks With Angie Martinez

Written by Denise on Thursday, November 27th, 2008 in People - U.S., Videos, Radio, Hip Hop, Music News, Kanye West.

Kanye West Interview With Angie Martinez
Fresh from the American Music Awards, Angie Martinez asks Kanye West about giving one of his awards to Lil Wayne. The rapper/producer goes on to talk about his house, studio, his music, does a freestyle and more.

Kanye West also lets fans know during his interview that he has some shoes coming out with Nike.

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Kayne West
The celebrity producer and rapper Kanye West has publicly denied assaulting a photographer in an incident outside of the Tup Tup nightspot in Newcastle, England which led to the rapper getting arrested for his second paparazzi-related incident.

In September, Kanye West was arrested at the LAX airport for allegedly breaking a photographer’s camera which he has not been charged for and now on Friday morning he was arrested again after a complaint was filed.
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Kanye West and Young Jeezy
After Kanye’s latest album “808s & Heartbreak” was announced to release in stores in December during the same month as 50 Cent’s latest project “Before I Self Destruct,” the rapper has now changed it’s release date to possibly avoid another album battle over first week album sales.

The change of the release date of Kanye West’s album was revealed on September 24th on Kanye West’s official blog on his web site and was pushed up to November.
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Kanye West and Donda West
Donda West, the mother and manager of Kanye West death is still yet a mistery. According to the Los Angeles County coroner her sudden death which occurred on November 10, 2007 came to an inconclusive conclusion on Thursday.

Donda West, 58, is believed to may have died of “coronary artery disease and multiple post-operative factors due to or as a consequence of liposuction and mammoplasty”. Dr. Louis A. Pena, believed a combination of heart disease and post-surgery problems led to Donda West’s death, but the exact cause was not determined. (more…)

Evel Knievel and Kanye West
In December of ‘06 Evel Knievel sued Kanye West for using the likes of him in his video “Touch The Sky” in which Kanye West wore a belt buckle with KW and clothing resembling him, as well as using a name similar “Evel Kanyevel”. Evil Knievel claimed that Kanye West’s “vulgar and offensive” images depicted in the video would damage his reputation and so he accused him of promoting his filth to the world. (more…)

Kanye West and Donda West
Seems that Kayne’s mother, Dr. Donda West, hairdresser have given a voicemail to media which she left a day before her tragic death. In the voicemail, Dr. West tells the hairdresser she wants some cornrows, and that she’s having procedures done tomorrow, “from my neck to my knees”. Chilling….

Listen to the audio on Inside Edition.

BET Hip-Hop Awards
Although the BET Awards wasn’t the best, it was overall good.

Katt Williams held it down while hosting the 2nd Annual BET Hip Hop Awards keeping the crowd happy and doing his random jokes. LL Cool J seemed to have licked his lips very few times for the occasion (wow). It seems that Common won awards, could it be because Kayne West produced his album this time? By the way how did T.I. and Common have a tie for an award. (T.I. wasn’t there because he was taken to jail on weapon charges.) MC Lyte kept it real for the women, while Hurricane Chris was all “A Bay Bay” and doing his “Hand Clap”. Weezy “Lil Wayne” I’m just gonna say is that he got some skills and did his thang. But one question, why didn’t anyone take that cup from him he toted on and off stage. He was surely blazed up. Kanye West won several awards and even admitted for one of them that he actually didn’t think he deserved it. Was he struck by lightning? (more…)