Don’t worry, Yeezy hasn’t bitten the big one. An internet rumor claiming controversial rapper Kanye West died in a Los Angeles car crash overnight is gaining momentum in the search engines this morning.
For the record, hip-hop’s biggest ego is still with us. The bogus story created a firestorm of postings on social networking websites, like Facebook and Twitter. In truth, the rumor appears to have started as a prank with this posting on 4Chan.com:
“bizarre car crash in Los Angeles involving two luxury cars early this morning rapper Kanye West dead, a second injured, a third arrested for gross vehicular manslaughter and a fourth person was detained by police.”
Dear Yeezy,
It might be time to take that retreat in India….
Kanye West has released a video of himself acting drunk and obnoxious — What else is new? — in a new short film by cult director Spike Jonze.
The surreal 11-minute clip entitled ‘”We Were Once A Fairytale” shows a sloshed Kanye acting a damn fool at a nightclub. At the end of the footage, the rapper down in the bathroom and finds himself vomiting rose petals. How charming…..
After posting the video on his official website, it seems Kanye had second thoughts about showing the world how badly behaved he can be — he later removed it.
Live Nation has pulled the plug on Kanye West and Lady Gaga’s joint tour.
Just weeks after announcing dates for “Fame Kills: Featuring Kanye West & Lady Gaga,” tour promoters cancelled the North American tour on Thursday.
“Live Nation announced today that the Kanye West and Lady Gaga ‘Fame Kills’ tour has been canceled,” promoters said in a statement issued this evening.
“They tried to make him go to rehab, he said ‘No, No, No….’”
Yeezy’s getting the help he needzy. After downing a bottle of Hennessy cognac and storming the stage at last weekend’s MTV Video Music Awards, Star Magazine claims hip-hop juggernaut Kanye West has hired a counselor and is considering checking into rehab for alcohol addiction once his Fame Kills Tour, featuring pop sensation Lady Gaga, wraps up in January.
Now here’s a great holiday concert for kids: Fame Kills: Starring Kanye West & Lady Gaga.
Two of the most controversial acts in music are teaming for a 34 citiy tour of North America, kicking off in Phoenix on Nov. 10 and running through Jan. 24 in Dallas. Tickets go on sale to the general public in select markets this Friday, Sept. 25 at LiveNation.com.
Jay-Z is defending Kanye West and his tacky outburst at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York City last weekend, chalking his former protege’s behavior up to “passion.” Uh-huh….we’ll believe that when pigs have wings.
Kanye has been under fire since her famously interrupted 19-year-old country star Taylor Swift as she was accepting her Best Female Video Moonman to tell the audience that the award should have gone to Jay-Z’s wife, R&B diva Beyonce.
“He’s just a super-passionate person,” Jay said speaking to the BBC Radio 1’s Jo Whiley on Friday.
Nonetheless, Jay-Z admits the incident was “inappropriate at the time.”
“Of course it was rude because it was her moment but that’s the way he really felt.” But he added, “I think it was rude but the way they’re treating him… He’s on the cover of every paper. He didn’t kill anybody. No one got harmed.”
Kanye West is bad for your PC. The viral craze based on the rapper’s humiliation of Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards is being used by cybercriminals to install malicious software onto computers.
The comedic craze, known as “Imma Let You Finish,” imposes mashups of West’s words – “Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you and I’m gonna (sic) let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time” – over footage of other famous moments in history. Barack Obama, Neil Armstrong, and Adolf Hitler have been remixed to show West interrupting their moments. Read the rest of this entry »
It appears Taylor Swift isn’t the only beloved showbiz star who got the shaft from loose-lipped rapper Kanye West this month.
Celebrity tattles say legendary entertainer Liza Minnelli was left fuming after the “Jesus Walks” star snubbed her during an event at the New York Public Library last week.
For those who care, CNN has unearthed video footage of President Obama referring to Kanye West by what will likely become his new nickname — “Jackass” — during a pre-interview chat with CNBC on Monday. The presidental diss came on the heels of the loudmouthed rapper’s tasteless stage-crashing during country cutie Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the 2009 Video Music Awards in New York City last Sunday night.
Tim McGraw is the latest in a band of celebrities, including Pink, Kelly Clarkson, and even President Obama, sounding off on Kanye West’s treatment of teen country star Taylor Swift at Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards.
The country crooner, who was the subject of Taylor’s debut single, has some harsh words for the hip-hop heavyweight in an episode of CMT Insider, airing this Saturday, Sept. 19. “He shows himself to be an idiot every time he does stuff like that,” Tim says, adding that Kanye’s ill-mannered outburst served as a learning lesson for daughters Gracie, 12, Maggie, 11, and Audrey, 7. “[My girls] were upset. But what he did do is provide a great example of how not to be, and my girls learned a big lesson.”
He added, “When they weren’t looking I said, “He needs an a– whoopin’!”
