The title for Kanye West’s fifth album, his next step towards completing a comeback, is quite a mouthful. ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ will drop Nov. 22, the hip-hop mogul announced on Twitter on Tuesday.
West revealed some details about his ‘Fantasy’ while preparing for a screening of his crazy-long ‘Runaway’ music video in Paris. According to his tweets, West’s next single is ‘All of the Lights’ and the first song on the album is called ‘Dark Fantasy,’ which is co-produced by RZA and No I.D.
Comedian Chelsea Handler and host of Chelsea Lately is set to host this year’s Video Music Awards!
MTV announced on Wednesday raunchy funny lady Chelsea Handler 35, will emcee the VMAs live from Los Angeles on September 12.
“Everyone knows that when you think of rap music and hip-hop you think of Chelsea Lately,” Handler joked on Wednesday’s Chelsea Lately. “And that’s why I will be hosting them.”
Kanye West is also scheduled to perform at the show. Last year he infamously interrupted and humiliated Taylor Swift by saying Beyonce should have won the award.
Other big performers of the night will be Justin Bieber, Ne-Yo, Trey Songz, Nicki Minaj and Selena Gomez.
Lady Gaga has the lead in nominations this year. She is up for 13 awards. Eminem is in 2nd with 8 nominations.
Do you think Chelsea Handler will make a good host? Should Kanye West be allowed to perform after the way he treated Taylor Swift last year? What’s your opinion?
Kanye West’s premiered his new music video, ‘Power,’ on MTV this morning. The Marco Brambilla-directed video, which Kanye describes as a “painting,” depicts the end of an empire (likely a reference to Kanye’s fall from grace after last year’s VMA incident). The clip, at less than two minutes, features plenty of religious iconography, giving it the feel of the Renaissance frescoes found in European chapels and museums — only, you know, with Kanye West in it. Wearing a giant gold chain, of course.
Kayne West opens a Twitter account an manages to rack up 77 tweets on his first day! That’s a lot of twittering. He twitted pictures and about lavish items he wants and owns.
While he is following no one on Twitter at the moment, the rapper has over 263,564 followers already. He even has many famous followers. Among these are Nicky Hilton, Rachel Zoe and Spencer Pratt.
He also got some shout outs from some other famous celebs.
Like Alyssa Milano who Tweeted yesterday afternoon, “I’ma let you finish @kanyewest but…welcome to Twitter,” referencing his infamous interruption of Taylor Swift acceptance speech at the MTV VMAs in 2009.
Elsewhere, Jimmy Kimmel poked fun at Kanye’s, extravagant Tweets, noting, “it’s weird. somehow @kanyewest and I have EXACTLY the same life!”
Kanye’s lively postings even inspired the trending topic “#predictingkanyetweets,” with comedian Aziz Ansari joining in the fun.
“I wish Hermes made edible snacks, Cheezits just ain’t dope enough for my mouth. #PredictingKanyeTweets,” Aziz joked on Thursday, taking part in the trending topic.
Welcome to Twitter Kanye! Maybe I need to check out his tweets. I wonder if Taylor Swift will want to be one of his followers… I am guessing not.
Model Amber Rose strolled out of her hotel in New York City looking like a beckon of blinding brightness. Recently she has been heard praising her on and off again love Kanye West and how he saved her life.
I am not feeling this outfit. I feel like a need shades just looking at it. Even for a celebrity it’s a little much. What do you think?
Police are still searching for the two suspects who stole and wrecked Kanye West’s car into a Honolulu house.
Kanye’s black Porsche Panamera was rammed into a house near Waikiki early Saturday. The wreck created a large hole in the side of the garage.
Witness have reported two men walking away from the crash site. No arrests have been made and the police have determined that the car is registered to Kanye West who has been in Honolulu recording his latest album.
Kanye West’s criminal case involving an LAX run-in with photographers was dismissed a few minutes ago … after his lawyer presented proof Kanye performed community service with the Red Cross.
Kanye and his manager, Don Crowley, had been charged with vandalism, battery and grand theft after they smashed the camera equipment of two photogs at LAX on September 11, 2008.
The judge agreed in October to dismiss the case if Kanye and Crowley showed proof they had each performed 50 hours of community service. Both men also agreed to take an anger management class.
Today, Kanye’s lawyer, Blair Berk, and Crowley’s attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, went to court and showed proof that both men had worked for 50 hours at the Red Cross.
