In return, West has pushed Cudi’s creativity: There’s a degree of one-upmanship to his relationship with West. “If I never am better than Kanye, in my brain, I’m always going to be trying to be, forever and ever until the day that I die,” he told Complex in 2009. With ...
Kanye West, as has been widely reported and speculated on for months, is definitely working onsomething. Through vaguequotesfrom G.O.O.D. Music affiliates and even some promising words fromDef Jam CEOSteve Bartels, we've been assured that something musical is going down in UniverseCity. Party...
Since The Root staff was not about to read this entire thing (Editor’s note: Absolutely not.) and since I clearly have no respect for my own wellbeing, I decided to read the entire thing so no one else had to. This is what happened. 9:11 a.m. ET: Kanye is asked by Welch how...
SoundCloud hosted a still-bustling scene of nonconformist, punk rock-influenced artists uninterested in appeasing the masses—it just so happened that some of them went platinum anyway. Many of today’s biggest acts are unabashedly left of center. Kendrick Lamar is one of the world’s top-selli...
might be having some issues. Taking to Twitter,Hudson Mohawkespoke on some potential records that have yet to be in the internet’s grasp. Most notably, he spoke on recorded pieces forJames Blakeand Frank Ocean. According to Pitchfork, the following happened after a fan’s tweet towards Hud...
In return, West has pushed Cudi’s creativity: There’s a degree of one-upmanship to his relationship with West. “If I never am better than Kanye, in my brain, I’m always going to be trying to be, forever and ever until the day that I die,” he told Complex in 2009. With ...
advance (there’s no record of how much Hov received) and a $1.5 million budget. In the recording budgets, there was almost always a clause where Kanye could keep whatever money was left over at the end of the process. But, as we’ve seen, it seems unlikely that ever happened. ...