After announcing that he was going to move his sophomore album, Born Sinner up a week to release the same day (June 18th) as Kanye’s also recently announced Yeezus album, everybody thought J. Cole was a little crazy. The NC born rapper instead says he is just a natural competitor and wants to go up against the best. Speaking with Billboard on the subject here is what Cole had to say:
Instantly the lightbulb [turned on]… it got real. I made one phone call to somebody that would know, just to make sure first. As soon as I got it confirmed, I was like, ‘Yo…’ The idea hit me instantly: ‘You got to go to that date.’ I’m not going to sit [here]… I worked too hard to come a week later after Kanye West drops an amazing album. It’d be like, ‘Oh and J.Cole dropped too, a week later.’ Nah. I’m going to go see him on that date. He’s the greatest. So it’s like, I’m a competitor by nature so it was instant, it wasn’t even a thought. It’s a definite statement about how I feel about my album, which is confident. At the same time, let’s not forget this is Kanye West. He bets 100, 1,000, whatever the perfect is. His track record is flawless. I’m only expecting an incredible album from him. But I know what I have.
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Kendrick Lamar sits down with Sway backstage while at the Hangout Music Festival and gives us his thoughts on Kanye’s marketing strategy for the release of his new single “New Slaves.”
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West previewed 2 new songs on SNL yesterday: first Black Skinhead and second New Slaves. More after the jump…
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Kanye has announced that his new album will be titled Yeezus. and it will be released on June 18th.
Update: Kanye is expected to premiere new material during tonight’s season finale of “Saturday Night Live.”
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Kanye West will be projecting a new song and video from his upcoming album onto 66 buildings across the world tonight. This is quite an amazing feat and incredible idea. Locations and times can be found here. If you are lucky enough to be in the area of one of the projections I suggest you add it to tonights agenda. UPDATE: Click the jump to see a full video of the track, “New Slaves”, being played on a building in NYC.
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Kanye appears during a brawl among rival news teams — a scene that, in description, sounds similar to the news brawl in the first “Anchorman” film. More Photos after the jump.
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Kanye West was walking to a restaurant with very pregnant girlfriend Kim Kardashian and walked right into a sign. After yelling at photographers to leave him alone he came back out of the restaurant a little later and completely went off on the paparazzi. Sign: 1 Kanye: 0.
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Travi$ Scott sits down with MTV and talks about the relationship he has with both T.I. and Kanye. He also speaks on being signed as a producer to G.O.O.D. Music and as an artist with Grand Hustle. If we are lucky we will get to hear Owl Pharaoh sometime soon.
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Kanye West took to his Twitter earlier this morning reveal the release date for his upcoming album. There have been talks floating around about ‘Ye dropping new music very soon and it is now confirmed for us. His new single is rumored to be called “I Am A God,” but the album name remains unknown.
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