Coodie and Chike, the directors behind the decade-spanning, three-part new Kanye West documentary Jeen-Yuhs, say they had no advance notice before Ye suddenly demanded creative control over their film in an Instagram post last week. But the directors have no intention of agreeing to “open the edit room” to Ye, …
Read More »On Another 'Donda'-Less Weekend, Kanye West Uploads and Deletes Subtle Shots at Drake
It’s all fun and games until someone gets their address posted to Instagram. Early this morning, Kanye West shared a screenshot of a map to Drake‘s Toronto home on his feed. While he did not identify the location as Drake’s home explicitly, the address in Toronto’s Bridle Path neighborhood has …
Read More »The Return of Abstract Mindstate
Where was Abstract Mindstate all these years? That’s a question that Chicago has had as long as “What if Bartman never tried to catch the ball from Alou?”— and to find the answer, you’ll have to take it back to the early 2000s. Abstract Mindstate was a key part of …
Read More »Kanye West Talks #MeToo Fear, Bullied Trump Supporters, Mental Health With Letterman
Kanye West had a wide-ranging conversation with David Letterman on his Netflix show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. West’s comment on #MeToo came towards the end of the interview, as he and Letterman veered into more serious topics. He spoke specifically about the fear men in power felt as …
Read More »'Watch The Throne 2' is on the Way, According to One Half of the Throne
After a summer of blockbuster albums (often to diminishing returns), Kanye West and Jay-Z are supposedly adding to the release schedule. On Saturday, Kanye West took to Twitter to announce:“throne2 coming soon.”However,it is unclear if both halves of the duo got the memo. https://thisforall.net/kanyewest/status/1038573949880164352 The succinct and mysterious announcement didn’t …
Read More »Kanye West Debates T.I. on New Song 'Ye Vs. The People'
UPDATE:Kanye West shared a behind-the-scenes video chronicling the making of his new collaboration with T.I., “Ye Vs. the People.” The clip, like the song, finds the two rappers debating West’s support of President Donald Trump, as well as crafting the track’s back-and-forth in the studio. In the video, West claims …
Read More »Kanye's Trump Love Shouldn't Surprise Us: They're Made for Each Other
In 1968, Bob Dylan was living in Woodstock, New York, where he’d recently relocated to escape public scrutiny, focus on his new family and, eventually, record a shit-ton of world-historic music with the Band. On visits upstate, friends found Dylan relishing his new bucolic life, “contented to talk about stonemasonry …
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