• Kanye West 'Yeezus' Collaborator King Louie in the Hospital, Reportedly Shot in the Head

    King Louie, a Chicago based rapper and Kanye West collaborator, has reportedly been shot in the head. The artist's real name is Louis Johnson Jr. He was featured on the Yeezus album song "Send It Up," which helped to cement the word "Chiraq" into the hip-hop vocabulary. Ironically, "Chiraq" refers to the gun violence that occurs on Chicago streets on a daily basis.

  • Björk Collaborating With The Haxan Cloak For New Album

    Icelandic avant-pop legend Björk is currently hard at work on her new album, and though it has yet to be given a title or release date, this morning it was revealed that the 49-year-old singer-songwriter has been collaborating with British electronic artist Bobby Krlic, a.k.a. The Haxan Cloak, on the album. This news came from Krlic himself, who revealed through his Twitter account that he has been working with Björk over the last several months.

  • Kanye West And Kim Kardashian's Daughter North "Mesmerized" At 'Yeezus' Concert

    I'm not sure if a Kanye West concert would be the best place to bring a one-year-old child, but there's at least one who greatly enjoyed the experience. In an interview with Australia's Ten Eyewitness News, West's wife Kim Kardashian (I'm sorry - Kim Kardashian West) revealed that the rapper's recent concert in Perth, Australia was the first one ever attended by the couple's infant daughter North West, who was reportedly "mesmerized" by her daddy's performance.

  • Kanye West Hospitalized With Migraine Then Plays Australian Yeezus Gig Just Hours Later

    Even self-proclaimed geniuses can be knocked completely down by a really bad migraine. Kanye West is in Australia this week to play some dates for his Yeezus tour when he was leveled by excruciating pain in his head. Kanye was transferred to a Melbourne are hospital for precautionary measures but was later released after an MRI proved that nothing serious was the cause of the debilitating pain.

  • Kanye West Nearly Had David Lynch Direct One Of His Videos

    Kanye West's Yeezus was easily one of the darkest and most challenging albums to ever come from a major label, so who better to direct one of the album's music videos than the master of surreal nightmares, David Lynch? Apparently, this dream collaboration nearly happened, as Lynch revealed in an interview with The Daily Beast.

  • 6 Artists Whose Best Album Didn't Sell Well

    If a musician is lucky enough to reach a wide audience, the best they can hope for is that their fans support them through any whims of experimentation and artistic growth. This worked great for the Beatles and Radiohead, but there are plenty of other musicians whose artistic peaks didn’t match their commercial peaks. Here are six artists whose best albums didn’t sell as well as their other albums.

  • SPIN Releases Annual List of Best Albums...What Rapper Won?

    SPIN Magazine, one of our most trusted sources for music across many genres, has released its annual list of the best 50 albums of the year. Yes, it's a bit early (not going to give Britney Spears a fair shot guys?), but we're sure they're just trying to beat the holiday rush (you'll be able to check out Music Times' albums of the year list on December 23, and our staffers' respective playlists of the year on December 16). The top album is something you've definitely heard of, but may still come as a surprise.

  • Kanye West to Drop 'Bound 2' Music Video Tuesday

    Kanye West fans, time to set your DVRs. The "Yeezus" rapper is expected to debut his new music video on Tuesday through a slightly unexpected medium... the daytime TV talk show "Ellen." The hardened rapper will stop by with America's favorite comedienne to premiere the clip for "Bound 2" on Nov. 19.

  • Kanye West may release five 'Yeezus' outtakes by end of 2013

    There was enough hype for Kanye West's Yeezus when it debuted earlier this year, but it doesn't look like Yeezy is done with fans yet during 2013. The rapper announced during an extended interview on Los Angeles hip-hop station Power 106 that five unreleased tracks from the Yeezus recording sessions could see the light by the end of the year.
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