![]() ![]() West also drops Real Friends and previews No More Parties in L.A., both future TLOP tracks. The long-awaited album, formerly titled So Help Me God, which dated back to as far as 2014, finally gets a release date. Do anybody feel bad for Bill Cosby? / Did he forget the names just like Steve Harvey? (You!) A month later, West sends out tweets both apologizing to Michael Jordan, and claiming Cosby is innocent. Bill Cosby and Steve Harvey also catch some shade on the brash tune. Yeezy, Yeezy, Yeezy, they line up for days … I ain’t dropped an album but the shoes went platinum. On this track (which eventually made the final cut of The Life of Pablo), West kicks off the new year by taking shots at Nike (and its Jordan Brand) - the company he ended his partnership with in 2013 to sign a $10 million deal with Adidas. 1: West debuts track Facts, slams Nike (a lot) Before we jump into 2017, here’s a look back. One of the best things about him is he doesn’t care what people think - he tends to do whatever he wants whenever he wants, so you never know what you’re going to get from a new year of Kanye West. “If you think about last week, there were 22 people murdered in Chicago,” West made sure he mentioned in his unscripted VMAs speech. There was a nationwide struggle for social justice and stronger police-community relations. The deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and Terence Crutcher, as well as Prince, Muhammad Ali, Gwen Ifill, and more. A belated happy 10th ‘B’Day’ to Beyoncé Giselle Knowlesīut it’s been a crazy year, lest we forget, for most everyone.A Brief History of the new 'Hamilton Mixtape'.Rae Sremmurd’s June/July 2016 ‘The FADER’.The Best Drake 'Album' That Never Existed.It’s hard to forget his last album before 2016, Yeezus, arguably his worst to date, and there are reports that his marriage to Kim Kardashian is going through a tough time. ![]() But sometimes, with West, the lows can be so cold - both in music and in life. Or, are his more polarizing moments just signs of the life of a genius? The highs he produces are intoxicating - from classic tracks such as 2007’s Can’t Tell Me Nothing and albums such as 2010’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, to moments like the 2008 Grammy tribute to his late mother, and his bold 2005 statement: “ George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” In so many ways, he’s the hero to a generation. But in between, his wife was robbed at gunpoint, he claimed he “owned” another couple’s child, fired bodyguards, canceled shows, and, eventually, it seemed everything became too much to handle. He launched a nationwide tour unlike anyone has ever seen. ![]() He also has the latest upper hand in a seven-years-and-counting, obsessive beef with Taylor Swift. There’s the release of his first album in three years. Now, as 2016 comes to a close, West’s year has included a lot. “I’m Kanye West, and that feels really great to say, especially this year.”Īs he made his way down a catwalk at Madison Square Garden, where a mic waited for him at the end of the stage, West, dressed in white, opened a seven-minute speech at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards in August with the above line. ![]()
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