Artist: Kanye West

In case you were offline this weekend: Kanye West made a number of startling announcements. First, revealed that his new album is due out next month, on June 18. Then he revealed that the record is called " Yeezus ." As in Jesus, remade in Kanye's image. Then he went on "SNL" (wearing a pair of $2,500 Nike sneakers named after himself ) and debuted two new songs, "New Slave," and "Black Skinhead" presumably from his new album. Perhaps unsurprisingly based on their titles, neither "New Slave" nor "Black Skinhead" are much "fun." The former is more [...]

Kanye West set the internets ablaze once again this weekend with a handful of incredible promotional teasers such as a video worldwide premiere accross six different cities, a polarizing performance in front of a mass national audience and a controversial album title. First, Kanye took to Twitter on Friday to announce he would be projecting a brand new video for his single "Black Slaves" on 66 locations scattered around the globe, including six in Chicago. Check out some footage at Millenium Park shot by Maks G of GoWhereHipHop here . Ye then went on Saturday [...]

This past weekend, Kanye West took to the stage of Saturday Night Live to perform two brand new tracks from his forthcoming album 'Yeezus'. The first track, 'Black Skinhead', is completely nuts and more chaotic than anything he's done previously, with West yelling down the microphone and flailing around the stage like a man possessed. The second track, 'New Slaves', has been circulating the Internet after a promotional video was projected onto 66 buildings across the world - the locations still available to see on Kanye's website . This particular performance features Kanye standing completely [...]

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How do you better perfection ? Well, that's what Kanye West is up against following 20102s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy . Luckily, the rapper is never short of self-confidence and grandeur, revealing over the weekend that the record will be entitled  Yeezus , a combination of his nickname, 'Yeezy', and, well, God's son himself. Having premiered his new video projected on buildings all around the world , West also stopped off at Saturday Night Live , turning [...]

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Capping off what's been a very eventful week for Kanye West , the man performed to an anxious and excited audience on the Saturday Night Live season finale last night - taking "Black Skinhead" and "New Slaves" to the stage.  The power-packed tracks were brought with dim stage lighting, a full band, and resonating imagery - setting an appropriate environment for the premiere of "Black Skinhead" and the follow up to the globally-project "New Slaves". View the two videos below and look forward to Kanye's full-length release of  Yeezus  [...]

Kanye West announced yesterday that his forthcoming sixth solo studio album will be released on June 18. The album will be titled Yeezus, and is rumored to have guest contributions from, among others, Daft Punk, TNGHT, Frank Ocean, and Azealia Banks. West also performed on Saturday Night Live last night and premiered two new songs from the album, "Black Skinhead" and "New Slaves." Check out the videos of both performances below. Website // Twitter

Yeezy season is officially underway. Following the game changing premiere of his video last night, Kanye went on SNL as the musical guest act to perform two brand new singles from his forthcoming Yeezus album. The post Kanye West Performs On Saturday Night Live appeared first on TAPEDECK .

Last week, Kanye West embarrassed himself by bouncing his head against a traffic sign while being filmed. Kanye has many talents and qualities, but something he doesn't own, is a self-deprecating sense of humor. Kanye doesn't like to see himself humiliated. Now he strikes back; his beloved head which he bounced before against the traffic sign, now appeared projected at 66 buildings across the world. It was the video for his most recent track New Slaves and is a emotionally heavy, deadly serious track. Substantively I can’t say too much about New [...]

After projecting new material onto the sides of 66 buildings across New York, Paris, London, Los Angeles and more Friday night, Kanye West continues to own the spotlight. He took to the stage last night on Saturday Night Live , and to say it was memorable is an understatement. Yeezy debuted two new songs during his visit to 30 Rockefeller. The first was "Black Skinhead," an intense Marilyn Manson-sampling cut that was paired with barrage of equally intense visual imagery. The second was "New Slaves," the song he premiered [...]

After a week of re-entering the spotlight, Kanye West will release his aniticipated follow-up to 2010's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy on June 18th. Titled Yeezus , his sixth album was revealed by his girlfriend Kim Kardashian, who posted the above album artwork on her Instagram . The album, recorded in Paris, reportedly features contributions from Daft Punk, TNGHT, Frank Ocean, Chief Keef, Azealia Banks and more. Stay tuned for more on Yeezus . (via Rap-Up )

Kanye West has been busy this week, releasing live projections on buildings as a way to premiere his new songs. He also announced that his album is titled Yeezus (yes, you read that correctly). Last night he closed out the season of SNL (Bill Hader's last show) with the performance of two new songs, "Black Skinhead" and "New Slaves" (the one he projected onto buildings). "Black Skinhead" starts out with a rapid fare pace, sounding something like a mix of Nine Inch Nails, Death Grips, and [...]

Kanye West closed Saturday Night Live's season finale with the debut off two new tracks of his forthcoming album,  Yeezus.  One, "New Slaves," was projected on buildings across the globe a night earlier, the other "Black Skinheads," made its mark on national television with stampeding drums, screeching lyrics, and an energy that blurred hip-hop with rock, with electronic elements. The morning after Kanye's latest spectacle, a contributing editor at  Rolling Stone shared a quote from his newest  Daft Punk  interview that has Bangalter revealing details behind their collaboration , indicative of work on "Black Skinhead." [...]

Last night Kanye West performed two new tracks on Saturday Night Live, and today a contributing editor at Rolling Stone has pointed out that his interview with Daft Punk alludes to their collaboration with Yeezy. My @rollingstone Daft Punk story, out soon, broke the Kanye collab news and indicates DP worked on Black Skinhead: twitter.com/jonahweiner/st… [...]

For those who haven't been keeping up, here's what Kanye West has done over the past few days: He debuted a brand-new track, "New Slaves" , by way of a video projection in select cities across the globe Friday night. Then, it was revealed yesterday that his next album is called  Yeezus . Later that day, he was the musical guest on  Saturday Night Live , during which he performed "New Slaves" and "Black Skinhead" . Now, we're seeing the packaging for the album that is intriguing to say the least. What is it exactly? [...]

So far this past week, Kanye West has once again put hip-hop in his hands. First a 66 city projection of his "New slaves" video, then a new album release date and title announcement, and a SNL appearance to top it off. " Yeezus " will drop on June 18th (artwork pictured). What else can we expect? A G.O.O.D. takeover led by Yeezy will surely be expected for the rest of 2013.

Kanye West took the stage last night for the season finale of Saturday Night Live last night, premiering two brand new singles from his upcoming sixth studio album. With songs like "Black Skinhead" and "New Slaves," and an album reportedly entitled  Yeezus , Kanye is as Kanye as he'll ever be. Just like his previous appearance on SNL, Kanye's performance was both iconic and mesmerizing. Leave it to Yeezy to turn a live act into a full theatrical affair. As I've mentioned in the past, Kanye seems to be aiming [...]

Kanye West esteve ontem à noite no Saturday Night Live onde apresentou ao vivo as novas músicas "New Slaves" e "Black Skinhead". Esta manhã, o artista publicou no twitter a letra de  "Black Skinhead"  [ parte 1 ] [ parte 2 ] . Foi também anunciado o lançamento do seu novo álbum  "Yeezus" , sucessor de "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy", para dia 18 de junho . Kanye West - "New Slaves" SNL Performance from Eric [...]

Kanye West 's album art for Yeezus has been revealed. Shortly before West took the Saturday Night Live stage , Kim Kardashian and West's manager posted a photo of the cover, placed by the sneakers that West wore on stage (above). While West performed new songs "Black Skinhead" and "New Slaves" to a quick-cutting slideshow of sales tags - shout out to Savers - the Yeezus cover art features an indecipherable bronze mass. Maybe it's a bust being melted apart. (Crane your head to the right.) Maybe [...]