Artist: Kanye West

Kanye West Leave it to Kanye West to find the most innovative way to premiere his new single. The Grammy-winning rap icon debuted his fiery new track, "New Slaves," by projecting his image rapping the tune on the side of 66 buildings around the world. Ye premiered his new track hours before he'd take the stage as musical guest on the season finale of Saturday Night Live . Kanye is gearing up for the release of his as-yet-untitled new album, the follow-up to 20102s My Beautiful Dark Twisted [...]

So Kanye West premiered a new song tonight in a way that only Kanye West could. A large video of him performing the song was projected on 66 buildings across the world. Yes, you read that correctly. Kanye definitely lives in his own dimension. The song is a new one called "New Slaves" and it is supposed to appear on his new album, which is likely to come out in June. The first 3/4 of the song is pretty much Kanye, but the last part sees him break out a singing falsetto, which is not doing [...]

Leave it to Kanye West to premiere his new single in the most elaborate and impractical way possible. In preparation of his upcoming performance tomorrow night on Saturday Night Live , Kanye decided to project his image across 66 random buildings across the globe, (Could you imagine how freaky it would be to see Yeezy's face right outside your window?) Upon first listen it seems as if Ye's continuing the trend of his past few releases, venturing down an even darker path sonically than ever before. Despite all of the theatrics, Kanye's newest track comes [...]

Kanye West , always the visionary, has debuted his new single "New Slave" via... video projections taking place around the world . The first projection was found on the corner of Bedford and North 7th in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, but Kanye's website has shared a map with 65 other projections going on globally. We can't even begin to imagine what dude has in store for us when he hits SNL tomorrow night. Watch "New Slaves" projected in Brooklyn for the first time below: [...]

Kanye West , always the visionary, has debuted his new single "New Slave" via... video projections taking place around the world . The first projection was found on the corner of Bedford and North 7th in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, but Kanye's website has shared a map with 65 other projections going on globally. We can't even begin to imagine what dude has in store for us when he hits SNL tomorrow night. Watch "New Slaves" projected in Brooklyn for the first time below: [...]

Tonight Kanye West premiered "New Slaves," the first single from his forthcoming LP, by projecting a video on buildings across the world. His site includes a map of times and locations for those projections, 66 in all. It's the same song Hudson Mohawke spun in Poland recently. Earlier this month, the rapper previewed new material at the Met Ball and Adult Swim's upfront , but decent recordings from those events have been scarce. Tonight's launch was better documented. Watch the full video (as it appeared on a building in Brooklyn) and a Vine [...]

On the heels of his surprise performance at Adult Swim’s Upfront event at Roseland Ballroom earlier this week, at about 10 pm on Friday evening, Kanye offered lucky passersby in Williamsburg, Brooklyn another glimpse at ... read more �

2013 is the year of incredibly unique content delivery methods and marketing campaigns - Daft Punk among others have shown this in practice so far, and now with Kanye West .  Tonight, 'Ye premiered a new video for a new song in "New Slaves", in projection form splayed across the facades of 66 buildings across the globe. The above was captured by the folks at Complex, and displayed from a building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  See / listen to what's a pretty quality few-minute recording, and look forward to West's performance tomorrow [...]

Wow 'Ye, you're crazy for this one! In advance of his appearance on Saturday Night Live , Kanye West has premiered a new song entitled "New Slaves" accompanied by visual projections on 66 buidlings across the world. The time and locations of the projections — which are of Kanye's face rapping along to the new song — are posted on KanyeWest.com . Consequence of Sound has found a video of the full track which you can check out below. Rap Genius already has most of the lyrics up as well but [...]

And just like that, footage of Kanye's new record/visual entitled "New Slaves" has surfaced. Mikey Fresh was on hand to capture footage of the Williamsburg, NY premiere. Check it up top. Update: Second clip added via Complex . The post Video: Kanye West Debuts "New Slaves" appeared first on Fake Shore Drive .

Yeezy Season is officially here. A few minutes ago, Kanye took to his Twitter account to let everyone know that his new video will be projected on 66 buildings across the globe tonight. There are seven Chicago locations among the ten global locations, so you've got a few chances to see Yeezy's latest visual. Locations and times are listed below. 9pm – 9.15pm: Northwestern University – Davis Field Central St & Ashland Ave, Evanston 9.50pm – 10.05pm: Wrigley Field - Clark St [...]

G.O.O.D. Friday: In anticipation of his appearance on Saturday Night Live , Kanye West will premiere a new song and visuals projected on 66 buildings across the globe this evening. The exact locations on detailed on KanyeWest.com . It marks the first taste of his long-awaited sixth solo album, the follow-up to 20102s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy . West reportedly recorded the as-yet-titled album in Paris alongside a number of guest contributors - everyone from Daft Punk and TNGHT to Chief Keef [...]

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Celebrities cameo in music videos all the time. Whether it’s a way for them to launch an image makeover (Megan Fox hoping to be a serious actress in “Love the Way You Lie”) or just an excuse to make out with their significant other (all eyes on Ben Affleck slapping J.Lo’s ass), big stars seem to love lending their famous faces to help videos get more play. Once in a great while, the celebrity cameo goes beyond the usual eye-rolling “look at me” antics and is genuinely hilarious. So, take a load-off and watch some amazing [...]

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Le prochain film de Sofia Coppola , The Bling Ring , fait déjà beaucoup parlé de lui. Outre sa présentation en ouverture du Festival de Cannes qui se déroule ces jours-ci, le film marque également par sa bande originale qui frappera nos disquaires quelques jours avant la sortie officielle du film dans les salles obscures le 12 Juin. On retrouve sur cette compilation un excellent panel d'artistes qui ont marqué nos derniers mois d'actu à l'image de M.I.A. , Kanye West , Sleigh Bells , Azealia Banks , Phoenix , [...]

We enter week two of KanyeFest (...) with Late Registration, considered to be one of the best hip-hop albums of all time. Naturally, John holds some interesting views towards it. Last week, I...

This weekend, Kanye West will be the musical guest for the season finale of Saturday Night Live, and to hype everyone up for the episode, here's the promo clip for the Ben Affleck-hosted episode. Fred Armisen provides the LOLs as Kanye keeps his composure, but who knows what his performances will bring? Live television (and [...]

Kanye West is the musical guest on the season finale of Saturday Night Live this weekend. For a guy who says he "ain’t doing no motherfucking  SNL  skits," he sure as hell has no problem playing along in this promo video alongside host Ben Affleck and cast member Fred Armisen. If you're confused by the Band-Aid, click here .

Kanye makes his triumphant return to SNL this Saturday night. The band-aid will be there, but what about new songs from Yesus ? We'll know come late Saturday night. RR The post Video: Kanye West Saturday Night Live Promo appeared first on Fake Shore Drive .