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Kanye West

September 2024

  • Photographer: Erik Madigan Heck

    Weekend
    Best of Weekend part 1: Julia Fox, are we to blame for our bad habits? And surviving a ship wreck – podcast

    For the next two weeks, we’re picking some of our favourite pieces from the last few months just in case you missed them…

    Actor Julia Fox unpacks abuse, fame, and dating Kanye; should you blame yourself for your bad habits? And what happened when one man’s boat sank in the dead of night and he had to save his seven-year-old son.
    Podcast46:36

August 2024

  • The Weeknd in 2021.

    Ranked
    Darkness, drama and Daft Punk: the Weeknd’s best songs – ranked!

    Ahead of Abel Tesfaye’s livestreamed concert in Brazil to launch his new era, we rate his path from cult mixtape star to pop icon
  • Vultures 2 artwork.

    Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign: Vultures 2 review – some of Ye’s most jaded, degraded moments

    The lyrics veer from nihilistic provocation to drunken messages to his ex-wife, and the music is equally erratic and confused
  • Emma Brockes

    Digested week
    double quotation markDigested week: Olympic poolside parenting, cracked water slides and fishy memories

    Emma Brockes
    Tom Daley’s glittering performance makes a trip to a leisure centre pool feel all the more bleak, but fish save the week

July 2024

  • Bella Hadid

    Adidas removes Bella Hadid from ad campaign after criticism from Israel

    Company says it is ‘revising’ work for shoe designed for 1972 Munich Olympics, where 11 Israelis were killed by Palestinian terrorists

June 2024

  • 'Kanye West and Donna Summer.

    Kanye West and Donna Summer estate reach settlement over unauthorised use of I Feel Love

  • Kanye West in Beverley Hills in February 2020.

    Kanye West sued for sexual harassment by former assistant

April 2024

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    double quotation markWhy are celebrities destroying multimillion dollar mansions?

    Arwa Mahdawi
    From Kanye West to Chris Pratt, the celebrity approach to housing is more out of touch than ever, writes Arwa Mahdawi
  • J Cole, Drake and Kendrick Lamar, just three of the players in the current beef embroiling the US rap scene.

    ‘A lot of rich guys arguing’: inside the rap beef of the decade with Drake, Kendrick Lamar and more

    Future, Rick Ross and Kanye West are among those currently being drawn into one of the fieriest disputes in rap history. Is it good for the culture – and could it depose Drake from the top?

    • Kanye West suspected of attacking man who allegedly sexually assaulted his wife

    • Tantrums of the rich and famous: nine acts that turned on their audience – from Elton to Bieber to Blur

    • double quotation markKanye’s back – labels might care about his misdeeds, but the public doesn’t seem to

      Shaad D'Souza

February 2024

  • Kanye West at Milan fashion week earlier this month.

    Kanye West sued by estate of Donna Summer over ‘stealing’ I Feel Love

    Estate of late star files lawsuit claiming rapper was denied sample for Vultures album, but tried to circumvent them with interpolation
  • Detail from the cover art to Vultures 1.

    Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign: Vultures 1 review – weak lyrics from a witless edgelord

    There are bright moments on this much-delayed album, mostly from vocalist Ty Dolla $ign, but West’s own verses are profoundly depressing
  • Ozzy Osbourne in 2022.

    Ozzy Osbourne criticises Kanye West for using sample: ‘He is an antisemite’

    Rock star says he wants ‘no association’ with artist after claiming West sampled a Black Sabbath song without permission

December 2023

  • Kanye West performing on 11 December.

    Kanye West apologises to Jewish community for 2022 antisemitic remarks

    Rapper posts message in Hebrew to social media, saying he is ‘committed to making amends and promoting unity’
  • Nicki Minaj and Kanye West.

    Nicki Minaj blocks release of Kanye West collaboration, postponing his new album

    New Body, which dates back to 2018, was expected to be released on Friday on West’s album Vultures, with West instead announcing first footwear project ‘since liberation from Adidas’

    • Kanye West wears Ku Klux Klan-style hood at album listening event

    • double quotation markShe’s a megastar, but Taylor Swift just won’t shake off old feuds. Good for her

      Barbara Ellen

    • Taylor Swift lambasts music industry as she’s named Time magazine’s person of the year

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