Rihanna is featured in the new “Paranoid” music video, the fourth single from Kanye West’s fourth studio album, 808s & Heartbreak.
Although the 21-year-old Bajan beauty doesn’t sing at all, she looks absolutely gorgeous.
The “Paranoid” music video first premiered last week at the Island Def Jam Spring Collection party at Stephen Weiss Studio in New York City.
Kanye West covers the futuristic April/May 2009 cover of Complex. Here are some of the issue’s highlights:
Why do you think there’s such a fixation on your sexuality? I really think it’s because society tries to dictate the way a guy is supposed to dress and the way a guy is supposed to act, and I refuse to conform. A lot of these dudes would never be accused of being gay just because they all look exactly alike. If people could just realize the amount of mundaneness and followers that lack creativity… I think people’s mentality is like, Only gay people are that creative. And it’s true there are a lot of gay people who are incredible creative minds, but there are straight people who are incredible creative minds—and there’s gay people who can’t dress or create at all, too. Closed-minded gay people probably say they dress “straight.”
The magazine officially hits stands on April 7! Check out the full story at Complex.com.
Kayne West and his equally as stylish girlfriend Amber Rose look ever-so-classy at The Metropolitan Opera’s 125th Anniversary Gala at Lincoln Center’s Metropolitan Opera House on Sunday (March 15) in New York City.
Other pictures include the couple last week during Paris Fashion Week at the Yves Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney, and Sonia Rykiel fashion shows.
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Lovebirds Kanye West and Amber Rose celebrate Paris Fashion Week at the Roberto Cavalli opening boutique party on Saturday (March 7) in Paris.
Earlier in the day, the couple also hit up the fall 2009-2010 Jeremy Scott fashion show. Have you checked out Amber’s Chanel sunglasses? The chain detail is off the chain!
Kanye will be performing his hit song “Heartless” during Wednesday’s elimination show of American Idol. Kelly Clarkson will sing “My Life Would Suck Without You” off her new album, All I Ever Wanted.
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Kanye West takes his new girlfriend, Amber Rose, out for a little shopping spree at Sunset Plaza in Hollywood on Sunday (March 1).
The 31-year-old entertainer played the role of a good boyfriend and held Amber’s shopping bags!
Kanye recently filmed VH1’s Storytellers on Feb. 13th and commented on the Chris Brown/Rihanna situation, saying, “Can’t we give Chris a break? … I know I make mistakes in life.”
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Kanye West and Lucy Liu pose together backstage at the 3.1 Phillip Lim Fall 2009 Collection as part of Mercedes Benz New York Fall 2009 Fashion Week on Wednesday (February 18) held in Bryant Park, New York City.
On Wednesday, Kanye, 31, also attended the Devi Kroell Fall 2009 Presentation and posed with designer Tory Burch.
Kanye just posted a video for his song “Welcome to Heartbreak” on his blog and wrote, “This is the video we’ve been working on for the last month. We know there is another video out there using the same technique, so we were forced to drop it now.”
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Kanye West takes the March 2009 cover of Details, on stands February 24. Interview highlights below, some NSFW:
On Kanye ready to pour all his “superhero” energy into conquering fashion: “Put this in the magazine: There’s nothing more to be said about music. I’m the f—ing end-all, be-all of music. I know what I’m doing. I did 808s in three weeks. I got it. It’s on cruise control. . . . Man, we talked about music for God knows how long! Now let’s talk about how my f—ing sweater didn’t come back right from Korea. That’s what’s interesting me.”
On having natural talent as a kid: “First beat I did was in seventh grade, on my computer. I got into doing beats for the video games I used to try to make. My game was very sexual. The main character was, like, a giant penis. It was like Mario Brothers, but the ghosts were, like, vaginas. Mind you, I’m 12 years old, and this is stuff 30-year-olds are programming. You’d have to draw in and program every little step—it literally took me all night to do a step, ’cause the penis, y’know, had little feet and eyes.”
On what makes him so hard-working: “People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age. Look at the drive that people have to get sex—to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.”
On being the voice of the voice of this generation: “If not me, then who? Someone could be a better rapper, dance better. But culturally impacting? When you look back at these four and a half years, who’s the icon at the end of the day? Who broke down color barriers? What other black guy would a white person use as a fashion reference?”
On using “gay” as a compliment: “Titles are very important. I like to embody titles, y’know, or words that have negative connotations, and explain why that’s good,” he says. “Take the word gay—like, in hip-hop, that’s a negative thing, right? But in the past two, three years, all the gay people I’ve encountered have been, like, really, really, extremely dope. Y’know, I haven’t, like, gone to a gay bar, nor do I ever plan to. But where I would talk to a gay person—the conversation would be mostly around, like, art or design—it’d be really dope. From a design standpoint, kids’ll say, ‘Dude, those pants are gay.’ But if it’s, like, good, good, good fashion-level, design-level stuff, where it’s on a higher level than the average commercial design stuff, it’s, like, gay people that do that. I think that should be said as a compliment. Like, ‘Dude, that’s so good it’s almost . . . gay.’”
Read the full cover story of Kanye, 31, at DetailsMag.com and be sure to check out the behind-the-scenes cover shoot video!
During his morning KIIS FM show, Kanye West spoke to Ryan Seacret about the altercation between Rihanna and Chris Brown. Here’s what the 31-year-old singer had to say:
“I saw them at Clive’s [the night before]. I know Rihanna a bit better because I went on tour with her and we really vibed out on a lot of creative ideas. With the touring, I gave all these reference of Graces Jones and Jean Paul-Goude. Back in the 80’s when pop stars just took it to a whole ‘nother level. I really feel that Rihannais so important to our culture and pop music. I feel like she is the most important artist in music and has the most potential. Her taste level at her age and the songs she does and her style and her performance and her voice.
“She has the potential to be the biggest artist of all time. In that sense, I feel like that’s my baby sis and I would do anything and everything not help her in any situation. I don’t want to speak too much on it but I was completely devastated by the concept of what I heard to the point that I Was completely devastated during my “American Boy” performance [with Estelle during the Grammys].
“It’s so devastating. As a person, I don’t care how famous she is or if she just worked at McDonald’s, that should never happen. It should never come to that place.”
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