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Ye aka Kanye West has made a public plea to his ex-wife Kim Kardashian to take their children out of their “fake school” on social media.
According to reports, Kanye West made a plea to Kim Kardashian to take their children out of their current school in a post on social media on Wednesday (February 28). The rapper went to Instagram and wrote, “Kim take my kids out of Sierra Canyon now it’s a fake school for celebrities that are used by ‘the system,’” in all capital letters in the post. The private school in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California is well-attended by the children of notable celebrities including LeBron James and Dwayne Wade.
The caption to the post was just as bizarre. “At this point everybody knows what ‘the system’ is code word for. I was removed from my dad by the system and the system removed me from my children,” West wrote. “When the system drafts athletes they avoid working with those who have their father in their life because they are harder to manipulate. My two oldest know they daddy is.” West and Kardashian divorced in 2021, and are the parents of four children – North, 10, Saint, 8, Chicago, 6, and Psalm, 4.
The children attend Sierra Canyon on a full-time basis, but they had also been enrolled in afterschool activities at the “Drive Slow” rapper’s Donda Academy until it was forced to close in 2022. Kanye West and Kim Kardashian have had a bumpy time in co-parenting since their divorce, mainly due to Kanye’s behavior. One instance led Kardashian to boost security for their children in 2022, primarily because West had revealed where they were going to school.
Kanye West also acknowledged that he and Kardashian had a “good conversation” in an interview with Tucker Carlson at that point in time, even stating that the reality show star has custody of the children 80% of the time. “Right now we’ve come to a compromise — but I’m not finished because I don’t compromise — but we’ve come to a compromise that my kids come to my school after school and they learn choir,” West said.
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Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign’s collaborative album, Vultures 1, has only been out for a second, but already the two artists are being taken to court over it. Both artists are being accused of copyright infringement (kinda) by the Donna Summer’s estate.
According to Digital Music News, Kanye West tried to clear a sample from Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” from her estate. Though he was denied permission to do so at the time, the sample ended up on their song, “Good (Don’t Die)”, anyway in a weird way. Taking to Instagram to express their anger over the situation, her estate wrote: “Kanye West… asked permission to use Donna Summer’s song ‘I Feel Love,’ he was denied, he changed the words, had someone re-sing it or used AI but it’s ‘I Feel Love’—copyright infringement!”
Well, that’s one way to try to get around a copyright situation.
The lawsuit comes after both Nicki Minaj and even Ozzy Osborne denied samples of their music to be used on Kanye’s Vultures 1 album with Ozzy taking issue with Ye sampling his song “Iron Man” without his permission. As to how this will play out given that Kanye didn’t exactly sample the original Donna Summer song, should be interesting in this new day and age of AI and digital enhancements.
Per Digital Music News:
Sudano says in January 2024 someone from Alien Music reached out on behalf of the rappers to confirm its ownership of the “I Feel Love” composition and to request permission for sampling. “In considering the Defendant’s request, the Summer estate not only considered the immense commercial value of the composition, but also the potential degradation to Summer’s legacy,” the lawsuit reads.
“West is known as a controversial public figure whose conduct has led numerous brands and business partners to disassociate from him,” the suit continues. The estate denied permission to sample in early February, which it defined as “an absolute prohibition against any licensee (or other recording artist) covering I FEEL LOVE from using a Donna Summer ‘soundalike’ or using the original Donna Summer recording.”
The Vultures 1 album was released to the public on February 10, with the “Good (Don’t Die)” track featuring the song. “In the face of these repeated denials, West and Co-Defendants attempted to get around this roadblock by instead making an unauthorized interpolation,” the lawsuit alleges. The track has since been removed from Spotify and other major DSPs at the request of the Summer estate.
Ye might have to hold this sample L when it’s all said and done.
What do y’all think? Is Kanye wrong for trying to recreate Donna Summer’s song after being denied permission to sample it? Let us know in the comments section.
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adidas has just started the process of selling off their remaining Yeezy stock via the raffle system on their Confirmed app. But we don’t think Kanye West for one will be attempting to secure a pair as he took to social media to discourage his fans from buying into the Yeezy hype.
Though adidas has been slowly selling off their remaining Yeezy inventory since last year without a peep from Kanye West, apparently, this time around, Yeezy felt a way about the Yeezys being sold in 2024. Not too long after adidas announced that the raffles were open for what could be the final round of Yeezy drops, Kanye West took to his IG page with a message for both adidas and his faithful fans. “Anybody who loves Ye would not buy these fake Yeezys. I never made these color ways, I’m not getting paid off of them and adidas is suing me,” Kanye said.
We lowkey thought this colorway was made to match the titanium dentures that Kanye’s been sporting for quite some time now. We guess not.
Aside from the post on his IG page, Kanye dropped a video talking about his situation with adidas reiterating that they’re currently suing him for $250 million and not giving him a cut of the sales from his sneaker line. Saying that adidas is “raping him” via his business contract, Kanye hopes that his followers turn their back on the three-stripe brand in his name and let these sneakers brick upon arrival.
Whether or not this will dissuade sneakerheads from purchasing anymore Yeezys is anyone’s guess. But at this point, we feel like adidas has moved enough of their remaining Yeezy stock to hold a few L’s here and there.
Check out Kanye West’s video below, and sound off in the comments section with your thoughts about the situation.
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While Kanye West’s Yeezy sneakers still remain a hot commodity amongst the sneaker community, his clothing collaboration with the GAP doesn’t seem to enjoy the same popularity as his adidas attire.
Still, Kanye isn’t about to let his YZY GAP collection just sit in a warehouse somewhere and rot, so he decided to restock some of the pieces from the collection on his YEEZY.com website for the low-low price of an Andrew Jackson. That’s right, surprisingly enough, Kanye threw everyone off when he suddenly threw up multiple items from his GAP collabo on his website for $20 a pop and while many of the pieces look, well, basic, you can basically buy an entire wardrobe for the price of a single pair of Yeezy’s.
The move comes just weeks after Ye also dropped the price of his independent “Yeezy Pod” sneakers from $200 to $20 after receiving criticism for the quality and sizing hit the internet. Knowing that he done f*cked up on his latest venture, Ye even refunded $180 to customers who pre-ordered the struggle sneakers.
Now that Kanye West’s name is again bubbling out on these streets as his collaboration album with Ty Dolla $ign, Vultures, continues to remain a hot topic in the Hip-Hop culture, Ye is hoping to bank on the buzz and move whatever product he can at the moment. Whether you support him or canceled him, Kanye still has a loyal following that will gobble up whatever he drops whether it be music, clothing, or conspiracy theories. With that being the case, the man decided to release his GAP collection at a helluva discount and it seems to have been the smart move as sales have spiked from an otherwise mediocre capsule collection (no shots).
Check out some of Kanye’s GAP collection and let us know if you’ll be dropping $20 on anything in the comments section below.
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Kanye West might be on the outs of pop culture due to his wild antisemitic rants, but his Adidas line of sneakers still move like we were living in the pre-MAGA era out on these streets and there’s still more to come.
According to Highsnobiety, Adidas will continue to unload the remainder of their Yeezy stock in the coming months as they did throughout 2023 with word being that this will be the last of it’s inventory before Yeezy is officially done at the three stripes brand. While many assumed that anything Kanye related would brick upon release due to the backlash he garnered for his antisemitic comments in 2022, when Adidas began to drop their Yeezy stock last year, the line immediately sold out.
Now that they’ve seen there’s still a market for the Yeezy line, Adidas is looking to sell whatever’s left before the end of the year though no release date has been set as of yet.
Highsnobiety reports:
According to YEEZY-obsessed leakers, though, the restock is nearly upon us. They’re certain that it rolls out throughout all of March 2024, reportedly beginning March 7 until the month’s end.
And, of course, they’ve already got the YEEZY droplist loaded up.
adidas’ final YEEZY drop will reportedly include the a variety of classic shoe styles, including the YEEZY Slide in Dark Onyx, Salt, and Slate Grey, YEEZY BOOST 500 in Stone Salt and Taupe; YEEZY FOAM RNNR in Granite and Carbon.
Other sneakers will likely join the droplist as the month goes on.
Once Adidas finally unloads the remainder of their Yeezy stock, that might be it for Kanye West’s run in the sneaker industry. Though fans have been speculating a return to Nike as he’s been spotted rocking Air Force 1’s and Nike gloves as of late, we seriously doubt that Nike would take on the backlash and controversy that would surely follow Kanye West back to the swoosh brand.
What do y’all think of Adidas selling the remainder of their Yeezy stock? Are you going to copp or nah? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign‘s new collaborative project Vultures 1 has been met with delays and false starts before its release last week. FUGA, a music distribution company, moved to take down Vultures 1 from DSPs and now the album is being distributed by another company.
Rolling Stone reports that Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign dropped their new project but not without a hitch. In the report, FUGA says that a client of theirs uploaded Vultures 1 without their approval despite never agreeing to a full-on deal with Ye and his team.
“Late last year, FUGA was presented with the opportunity to release Vultures 1. Exercising our judgment in the ordinary course of business, we declined to do so,” a spokesperson for Downtown Music, FUGA’s parent company, shared in a statement to Rolling Stone. “On Friday, February 9, 2024, a long-standing FUGA client delivered the album Vultures 1 through the platform’s automated processes, violating our service agreement. Therefore, FUGA is actively working with its DSP partners and the client to remove Vultures 1 from our systems.”
The outlet adds that the album is now being electronically distributed via Label Engine and is back on DSPs such as Apple Music. The album is facing other hardships after the estate of Donna Summer didn’t clear the use of the singer’s sample on one track along with Ozzy Osbourne blasting West for sampling one of his songs without clearance, citing Ye’s antisemitic views.
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Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign‘s collaborative album Vultures 1 moved between distribution companies on Thursday (Feb. 15), starting the day with FUGA and then moving over to Label Engine.
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Label Engine, a distribution company acquired by Create Music Group in 2015, had previously put out the two lead singles from Vultures 1. Confusingly, however, the album then arrived via FUGA.
A FUGA spokesperson told Billboard on Thursday that “a long-standing FUGA client delivered the album Vultures 1 through the platform’s automated processes, violating our service agreement.” As a result, the company said it planned “to remove Vultures 1 from our systems.” This created some turbulence for West’s release, which was briefly pulled off Apple Music and iTunes before it reappeared.
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The album’s new home, Label Engine, was founded by Rich Billis; in 2022, he said that “over 1,500 labels and a total of over 90,000 artists” use his company for distribution.
Billis said the company built its client base in part because “we had a very low [distribution] rate which was 15%, compared to 25% (what a lot of other distributors were charging).”
“We also provided free use of all the accounting and promotion tools I had created,” he continued. “That seemed to do very well. We quickly acquired customers and grew quite quickly in the upcoming years. From there, we got purchased by Create Music Group, which was a client of ours for a year or so. That’s when I took over as CTO of Create Music Group.”
On Wednesday, Spotify also removed the song “Good (Don’t Die)” from Vultures 1 after Donna Summer‘s estate complained it interpolated the singer’s work without permission, as did Amazon Music and Apple Music later, too.
But despite the hiccups around the new album release, listeners continue to seek it out. The song “Carnival” is No. 1 on Spotify’s Daily Top Songs Global chart, picking up nearly 6 million daily streams on the service. “Burn” and “FUK SUMN” are also in the top 20.
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Over the past few months the Hip-Hop community have been lowkey shocked at the number of rappers throwing their support behind the former Insurrectionist-In-Chief, Donald Trump for the next Presidential election. But it really didn’t surprise anyone that Kanye West is still proudly riding the MAGA train he hopped on a few years ago.
Recently the paparazzi caught up with the controversial rapper and asked him if he’s “still backing Trump?” to which Ye replied “Yeah of course, it’s Trump all day. What you talkin’ ’bout? You know what it is.” The only reason some were surprised that Kanye would still support Donald Trump is because of rumors that the two had a falling out years ago after Ye went to Mar-a-Lago and asked Trump to be his running mate on his own 2024 Presidential ticket. Needless to say Donald Trump took offense to the request and allegedly insulted both Kanye and Kim Kardashian by the end of their meeting.
But that seems to be water under the bridge as Kanye is still “Trump all day” after giving up his own Presidential aspirations. After getting divorced from Kim Kardashian, we guess Trump slandering her to Kanye’s face doesn’t seem to bother him as much anymore.
Maybe Kanye West should go out to dinner with Ted Cruz as Donald Trump insulted both their wives and they’re still publicly praising the convicted rapist as if he’s the be-all and end-all of the political game. Talk about a cult of personality.
Check out Kanye West throw his support behind Donald Trump and let us know your thoughts on this in the comments section below.
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For months now people have been criticizing Kanye West for using his wife, Bianca Censori as a walking sex ad for whatever he’s got cooking on the business end. And it looks like the backlash is getting to him as he’s decided to respond to those opposed to his marriage methods.Yesterday (Feb. 12), Yeezy took to Instagram to drop a defiant post about why he posts his wife in skimpy outfits and barely-there attire on social media. He basically said it’s because he likes to do so. Walking through an airport with Bianca Censori by his side, Kanye went in on his critics.
“I just wanted to tell everybody I posted my wife three times on purpose… So what I’m saying is, I delivered the album and people still in my comments talking ’bout, ‘Why you posting your wife?’ ’Cause she make me happy,” Kanye said. “That’s why y’all happy with the music because I’m happy. So don’t never say nothing negative. If you don’t like my page and don’t like what I’m posting, go f*ck yourself, seriously. Leave the king the f*ck alone. I don’t care, bro. I’ma post my wife as much as I want. Go post your wife on your f**kin’ Instagram.”
We guess he doesn’t understand that people are upset that he posts pictures of his wife in a manner that paints her as if she’s a sexual object to be leered at, but we digress. If she’s happy and he’s happy, that’s all that matters, right? The woman gave him fellatio in public for God’s sake, so he must be doing something right in their marriage.
Now that Kanye knows his NSFW posts of his wife are pissing people off, expect a lot more of those kind of pictures on his page. We assembled some of those controversial pics, and potent reactins, in the gallery, for archival purposes.
Check out Kanye responding to the backlash below, and let us know your thoughts on the situation in the comments section.
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