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Kanye West Escaped to Wyo. Mountaintop to Work on New Album
Where do you go when you want to “get out” of Calabasas and escape the paparazzi to work on new music? If you’re Kanye West, you head to a mountaintop in Wyoming. After scrubbing his social media presence, by deleting his Twitter and Instagram accounts, and not showing up at the Met Gala with his…
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Black Twitter Drags Forever 21 for Selling Bootleg Kanye Gear
No one knows what the designers at Forever 21 were thinking when they tried to slip clothes that were obviously “inspired” by (pronounced “sto-lenn frumm”) Kanye West onto their website, but they should have known that the folks on black Twitter don’t sleep. When the fashion retailer updated its collection with what looked like swap…
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Kanye West’s ‘Breakdown’ Subject of University Lecture
A professor at Washington University in Saint Louis is using Kanye West’s recent hospitalization as part of his course’s final lecture on mental illness. Jeffrey McCune’s lecture, titled “Name One Genius That Ain’t Crazy: Kanye West and the Politics of Self-Diagnosis,” will take a look at how someone like West can be considered both a…
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Kourtney Kardashian’s Get Out Tweet Didn’t Go Over Too Well
Maybe Kourtney Kardashian saw Get Out, or maybe she was subtweeting Scott Disick to get out for the 100th time. But Twitter definitely felt that it was ironic for a Kardashian to tweet about a movie involving a black man and a crazy white family. Someone needs to do an intervention on Tristan Thompson before…
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Did Kanye West Break Up With Donald Trump?
It looks as though the circle-jerk love affair between Donald Trump and Kanye West is over. The rapper has seemingly scrubbed his Twitter account of any mention of his December meeting with Trump, as well as his tweets supporting Trump. “I feel it is important to have a direct line of communication with our future…
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About the Blacks the Marigold Manchurian Candidate Has Been Meeting
For as long as he is president, there will be debate over whether or not black people should be meeting with the Marigold Manchurian Candidate. It’s a question The Root’s political editor, Jason Johnson, recently tackled in the piece “So, When Is It OK to Meet With Trump?” While we are in accord with the…
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Kanye West Is Still a ‘N–ga in a Coupe’ and Not ‘Traditionally American’
Unlike Chrisette Michele, Kanye West was not invited to perform at this week’s inauguration. And the spokesperson for Porta-Potty-elect gave an interesting reason as to why. West may have “George Jefferson”-walked his way into Trump Towers a few weeks ago to meet with Donald Trump, but according to Tom Barrack, chairman of the Presidential Inauguration…
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D.L. Hughley to Donald Trump: ‘F–k You Now and F–k You Forever’
Comedian D.L. Hughley is letting President-elect Donald Trump know how he really feels in a Facebook Live video posted to his page Friday night. Hughley basically pulled a post-Katrina Kanye and said that Trump doesn’t care about black people. From the nomination of Alabama good ol’ boy Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III to his racist Birtherism…
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17 Wishes for 2017
If I squint with my good eye and drink something potent out of a red Solo cup, 2016 doesn’t seem so bad—from an entertainment perspective, anyway. So, as we move forward into the new year, here are some things I’d very much like to see. That is to say, if 2017 doesn’t end early because…
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The Top 10 Racists of 2016 Not Named Trump
“Sup with ya man’s?” I knew Kanye West had done something wrong. The text was from a frat brother I never hear from unless we are debating Ye’s music or behavior. “What did Ye do now?” I replied. He sent a link of Kanye walking into Trump Tower looking like Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man.…