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Kanye West

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    A First Listen to The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, Feat. Ke$ha, Erykah Badu, Bon Iver and More

    I loved, loved the Flaming Lips' Embryonic, and find The Soft Bulletin to be a pretty magical cornucopia. Pretty big fan of 1995's Clouds Taste Metallic as well. Yet I've never considered for even a second if the Lips could be one of my Favorite Bands. They might've struck gold three-ish times, but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Reminder: Free Party Tonight With the Jealous Guys, DJ Dials, and Yr Skull

    My, my, it's been a big week, what with M.I.A.'s middle finger, that new Jay-Z and Kanye video, the quickly sold-out Hot Snakes show, and what else? We forgot already. Point is, you should come by our party at the Noise Pop-Up Shop tonight. For one thing it's free, and there will be performances by ... More >>

  • Music

    December 21, 2011

    Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

    My, my, it's been a big week, what with M.I.A.'s middle finger, that new Jay-Z and Kanye video, the quickly sold-out Hot Snakes show, and what else? We forgot already. Point is, you should come by our party at the Noise Pop-Up Shop tonight. For one thing it's free, and there will be performances by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    Album of the Year: Handicapping the Race for the Best Record of 2011

    It's almost November -- the month when music scribes pull their ears out of whatever Sonic Youth/Public Enemy/Kate Bush playlist they normally exist to and begin cramming for that all-important professional exercise: The annual Best Of list. Picking the 10 or so best new albums of the year and placi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Nicki Minaj's Chicken Wing Necklace, and 10 Other Crazy Musical Accessories

    Oh, look at that. Nicki Minaj just emerged with a chicken wing around her neck that had been painted hot pink and dressed up like a necklace, and called it fashion. Hot! ... Or not, depending on your perspective. Regardless, in Minaj's avian-slaughtering honour, we'd like to take a look back at 10 o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    The Antidote to Watch The Throne: Why We Need Chuck D's "Notice -- Know This"

    Public Enemy's Chuck D​ The luxurious sheen of Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch The Throne has beamed brilliant over the last couple of weeks of the hip-hop hype cycle. But amongst the chatter marveling at the upscale audacity of it all, there came a sobering and grounded moment just before the al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    Jay-Z and Kanye West Reschedule Watch the Throne Tour

    You'll have to wait two more months to Watch the Throne.​Last week, Jay-Z and Kanye West announced their Watch the Throne Tour. It was scheduled to stop at San Jose's HP Pavilion on October 16, but apparently all royal marriages take time, and now there will be a two-month delay.

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    The Voice's Season One Finale: Dia Frampton Was Robbed

    Dia Frampton​ So last night was the grand finale of NBC's The Voice -- the first vaguely credible vocal talent show to find itself on American television. The night before, on Tuesday, the last four contestants each performed a duet with their coaches, as well as a song that had been written s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Can Rising Rapper J Cole Overcome Jay-Z's A&R Curse?

    J Cole​ "Jay-Z is the reason I signed to RocNation. It's very hard to say no to the opportunity when Jay-Z is involved." That's J Cole, talking optimistically about his status as the first signing to Jay-Z's RocNation label venture with concert giant LiveNation. But with Cole's debut album now ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Wiz Khalifa Sends Smoke Signals Through Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

    Wiz Khalifa at Bill Graham Civic last night. All photos by Calibree Photography.​ Wiz Khalifa Big Sean June 22, 2011 @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Better than: The other kind of secondhand smoke Pittsburgh MC Wiz Khalifa (government name Cameron Thomaz) takes his moniker from an abbreviatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Before Lil B's I'm Gay: Five Great Hip-Hop Homages to Marvin Gaye

    ​When it comes to creative career moves, the rapper Lil B usually blazes his own distinct and very often quirky path. But his decision to re-up the cover art of Marvin Gaye's I Want You album for his own I'm Gay project taps into hip-hop's long and lustrous admiration for the music of Marvin. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Will Somebody Please "Like" the Department of Elections?

    Elections officials want to give you a reason to "like" ranked-choice voting​Are you following San Francisco's Department of Elections on Twitter? Yeah, we didn't think so. Granted, the department's foray into social networking just began two days ago, but you would think it could scrounge up more ... More >>

  • Music

    June 15, 2011

    Kid Cudi: Show Preview

    Elections officials want to give you a reason to "like" ranked-choice voting​Are you following San Francisco's Department of Elections on Twitter? Yeah, we didn't think so. Granted, the department's foray into social networking just began two days ago, but you would think it could scrounge up more ... More >>

  • Music

    June 8, 2011

    Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

    Elections officials want to give you a reason to "like" ranked-choice voting​Are you following San Francisco's Department of Elections on Twitter? Yeah, we didn't think so. Granted, the department's foray into social networking just began two days ago, but you would think it could scrounge up more ... More >>

  • Music

    May 11, 2011

    A-Trak: Show Preview

    Elections officials want to give you a reason to "like" ranked-choice voting​Are you following San Francisco's Department of Elections on Twitter? Yeah, we didn't think so. Granted, the department's foray into social networking just began two days ago, but you would think it could scrounge up more ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Tune-Yards Featured in Rolling Stone, Because 'Bizness' Is Amazing

    Anna M CampbellTune-Yards' Merrill Garbus​So we're into predictions lately. Here's one: 2011 is going to be a great year for Tune-Yards, the Oakland-based project of Merrill Garbus, whom you may as well start thinking of as the one-girl Dirty Projectors of the West. (A problematic comparison, but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Regrettably, MTV Is Creating a Digital Music Awards Show

    ​ Not content with merely throwing a Video Music Awards show (maybe because the channel doesn't actually show videos anymore?), MTV is moving into the Internet culture space with a new awards show called the OMAs.So what does the "O" stand for? Apparently it's up to you to decide -- MTV wants to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Honor Roll Crew's Josie Stingray Explains 'Josie,' Her New Single, and Her Sneaker Obsession

    ​"Shoe game is crazy but still elegant/With my Jordan threes, boy, I'll stomp you like an elephant." So spits Honor Roll Crew member Josie Stingray on her new, free-to-download, Trackademicks-produced song, "Josie." One of the Bay's brightest and feistiest upcoming rappers, we got the self-co ... More >>

  • Music

    December 29, 2010

    The Sounds of 2010

    What we'll remember from the year in S.F. music.

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    The Year in SF Music: Stories We'll Remember From 2010

    ​From SF Weekly's latest print music section: Is Lil B God, the Devil, or Paris Hilton?: Rap in 2010 had no voice more prolific or polarizing than Berkeley's Lil B. After some local success with post-hyphy quartet the Pack, B subchristened himself "the Based God" and showed the world what it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2010

    My Top 10 Tracks of 2010, Apparently a Good Year in S.F. Rock

    All hail the Fresh & Onlys, local proprietors of one of my favorite songs of 2010.​No, this isn't some not-so-sly effort at hometown boosterism. Three of my favorite songs from this year just happen to come from artists who nominally call S.F. home. Seriously. Anyway, some of the others on her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    The Top 10 Music-Related Children's Costumes

    So last week you may have seen us going apeshit over this rad dude who made his three-year-old son a mind-blowing Deadmau5 costume for Halloween. Having concluded that he's pretty much the best dad ever, we started thinking about what band-related costumes we'd like to put on the (unfortunate) small ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    Please Don't Hurt 'Em: Hammer Beefs With Jay-Z

    Now that we've made short work of Texas, it's apparently time to revive that age-old rap rivalry between the East and the West. So who's bringing the vitriol for the Left Coast? The Game? Ice Cube? Lil B? 2Pac's stepbrother Mopreme? Nope! It's Oakland rapper, dancer, entrepreneur, reality TV star, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    Berkeley Rapper Lil B Threatens to Rape Kanye West, Rap World Asks if B is Gay

    ​You never just what might spew out of the keyboard of an online hypester like Berkeley rapper Lil B, who fires off a Tweet approximately once every three seconds. But the self-proclaimed "Based God" (and member of the Pack) Tweeted something over the weekend that grabbed a lot more attention ... More >>

  • Music

    June 2, 2010

    50 Cent is the last of the millionaire rappers

    ​You never just what might spew out of the keyboard of an online hypester like Berkeley rapper Lil B, who fires off a Tweet approximately once every three seconds. But the self-proclaimed "Based God" (and member of the Pack) Tweeted something over the weekend that grabbed a lot more attention ... More >>

  • Music

    September 23, 2009

    Hammer, from the waist down

    ​You never just what might spew out of the keyboard of an online hypester like Berkeley rapper Lil B, who fires off a Tweet approximately once every three seconds. But the self-proclaimed "Based God" (and member of the Pack) Tweeted something over the weekend that grabbed a lot more attention ... More >>

  • Music

    September 9, 2009

    Kingdom

    ​You never just what might spew out of the keyboard of an online hypester like Berkeley rapper Lil B, who fires off a Tweet approximately once every three seconds. But the self-proclaimed "Based God" (and member of the Pack) Tweeted something over the weekend that grabbed a lot more attention ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 2, 2009

    Bay Area Beats

    ​You never just what might spew out of the keyboard of an online hypester like Berkeley rapper Lil B, who fires off a Tweet approximately once every three seconds. But the self-proclaimed "Based God" (and member of the Pack) Tweeted something over the weekend that grabbed a lot more attention ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    The Year in Music: 2008's Top Ten Pop Songs

    By Annie ZaleskiPop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The foll ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2008

    Human Giant's Aziz Ansari Brings "Glow in the Dark" Tour to SF

    By Annie ZaleskiPop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The foll ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2008

    The Weekend Hitlist: 4/18-4/20

    By Annie ZaleskiPop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The foll ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2008

    Skate Jonze

    By Annie ZaleskiPop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The foll ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 20, 2008

    Nick Catchdubs

    By Annie ZaleskiPop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The foll ... More >>

  • Music

    February 13, 2008

    Italians Always Do It Better: Joakim and Glass Candy

    By Annie ZaleskiPop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The foll ... More >>

  • Music

    January 16, 2008

    Sketchfest stokes the musician-comedian love affair

    By Annie ZaleskiPop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The foll ... More >>

  • Music

    December 26, 2007

    Young vet Bow Wow bestows advice on adolescent rappers

    By Annie ZaleskiPop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The foll ... More >>

  • News

    December 5, 2007

    My Tunes: Kelenna Azubuike

    Warrior and music lover

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2007

    Intro to Hip-Hop Statistics

    Warrior and music lover

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2007

    Last Night: A-Trak and Kid Sister at the Good Magazine Block Party

    Warrior and music lover

  • Music

    March 14, 2007

    Dream Girl

    The making of Malika

  • Music

    December 27, 2006

    Ghostface Killah

    More Fish (Def Jam)

  • Film

    March 1, 2006

    Get Down With Dave

    Chappelle returns with a raucous Block Party

  • Music

    February 15, 2006

    Behind the Muzak

    What do you mean you didn't keep score while watching the Grammys? We did.

  • Music

    February 1, 2006

    Jel

    Soft Money

  • Music

    January 18, 2006

    Mixtape Shmixtape

    In which we review Yay Area mixtapes of the day

  • Music

    August 31, 2005

    Alias & Ehren

    Lillian

  • Music

    April 6, 2005

    BeatBox

    Doug E. Fresh brings the beat-boxing revival to the DNA Lounge; 26 Mix hosts the ultimate hip hop feud: "East vs. West."

  • Year End

    December 15, 2004

    God Save the Scene

    Sassy Brits, hoochie mamas, and a dude named Beans attempted to invigorate a stagnant year for hip hop.

  • Music

    June 30, 2004

    Brandy, Brandy, Brandy, I Can Let You Go

    Afrodisiac

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