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	<title>Hip-Hop Crunch &#187; Kanye West</title>
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		<title>Amber Rose: &#8220;Yep, Kim Kardashian Dated Kanye West&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Castina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fame Hoedom isn&#8217;t the only thing Amber Rose and Kim Kardashian have in common. It seems both girls have dated Kanye West and Reggie Bush. Word is Kim and Kanye might have actually hooked up, after the rapper filmed a cameo on the 31-year old&#8217;s reality TV show, Kourtney &#038; Kim Take New York, last [...]]]></description>
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<p>Fame Hoedom isn&#8217;t the only thing Amber Rose and Kim Kardashian have in common. It seems both girls have dated Kanye West <em>and</em> Reggie Bush.</p>
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<p>Word is Kim and Kanye might have actually hooked up, after the rapper filmed a cameo on the 31-year old&#8217;s reality TV show, <em>Kourtney &#038; Kim Take New York</em>, last year. And Kanye&#8217;s ex, model Amber Rose, was asked about the pair&#8217;s supposed fling on <em>The Wendy Williams Show</em> Tuesday and wouldn&#8217;t give a straight answer &#8212; which of course means: <em>&#8220;Hell yes, it happened.&#8221;</em></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I mean, come on, like you know… We&#8217;ll keep it cute,&#8221; she said.</p></blockquote>
<p>But the model was much more direct when asked about her own Kardashian-related fling.<br />
Amber hooked up with Kim&#8217;s ex, Reggie Bush, after the two broke up in 2010, but claims she wasn’t the reason for their split.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not a homewrecker. I broke up with Kanye and [Reggie] broke up with Kim. We met after. We were both going through a hard time. We were each other&#8217;s rebounds. It was brief, it was nice,&#8221; she explained.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Kanye&#8217;s Fashion Debut in Paris</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Castina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kanye West unveiled his highly anticipated womenswear line in front of a star-packed crowd during a Paris Fashion Week runway show in the City of Lights on Saturday. Kanye West Balenciaga: Kanye West Denied Entry Balenciaga Fashion Show ParisKanye West Moving To London To Pursue Fashion CareerKanye West Pastelle Clothing LineCiara Booed During Givenchy Paris [...]]]></description>
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<p>Kanye West unveiled his highly anticipated womenswear line in front of a star-packed crowd during a Paris Fashion Week runway show in the City of Lights on Saturday.</p>
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		<title>Jay-Z Kanye &#8220;Watch The Throne&#8221; Breaks iTunes Sales Record; &#8220;Otis&#8221; Maybach Auctioned For Charity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Castina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kanye West and Jay-Z&#8217;s critically-hailed joint LP, Watch the Throne, has smashed iTunes sales records after almost 290,000 downloads of the collaborative disc were snapped up by fans last week. The duo have shattered the record previously set by Coldplay when their 2008 album Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends sold 282,000 [...]]]></description>
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<p>Kanye West and Jay-Z&#8217;s critically-hailed joint LP, <em>Watch the Throne</em>, has smashed iTunes sales records after almost 290,000 downloads of the collaborative disc were snapped up by fans last week.</p>
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<p>The duo have shattered the record previously set by Coldplay when their 2008 album <em>Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends</em> sold 282,000 in its first week. Yeezy and Hov are expected to debut at the top of the US Billboard 200 charts on Wednesday with total sales of close to 500,000. The release went on sale exclusively through iTunes bet 8-11.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Kanye West and Jay-Z may be super-rich rap dudes with solid gold album covers and pimped-out rides &#8211; but they&#8217;re also not afraid to give back. The $300,000 Rolls Royce Maybach customized to spit flames in their new music video &#8220;Otis&#8221; will be going up for auction. All proceeds from the sale of the whip will benefit East African drought disaster, which has affected over 12.4 million people.</p>
<p>Imagine rollin&#8217; down the street in this thing! </p>
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		<title>Jay-Z Kanye West &#8220;Otis&#8221; Music VIDEO Premiere</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 01:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Castina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeezy and Jay-Z &#8211; &#8220;Otis&#8221;&#8230;Presented Without Comment. Jay-Z Kanye &#8220;Watch The Throne&#8221; Breaks iTunes Sales Record; &#8220;Otis&#8221; Maybach Auctioned For CharityBeyonce Pays Homage To New Edition In &#8216;Love On Top&#8217; VIDEOBeyonce &#8220;Best Thing I Never Had&#8221; VIDEO PremiereVIDEO: Dr. Dre &#8220;I Need A Doctor&#8221; [Feat. Eminem &#038; Skylar Grey]Gil Scott-Heron Dies]]></description>
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<p>Yeezy and Jay-Z &#8211; &#8220;Otis&#8221;&#8230;Presented Without Comment.</p>
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		<title>Kanye West: &#8220;I Feel Like Hitler!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Castina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, Kanye West&#8217;s ego, it knows no bounds. The self-professed musical genius &#8212; who is winning rave reviews for his Jay-Z collaborative effort Watch the Throne &#8212; was jeered by the audience during his set at England&#8217;s Big Chill Festival on Saturday night after he compared the public&#8217;s reception to him to that of mass [...]]]></description>
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<p>Ah, Kanye West&#8217;s ego, it knows no bounds. The self-professed musical genius &#8212; who is winning rave reviews for his Jay-Z collaborative effort <em>Watch the Throne</em> &#8212; was jeered by the audience during his set at England&#8217;s Big Chill Festival on Saturday night after he compared the public&#8217;s reception to him to that of mass murderer Adolf Hitler. </p>
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<p><em>&#8220;I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I&#8217;m fucking insane, like I&#8217;m Hitler. One day the light will shine through and one day people will understand everything I ever did,&#8221;</em> Yeezy bellowed over booing. </p>
<p>In the next breath, he crowned himself the Michael Jordan of music…</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It&#8217;s so much f&#8211;king going on in music right now and somebody has to make a fucking difference.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Er, OK Kanye. FYI, this is why people on the street look at you like you&#8217;re <em>&#8220;fucking insane.&#8221;</em></p>
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		<title>Hire Drake For Your Next Bar Mitzvah</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 14:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Castina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drake is now performing at Bar Mitzvahs. And he&#8217;s doing it for a lot cheaper than &#8220;Stronger&#8221; star Kanye West. The Canadian-born rapper, who recently said he&#8217;s &#8220;one of the best Jewish guys to hit the scene,&#8221; performed at the 13th birthday bash for the son of former NBC head Jeff Zuckerberg over the weekend. [...]]]></description>
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<p>Drake is now performing at Bar Mitzvahs. And he&#8217;s doing it for a lot cheaper than &#8220;Stronger&#8221; star Kanye West. The Canadian-born rapper, who recently said he&#8217;s <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/kanye_demand_nixed_ETOk0JDggw9g1yfec8b8BN"><em>&#8220;one of the best Jewish guys to hit the scene,&#8221;</em></a> performed at the 13th birthday bash for the son of former NBC head Jeff Zuckerberg over the weekend. </p>
<p>Tipsters tell <em>The New York Post</em> that  Jeff ultimately hired the &#8220;Miss Me&#8221; hitmaker after Kanye demanded more than $1 million to perform just a few songs.</p>
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		<title>Kanye West Charity Shut Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Castina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The charity foundation founded by the late mother of rapper Kanye West has closed its doors after fours years of charity work. The Kanye West Foundation was created by former Chicago college professor Dr. Donda West in 2007 in an effort to cut high school dropout rates across the nation. Over the course of its [...]]]></description>
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<p>The charity foundation founded by the late mother of rapper Kanye West has closed its doors after fours years of charity work. The Kanye West Foundation was created by former Chicago college professor Dr. Donda West in 2007 in an effort to cut high school dropout rates across the nation. Over the course of its existence, the foundation raised an annual average of $492,000 from companies with which Kanye was involved, according to public records. </p>
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<p>The reason for the shutdown has not been disclosed, but Joseph Collins, executive director for the Kanye West Foundation, sent an e-mail to various associates informing them that he had lost his job and that the organization&#8217;s phones had been disconnected.</p>
<p>He wrote in part: <em> &#8220;I am reaching out to let you know that the Kanye West Foundation (kanyewestfoundation.org) has officially closed its doors after a successful 4+ years of programming and events. It has been an incredible experience working with Kanye and the board to realize his mother&#8217;s vision and I am honored to have been given the opportunity to lead the Foundation.&#8221;</em></p>
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		<title>Kanye West &#8220;Monster&#8221; VIDEO Banned From MTV?</title>
		<link>http://hiphop.popcrunch.com/kanye-west-monster-video-banned-from-mtv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Castina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kanye West&#8217;s video for &#8220;Monster&#8221; has been temporarily pulled by MTV following a series of complaints from feminist groups. The video, which also features Jay-Z, Rick Ross and Nicki Minaj, features various depictions of dead women and numerous women&#8217;s rights activists are not happy. &#8220;MTV has not banned Kanye West&#8217;s &#8216;Monster&#8217; video,&#8221; the network said [...]]]></description>
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<p>Kanye West&#8217;s video for &#8220;Monster&#8221; has been <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1659344/kanye-west-monster-mtv.jhtml">temporarily pulled</a> by MTV following a series of complaints from feminist groups. The video, which also features Jay-Z, Rick Ross and Nicki Minaj, features various depictions of dead women and numerous women&#8217;s rights activists are not happy. </p>
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<p><em>&#8220;MTV has not banned Kanye West&#8217;s &#8216;Monster&#8217; video,&#8221;</em> the network said in a statement to <em>MTV News. &#8220;We have been in constant communication with the label regarding this matter. However, we are still awaiting the edits we requested in order for the video to be suitable for broadcast.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>MTV&#8217;s moratorium on the video comes after a petition was started by women&#8217;s rights activists Sharon Haywood and Melinda Tankard Reist. The women say the video sends the wrong message to Kanye&#8217;s young fans. West is depicted in the video simulating a sexual act with two of the dead women.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;The mainstreaming of videos like this increases desensitized and callous attitudes toward violence against women, Young people are seeing images and absorbing harmful messages which glamourise [sic] misogyny and brutalize women,&#8221;</em> Reist argues. <em>&#8220;Women are reduced to sex-doll like playthings. So great is the level of desensitization that the barbaric treatment of women and girls is seen as normal and to be expected. We decided to run this campaign because we wanted to challenge the status quo.&#8221;</em></p>
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		<title>Rihanna, Drake, Kanye West NBA All-Star Game Performance VIDEO</title>
		<link>http://hiphop.popcrunch.com/rihanna-performs-nba-all-star-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Castina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flame-haired hitmaker Rihanna celebrated her 23rd birthday with a provocative performance featuring collaborators Kanye West and Drake at the annual NBA All-Star Game at The Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Nicki Minaj Will.i.am MTV VIDEO Music Awards Performance ["Your Love" &#038; "Check It Out"]Usher Performs During 2010 MTV VMAs [VIDEO]Drake Rihanna Grammy [...]]]></description>
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<p>Flame-haired hitmaker Rihanna celebrated her 23rd birthday with a provocative performance featuring collaborators Kanye West and Drake at the annual NBA All-Star Game at The Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday night. </p>
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		<title>Kanye West &#8220;All The Lights&#8221; VIDEO [Ft. Kid Cudi &amp; Rihanna]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Castina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monica &#8220;Anything&#8221; VIDEO [Ft. Rick Ross]Rihanna &#8220;Rockstar 101&#8243; VIDEOFantasia &#8220;Bittersweet&#8221; Official Music VIDEO PremiereRay J &#8220;Last Wish&#8221; Music VIDEO PremiereKanye West &#8220;Runaway&#8221; Music VIDEO [35-Minute Short Film]]]></description>
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