Kanye West Takes Mic From Taylor Swift – “Beyonce Had One Of The Best Videos Of All Time!”
Sep13/2009
After Taylor Swift won the award for Best Female Music Video at the MTV VMAs tonight, Kanye interrupted her speech by taking away her microphone and claiming that Beyonce should have won the award.
"Taylor, I'm really happy for you, and I'm gonna let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time,"
He then handed the mic back to her and left the stage.
Kanye Receives 4 MTV VMA Nominations!
Aug05/2009
Video of the Year (Love Lockdown)
Best Male Video (Love Lockdown)
Best Hip-hop Video (Love Lockdown)
Best Special Effects (Paranoid).
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“American Boy” At The Grammys
Feb09/2009
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“Swagga Like Us” At The Grammys
Feb09/2009
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Pics From 2008 Grammy Awards
Feb08/2009
Grammy Awards Summary
Feb08/2009
Kanye won Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "Swagga Like Us" and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "American Boy".
He also featured in performances for these two songs at the Grammy Awards tonight, videos coming soon!
Kanye West Promises ‘Overwhelming’ ‘Swagga’ At Grammys
Feb07/2009
If you had to pick a time to give everyone what they've been waiting months for, why not do it on music's biggest night? It's finally going down: On Sunday night, all the guys — T.I., Kanye West, Jay-Z and Lil Wayne — will be as one for "Swagga Like Us" for the first time.
"I'm gonna wear a pink tuxedo!" Kanye West jokingly told Sway Friday afternoon in Los Angeles.
"No, I'm wearing a black tux," he immediately clarified.
West hinted that his song-mates would be wearing similar outfits on the Grammy stage.
"Yeah, everybody is gonna be fresh," Kanye promised. "Everybody is gonna be fresh to def. I mean, first of all, other than the fact that you got four — in my opinion — four of the freshest rappers making records right now. Aside from Jeezy, you got four of the freshest people consistently. When you see them, they look nice ... they're super fresh. So, it makes complete sense for us to get up there, do the 'Swagga' record at the Grammys and represent hip-hop. Represent black people, especially, in a really good light.
"And I definitely need to do something to come back from that Paris picture!" he added, referring to a photo that appeared on the Internet several days ago of him and his entourage in rather eccentric clothing during Paris fashion week.
West, who is also slated to perform with Estelle on Sunday, said that Friday's rehearsal for "Swagga" went down without a hitch.
"We was at practice today, and I was like, 'Wow!' " Kanye beamed. "Just, like, the amount of egos that's in the room. ... Everybody just has to check their ego at the door. And I think Jay is the O.G., Frank Sinatra of all of us that everybody looked up to. Jay, at the end of the day, everybody that was in that room's got a rap that sounded exactly like a Jay-Z rap. So, for us to be in the presence of Jay-Z, the greatest living rapper, he balances all the egos. Mugs don't act crazy when they around Jay.
"Like, all the crazy stuff that I do — when I get around Jay, it ain't gonna be like that," the Grammy winner explained. "It's almost like, I don't want to put the term of, like, a 'father figure' or stuff like that, 'cause my father has helped to raise me to be respectful. But in a hip-hop sense, he controls a lot of things. He shuts down a lot of bullsh--, just on a bigger scale. He makes phone calls, and he makes it happen like it should happen. So he is a presidential-type character, really, in hip-hop."
Even the rap president, however, couldn't manage to connect with the Louis Vuitton Don, the King of the South and hip-hop's Martian MC to make the video for "Swagga Like Us" that the song warranted.
"For some reason we could never get the video together," Kanye said. "We had ideas for the video and everything, but it [wasn't] in God's plan."
West added that Sunday's Grammy Awards will be especially important for T.I., who is scheduled to serve his prison sentence for felony gun charges next month.
"This time is a serious time for T.I.," Kanye said. "I really feel sorry for the situation that he has to do that time. But it's a moment for him to hit the Grammys. I don't know what I can give away and what I can't give away, but it's really gonna be his moment that night. Him, Wayne, like a lot of the best rappers, it's gonna be their moment that night. ... So, obviously, it's gonna be an overwhelming moment."
from MTV.com
Some Recent Pics (Feb 2009)
Feb07/2009
Kanye Nominated for 6 Grammys
Dec04/2008
Song of the year and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for Estelle's "American Boy'
Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group and Best Rap Song for Jay-Z's "Swagga Like Us"
Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group for Young Jeezy's "Put On"
Album of the Year for his production on Tha Carter III.
Kanye wins two AMA awards
Nov24/2008
Kanye took home the awards for Favorite Male Rap/Hip-Hop Artist and Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album for 'Graduation'.
“Heartless” Live @ The AMAs
Nov23/2008
Vote for Kanye @ The 2008 EMAs
Sep13/2008
Vote here: http://ema.mtv.co.uk/vote/
2008 VMA Summary
Sep08/2008
Kanye was nominated for 3 awards.
- Best Hip-Hop Video for "Homecoming"
- Best Special Effects in a Video for "Good Life"
- Best UK Video for Estelle's "American Boy"
He won Best Special Effects in a Video.
Kanye’s VMA Performance – Love Lockdown
Sep08/2008
Kanye Has Already Won VMA for “Good Life”
Sep07/2008
Although the show is not until Sunday, ’Ye’s T-Pain assisted video for the track “Good Life” has already won an MTV moonman for special effects.
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Kanye Will Close the 2008 VMAs
Sep05/2008
The 2008 MTV Video Music Awards are almost here, but big names are still being added to the talent pool of performers and presenters every day. Following Wednesday's big announcement that Britney Spears will be opening the show comes word that Kanye West will close out the VMAs on Sunday, despite last year's oath that he'd never return.
Read more about the 2008 VMAs at MTV.com
Kanye West Wins Brit Award
Feb20/2008
Kanye West won the Best International Male award tonight (February 20) at the Brit Awards 2008 in London
Kanye was not in London to receive his award, so accepted it through a pre-recorded video.
“I’m sure there’s someone who deserves this more than me, but I just don’t know who they are,” he said. “They told me about humbleness and humility. I don’t like it, but I heard it helps people when they don’t deserve things.”
Kanye’s Grammy Performances for iPod
Feb12/2008
thanks to kanYeLive.com member greencube!
More Kanye West Grammy 2008 Pics
Feb12/2008
(Pics from kanYe's Blog)
Pics from KanYe’s Grammy Performance
Feb11/2008
Kanye’s Grammy Performance & Speech
Feb11/2008
Kanye’s Grammy Wins
Feb10/2008
Best Rap Solo Performance for Stronger
Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group for featuring on Common's Southside
Best Rap Song for Good Life
Best Rap Album for Graduation
kanYe Will Be @ The Grammy Awards
Feb07/2008
Earlier reports indicated that Kanye wouldn't be attending the grammy awards and would instead be performing in Australia.
But according to GoodVirbrationsFestival.com.au, kanYe has now canceled one of his Australian performances and will be attending the 50th annual Grammy Awards on February 10th.
Click here to see Kanye West's Grammy nominations
Will The Grammys Reward His Confidence In Graduation?
Feb04/2008
Cool article from MTV.com:
Kanye West was so confident in his and his crew's chances of continually winning those coveted golden gramophones every February, he made an anthem about it a couple of years ago called "Grammy Family."
"It's something we can stunt with," G.O.O.D. Music artist and "Grammy Family" co-star Consequence laughed Friday. "Having those kinds of projects that get the critical acclaim and rewards from [the Recording Academy] is dope."
"Hi, haters, I'm back off hiatus," Kanye rapped in his verse. "I feel just like you, I mean even I hate us/ Turn the radio down, I mean every song?/ Yeezy got a vision that's clearer than Evian."
"I really believe I can take home that Album of the Year award"Of course, things have changed enormously for Kanye since his mother's death in November. The MC hasn't spoken to the press since then, although he recently completed a European tour and just announced its North American leg, and was recently seen on his blog playing Connect Four with Beyoncé and others. But the question on everyone's mind is: Will this year's Grammys be a bright light after his tumultuous recent months? Back in July, he spoke confidently to MTV News about his prospects.
"This album, Graduation, I been listening to it," he told MTV News in July, almost two months prior to the LP's much-hyped September 11 release-date showdown with 50 Cent's Curtis. "I like it a lot. I really believe I can take home that Album of the Year award at the Grammys. I've won my awards, but they've always been a category: 'hip-hop,' 'rap.' I wanna win Song of the Year, Album of the Year. I wanna deliver this album."
Kanye leads the 2008 Grammy nominations with eight, including Album of the Year and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, a category he's nominated in twice
Kanye West’s Grammy Nominations
Dec06/2007
The official list of nominations for the 2008 Grammy Awards for announced today. Heres a summary of all Kanye West and G.O.O.D nominations
Graduation has been nominated for Album of the Year. Competition includes Amy Winehouse and The Foo Fighters
Graduation has also been nominated for Best Rap Album, along with Common's Finding Forever and albums from Nas, Jay-Z and T.I.
Kanye's Stronger and Common's The People have both been nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance with competition from T.I., Jay-Z and 50 Cent
Common's Southside (featuring Kanye West) and Better Than I've Ever Been by Kanye West, Nas & KRS-One have been nominated for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group
Good Life (featuring T-Pain) has been nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. Competition includes Rihanna and Jay-Z's "Umbrella"
Kanye's songs Can't Tell Me Nothing and Good Life have both been nominated for Best Rap Song. Competition includes 50 Cent and Soulja Boy.
For the full list of Grammy nominations click here.
Kanye’s VMA Performances
Sep10/2007
Vote for Kanye / Common @ The Mobo Awards
Aug24/2007
Kanye has been nominated for 3 MOBO Awards (Music of Black Origin) in the UK
Kanye's Nominations
Best Hip Hop
Best International Artist
Best Video (Stronger)
Common's Nominations
Best Hip Hop
Click HERE to vote for Kanye or Common!
The MOBO Awards 2007 will take place on 9/19 in London!
