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President Obama Says “Kanye West Music Is Outstanding” (News)

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According to The Guardian, Obama told People in an upcoming interview that Yeezy stays in his iPod. We’re not quite sure which tracks, but the Chicago native’s songs do resonate with the President. When asked who he would rather spend time with, the Duck Dynasty crew or Kimye, he picked neither but did offer these words.

“The Duck Dynasty family seems like a pretty fun bunch, so I can see how that would be pretty fun,” he said during the interview according to Time, before adding: “Kanye’s music is outstanding, though. I’ve got a lot of his stuff on my iPad. If it was a concert, then I might not mind listening to him.”

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Kanye West Nike Air Yeezy 2 “Red October” Release Date Revealed? (News)

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Kanye’s highly anticipated Air Yeezy 2 “Red October”, sneaker popped up on Foot Locker’s website today, supposedly revealing its December 27 arrival as a House of Hoops exclusive. But within minutes, the listing was taken down. Well just have to wait and see!

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Kanye West’s Next Album Will Be Eight Songs (News)

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I think my next album is going to be eight songs. It’s just reducing down the amount of information that you need. People say a design is the point where you can’t take anything else away. [Yeezus] was very, very designed. I took a departure from radio and popular music in order to get this seat here. If I hadn’t made Yeezus, I wouldn’t be sitting here with this cool font at Basel right here.

Read the full Rolling Stone interview HERE.

Kanye West, Drake, Jay Z, Eminem & Kendrick Lamar Make Rolling Stone’s “100 Best Songs of 2013″ (News)

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Today Rolling Stone revealed their “100 Best Songs of 2013,” and it’s a list that’s sure to cause heated debates as always.

Kanye West’s “I Am a God” over Migos and Drake’s “Versace (Remix)”? “Blurred Lines” at 50? Mystikal making any end of year list?! Contentious choices aside, it’s hard to argue with that No. 1 pick.

Check out the full list below ..

Rolling Stone‘s “100 Best Songs of 2013″:

1. Daft Punk Feat. Pharrell & Nile Rodgers – “Get Lucky”
2. Lorde – “Royals”
3. Kanye West – “Black Skinhead”
4. Vampire Weekend – “Hannah Hunt”
5. Disclosure – “When a Fire Starts to Burn”
6. Parquet Courts – “Stoned and Starving”
7. Justin Timberlake – “Mirrors”
8. James Blake – “Retrograde”
9. Drake – “Started From the Bottom”
10. Arctic Monkeys – “Do I Wanna Know?”
11. Arcade Fire – “Reflektor”
12. Tegan and Sara – “Closer”
13. Big Sean Feat. Kendrick Lamar – “Control”
14. Miley Cyrus – “We Can’t Stop”
15. Eminem – “Rap God”
16. HAIM – “The Wire”
17. Lady Gaga Feat. R. Kelly – “Do What U Want”
19. Katy Perry – “Roar”
19. Jay Z – “Picasso Baby”
20. Kanye West – “Blood on the Leaves”
21. Jake Bugg – “Broken”
22. Ciara – “Body Party”
23. Elvis Costello and the Roots – “Walk Us Uptown”
24. The Julie Ruin – “Oh Come On”
25. Washed Out – “All I Know”

26. Avicii – “Wake Me Up”
27. Lonely Island Feat. Adam Levine – “YOLO”
28. Ashley Monroe – “Two Weeks Late”
29. Thundercat – “Oh Sheit It’s X”
30. Beck – “Don’t Act Like Your Heart Isn’t Hard”
31. Wavves – “Demon to Lean On”
32. Katy B – “5 AM”
33. Kelly Rowland – “Dirty Laundry”
34. Kings of Leon – “Supersoaker”
35. Jim James – “A New Life”
36. TNGHT – “Acrylics”
37. J. Cole – “Crooked Smile”
38. Kurt Vile – “Wakin on a Pretty Day”
39. Natalie Maines – “Free Life”
40. Kevin Gates – “Wylin’”
41. M.I.A. – “Sexodus”
42. Vampire Weekend – “Unbelievers”
43. Superchunk – “Me and You and Jackie Mittoo”
44. Prince – “Breakfast Can Wait”
45. Young Thug – “Picachu”
46. Britney Spears – “Work Bitch”
47. Yo La Tengo – “Ohm”
48. Caitlin Rose – “I Was Cruel”
49. Lucius – “Tempest”
50. Robin Thicke Feat. T.I. and Pharrell – “Blurred Lines”

51. Bruce Springsteen – “High Hopes”
52. Sky Ferreira – “Heavy Metal Heart”
53. Kacey Musgraves – “Follow Your Arrow”
54. Pusha T – “Numbers On the Boards”
55. The National – “Sea of Love”
56. Laura Marling – “Master Hunter”
57. Paul McCartney – “New”
58. Daft Punk Feat. Julian Casablancas – “Instant Crush”
59. Miley Cyrus – “Wrecking Ball”
60. Sleigh Bells – “Young Legends”
61. Lorde – “White Teeth Teens”
62. TV on the Radio – “Mercy”
63. Disclosure Feat. AlunaGeorge – “White Noise”
64. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Sacrilege”
65. Kanye West – “I Am a God”
66. Albert Hammond Jr. – “St. Justice”
67. Speedy Ortiz – “Tiger Tank”
68. Sam Baker – “Ditch”
69. Migos Feat. Drake – “Versace (Remix)”
70. Neko Case – “Man”
71. Twin Shadow – “Old Love / New Love”
72. Pearl Jam – “Sirens”
73. Blood Orange – “Chamakay”
74. Chance the Rapper Feat. Nate Fox & Lili K – “Pusha Man”
75. Mikal Cronin – “Shout it Out”

76. Major Lazer Feat. Bruno Mars, Tyga & Mystic – “Bubble Butt”
77. Jay Z – “Tom Ford”
78. Charles Bradley – “Victim of Love”
79. Empire of the Sun – “Alive”
80. Mystikal – “Hit Me”
81. 2 Chainz feat. Pharrell – “Feds Watching”
82. Franz Ferdinand -”Treason! Animals.”
83. Black Sabbath – “God is Dead?”
84. Janelle Monáe Feat. Erykah Badu – “Q.U.E.E.N.”
85. Phoenix – “Trying to Be Cool”
86. Fall Out Boy – “My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark”
87. Waxahatchee – “Brother Bryan”
88. Eleanor Friedberger – “Stare at the Sun”
89. Eric Church – “The Outsiders”
90. Courtney Barnett – “Avant-Gardner”
91. Nine Inch Nails – “Everything”
92. Deafheaven – “Dream House”
93. Atoms for Peace – “Ingenue”
94. Patty Griffin – “Ohio”
95. Paramore – “Still Into You”
96. No Age – “C’mon, Stimmung”
97. Darius Rucker – “Wagon Wheel”
98. MGMT – “Your Life is a Lie”
99. Lee Ranaldo and the Dust – “Lecce, Leaving”
100. The Killers – “Shot at the Night”

Adidas Confirms Partnership With Kanye West (News)

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Adidas has confirmed their new partnership with Kanye West.

For 2014, we welcome to the adidas family one of the most influential cultural icons of this generation, Kanye West. Well known for breaking boundaries across music, film and design and partnering with our history in street wear culture and leading innovations in sport, we look forward to creating a new chapter. Details to follow.

Kanye West Explains Why Adidas Deal W/ Angie Martinez (Video)

Kanye West stopped by Hot 97 today with Kim Kardashian by his side, and he explained why he left Nike for Adidas, and how he wants to become the first hip hop designer.

In the second part of his interview with Angie, Kanye talked about his love for Kim, and being a father to North.

So then I start turning up in the BBC interview, so [Nike] said, ok cool, we’re gonna give you a bigger sandbox to play in. We’re gonna give you this amount right here to design, and two collections a year, and 30 skews — that’s the amount of items that you have. Would that make you happy, Kanye? And I said, well I need royalties. It’s not even like I have a joint venture. At least give me some royalties. Michael Jordan has 5%, that business is $2 billion. He makes a $100 million dollars a year off of 5% royalties. Nike told me we can’t give you royalties because you’re not a professional athlete. I told them, I go to the Garden and play one-on-NO-ONE. I’m a performance athlete. Did I really ANYTHING? YES! Did I really EVERYTHING. 100,000 percent. I’m 100,000 percent at all times. It’s people that work in offices trying to tell me how to think, when I got a better perspective. I live in Paris.

So the old me, without a daughter, would have taken the Nike deal because I just love Nikes so much. But the new me, with a daughter, takes the adidas deal because I have royalties and I have to provide for my family.

Whatever’s official, non-official, official, what y’all gonna see is… I am going to be the Tupac of product… I’ma be the first hip-hop designer, and because of that… I’ma be bigger than Walmart.