"Rap is the new rock n' roll," Kanye West said in a new, typically cocky interview. "We the new rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1 rockstar on the planet."
Well, sort of.
Kanye West does not want to go to jail for his alleged battery on a paparazzo, and he also doesn't want the paparazzo profiting from the incident. To prevent the latter, he's enlisted some big guns. Who? Shawn Holley.
If her name sounds familiar, it should: she's repped Lindsay Lohan and did quite the job of keeping the oft-troubled starlet out of the slammer.
Kanye West doesn't need Yeezus. He needs a good lawyer.
The oft-embattled MC is facing criminal charges stemming from his lash out at a paparazzo, including criminal battery and attempted theft.
Criminal battery. That's the charge that has landed on Kanye West's doorstep stemming from his July skirmish with a paparazzo at LAX. 'Ye and the snapper tussled at the airport and now it's a big legal mess for Yeezus Christ. Every day he's tusslin'.
After a five-year absence from active solo touring that saw him launch an eponymous fashion line, release a few albums ('My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' and 'Yeezus' on his own as well as his Watch the Throne project with Jay Z) and impregnate a Kardashian, Kanye West is returning to the road.
Like so many actors, singers and celebs before him, rapper Kanye West is in the hot seat for taking cash to make an appearance. He performed at a wedding gig in Kazakhstan over the weekend. The oft controversial rapper and new father pocketed a cool $3 million for his performance, but human rights advocates are miffed over the appearance.
Miley Cyrus was a notable no-show at her own party following Sunday's (Aug. 25) MTV Video Music Awards, and it's not for the reason you think.
Kanye West returned to the VMAs tonight (Aug. 25), performing the 'Yeezus' track 'Blood on the Leaves' in complete and total darkness.
This again? Well, with the 2013 MTV VMAs set for this weekend, it was bound to come up…again. Kanye West admitted in a TV interview on 'Kris' (Aug. 23) that his perspective on Taylor Swift, whose 2009 VMAs acceptance speech he famously crashed, has changed now that he is a father with a daughter of his own.