Madonna Tells Kanye To Stop Looking For Justice At Award Shows

Madonna think Kanye West should kindly take a seat. Speaking to Rolling Stone, the singer said that she felt Kanye West’s awards show outbursts have been misguided, likening the search for justice at the Grammys to “trying to find a needle in a haystack.” She advised West to “Just go and have fun,” adding that she believes the rapper and producer takes things “too seriously.” West, who co-produced several tracks on Madonna’s next album, Rebel Heart, was recently in the news for his faux-interruption of Beck’s acceptance speech at the Grammys, where he was the recipient of the Best New Album trophy for his Morning Phase. Kanye feigned a repeat of the incident at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, when he interrupted Taylor Swift’s Best Female Video acceptance speech, taking the microphone out of the singer’s hand in the process. In both cases, he was urging the awards committees to give the title to work of Beyonce’s.

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Kanye West Hand-Delivered Autographed Yeezy Boost To Fans

Kanye’s at it again. After surprising customers at the adidas Performance store in SoHo during the February 14th release, Kanye West showed up at the adidas Originals store in London to not only hand-deliver the Yeezy Boost shoes, but to autograph pairs for the eager buyers. Gotta hand it to ‘Ye, who has been putting in work to build excitement not only around the adidas Yeezy, but for the brand as a whole! Did you cop the new Yeezy sneakers yet?

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Kanye West Lectures At Oxford

Kanye in Oxford: The #YeezOx highlights

In brief:

  • If he’d done fine art, he wanted to be ‘Picasso or greater’
  • He considers The Matrix ‘the Bible of the post-information age’
  • ‘Time is the only luxury’
  • He thinks the Nobel Peace Prize should be covered ‘like the Grammys’
  • Division by class and elitism is today’s biggest problem

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Mo’Nique Was Supposed To Be Cookie Lyons On Empire

Mo’Nique explained to INSIDE EDITION’s Les Trent that the show’s creator, Lee Daniels, who directed her in her Oscar winning role in Precious, wanted her to play Cookie.

“When he called me up, he offered me the role in Empire as Cookie,” she said.

Mo’Nique said Daniels even sent her a script.

Mo’Nique explained, “Maybe four days had gone by, and I hadn’t heard anything. So I’m trying to reach out to him to say, what time do I need to be in? Where do I need to be? When he finally returned the call, he says listen, the executives at Fox said that you’re difficult.”

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