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
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.”
Kanye West has been slowly unleashing Yeezy season since the dawn of 2015, with his latest unveil being the new single “All Day” which he recently premiered during a rousing performance at the BRIT Awards. The new track, produced by Velous and French Montana, shows a different, more familiar side of West than his upcoming album’s previous releases “Only One” and “FourFiveSeconds.” MTV recently caught up with Velous and got some insight on the making of West’s latest offering. V, a 21-year-old out of Kingston, New York, says he initially gave the track to French, to whom he signed with last June.
“I made that beat while I was sitting on my boys couch watching Saturday Night Live,” he said of the beat making process. “I usually do everything in the studio, but I did that on a couch with a keyboard on my lap just chilling…I guess Kanye was rocking with it, so he gave it to Kanye.”
The VA players are back at it. Missy Elliott and Pharrell Williams hit the studio this week to cook up some new music.
Missy tweeted a photo of her and Skateboard P in the lab. The Super Bowl performer dons a Biggie and Tupac T-shirt, while Pharrell throws up the peace sign.
“VA! 2 up 2 down! Me & my fam @Pharrell hard at work,” said Missy.
Check out this hilarious video of Ice-T’s classic voice overs for some cartoons that you may not have known was the voice of the OG
Ice T and Jimmy Fallon have been close friends for a while. At least industry-wise, Fallon probably would’ve considered himself pretty learned on Ice’s resume and was more than prepared to go through it like clockwork.
Hip Hop hustlers Nipsey Hussle and Yo Gotti grace the cover of the 21st issue ofRESPECT magazine. While Nipsey reportedly sold 60+ copies of his $1,000 mixtape,Mailbox Money; Yo Gotti has been making independent moves with his Concealedmixtape and prepping his new album, The Art Of the Hustle. Both deserving the mag’s main headline: New Jack Hustlers.
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