Both of these videos are from last night’s American Music Awards:

Kanye West - Heartless

Beyonce - Single Ladies

I’m not the biggest Beyonce fan, but this performance was pretty hot.

Also, the new Kanye cd (808’s & Heartbreak) drops officially today.
Buy it through itunes or kanye or amazon

After half a dozen listens, the CD is alright. It’s probably the worst Kanye West album yet. Kanye’s worst is still something though. 808’s has definitely grown on me, and maybe will continue to do so over time. I won’t “rate” it just yet.

I can safely say it’s his worst, but I don’t know how good or bad it truly is. A lot of it is just.. whiny. And I know allegedly this album is “for him” and he’s putting out another album like spring/summer ‘09 but still. If you make a album with 4/5 of the songs about.. the same thing.. then I lose interest.

I don’t know. I won’t rush to judgment. I won’t be crowning it album of year (Graduation was my ‘07 album of the year). So time will tell for Mr. West. He’s still young and already has a discography almost second to none. Including those 2 AMA’s he picked up last night. (Favorite Rap Album [Graduation] & Favorite Male Rap Artist)

Not a bad day to be ‘Ye.

Kanye West & Estelle - Love Lockdown/American Boy at the 2008 European Music Awards:

Man that stage is dope. It’s my impression that the world likes Obama more than America.

This kinda gave me the chills for some reason. I don’t know if the audio is supposed to be that dirty, but I love it. I’m not pro-auto-tune but this is dope.

From Reuters:

LOS ANGELES - Rap star Kanye West was arrested at the Los Angeles International airport on Thursday after a scuffle with photographers and is expected to be charged with vandalism, an airport spokesman said.

West’s bodyguard also was taken into custody after grabbing a photographer’s camera and a television camera and smashing them to the ground, said celebrity Web site TMZ.com, whose cameraman was involved.

Los Angeles airport spokesman Alberto Rodriguez said both West, 31, and his bodyguard were in police custody and were expected to be booked on charges of felony vandalism later on Thursday. The bodyguard also faces a charge of battery.

Rodriguez said West was arrested about 8 a.m. (11 a.m. EDT) outside the passenger security screening area.

TMZ, which caught much of the incident on camera, said West rushed at a photographer and grabbed his camera. A struggle followed and West took the camera and threw it to the ground.

His bodyguard then ordered the TMZ cameraman to stop taping and to hand over his camera. “The assistant then grabbed the camera, ripped off the mic and viewfinder and smashed it to the ground,” said the report on TMZ.

Video:

E! says he has been released now on $20000 bail. But who’s been updating his blog?

New Kanye West from the VMA’s. Still rockin’ the Auto-Tone. He needs to kinda get away from that soon. I’m feeling this though. It’s funky. And about his breakup with his fiance recently I assume. Good stuff.

‘Ye’s put the mp3 up of this on his blog, listen/download it here: via zSHARE. Also released album artwork, behind the jump.

Also details have emerged, allegedly from Amazon, that his new album, entitled 808’s & Heartbreak and will be released Dec 16th. via

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via Kanye’s Blog

Click here to listen to the mp3. (Jay-Z, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, T.I. - Swagger Like Us)