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.

Belgian artist Milow has done a cover of 50 Cent and Justin Timerlake’s Ayo (Technology). Gets a little freaking weird towards the end.

This might actually be better than the original. The end is just a little too creepy. If it has some deeper meaning, it’s lost on me.

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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