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Amber, no Kanye

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:53:23 +0000

Amber Rose stepped out without Kanye West for hip-hop star Fabolous' birthday bash Wednesday night. Curvy Amber -- wearing her trademark sunglasses, tight outfit and pink lipstick -- was spotted chatting to the birthday boy at the bash at the Rivingt...

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Eminem Changes 'Relapse' Plans

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:08:17 +0000

By Wrap Staff According to his blog, hip-hop artist Eminem will release the album "Relapse: Refill" on Dec. 21 on Aftermath/Interscope Records. That's instead of the previously promised "Relapse 2." The album is a re-release of Eminem’s chart-topping fifth studio album, with the addition of seven bonus tracks: The single “Forever” featuring Drake, Kanye West and Lil Wayne (also on the "More Than a Game" soundtrack), “Taking My Bal...

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John Mayer Praises Taylor Swift And Defends Kanye West

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

John Mayer talks with Access' Maria Menounos about collaborating with Taylor Swift on the song, "Half of My Heart," and how she doesn't realize how talented she really is. Plus, does he think Kanye was treated fairly after his outburst at the VMAs?

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John Mayer On His Love For Taylor Swift & Giving Kanye West A Break

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:04:28 +0000

NEW YORK, New York -- John Mayer may be known for being a joker, but there's nothing funny about his admiration for Taylor Swift. "There's something about Taylor that she would have been a star in any decade," John told Access Hollywood's Maria Menounos of the 19-year-old country-pop crossover sensation. "Taylor's like this fresh voice."

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Kanye West and Jay-Z join Beyonce onstage at London O2 Arena

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:24:35 +0000

West makes first public appearance since Taylor Swift incident

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Kanye West Joins Beyonce Onstage In London

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:24:00 +0000

Kanye joins B for 'Ego'; Jay-Z also joins in for 'Crazy in Love.' By Shaheem Reid Kanye West (file) Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/ Getty Images Kanye West — who had been absent from the stage since he interrupted Taylor Swift 's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards — made a surprise appearance at Beyoncé 's concert in London on Saturday night. The woman he interrupted Swift to shout out (to her dismay called upon 'Ye to be her special guest at her concert at the 02 Arena. Footage has emerged on the Internet of the cameo, where Kanye rapped his verse from the "Ego" remix. "I got a big, hah-uh-ha, ego," Kanye rapped. "She love my big, hah-uh-ha, ego/ So stroke my big, hah-uh-ha, ego/ I like to joke around a little bit but here we go/ Welcome to the wonderful world of gold-plated earl/ 'Cause everything I throw up, blow up." If there was any backlash remaining from the VMA incident, the crowd didn't let it show: When 'Ye touched the stage, ...

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Wynonna Judd Schools Kanye West on Swifty Apologies

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:06:00 +0000

For all the love Taylor Swift receives from the music industry and elsewhere, she has a rather vocal handful of detractors. Kanye West's giant diss was the talk of the CMA Awards...

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Soulja Boy Tell'em Cooks Up Beats For Kanye West, Rihanna, More

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:50:00 +0000

'Me as a producer, I think I've grown tremendously,' he tells Mixtape Daily. By Shaheem Reid Soulja Boy Tell'em Photo: Jared Milgram Behind the Beats: Soulja Boy Tell'em Soulja Boy Tell'em has jumped from behind the knobs into the forefront as a performer — he just released three mixtapes on Halloween : Cortez, Paranormal Activity and DatPiff. But don't forget, the young G still knows how to make beats. One of Soulja's biggest fans, Kanye West, recently had the Southern millionaire in the lab working for him. "Me as a producer, I think I've grown tremendously," Soulja told us recently in L.A. "I've been in the studio with Kanye. I did three tracks for him back-to-back." Soulja says the sessions were give and take. "Me working with him, collaborating different beats," he explained. "Him showing me a lot of stuff I didn't know. Me showing him a lot of stuff he didn't know. He had an ear for my sound. Of course I had an ear for all the stuff he ...

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Brad Paisley Wasn't Worried About Offending Kanye West At CMA Awards

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:45:44 +0000

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Brad Paisley had no qualms about having a little fun at the expense of Kanye West at Wednesday night's CMA Awards, which he co-hosted with Carrie Underwood in Nashville. "Him I wasn't worried about," Brad told Access Hollywood's Nancy O'Dell backstage at the awards show. "I didn't think I'd run into him back here."

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Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift & More Take Swipes At Kanye West During CMA Awards

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:44:23 +0000

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Country music took a couple of swipes at Kanye West's infamous September interruption of Taylor Swift at the MTV VMAs at Wednesday night's CMA Awards in Nashville. Following Taylor Swift's opening number - a performance of "Forever & Always," which included a cameo by Access Hollywood's Nancy O'Dell -- CMA co-hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley took the stage and ripped the rapper.

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Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift make Kanye West the butt of jokes at CMA awards

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:39:16 +0000

Kanye West was nowhere near Wednesday night's Country Music Association Awards, but the rapper's reputation was very much alive.

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2009 CMA Award Winners and Highlights

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:30:47 +0000

Taylor Swift wins 4 awards including Entertainer of the Year while Carrie Underwood delivers a sexy performance in sequined hotpants.

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Brad Paisley Wasn't Worried About Offending Kanye West At CMAs

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:18:56 +0000

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Brad Paisley had no qualms about having a little fun at the expense of Kanye West at Wednesday night's CMAs, which he co-hosted with Carrie Underwood in Nashville. "Him I wasn't worried about," Brad told Access Hollywood's Nancy O'Dell backstage at the awards show. "I didn't think I'd run into him back here."

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Did Carrie Underwood Pull a Kanye at the CMA Awards?

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:50:00 +0000

Taylor Swift was already off the stage when it happened, but... Did Carrie Underwood try to steal some of her thunder at the 43rd Annual CMA Awards? "How 'bout...

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Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift & More Take Swipes At Kanye West During CMAs

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:04:35 +0000

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Country music took a couple of swipes at Kanye West's infamous September interruption of Taylor Swift at the MTV VMAs at Wednesday night's CMA Awards in Nashville. Following Taylor Swift's opening number - a performance of "Forever and Always," which included a cameo by Access Hollywood's Nancy O'Dell -- CMA co-hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley took the stage and ripped the rapper.

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Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood Take A Swipe At Kanye West At 2009 CMAs

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:26:13 +0000

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Country music took a couple of swipes at Kanye West's infamous September interruption of Taylor Swift at the MTV VMAs at Wednesday night's CMA Awards in Nashville. Following Taylor Swift's opening number - a performance of "Forever and Always," which included a cameo by Access Hollywood's Nancy O'Dell -- CMA co-hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley took the stage and ripped the rapper.

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VIDEO: Brad Paisley Gets Kanye-d at CMAs

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:55:00 +0000

The singer is interrupted onstage at the telecast by country legend Little Jimmy Dickens

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Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood Take A Swipe At Kanye West During CMAs Opening Monologue

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:33:02 +0000

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Country music took a swipe at Kanye West's infamous September interruption of Taylor Swift at the MTV VMAs at Wednesday night's CMA Awards in Nashville. Following Taylor Swift's opening number - a performance of "Forever and Always," which included a cameo by Access Hollywood's Nancy O'Dell -- CMA co-hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley took the stage and ripped the rapper.

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Fergie Credits Kanye West With Making Hip-Hop 'Gay-Friendly'

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:48:15 +0000

'Kanye really did a great thing for hip-hop and made it very mixed and open,' Black Eyed Peas singer tells The Advocate. By Jocelyn Vena Fergie Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage for Avon Until the demise of the Fame Kills Tour , Kanye West had been planning to hit the road with Lady Gaga, one of the gay-friendliest pop stars out there today. So it doesn't really come out of left field to have Fergie credit him, along with her cohorts in the Black Eyed Peas, for helping make the world of hip-hop a little more open to alternative lifestyles. "They're completely gay-friendly. Are you kidding me? Look at how they dress!" she joked to The Advocate about the guys in her band, adding, "Kanye West really did a great thing for hip-hop and made it very mixed and open." As for her own sexuality, the singer says that although she's married now, to actor Josh Duhamel, she has experimented with girls in the past. So when the time came for her to get flirty with a girl or ...

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Fergie Talks 'Cheating' & How Kanye West Helped Hip-Hop Become More Gay-Friendly

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:06:03 +0000

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- While her husband finds himself fending off allegations of an affair, Fergie admits now that she's married, having a certain kind of fun with other women isn't allowed. In a new interview with The Advocate, that appears to have been done before the scandal broke last week where a stripper alleged to various media outlets that she had an affair with Fergie's husband, Josh Duhamel, the Black Eyed Peas powerhouse said she is into girls, but won't go there now that she's married.

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Taylor Swift Mocks Kate Gosselin

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:07:52 +0000

Taylor Swift didn't just have fans cracking up during her SNL monologue - during which she poked fun at ex Joe Jonas and Kanye West . The singer, 19, also drew laughs for impersonating Kate Gosselin during a View sketch. See what other stars look like with Kate Gosselin's hairdo In the clip (watch above), Kristin Wiig as Elisabeth Hasselbeck compliments Gosselin's buzz-about hairdo, calling it "a gorgeous waterfall of human hair in the front and in the back ... an exploding hedgehog." Get more Us! Follow us on Twitter , Friend Us on Facebook

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Taylor Swift Blows Kiss to 'Twilight' Star Taylor Lautner During 'SNL' Monologue

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 22:26:00 +0000

The headline grabbing men in Taylor Swift 's life were all included in her "Saturday Night Live" monologue, as the country singer sang about her ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas , her rumored boyfriend Taylor Lautner and the man behind her "MTV Video Music Awards" ambush, Kanye West . Swift started out her singing speech by jokingly declaring she would not be referencing the Jonas Brother or how he reportedly dumped her over the phone. "You might think I'd bring up Joe [Jonas], that guy who broke up with me on the phone, but I'm not going to mention him," she sings. "Hey Joe, I'm doing real well. Tonight I'm hosting 'SNL,' but I'm not going to brag about that in my monologue." The country crooner than hinted about her rumored relationship with ' Twilight ' star Lautner. "And if you're wondering if I might be dating a werewolf from 'Twilight,'" she sings before mouthing the words, "Hi Taylor," and blowing a kiss to the camera. ...

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Taylor Swift Alludes to Kanye Once Once!

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:36:00 +0000

Taylor Swift could've — but she didn't. Defying expectations raised earlier in the week, the 19-year-old singer opted against using the bully pulpit of Saturday Night Live's opening monologue — or any subsequent skits — to hit back hard at Kanye West,

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Taylor Swift Sweetly Skewers Kanye, Joe Jonas On SNL

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:23:00 +0000

Not since the days of Will Ferrell and Tina Fey has Saturday Night Live been able to deliver a full hour-and-a-half of laughs, but leave it to Hollywood's golden girl to change all of...

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Taylor Swift pokes fun at Kanye West and Joe Jonas in 'Saturday Night Live' monologue

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:21:45 +0000

Taylor Swift helped revive "Saturday Night Live's" lackluster season with a new episode in which she played host and musical guest.

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Taylor Swift takes jab at Kanye West in 'Saturday Night Live' promos

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:40:52 +0000

The jokes about Kanye and Taylor Swift arent old yet. One of the "Saturday Night Live" promos riffs on the rappers rude interruption during Swifts acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards in September.

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Taylor Swift's 'SNL' Episode Includes Jokes About Taylor Lautner, Joe Jonas, Kanye West

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:27:00 +0000

'Saturday Night Live' host and musical guest proves her comedic chops with 'Monologue Song' and a 'Twilight' spoof. By James Montgomery Taylor Swift hosts "SNL" on Saturday Photo: NBC Taylor Swift didn't waste any time addressing her personal life -- or that Kanye West VMA incident, for that matter -- during her hosting stint on this week's "Saturday Night Live," tackling both in her opening monologue. With, appropriately enough, a song. Strumming her guitar to a tune called "The Monologue Song (La La La)," Swift sang lines like, "You might think I'd bring up Joe, that guy who broke up with me on the phone/ Hey, Joe, I'm doing real well, tonight I'm hosting 'SNL' " (a reference, of course, to her former boyfriend, Joe Jonas). She also made light of the prevailing rumor that made fun of the VMA interruption in a promo for the episode, ended her monologue with another dig at West. "We've got a great show, " she laughed. "Kanye West is not here" In later sketches, ...

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VIDEO: Taylor Swift's Hilarious SNL Musical Monologue

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:15:00 +0000

The singer playfully gets back at Joe Jonas and Kanye West – and blows a kiss to Taylor Lautner

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Taylor Swift Spoofs Kanye, Kate Gosselin On SNL (VIDEO)

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 13:31:09 +0000

Taylor Swift, host of this week's 'Saturday Night Live,' didn't spend much time addressing Kanye West's stage storming incident. She made brief mention in an opening song that included all the topics she doesn't want to talk about. "You might be expecting me to say something about Kanye and how he ran up on the stage at the VMAs," she sang. "But there's nothing more to say, 'cause everything's OK. I've got security lining the stage." She also referenced her nasty breakup with Joe Jonas: "You might think I'd bring up Joe Jonas, that guy who broke up with me on the phone, but I'm not gonna mention him in my monologue. Hey Joe, I'm doing real well. Tonight, I'm hosting SNL but I'm not gonna brag about that in my monologue. La la la. Ha ha ha. La la la." Later she spoofed Kate Gosselin, complete with reverse mullet, on 'The View.' WATCH: Get HuffPost Entertainment On Facebook and Twitter!

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