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Kanye, Evel Knievel Hug It Out
Celebrity News & Gossip Celeb Dating, Couples —
OK, this picture? Reason enough for me to post this story. This looks like a MADtv skit.
Kanye West and Craig “Evel” Knievel hashed out an amicable resolution to the lawsuit Knievel filed over West’s 2005 video for “Touch the Sky”, in which Kanye portrayed a Knievel-like character.
Kanye West and Robert Craig “Evel” Knievel have amicably resolved and dismissed the case in connection with West’s “Touch the Sky” video, according to Kanye’s label rep. The pair met recently at Knievel’s home ...
Suits and Ladders
Play | The Rhapsody Editorial Music Blog —
We can all sleep soundly now -- Evel Knievel and Kanye West have finally made amends over the hip-hop star's appropriation of the stuntman's iconic persona in the video for "Touch the Sky." Knievel dropped his 2006 lawsuit and the pair "amicably resolved" the dispute. (No word yet if that amicable ...
Evel Knievel Drops Lawsuit Against Kanye West
Hip Hop Roll —
Legendary stunt-man Evel Knievel dropped a lawsuit he filed last year against Kanye West today. The two met face to face today to settle the grudge, which led to Knievel’s decision to drop the suit. "I thought he was a wonderful guy and quite a gentleman," said Knievel who once ...
Evel Knievel and Kanye West Settle Lawsuit Over “Touch the Sky” (Video)
Bitten and Bound —
Last year Kanye West launched a music video for his song “Touch the Sky” in which he took on Evel Knievel’s persona and is depicted trying to jump a canyon on a rocket powered motorcycle. Evel Knievel promptly slapped the singer with a lawsuit.
Knievel performed a failed attempt to jump Idaho’s Snake River Canyon in 1974. His lawsuit claimed that West’s vulgar and offensive images in the video damaged his reputation. West’s attorney claimed that the video amounted to satire, which is protected under the First Amendment.
The two parties agreed ...
1520 Sedgwick Avenue: May 9th, 2008
DeadOn... —
One of my favorite songs. And the perfect capper to this week.
Brassy, brash, exuberant, and introspective: This is Kanye at his best.
School of rock: Swotting up on sampling
Music: Music blog | guardian.co.uk —
Run DMC Two turntables and a microphone ... Back to school with Run DMC. Photograph: Catherine Shaw A Guardian music blog last week questioned whether it is right for "authentic" hip-hop artists to have their lyrics ghostwritten in the style of most pop stars. Well, the music is often borrowed so why not borrow the lyrics too? It's an interesting topic, especially when such musical borrowing can often surpass the original. But how does this happen? Popular music and technology have been inextricably linked since the dawn of recording, but it is hip-hop that is more closely identified with technology which allows music to be ...
New Music: Mighty Mi / Steve1der: "Electric-Touch" (Kanye West / MGMT vs. Justice mashup) [Stream]
Pitchfork Media - Today —
It took a little detective work to figure out the details, but Kanye West posted to his blog a mashup created by Mighty Mi and Steve1der that takes the vocal from Late Registration's "Touch the Sky" (a song ft. Lupe Fiasco) and lays it over a cut-up of Justice's remix of MGMT's "Electric Feel". As far as I can tell, there was no involvement whatsoever from Will Oldham, Diplo, or Hot Chip, which is in itself notable. But ...
LupAND: This is The End....Or is it?
URB Magazine Daily Blogs —
LupAND: This is The End....Or is it? Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 @ 03:09 in Music by FaMe LupAND: This is The End....Or is it? As I'm sure, you all have heard that over the weekend, beloved rapper, Lupe Fiasco was pretty damn heated. According to his blog, the powers that be decided to push his heavily aniticpated, 3-disk album back indefinitely. Being the industry insider that I am, I found this to be pretty weird. For the fact that Atlantic is pretty much a graveyard, along with Def Jam, they should have probably been happy to release this triology-set closing to Lupe's career. In all actuality, they should have ...
