this shit is funny kanye as an old man LOL WATCH IT
Damn i got to admit its hard keeping up with what kanye does everydamn day he does sooooooo much shit its amazing !
this shit is funny kanye as an old man LOL WATCH IT
Damn i got to admit its hard keeping up with what kanye does everydamn day he does sooooooo much shit its amazing !
is shit hahaha i dont recomend you buy one unless you just use the computer for small stuff. anywyas kanye recmends it i bought it its tight im not gunna lie ive just been having some problems with it . but if you got the money go for it. im bought to make my mackbook air my second computer and make my main computer an imac. they dropped the price and made them faster so imac here i come. APPLE is still the best computers out there.
“I WANNA SEE WHATS UNDER THERE THERE …NOW PUT IT IN THE AIR YEAH LOAD IT ON MY MACBOOK AIR “
ahahahah guess the song!
maybe hopefully everyone knows they hot!
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE BIGGEST NAME IN POP CULTURE MEETS THE BIGGEST NAME IN SNEAKERS? SECRECY, RUMORS AND AN INEVITABLE DROP-DAY MASSACRE. IT’S FINALLY TIME TO MEET THE AIR YEEZY
Kanye West: MC, Producer, Hypebeast: I’ve always stressed my passion for design—and not just, “Oh, let me throw my name on this,” but to use my celebrity as an opportunity to jump into the design world—and in this case, to design my own shoe.
Mark Smith: Creative Dir. of Special Projects, Nike: I don’t really put my life in dates in a normal way. [Laughs.] So I couldn’t even say when everything went down, but one day I got a call asking me if I would work with Kanye on the project.
Kanye West: It was after the Air Force 1 “1 Night Only” event [in December 2006]. I sat there and drew countless forms of shoes, and a lot of them were inspired by Back to the Future, by the McFlys or whatever people call them—I just call them the Mags. All kinds of different ideas that stemmed from that and Robotech and all my other anime influences.
Mark Smith: What we wanted to do was really create something that was specific and unique to the two of us working together, so it wasn’t an entourage full of people on either side.
Kanye West: Nike is the No. 1 sneaker lifestyle brand, right? And I’m the No. 1 most influential cutural pop art brand: scarves, beards, plastic glasses, whatever. So you take those two things and you mesh that—it’s very exciting. I’m the Nike of culture.
Mark Smith: He showed me what he was into. I asked him about sneakers that he liked, what he was wearing and why he was wearing them; he’s very up to the minute on what he likes.
Kanye West: I grabbed all these Jordans from their archives, and I’m sitting in the office next to Tinker [Hatfield, Jordan designer] and Mark, just pulling out shit and putting it in front of him like, “I like this element.” We just vibed it out.
Mark Smith: He started just dumping stuff out, and I did the same thing. We did it in the Innovation Kitchen—Nike’s underground innovation center where tomorrow’s technologies are kind of getting bubbled up, so he actually was seeing a bunch of stuff that nobody else would see.
Kanye West: The types of shit Nike can do? I say, “Hey, use this sole,” and they have it? The possibilities are just endless.
Mark Smith: I always try to look at things through an athlete’s eyes—if you look at a basketball player, his or her performance is on-court in the middle of a game. The equivalent for Kanye would be to get onstage and rock it for a couple of hours. And he goes through a pretty athletic show, so we wanted to make sure these were super-comfortable performance shoes.
Kanye West: Every guy drew Nikes in fourth grade, so to really do it is a dream come true.
Kanye West: I’m aesthetics-first on anything. Even when I make music, I think about the aesthetics: Where will you be when you’re listening to this? Visuals first. I wanted to take the concept of the future pop colors and all this ’80s influence and make it wearable.
Mark Smith: I remember him saying originally that he wanted to create something that looked and felt like it had come from the past. I thought, That’s actually really cool, because back then it was very, very simple. There weren’t a lot of extras on the older stuff. So that kind of pushed that edge a little bit; instead of adding a whole bunch of today’s stuff onto it and super-technology or anything like that, it was more about keeping things simple. And if you look at it at a glance, it might look like it was a little retro.
Kanye West: We developed our own soles for the shoe also, which is the hardest thing and takes the longest—so long that there was a point in the design [process] where I just had to pick a sole that they already had. That was one of the days my heart got broken. [Laughs.]
Mark Smith: We never looked at one shoe and said, “You gotta take the toe from this and the heel from that and the bottom from this and slam it all together.”
Kanye West: The original shoes were battery-operated, and they lit up. I have a version of the first shoe that has a push-button on the side, and it lights up and stays lit.
Mark Smith: We had a very futuristic-looking product for a long time. Then Kanye said, “Can we use something that’s recognizable?” So I think the elephant tooling, which was directly pulled from the Jordan 3, really rooted the shoe in that time period.
Kanye West: A lot of that patent stuff Mark came up with, like the strap—that’s when I was happy to be able to work with an O.G. designer like that.
Mark Smith: You have to make sure the lines, the materials, the direction are all intact—and then once you get those broad strokes in, then you really start applying the storytelling, the textures and the unique aspects that make it something for Kanye specifically.
Mark Smith: If we did our job right, we could take this shoe and put it in the line or a catalog from back in the day, and it would just feel like it was part of the lineup. But when you bring that shoe forward into today, it should also feel a little timeless; it’s yesterday and today slammed together.
Kanye West: Conceptually, it was made for a person that was walking on another planet. So it’s like almost a shoe-like space boot.
Mark Smith: There was never a design brief or a color brief; it was very fluid. He had some really great ideas coming into it with neutral browns and tans and keeping it a very monotone color and then letting the interior have a little bit more pop to it.
Kanye West: I wanted to give the Yeezys their own colorway. You wouldn’t have a whole fuchsia wall in your house, but you might have a little Jeff Koons piece of art that’s fuchsia and small. So I do it small, on the inside of the tongue.
Mark Smith: Throughout the process we probably did a couple hundred color studies, and I think we only showed him a couple; it was more like he was giving us his insights into color and then we’d play with it. Like, “What if this black was a suede,” or “What if this black was patent leather?”
Kanye West: I got like 12 different colors at my house, just colorway samples we were trying. I’ve worn them at certain events—the all-black ones I wore at the Grammys.
Mark Smith: I think we really started hitting our stride when we had real samples to look at.
Kanye West: It expresses my sensibility of design: what I want to do with clothing, with hotels eventually. The type of colors that I live in.
Mark Smith: We agreed that any time we wanted to add something to the product, we had to take something else away so that it wasn’t just adding, adding, adding—it was just one of those things where it can get down to as little as possible but make it as functional and comfortable and cool as possible.
Kanye West: We had a lot of conversations like, “We wanna just put it on eBay,” and I’m like, “No! People need to be able to get this shoe!” At first they were only gonna do 3,000 pairs. Now they’re doing 9,000, which is still limited. It’s not like it’s 200,000.
Mark Smith: We’re real happy with the result.
Kanye West: Oh my god, they’re gonna be out of there! Toot! [Laughs.] They’re not even gonna hit the ground. The boxes from the truck will literally not hit the ground.
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YOU GET KANYE AND KIM K.
ALL I GOT TO SAY IS BULLSHIT …HAHAHA IM WRITING IT CAPS ANYWYAS HE WAS CHARGED WITH 3 MISDEMEANORS AND DONC WAS CHARGED WITH DUBLE WHICH IS RETARTED THIS SHIT IS STUPID HE HAS NO REASON TO GO TO JAIL HE BROKE A DAMN CAMERA !!!! LOL
Kanye West has just been charged with three criminal misdemeanors — vandalism, battery, and grand theft — in connection with the camera-smashing incident at LAX.
Kanye and Ne-Yo …IT’S a REALLY GOOD SONG ,,, the video made it even better
go cop keri hilsons new cd on itunes and at target best buy
“I like the challenge of having to win people over with a new concept,” West said in a recent interview. “My father (Ray West) was a salesman. And I saw him have to talk people into things and expose people to new ideas all the time. And I like that. What’s the point if you’re not presenting something new to people, that people might not be ready for, and exposing people to new ideas?”
Expect new theatrical ideas when West takes to the road this summer. West will launch a European tour featuring his latest album, “808s & Heartbreak,” in July and expects the tour to hit the United States by fall.
Speaking on the set of a recent video shoot for his friend 88-Keys’ “Stay Up (Viagra),” West said he was excited to find new ways to blend his songs together.
“Being on stage, it’s the glory,” West said.
The producer-turned-rapper-turned-singer has consulted with many of the same people who helped inspire staging for his last set of shows, the “Glow in the Dark Tour.” They include filmmaker Spike Jonze, who directed West’s upcoming “See You In My Nightmares” video, and The Jim Henson Company.
West was alone on a colorful, futuristic tilted stage for nearly the entire performance of his “Glow” tour last year. It came after West’s mother Donda died in November 2007 and he had broken up with his fiance, events that put him in the mood for a less-than-celebratory hip-hop concert.
“I get bored with stuff,” West said in a recent interview. “The last one was done because I didn’t feel like doing a rap show, because of all I was going through in my life. All I felt like was playing with ‘Star Wars’ (toys) and being Luke Skywalker. So I figured you know, ‘I’ll do a rap show if I can just be like Luke Skywalker every night.’ And so I just wrote my own sci-fi and played in it.”
The blue period that inspired that tour also set the stage for “808s & Heartbreak.” It features West using the Auto-Tune technology popularized by T-Pain to sing in a hollow, distant voice about loss and sorrow.
He says he considers “808s” as much a fashion project as those $400-plus Louis Vuitton sneakers he recently crafted.
“The subject matter was real life. The medium was melody,” West said. “And the format was very similar to the way people would organize a fashion show, moreso than an album. And I felt like this was my season. … I deliver my music more as a designer than a producer now.”
Kanye was partying with lady gaga the night before her first headining tour was to start in San Diego CA
i was lucky enough to get tickets to her concert it was actually really good she is a great artist just like kanye is she does what she wants and says what son her mind she is probably the most original artist out there right now. heres a video of some of her performances. she had a little wardrobe malfunction her corset broke ff but she still was amazing.
He was on Wednesdays Episode the VIdeo and Single of the Performance is now available on iTunes. After the episode there was many specualation about if he was signing live some one posted a long story on yahoo talking crap saying he cnt sing and that he uses to much auto tune people are retarted hes been using auto tune and he really doesnt sound bad try getting britney spears up there ot sing live nothing against her but yeah …so go cop those two things on itunes
KAnye has been on a couple new magazin covers make sure you go cop the new issue of DETAILS MAG
and if you can still find the fader magazine issue he was on a month or two ago
he is also featured on a bunch of new songs check out N.A.S.A. album and look for kid cudi new cd were he makes several apperances. Kanye says he is done with music and wants to take over fashion i dont think its true ..he will always do music i dont know of any other artist that is more spread across the music industry like kanye i mean he is on almost every hot track out there and you know when he omes out with some new material its always hot . sorry i havent osted in a while i need to et back on my BLOG game lol …i just been busy with school work and fam. hope everyone is well and thanks for stopping by =]