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Kanye West Sought Anger Management in Paparazzi Case
Originally posted 10/23/2009 02:50PM
Kanye West and his road manager were ordered to complete 50 hours of community service for their scuffle with photographers last year, a Los Angeles judge ruled Friday.
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BUZZ: Kanye West Is Not Dead
Originally posted 10/21/2009 03:20PM
Kanye West has gotten some bad press lately, but even this was too much for those closest to him.
Contrary to reports that spread online Tuesday, the outspoken rapper is not dead. West instead was the victim a hoax that began on a fraudulent Web site that resembled a Fox News story reporting that he had died in a "bizarre car crash in Los Angeles."
The site has been taken down – but not before West's model-girlfriend Amber Rose responded on her Twitter page, stating that the rumor of his death was "NOT TRUE." The rumor was especially popular on Twitter, and "RIP Kanye West" actually became a trending topic at one point. Wrote Rose: "This 'RIP Kanye West' topic is not funny. He has people like myself and his family that love him very much."
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Kanye, Beware: Taylor Swift to Host Saturday Night Live
Originally posted 10/15/2009 07:30AM
Kanye West apparently is not on the invitation list, leaving the stage wide open for Taylor Swift, who will host Saturday Night Live on Nov. 7, NBC has announced.
Swift, who performed on the 35-year-old satirical program in January, will be hosting for the first time, an opportunity she calls "mind-blowing," according to a statement. She adds, "I love being around people who I feel have a different kind of creative genius. And the funny genius is definitely a fascinating one to be around."
Of course, it wasn't so funny on Sept. 13 when West interrupted Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards while she was accepting for best female video. Days later, he officially apologized.
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Beyoncé Breaks Her Silence on Kanye's VMA Outburst
Originally posted 10/07/2009 10:15AM
The other woman at the center of the Kanye West Video Music Awards shout-out scandal is finally speaking out.
Beyoncé Knowles, whose loss to Taylor Swift in the Best Female Video category prompted West to storm the stage and steal the microphone from Swift at the Sept. 13 ceremony, says she understands the rapper's motivation.
"Well, I knew his intentions, and I knew he was standing up for art; and he told me before, when they said the nominees, he's like, 'You have this award,'" she told O: The Oprah Magazine editor-at-large Gayle King.
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Tim McGraw: Daughters 'Learned a Lesson' from Kanye West
Originally posted 09/16/2009 12:35PM
Tim McGraw is one ticked-off dad.
The country star took Kanye West to task after the rapper's now infamous diss of country sweetie Taylor Swift on Sunday's VMA Awards, telling CMT Insider the incident upset his daughters Gracie, 12, Maggie, 11, and Audrey, 7.
"He shows himself to be an idiot every time he does stuff like that," said the country star, who also was the subject of Swift's first hit single called "Tim McGraw." "[My girls] were upset. But what he did do is provide a great example of how not to be, and my girls learned a big lesson."
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Audio: President Obama Calls Kanye West a 'Jackass'
Originally posted 09/15/2009 06:00PM
When, oh when, will the politicians learn to treat every microphone like a live microphone?
President Obama has found himself unwittingly in the middle of the awards show controversy between Kanye West and Taylor Swift after audio of chit-chat with a TV reporter leaked out on Tuesday.
Before a CNBC interview got underway Monday, the network's reporter John Harwood asked Obama if his daughters were upset that West had interrupted Swift's acceptance speech during Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards show, reports Politico.com.
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Kanye West Finally Apologizes to Taylor Swift
Originally posted 09/15/2009 03:20PM
After Taylor Swift's Tuesday appearance on The View, the country singer received a telephone call from rapper Kanye West, who apologized for his behavior Sunday night at the MTV Video Music Awards.
"Kanye did call me, and he was very sincere in his apology, and I accepted that apology," Swift told ABC News Radio.
She added that she believes there won't be any conflict in the future.
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50 Cent Wants to Give Kanye West a Black Eye
Originally posted 09/15/2009 02:00PM
The list of celebrities who have a beef with Kanye West grows longer – and more violent. 50 Cent says that if West had taken away his award, he'd be getting a taste of a 50 Cent knuckle sandwich.
"I wish he would come take one of my awards so I could black his eye in front of everybody," he said on MuchOnDemand.
He added, "Even an apology can't replace what it feels like for the very first time receiving that award. In Taylor Swift's head, 'My first award was Kanye West.' It's damaging."
Of course, West and 50 Cent have had trouble between them before: In 2007, the two were engaged in a heated contest over who'd sell more albums, and 50 criticized comments West made about Britney Spears.
–Michael Y. Park
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Kanye West: I'm Just Ashamed
Originally posted 09/14/2009 10:35PM
A contrite Kanye West helped Jay Leno kick off the TV host's new primetime NBC show on Monday, with the emcee thanking him for not backing out of his commitment to appear – despite the mountain of criticism since he interrupted Taylor Swift's MTV Video Music Awards victory speech.
"Have you had a tough day?" Leno asked West, 32, as the studio audience erupted in laughter. Speaking seriously, West replied, "Yeah, it's been extremely difficult." He admitted to "just dealing with the fact that I hurt someone or took anything away, you know, from a talented artist or from anyone, because I only wanted to help people."
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Kanye's Backstage Clash with Taylor Swift's Mom
Originally posted 09/14/2009 07:15PM
Minutes after Kanye West stormed the stage as she accepted her Video Music Award, a teary-eyed Taylor Swift pulled herself together to perform her award-winning song, "You Belong With Me," atop a cab parked in front of Radio City Music Hall.
But West only continued the drama by angering the entire Swift family. After Swift's mother, Andrea, asked to speak to the rapper and, a source tells PEOPLE, "tore into him," the rapper continued to maintain that Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" should have won Best Female Video instead and made no formal apology.
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