Category archives: Kanye West

Noah Goldstein on good A&R, working with Kanye West, and why he ‘stopped feeling pressure a long time ago’

In a conversation that covers his love of Icelandic music, his time spent with Ye to the wonder of growing vegetables, Noah Goldstein sits down with MBW as the latest inductee to our World’s Greatest Producers series
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Kanye West Files Motion to Dismiss EMI Music Publishing’s Countersuit in New York

Taking a jab at Sony Music’s EMI Music Publishing division and Universal Music Group (UMG), Kanye West told his fans artists should have the right to purchase their publishing catalog whenever they want. There’s just one problem.  Typically, artists ca…

Kanye West (Again) and Pusha T Sued for Failing to Clear a 1972 Sample

According to Kanye West and his legal team, he doesn’t need to clear samples from other people’s works. Last week, performance actor Ronald Oslin Bobb-Semple filed a lawsuit against Kanye West, Kid Cudi, and Ty Dolla Sign. Filed at the United States Di…

FOR SALE: Grass From Kanye’s Coachella Sunday Service

If you missed the opportunity to share Easter Sunday with Kanye West at the Coachella music festival, there’s now some of the grass from the hillside for sale. Several attendees are selling grass from the event online, according to The Shade Room, with prices ranging from $7.90, plus shipping, to…

EMI Counter-Sues Kanye West For Breach Of Contract

Kanye West has been hit with a lawsuit by his longtime music publishing company EMI, alleging breach of contract. The suit, filed in Federal court in Manhattan, follows Kanye’s own January lawsuit against EMI in which he claimed that his contract violated California law because it lasted more than seven…