Jay-Z, in the song "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" by Kanye West, says: "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!"
After being uploaded to YouTube, the film's reputation spread by word of mouth, and received a boost when it was linked from the blog of Kanye West.
Cliff has interviewed some of the biggest names in the world, Kanye West, Miley Cyrus, Usher (entertainer), LMFAO (group), Black Eyed Peas, Ne-yo, Armin Van Buuren & Jason Mraz just to name a few.
Coinye, formerly Coinye West, is a scrypt-based cryptocurrency that used the American hip hop artist, Kanye West as its mascot despite West having no affiliation with the project.
In May 2008, the organization produced and promoted Kanye West's Glow in the Dark Tour Concert at the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami, Florida.
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On May 6, 2008, For Darfur Inc. produced and promoted Kanye West's Glow in The Dark concert at the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami, Florida.
He is represented by Kanye West rapping against Scrooge in the third season of Epic Rap Battles of History.
As part of his personal training, Pasternak has worked with many celebrity clients, including: Jennifer Hudson, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Megan Fox, Bono, Milla Jovovich and Alicia Keys.
The album features tracks, produced by Swizz Beatz and Kanye West, including two singles: "Back Of Da Club" and "Blackout".
Sampson is tall and dark-skinned, with a face resembling that of Kanye West.
Kiki was referenced in the song "So Fresh, So Clean" by the hip hop group Outkast which was released in 2001, and in the song "No Church in the Wild" on the duet album Watch the Throne by "Jay-Z" and "Kanye West", released August 2011.
Kanye West described the replica landspeeder as made of a "custom aluminum chassis, fiberglass body, and an electric drive system that hits lightspeed at 25 mph".
In March 2011, Lily released her music video for "Wishlist" which was directed by Shalin Sharman (Kanye West) and featured internet celebrity Megan Parken.
Mando has done every time slot from mornings to nights and has interviewed everybody from Kanye West to The Goo Goo Dolls.
A video has been shot by the productive team Creative Control for "Away", who have also produced for Kanye West, Erykah Badu, and Curren$y.
The label has also attracted foreign interest from international acts like Kanye West and Jay-Z and has recently been signed to Kanye's GOOD Music.
Nigo has currently been associated with popular rap and hip hop artists such as Kanye West and Pharrell Williams.
For instance, when rapper Kanye West released the song On Sight, which contains a lyric about Parkinson's disease that many perceived as insensitive, Tom Palizzi, chairman of the PPAC, spoke out through the media about the need for greater education about the disease.
He also appeared on Kanye West's "Heavy Hitters" track, as well as being referenced by Eminem in the song "Drug Ballad" from his album The Marshall Mathers LP.
The FADER is credited with giving exposure to top artists months ahead of mainstream recognition, including Kanye West, Bon Iver, Outkast, Nicki Minaj, The Strokes, Drake and The White Stripes.
The Yeezus Tour is the ongoing North American concert tour by American rapper Kanye West.
Several of the more R&B-influenced modern-day rappers and their newest videos can also be regularly seen in heavy rotation on VH1 Soul; for example: The Roots, De La Soul, Kanye West, Common, and Talib Kweli.
VMAN promotes everyone from unknown up-and-comers to globally recognized celebrities and covers have featured Kanye West, Josh Brolin, David Beckham, Orlando Bloom, James Franco and Stephen Dorff.
During February 2008, WSNX's program "Puddin' Playhouse" gave away tickets to a Kanye West concert as presents for Valentine's Day through a contest called "False Confessions".
Motion picture and television credits include The Tonight Show with rock band, Korn, MTV VMA's, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Ellen DeGeneres Show with Kanye West, and an appearance in Sony Pictures motion picture Charlie's Angels (film).
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"All of the Lights" by Kanye West is an example of a hip-hop song written in B-flat minor.
They regularly appear on BBC Radio 3's In Tune programme with Sean Rafferty, and in 2007 performed and recorded with American rapper and producer Kanye West.
-- No more artists should be added, twenty is more than enough. -->Clipse, The Diplomats, Drake, Kanye West, Eminem, Nicki Minaj, G-Unit, Kardinal Offishall, k-os, Das Racist, Lecrae, Nas, Bizzle, Talib Kweli and Saukrates,
Two months later in December, Bossip published a new "award" for most annoying celebrity of 2006 with R&B/Pop singer and actress Beyoncé Knowles as 1st position, Actor Taye Diggs at 10th position and rapper Kanye West with an honorable mention.
While past reports have calculated Crawford's blog as only having 40,000 unique readers, his addition to XXL magazine's roster of online columnists and publicized feuds with artists, their fans, and their family, including Bun B, Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Donda West, and Joe Budden have boosted his profile considerably over the past few years.
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Crawford gained notoriety in 2004 when he reported that rapper Kanye West's single "Jesus Walks", which had just been nominated for a Grammy Award, was written by and bought from rapper Rhymefest, and began a petition to disqualify the song.
"Dance The Kung Fu" was later sampled by DJ Premier on his 2007 remix of Nike's 25th Air Force One anniversary single "Classic (Better Than I've Ever Been)", featuring Kanye West, Nas, KRS-One and Rakim.
The first, a pop art style video, was directed by the French director So-Me who previously worked on music videos with a similar style such as Justice's "D.A.N.C.E." and Kanye West's "Good Life".
Since then, she has appeared in several music videos, including Ludacris's "Number One Spot", Will Smith's "Switch", Nelly's "Shake Ya Tailfeather" and Kanye West's "The New Workout Plan".
This critical acclaim, led to a slew of 2010 featured guest appearances, most notably, Stromae's "Alors on danse" remix also featuring Kanye West, the Yeasayer remix of Florence + The Machine's "Dog Days Are Over", and the Diplo and Switch-produced "Up All Night" by Alex Clare.
GOOD Fridays were a weekly free music giveaway by rapper Kanye West, launched in support of his fifth studio album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010).
Kardashian's current boyfriend and rapper, Kanye West and former husband and basketball player, Kris Humphries are indirectly referenced in the song, with the chorus saying: "She might move onto rappers, and ball players, but we all know I hit it first".
In addition to being a recording artist and DJ, Kidda is an animator and video director and has made music promos for assorted artists such as Midfield General, the Lo-Fidelity Allstars, X-Press 2 and Phil Kieran – as well as completing animation work for the stage shows of US artists Kanye West and Rihanna.
Two singles released from the extended play included the Grammy Award–nominated "The Knoc," and the Kanye West–produced "Muzik", which appeared on the Jason Statham film, "The Transporter".
In 2004, he received two Grammys for Album of the Year for Kanye West's College Dropout, and Alicia Keys' The Diary of Alicia Keys.
The song "When I Said Goodbye", was featured in the Kanye West/Spike Jonze short film We Were Once a Fairytale.
CHOPS is the only member still active in hip-hop, working with artists such as Kanye West, Chamillionaire, Bahamadia, Planet Asia, and Paul Wall.
In 2005, the producer Just Blaze uses a slowed down horn sample from "Move On Up" for the song "Touch the Sky" by hip hop artist Kanye West on his album Late Registration.
The album's notable Platinum sales were later being surpassed by Kanye West's Yeezus (which was released 14 years later), along with other Platinum-certified albums.
The song was both written and produced by HyerHytz Production League and engineered by Ken Lewis whose work includes albums such as Jay-Z and Kanye's Watch the Throne, Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Usher's Confessions Album.
McFarnon’s discovery by the music industry is credited to internationally renowned singer/songwriter Amanda Ghost, who encourage him to write for artists including Kelly Rowland, Mark Ronson, Daniel Merriweather, Jack Splash and Kanye West.
The Gospel According To Patti LaBelle features collaborations with Yolanda Adams, Mary Mary, Kanye West, Wynonna Judd, The Soul Seekers, Tye Tribbett, CeCe Winans and more.
Iamsu! was born Sudan Ahmeer Williams in Richmond, California, on November 17, 1989, and was an early fan of artists such as Kanye West, R. Kelly, Aaliyah, Marching Band, and reggae music.
The band's single "She's My Baby" was sampled on Kanye West's "Hell of a Life", a song from his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
The duo had a desire to create a record that "nobody was going to call lo-fi," and Bruno reached out to his former boss, producer/composer Jon Brion, known for his work on Kanye West's Late Registration (2005).
Catherine Bent subsequently toured with Cirque du Soleil, has performed and recorded with jazz and pop artists including Joe Jackson, Lee Konitz and Kanye West, and is a Professor at Berklee College of Music.
In addition, the single "Down 4 My Niggaz" is affiliated with Alpha Phi Alpha and was quoted in many later rap songs, such as by Lil Wayne in 2 Chainz' song "Yuck!", by Tyga in Hit 'Em Up, by Future in DJ Khaled's No New Friends, by Kanye West in Blood on the Leaves, and many more.
A number of entertainment executives have also invested, including Lady Gaga and her manager, Kanye West, Troy Carter, MTV's Courtney Holt, former Facebook executive Tim Kendall, The Roots, and Madonna's manager, Guy Oseary.
Artists that have performed at the theater include: Blink-182, Evanescence, Fall Out Boy, Four Year Strong, My Chemical Romance, Jimmy Eat World, Chelsea Grin, Wiz Khalifa, Rob Zombie, Kanye West, Ensiferum, Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, Straight Line Stitch, and more.
In 2010, hip-hop rapper Kanye West hired Yemi to choreograph ballet inspired sequence in the Runaway (2010 film) of the “Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” album.
The feud stems from The Game's beef with Memphis Bleek, which escalated into a beef with the entire Roc-A-Fella camp with the exception of Kanye West, Jay-Z and Just Blaze.