Kanye West's "Runaway": Reaction & Review

By J9 of J9's MusicLife

Just in case you missed it, last Saturday, October 23, Kanye West premiered his highly anticipated 35 minute video, locking down three major TV stations MTV, MTV2, and BET. This video's soundtrack was tracks from his upcoming album My Dark and Twisted Fantasy due for release on Monday, November 22, 2010.

Listen to Kanye explain the symbolism in the video:

ChinaBabe's Take:  This video is mostly a beautiful piece of abstract moving art with Selita Ebanks as the center of attraction.  I understand the phoenix represents his career and the rise from the ashes.  I even understand the dinner scene, being the "last supper" symbolizing his rebirth and renewed spirits.  There are great touches of brilliance moving toward genius throughout this short film. However, I believe that the genius will be lost to most people because of the cocky arrogance that is Kanye West. In some ways, I don't think that this production was completely necessary.  There were times where I just thought this is a bit much...but in true Kanye form, he was pleased with himself.  Kanye is beyond talented but this film will just be 35 minutes of confusion to most people...

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Lady Gaga to develop namesake fragrance with Coty

Gaga Likes It RAW

Lady Gaga's meat dress, which she wore at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, still may be causing a stir, but there's another Gaga-related buzz hitting the newswires: her fragrance deal with Coty.

Coty has not yet issued a formal announcement detailing the specifics of the launch, but the company did state in a comment: "Coty is excited to be partnering with Lady Gaga to develop her first-ever signature fragrance. We will be unveiling additional information regarding our dynamic partnership at a later date."

According to published reports, the fragrance will launch during spring 2012 and will be released under Gaga's name.

During Sunday's awards event, Gaga won eight awards.

Dish from Black Gay Gossip.com- Kanye West NOT GAY!

Kanye West Talks Gay Rumors & Acceptance
September 18th, 2009 www.blackgaygossip.comCelebrities, Culture, Entertainment, Kanye West
Putting the drama of the VMAs behind him, Kanye West sat down with Devi Dev to talk about Bloggers, fashion, his legacy and once again, gay rumors that have surrounded him. While he adamantly denied being gay, he also advocated acceptance of gay people in the Black community. “First of all what we need to get past… as Black people, especially, is the concept that gay people are bad,” he explained. “Because if people accept them, then the concept of someone being gay or being cool with someone gay wouldn’t even matter if you have acceptance. So the thing is…because they don’t have acceptance of gay people, that’s the reason why they try to use it as the thing to try to bring me down.”
Kanye then spoke proudly of the gay people in his life. “The gay people that I actually know…are so genius and bring such incredible gifts to the world,” he said. “The only gay people I know are like some of the most incredible people on the planet actually.”
Check out audio of the interview below

Kanye feeds your hunger

I didn't want to spend any time on Kanye's ill-behavior on the 2009 VMAs during Taylor Swift's acceptance speech, but Dwight called and insisted that I rant about it.

Kanye West is a grown ass man who knows right from wrong. He knows he had no business on that stage during Taylor's speech. Have we not all discerned that Kanye is an attention magnet? Look at how the media went crazy over this one small incident. It's like we can't identify anything else to talk about. The talk shows, the newspapers... Kanye's publicist can't stop the phone from ringing. Interns are running around clipping articles for his PR scrapbook. I don't even remember what else happened on the show!!! Oh that's right Janet performed. Has anyone seen Janet on TV, in the gossip rags, etc. Nope, but Kanye is getting yet another 15 minutes added to his clock. And now he mentions to Jay Leno that he needs to go away??? Right! Kanye needs a vacation before dropping his next album. He is a business man. He ain't stupid, his next album will be ultra hot and everyone who didn't know him will purchase it just to see what he says next.

Oh and not to mention, Taylor Swift is going to milk this conversation too.... Who is she again? I swear, I was clueless before the other night. Hmmm.

Kanye do your thing. You can't get that type of publicity sitting in the audience. BOLD!