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Check Out A Segment From Kanye West & Choose Or Lose's 'Homecoming'

Posted 7/24/08 4:57 pm EST by in Kanye West, veterans

By Ocean MacAdams

Approximately 1.7 million soldiers and sailors have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a recent MTV poll, nearly six in ten (58 percent) 18-24-year-olds stated that they personally know someone who has served in Iraq.

MTV News believes that how these young veterans are re-integrated into society — how they cope with their wartime experiences and how they are treated by America — will be one of the stories of this generation. Because of that, MTV is dedicating its Choose Or Lose campaign this year to highlighting the issues of young veterans. We've already introduced you to a number of veterans (head here and here) and we even brought a group of young vets to meet Senators Obama and Clinton.

On Monday, we're going to do something new. Kanye West has been interested in the issue as well, and he's decided to team up with MTV for a special called "Choose or Lose & Kanye West Present: Homecoming." During his recent Glow in the Dark Tour, Kanye met up with three young veterans — one in Oklahoma City; one in Austin, Texas; and one in Charlotte, North Carolina. Each veteran had their own unique story, but all had two things in common: They served in Iraq and were now home and struggling. Whether it was dealing with family debt incurred while they were away or an inability to work while being treated for post traumatic stress disorder, these young vets were in danger of slipping through the cracks.

In each city, Kanye met with them and heard their stories. He brought them to his show and made sure they knew how thankful we all are for their service. More importantly, however, we tried to help. Whether it was money to pay off debt, help with finding a job or help with school bills, each vet was surprised by a gift from MTV and the Dr. Donda West Foundation, named in honor of Kanye's late mother.

It’s a pretty special show — hey, even Bill O'Reilly said nice things about it — and we hope you enjoy it. It airs Monday, July 28 at 10 p.m. on MTV. Here’s a segment from the show.


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Kanye Swears He Writes His Own Design-Porn Posts, Offers Photographic Proof

Posted 7/17/08 12:00 pm EST by in Internet, Kanye West

There are a few things we know about Kanye West: He's not afraid to call people out for having squid brains, he needs anger management enhancement, he's kind of a perfectionist when it comes to his stage show, and, oh, he's really as in love with bad-ass cars and uncomfortable, but wickedly designed seating as he claims on his KanyeUniverseCity blog.

How do we know this? Well, as with so many things 'Ye-related, because he told us in an angry post on said blog. Yesterday, West took to the site to refute suggestions that he employs a "ghost blogger" to fill the oft-updated site with pictures of busty models, futuristic architecture and clothes you can't afford.

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Lollapalooza: You're Killing Me With The Scheduling

Posted 6/17/08 2:31 pm EST by in Festivals, Kanye West, Lollapalooza, Radiohead

I get it, Lollapalooza. There are only so many slots in a 12-hour day to cram in 100 bands. And I'm not hating on having to choose between Bang Camaro and K'naan, or splitting the difference on Uffie and Jamie Lidell, because, frankly, I couldn't care less about any of them. And I'm even willing to forgive having to choose between Gnarls Barkley and Girl Talk. And Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings or the Toadies is a slam dunk, no offense Toad-heads.

But come Saturday and Sunday night, you're seriously killing me. The daily schedules are finally here, and I get that all air traffic is being cleared to give Radiohead some radio silence for their headlining slot on Friday night. They've earned it — and frankly, who wants to go up against them anyway, right?

But Saturday night? I'm going to have to choose between watching Kanye West land his egogalactic mother ship in his hometown on the shores of Lake Michigan and walking a mile across Grant Park to see Nine Inch Nails unleash a toxic bile spill on the other main stage. That ain't right. Sure, I've seen NIN a few times and I haven't seen the Kanye show yet (the local date here got canceled due to, um, "production" issues), but both promise to be spectacles on a par with last year's totally bananas Daft Punk set.

And Sunday's not much better: The reunited Rage Against the Machine are up against one of my favorite bands (another Chicago-bred act), Wilco. Unless you're a music geek like me, that's not really a hard one, since the bands are different sides of the rock coin. But still, who doesn't want a bit of sweaty-torso bro-thrash mixed with a palate-cleansing bowl of spidery guitar noodle soup? It's just not fair.

Other than those colossal musical Sophie's Choices (oh, and putting the Black Lips on one of the main stages at noon on Friday — c'mon, that's just mean), I'm cool with the rest of the roster choices.

But I can't help wondering how Iron and Wine leader Sam Beam's pastoral acoustic reveries will go over on the Bud Light stage at 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, just a few hours before the NIN crowd begins to descend on the area like a drunken black cloud of hormones and terrorist fist jabs. Considering this recent bottling of Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme, I'd suggest you bring a helmet, Sam.

Are you feeling conflicted? Tearing your hair out choosing between Booka Shade and DeVotchKa? Tell us about it.

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The World Revolves Around Kanye West

Posted 5/2/08 1:24 pm EST by in Kanye West

No, really. It does.

Kanye's blog never fails to keep us entertained with cool photos and videos. (He must have a lot of time on his hands. Slacker.) We've had our tussles with 'Ye over the last few years, but we're not above admitting that he was right and we were wrong: This new clip proves that life really is as Kanye-centric as he's been saying all along.


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Kanye Blows By, Murakami Doesn't at Brooklyn Museum

Posted 4/4/08 7:44 pm EST by in Kanye West

So last night I went to last night’s celebration of @Murakami, the retrospective of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist - and Kanye West cover-art guy --Takashi Murakami. It was at the Brooklyn Museum and the party was capped with a performance by the Louis Vuitton Don himself (mostly for investment bankers and big money folks), which was great.

Many Kanye fans have heard Murakami’s name a lot, but few have actually heard from the man himself. I got to chat with him for a little bit (we were seated next to each other at the Nobu-catered dinner at the Museum, so it was an easy score) and talked about his collaborative efforts with Kanye. While Murakami is ecstatic about the results of their combined creative energy, the process of working together was not without a few bumps in the road.


I did have a couple of interactions with Kanye, but they didn’t really go as planned. See for yourself after the jump.

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