20/20 vision. Amber Rose claimed that she saw her ex-boyfriend Kanye West’s split from Kim Kardashian coming.
30.06.2022 - 20:57 / justjared.com
Kanye West is facing a lawsuit.
The 45-year-old music superstar is being sued over a sample featured on his latest album, Donda 2, which was released earlier in 2022.
The lawsuit is for copyright infringement, and claims one of the songs used a sample that was unauthorized.
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20/20 vision. Amber Rose claimed that she saw her ex-boyfriend Kanye West’s split from Kim Kardashian coming.
Kanye West has dropped out of his upcoming headline performance at this year's Rolling Loud Miami, with Kid Cudi replacing him on the festival bill. He joins fellow headliners Future and Kendrick Lamar at the three day event, which takes place July 22-24. “We were looking forward to Ye headlining Rolling Loud Miami 2022,” Rolling Loud co-founders Tariq Cherif and Matt Zingler said in a statement shared with Pitchfork.
Kanye West has shared his love for Steve Lacy‘s new album, calling the Internet guitarist “one of the most inspiring people on the planet”.Lacy released his second solo album, ‘Gemini Rights’, on Friday (July 15). It has gone on to receive critical acclaim and the love of a host of artists.Taking to Instagram to thank fans for their support, Lacy wrote: gemini rights is outttt.
Kid Cudi is stepping in to headline Rolling Loud Miami after Kanye “Ye” West pulled out of the three-day festival. Rolling Loud made the announcement on Twitter Sunday, sharing that West's departure was due to circumstances «outside» of their control.«Due to circumstances outside of our control, Ye will no longer be performing at Rolling Loud Miami 2022.
Kanye West will no longer headline this year’s edition of Rolling Loud in Miami, with Kid Cudi – a longtime colleague of West’s, with whom the controversial rapper shares a storied past – confirmed as his replacement.The line-up change was announced earlier this afternoon (July 17), with Rolling Loud’s organisers saying it came “due to circumstances outside of our control”. West is yet to address the cancellation of his set, and in a statement offered by the festival’s co-founders, Tariq Cherif and Matt Zingler, it’s noted that West simply “decided that he will no longer be performing”.“We spent months working with him and his team,” the pair explained (via Pitchfork).
The company that created stage sets for Kanye West’s concerts is suing the rapper.
Kanye West is facing a $7.1 million lawsuit from a production company that claims the artist hasn't paid them for services rendered, TMZ reports. In the complaint, Phantom Labs claims that West reneged on promised payments for shows they produced between June 2021 and March 2022, including his "Free Larry Hoover" show with Drake, a Donda 2 listening event in Miami, 4 weeks' worth of Sunday Service productions, and West's canceled headlining show at Coachella 2022.
Kanye West is being sued $7.1million (£6million) by an LA production company over claims of unpaid fees for a series of events.According to the lawsuit, which was filed yesterday (July 14) at Los Angeles County’s Superior Court, West and his team owe Phantom Labs for fees on his ‘Donda 2’ livestream earlier this year, his cancelled Coachella 2022 appearance, last year’s ‘Free Larry Hoover’ concert with Drake, a number of his Sunday Services and the rapper’s studio spaces, reports Variety.The company alleges that, as the unpaid bills began piling up from multiple projects, it was assured that everything would be paid up once the rapper now known as Ye, collected a reported $9million (£7.6million) fee for appearing at Coachella.When West pulled out of that appearance with weeks to spare, the company said it was on the hook not just for the millions already owed for past collaborations but for money it had also paid other vendors for the cancelled festival appearance.The rapper allegedly hired Phantom Labs in October 2021 to “run a renovation project” at a Los Angeles warehouse West was converting into an office and creative space. The rapper also allegedly hired the company to produce four consecutive Sunday Service events in November of that year.
It’s North West‘s world, and we’re just living in it! The 9-year-old made a major fashion state while attending Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris with mom Kim Kardashian.
Kanye West has been sued over an unauthorised sample that appears on ‘Flowers’, a track that features on the rapper’s latest album, ‘Donda 2’.As Billboard reports, a complaint was brought forward in a New York federal court on Wednesday (June 29) by Chicago house musician Marshall Jefferson‘s publisher, Ultra International Music Publishing (UIMP).According to the suit, Ye sampled Jefferson’s 1986 house song ‘Move Your Body’ (also known as ‘House Music Anthem’) on ‘Flowers’ without permission or compensation. A sample of ‘Move Your Body’, UIMP allege, is “repeated at least 22 times” throughout ‘Flowers’.According to the suit, West acknowledged to both Jefferson and UIMP that he had sampled the song without permission.
Kanye West has been sued for copyright infringement again, Billboard reports and court documents reviewed by The FADER confirm. A complaint filed Wednesday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by attorneys for Ultra International Music Publishing (UIMP) claims Ye did not clear the sample of Marshall Jefferson’s 1986 house anthem “Move Your Body” that can allegedly be heard at least 22 times on the Donda 2 track “Flowers.” Like the rest of Donda 2, “Flowers” was released in late February exclusively on Stem Player, an MP3 device created specifically for the album in collaboration with Alex Klein and his company, Kano Computing Limited.
Kanye West made a surprise appearance at the 2022 BET Awards Sunday night, paying tribute to the ceremony’s sole lifetime achievement award recipient, Diddy, with a five-and-a-half-minute speech. He spoke on his long friendship with the Bad Boy Records founder, who mentored him early in his career. “I was signed to Puff without him knowing,” Ye reminisced, discussing how he idolized Diddy growing up.
Kanye West showed up at the 2022 BET Awards covered head to toe to honor his favorite artist Sean “Diddy” Combs. During the ceremony, the songwriter, record executive, and entrepreneur, also known as Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Diddy, or Puffy, received a lifetime achievement award, presented by West and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds.“How do we crown our kings?” West asked the crowd.
The BET Awards gave Sean «Diddy» Combs his flowers on Sunday night. None other than Kanye «Ye» West took the stage to help present Diddy with the award alongside Babyface. Kanye talked about his history in the music industry with Diddy, looking up to him as an artist and even managed to crack a few jokes!«How do we crown our kings? How do we appreciate our kings? To think how far we could just make it off of inspiration,» Kanye said starting off his speech.
Still partners! Kim Kardashian is launching her skincare line, Skkn by Kim, and giving credit to all those who helped her along the way — including ex-husband Kanye West.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye «Ye» West have a rock-solid business relationship, and she let the world know about it.The 41-year-old reality TV star took to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday (the day she launched her new skin line, SKKN by KIM) and revealed exactly how the GRAMMY-winning rapper lent a huge helping hand in the creative process that led to the final product. While in her SKKN office, Kardashian shared how SKKN by KIM came up with the packaging, the name, font and how they picked color tones for a skin line that includes cleansers, toners, exfoliators, hyaluronic acid serums and eye creams.Kardashian also shared the «mood boards» and early renderings the team came up with during their original brainstorming sessions. “And of course, my creative process wouldn’t have been complete — and I always give credit where credit is due — without Kanye," Kardashian said.
Julia Fox and Amelia Gray Hamlin shared more than just their Kardashian family connection over the weekend. Hamlin shared several shots of her and Fox touching tongues as they both licked a red lollipop.
Kim Kardashian is showing her appreciation to have Kanye West as the father of her children, taking a moment to post a sweet message to her ex-husband, just in time for Father’s Day. The couple share four children, 9-year-old North, 6-year-old Saint, 4-year-old Chicago and 3-year-old Psalm.Kim took to Instagram to post a photo of the rapper with their children, captioning it “Thank you for being the best dad to our babies and loving them the way you do! Happy Father’s Day Ye.“Kim also shared an emotional tribute to her late father, Robert Kardashian, posting a sweet photo and writing “The kids asked me how I would celebrate with you today if you’re all the way up in heaven.