On October 16 in Los Angeles, California Rap music’s elite showed out for the annual BET Hip Hop Awards, commemorating the best of all things hip-hop in the past year. Kendrick Lamar cleaned up, hauling in five awards including best album and lyricist of the year while Jay-Z, Big Sean and the rest of hip-hop’s […]
[Sunday Coffee Sipper] Kanye, Kimmel & Fame
Last Wednesday Kanye West made an appearance on the Late Night with Jimmy Kimmel to address the feud between the artist and talk show host that rose from a skit with children impersonating West’s replies to questions in a BBC interview with Zane Lowe. The interaction was farm from what most fans who followed the […]
[Sunday Coffee Sipper] Kanye West: “Everything I Am Made Me Everything I’m Not”
Just as sure as September brings a chill to the air in Chicago, another Kanye West-induced pop culture drama has played out in the media, this one in the wake of his Twitter rant pointed at Jimmy Kimmel. He doubled his Twitter output in ten minutes, coming off childish and innocuous. It’s become the norm […]