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Kanye West: The Lost Interview (2007) — “At What Point Do You Stop Hating?”

On August 24, 2007, 19 days before the release of his third studio album, Graduation , Kanye West  put on a stay-in-school benefit concert in his native Chicago in support of Loop Dreams, a music program run by Kanye West Foundation, the name of the charitable organization he started with his late mother, Donda West, before it was renamed Donda’s House following her passing later that year.

Nearly 11 years later, and with his eighth solo studio album on the horizon, the foundation is once again making headlines , but this time it’s for Kanye’s reported lack of involvement—both physically and financially. Following an ugly public exchange on Twitter with Kanye’s wife, Kim Kardashian West, veteran Chicago artist Rhymefest, Kanye’s longtime collaborator and one of the executive directors of the foundation, announced that the organization will no longer be named Donda’s House Inc.

Kanye has yet to publicly address the controversy and subsequent fallout on his preferred social network (unless you believe he was the ghostwriter behind all of Kim’s tweets ), but prior to that benefit concert at the House of Blues more than a decade ago, during which he performed Graduation in its entirety for the first time, I was fortunate enough to sit down with him for a brief one-on-one interview.

Following an introductory press conference at the neighboring Hotel Sax, Kanye and I discussed his foundation, his growing legacy inside and out of music, using controversy to sell music, and Graduation ‘s “Barry Bonds,” which he revealed was supposed to feature both Lil Wayne and JAY-Z.

Our interview, edited for content, clarity, and length, follows.

DJBooth : Welcome back to Chicago. I know you were just overseas in Europe—how’d that go?

Kanye West: It was incredible—we got the number one record in Europe right now.

If I’m a parent and I have a negative perception of hip-hop, convince me otherwise.

I think America just needs to get real when it comes to the way our kids speak and communicate. They need to understand what happens in rap. 2Pac and Biggie might talk about violence, but in action movies, there are stuntmen who actually have died on set. The amount of people who talk about guns versus who actually uses them is not even close in this millennium. People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. Film schools don’t have anything against movies with violence. If you can approach hip-hop from a standpoint of “How did they put this together?” and get past the fact that they use profanity, realize that you are a reflection of your parents, more so then the music. Let’s get more into the music itself. How does Dr. Dre, a musical genius, layer all these sounds? What about engineering and Pro Tools and the poetry aspect? We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It’s been around so long that textbooks can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about [music] education.

The Kanye West Foundation is working closely with Chicago Public Schools. When all is said and done, how you want Kanye West to be remembered?

I want to be remembered for making great music and doing great things for people.

Outside of music, how do you plan to accomplish that?

A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it’s typical for a hip-hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures. So yeah man, I do have different things, but I’ve actually focused more on music in the past months. I try to deliver because I don’t believe that people are deliverin’ the same quality of albums. You know, it’s not like Raekwon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… , and Nas, Illmatic . Like, what’s the last album we had like that? I think [Jay-Z’s] The Blueprint— so if Graduation  was the blueprint then this is the building made from those plans.

One of the new songs on the album is “Barry Bonds” featuring Lil Wayne. People look at Barry Bonds and say, “He cheated the baseball game.” Who do you feel is cheating the hip-hop game?

That’s an interesting question—I don’t really have an answer to that. That’s a clever question that, you know—

Do you think it’s the fans who are not buying the music?

Well, that statement kinda makes it seem like I would think that Barry Bonds cheated, which I don’t think he did. And whatever they say about Barry Bonds, you could say about so many others, [like,] “He couldn’t hit that many.” So, that’s one of the reasons I wanted to call it “Barry Bonds,” you know, ‘cause it was controversial. I think the similarity is a lot of people have a lot of things to say about me, but here’s another hit, Barry Bonds. Like, what do you do? He goes out and makes more hits! So, at what point do you stop hating, you know?

Was that single engineered to catch the controversy train?

I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007. You throw everything in, you know, the Kate Moss reference to the Lil Wayne verse to a T-Pain feature—everything is like, “This is what’s happenin’ in 2007.” I want my album to be that one—if you’re making a time capsule you have to throw my album in there.

The single that’s currently impacting is “ Stronger .” From touring overseas to creating music to starting a foundation, how do you remain strong?

Man, just tryin’ to get as much sleep as possible, to drinkin’ water, and tryin’ to make sure that my people give me the proper information to be able to get in front of people and speak. That’s all I need. I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.

So, what’d you really think about that “Barry Bonds” joint?

Honestly, I don’t think you needed Lil’ Wayne; he has just been on so much lately. Kanye West isn’t an artist who needs a feature verse from anyone.

Well, actually, it was supposed to be me, Weezy and Jay. But Jay didn’t have the time to get his verse in [before the album was wrapped].

So will his verse surface in a remix, possibly?

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Kanye West arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Palms Hotel and Casino on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2007, in Las Vegas

For some reason, MTV split its signature show into one-off performances on a theater stage and full concert performances in packed, sweaty suites high above in the Palms hotel. Naturally, the suite performances — Foo Fighters with Cee-lo and Serj Tankian, Justin Timberlake with Timbaland and Fifty Cent, Kanye West with Common, Fall Out Boy with Gym Class Heroes — looked great, but they were only televised as extended cutaways before the cameras jerked back to the theaters for the presentation of another meaningless award. West at least was allowed to do a full song, and while his performance wasn't particularly memorable (although it'll be hard to forget how much he looks like Fab 5 Freddy in white shades and a tuxedo) at least the people partying around him seemed to have a genuinely good time.

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Kanye West’s ‘Graduation’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know

By Al Shipley

When Kanye West released Graduation on September 11, 2007, it was the candy-colored, beatwise album that, famously, beat 50 Cent for a battle over release date bragging rights. But, 10 years later, we can see how it also pointed the way towards the AutoTuned vocals, EDM and arena rock influences that would help define the next decade in rap. This focused collection of 13 songs touched on his complex relationships with fame, his father, his hometown of Chicago and his “big brother” Jay-Z; and leaped into the world of experimental art via the Takashi Murikami album cover.

To celebrate the album’s 10th anniversary, here are some things you may not know about Graduation.

Kanye released an early version of “Homecoming” nearly five years earlier Kanye West created a voluminous catalog of demo and mixtape tracks in the early days of his transition from buzzing producer to superstar rapper, and lines from those songs were often revised and reused throughout his first three albums. The most prominent instance is “Homecoming,” which takes its verses from “Home,” a College Dropout outtake that appeared on his 2002 mixtape Get Well Soon… .The original beat and John Legend hook are replaced with a completely new track and chorus featuring Coldplay’s Chris Martin. But West’s lyrics, a Chicago-centric riff on Common’s “I Used To Love H.E.R.,” are more or less unchanged.

50 Cent had sold nearly twice as many albums as Kanye West before losing their famous sales showdown When Graduation and 50 Cent’s Curtis were scheduled for the same release date on September 11, 2007, the media whipped up a sales war. The two frenemies appeared together on the cover of Rolling Stone and at the VMAs, and it seemed like a perfect battle for the soul of mainstream hip-hop – tough New York gangsterism vs. emotional suburban confessionals. While Kanye West’s decisive triumph over 50 seems inevitable in retrospect, it’s easy to forget how much of an underdog he was at the time. The College Dropout and Late Registration sold a combined 7 million copies in the U.S., but 50 Cent’s own first two albums, Get Rich or Die Trying and The Massacre , sold nearly 14 million, almost exactly twice as much. West had the last laugh: Graduation sold nearly a million copies in one week, and rap became the playground of emotional heroes like Kid Cudi, Lupe Fiasco, Drake and J. Cole.

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T-Pain isn’t the only R&B star on “Good Life” Though T-Pain is Kanye West’s co-star on the hit “Good Life” and Michael Jackson appears via sample, two other singers make brief appearances. Toward the end of the second verse, as T-Pain answers each West couplet with “Welcome to the good life,” Ne-Yo and John Legend take over the last couple refrains. It was one of West’s first instances of using major stars in almost inaudible cameos, a practice that reached its apex with the choir of A-listers that appeared on 2010’s “All of the Lights.”

Timbaland joined sessions at the 11th hour to put oomph in the drums Although Jon Brion and other producers contributed to Kanye West’s first two albums, Graduation was a significant step towards the production supergroups that West would often assemble to collaborate on beats on his later albums. The Daft Punk-sampling single “Stronger” was West’s first co-production with Houston hip-hop veteran Mike Dean, but even after the track was released and became a hit, West was unsatisfied with the track’s kick drum. After hearing “Stronger” alongside Timbaland’s hit “The Way I Are,” West brought Timbaland to the studio for the final album sessions days before Graduation was finalized. When it all was said and done, West mixed “Stronger” a total of 75 times.

“Everything I Am” wasn’t the only beat Common passed on Common’s second album for West’s G.O.O.D. Music, Finding Forever , was released just a few weeks before Graduation , so it’s not surprising that there was significant overlap in the sessions for the two albums, both of which featured Dwele and DJ Premier. Kanye famously touts “Everything I Am” as a rescued Finding Forever outtake in the song’s chorus: “Common passed on this beat, I made it to a jam”. However it wasn’t the only one. The track that follows it, “The Glory,” was also offered to Common before West wound up using the track.

“I Wonder” was inspired by U2’s “City of Blinding Lights” Kanye West joined U2’s Vertigo Tour for several dates in 2005 and 2006, and watching the band open shows with 2005 single “City of Blinding Lights” made him envious of how the Irish quartet’s big melodic sound filled stadiums. So the slower, more melodic cadence and building anthemic energy of “I Wonder” and other songs on Graduation was in part West’s attempt at making rap music that worked the same way in live venues.

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West met “Flashing Lights” vocalist Connie Mitchell’s band in an Australian diner One of the most distinctive sounds on Graduation is the voice of Connie Mitchell, who utters the title of “Flashing Lights,” sings on “Champion” and appears as a loop on “Can’t Tell Me Nothing.” Those moments were all the result of a chance meeting in a diner in Sydney, Australia. West was in town for the Australian leg of his tour with U2, and struck up a conversation with two members of the group Sneaky Sound System, who recommended West invite their singer to the studio.

West sent a handwritten letter to Steely Dan to clear the “Champion” sample Steely Dan never really knew what to make of hip-hop and tended to play hardball when rappers ask to sample the band’s impeccably produced jazz-rock grooves. Most famously, Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz had to give the band sole writing credit and a six-figure advance to use the sample on their 1998 hit “Déjà Vu (Uptown Baby).” Kanye West didn’t have to fork over all his publishing to use 1976’s “Kid Charlemagne” on “Champion,” but he did make a personal appeal to get their approval. “We said ‘no’ at first,” Donald Fagen told Complex in 2012. “And then he wrote us a hand-written letter that was kind of touching, about how the song was about his father.”

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Kanye West had a Spinal Tap moment on the tour in support of Graduation A few months after the release of Graduation , Kanye West embarked on the Glow in the Dark Tour, which kicked off his run of tours marked by increasingly ambitious and creative stage design. But the massively successful tour was not without incident, with West infamously taking the stage eight hours behind schedule at Bonnaroo. In Sacramento, West slipped up and referred to the city he was in as “Seattle,” where he’d played two nights earlier, every touring musician’s nightmare as immortalized in Spinal Tap’s famous “Hello, Cleveland” scene.

While recordin g Graduation , Kanye West made a Comedy Central pilot During sessions for Graduation in L.A. at the Record Plant, Kanye West and longtime collaborator Rhymefest started joking around in the studio and spitballing an idea for a grown-up puppet show in the vein of Crank Yankers . Soon, the two Chicago rappers were linking up with Jimmy Kimmel to shoot the Alligator Boots pilot for Comedy Central and meeting with comedy writers during the recording of “Flashing Lights.” The show was never picked up, and within a year West had moved on to another TV pet project, another unaired comedy pilot for HBO.  One thing that did come out of the Alligator Boots: West insisted on casting Kim Kardashian (then known solely for a sex tape) in a sketch. The future spouses met for the first time on the project.

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The Evolution of Kanye West’s Tours

By Jessy Edwards

Looking back to Kanye West’s very first nationwide tour, it’s incredible to see how much has changed.

It was 2004, and back then a good hip-hop show meant seeing your favorite artist perform their set without any major sound difficulties. The big-budget spectacles West pioneered existed only in dreams. In the years that followed, his live performance evolved from performing in front of a backdrop of Chicago’s skyline to ascending a literal mountain constructed on stage.

Over five headline tours and multiple spot performances, Kanye has transformed the expectations for a hip-hop. After the Yeezus tour of 2013, the New York Post raved that the show was more than just a concert, saying, “It’s an extravaganza of music and theater… an unmissable spectacle.”

Kanye has developed the live performance to be immersive and experiential, pairing with fashion designers, artists, and engineers to create shows that redefine the concert experience—even architecture magazines have marveled at Kanye’s work.

So as Ye prepares for the Saint Pablo Tour —his first in three years—we look back at the tours that came before: the looks, the designers, the opening acts, the artistry, and the drama.

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The College Dropout Tour

Length: March 16—May 5, 2004 Set designer: Unknown Supporting acts: Dilated Peoples, John Legend, GLC

Baggy jeans, striped polos and a college vibe were the defining elements of Kanye West’s very first headline tour, in 2004.

Well before West was sending his own models down the runway of New York Fashion week, he and his crew were rocking matching Ralph Lauren polos emblazoned with the mascot of his debut album and tour—the College Dropout bear.

The tour spanned 34 dates, from March to May that year, and a 26-year-old West leaned in to the collegiate theme. Not only did it kick off at Virginia Tech, it hit a number of college towns across the states—from Pace University in New York to George Washington University in DC, ending with three shows at House of Blues in West’s hometown, Chicago.

The tour started just months after the official release of West’s first album, which shot to #2 and sold almost 500,000 copies in its first week, and was opened by Dilated Peoples, featured John Legend and GLC, and had A-Trak as tour DJ.

A-Trak’s video from the tour describes the vibe: “There were lots of chicken wings, lots of shoes and lots of laughter,” he says. The footage, from more than a decade ago, shows how excited the artists were to fly on a G4 private jet to some of the locations.

Onstage, Kanye paced in front of seven slim LED-screens, and some footage has the Chicago cityscape as his background. While the tour is lo-fi compared to his modern-day setups, the venues were packed with people, and when West asked his crowd to “scream so loud when the music come on you can’t even hear it,” they did just that.

English musician Tom Wiseman, from hip hop group Community League , says one of his “greatest show experiences” came from seeing the tour stop in the U.K.

“When The College Dropout tour came to town for one night only back in 2004, it was a magical affair that went down as one of the best in the year that was soundtracked by the irrepressible Mr. West,” he recalls. “When Kanye launched into ‘Slow Jamz’ only to have the entire crowd sing the words back to him—his mic held loosely at his side, the expression of wonder on his face, it was priceless.”

The Touch The Sky Tour

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Length: October 12—December 11, 2005 Set designer: Esmeralda Devlin Opening acts: Fantasia and Keyshia Cole

Ye’s second tour started off with a few hiccups . He was making changes right down to the last minute.

As the story goes, West scrapped the Touch the Sky Tour’s entire lighting plan just two weeks before the opening show in Miami. According to Mark Beaumont’s book Kanye West: God and Monster , the tour was completely redone by new tour designer Es Devlin just a fortnight before opening night, and soon after Kanye was heard yelling “I’m not excited about going on tour! All y’all have is moving lights!” to his former designer.

And then, just days before Ye was meant to start touring, opening act Common announced he couldn’t make it—he’d just landed an acting role. This left West with Fantasia and Keyshia Cole for his opening acts.

In the end, the stage show was accompanied by a glamorous six-piece string section and featured live video of the show projected behind the stage. West kneeled by a hospital bed to sing “Roses”—about his grandmother’s illness—and later collapsed in front of a screen scrolling negative reviews behind him. The star changed four times and wore designer blazers, pants, and dark designer sunglasses.

Chicago fan and music writer Tre G describes the show he saw at the Breslin Center in Michigan as the “greatest thing [he] had ever seen at the time.” Not only was it the first concert he had ever attended, Tre still remembers being blown away by the lighting and visuals. “You could tell Kanye was all about production, even in his early years,” he says. “I remember vividly one part of the show, Kanye displayed on the screen what critics and magazines were saying about him at the time.”

And the performance itself didn’t disappoint.

“I went HAM when he performed ‘Get ‘Em High.’ It’s still one my favorites,” he says.

Despite calling him an “only average rapper,” a Rolling Stone reviewer admitted that, unlike many other hip-hop hits, some of West’s songs were better live. Mark Beaumont described the Touch the Sky tour as Kanye “stepping out onto the tour big leagues.” He played the Thompson-Bowling Arena in Knoxville, the Mizzou Arena in Columbia, and two nights at the theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Speaking to an MTV reporter on opening night about his earlier setbacks , West was typically brash.

“F— that!” West said backstage shortly before showtime. “We not gonna wait for 10 shows from now, we gonna touch the sky tonight.”

And so it was.

The Glow in the Dark Tour

Length: April 16, 2008—December 7, 2008 Set designer: Esmeralda Devlin Opening acts: N.E.R.D., Lupe Fiasco, Rihanna

Kanye’s first world tour also included his first truly extraordinary stage.

The Glow In The Dark Tour crammed in more than 50 arena and festival shows in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. before heading to Mexico and then across the Pacific, via South America, to the Far East and Europe.

The concept pitted Kanye as a the pilot of a spaceship hitting a meteor storm, landing on a desolate planet of dry ice, and trying to find his way home through tracks from The College Dropout , Late Registration , Graduation , 808s and Heartbreak .

With design again done by Es Devlin, in collaboration with Martin Phillips and John McGuire, the stage was transformed into a barren series of landscapes—one resembling a giant moon—and fantastical glow-in-the-dark features: a giant, glowing-eyed monster and a robot moved within the haze, women shimmered in gold paint for the track “Gold Digger,” and stunning multi-colored light sequences lit up the often smoke-filled stage.

Ye himself wore sci-fi themed threads, glow-in-the-dark accessories, his signature stunna shades, and gloves.

The performance was a visual feast, “an attempt to push hip-hop into the arena rock league,” Mark Beaumont argued in his book Kanye West: God and Monster . It was even immortalized in the book of photography Glow in the Dark by Nabil Elderkin.

But again, the show was not without its hiccups. In Sacramento, Ye accidentally called the city Seattle, before quickly apologizing. At Bonnaroo, fans chanted “Kanye sucks” after a change in scheduling had West come on stage at 4:25 A.M. —almost two hours after he was meant to start.

Plus, Ye self-funded the tour after the original sponsor, Best Buy, pulled out, according to sources . But his hard work paid off, and the tour ended up a success, grossing $300 million.

The Fame Kills Tour

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In 2009, Lady Gaga and Kanye West announced their joint Fame Kills tour, which was due to kick off in Phoenix in November and keep the stars touring through to the new year.

The tour sounded like it was all set, with Gaga going on air to describe the creative process for the tour: how she and Kanye had designed a stage that would traverse the entire arena.

She explained that Kanye would represent “the fame,” and she would represent “home and humble beginnings,” and the two artists would be aiming to reach each other from either ends of the stage.

In early October, however, the show was cancelled , with little reason given. Some speculated that it was related to negative publicity surrounding West’s interruption of Taylor Swift’s VMA acceptance speech that month, and it would two more years before Kanye announced another tour.

The Watch the Throne Tour

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Length: October 29, 2011—June 22, 2012 Set designers: Esmeralda Devlin, Kanye West, DONDA, Bruce Rodgers, Nick Whitehouse, John McGuire, Geodezik Opening acts: None

“Attenborough BBC wildlife content and lasers” was the brief given to stage designer Es Devlin by Kanye for his tour with Jay Z in 2011.

The result: the incredible Watch the Throne tour featured the two performers perched on massive video cubes showing sharks, Rottweilers, crows, and tigers in a sea of darkness punctuated only by cellphone lights and piercing lasers.

As the pair played “Otis,” a giant American flag lit up the backdrop.

Devlin used hundreds of laser beams to create a myriad of different frames to this alternate world of geometric shapes, cascading light, wild animals, and its stars: Kanye West and Jay Z. The two lived up to the hype, and then some. Their habit of playing the smash hit “N****s in Paris” eight, nine, 10, or 12 times in a row quickly become the stuff of legend.

Partnering with Givenchy, for the most part, Yeezy dressed in slick black: t-shirts, leather pants and a big gold chain.

The tour grossed $47 million in 2012, in addition to the $48 million it earned in 2011, Bloomberg reported , and in the summer of 2012, Kanye West launched his own design company , DONDA, focused on “content, product, and experience.”

The Yeezus Tour

Length: October 19, 2013—December 23, 2013 Set designer: DONDA and Esmeralda Devlin Opening acts: Kendrick Lamar, A Tribe Called Quest, Travi$ Scott, and Pusha T

Kanye’s last tour was his most ambitious and daring yet.

Featuring a man-made mountain, diamond encrusted masks, and a catwalk, it was this tour that had the New York Post reviewer praising “an extravaganza of music and theater that gives the world windows into [West’s] erratic persona.”

This visual feast was created through collaboration between set designer Es Devlin, West’s design company DONDA, fashion house Maison Margiela, artist Vanessa Beecroft, and more. This was the tour burned into memory through those full-face masks. This was the tour where Ye staged the reincarnation of Jesus and delivered sermons on the state of the world.

Super-fan Matt Nein, 20, saw the show three times as it toured the States: once in Philly, once at Penn State, and once in Atlantic City, calling it “the pinnacle of rap shows.”

“Kanye and his crew did things that pushed the envelope artistically and haven’t been done before,” he explains, pointing out that as a rap fan, many shows he’s seen have turned on an artist rapping over their own voice, with a posse standing behind them onstage.

“Whether it was using an Xbox to track Kanye’s movements during ‘Black Skinhead’ or making it snow in the arena during ‘Coldest Winter,’ Kanye made sure to do things that people wouldn’t expect.”

The Yeezus stage set and concept—featuring a giant mountain that occasionally turned into a volcano—was described by reviewers as “half biblical allegory and half motivational seminar”.

It kicked off on Oct. 19 in Seattle, and Kanye opened with “On Sight” in a custom-made Margiela mask that obscured his whole face. West worked closely with Maison Margiela to curate the show, and his wardrobe for the Tour was composed of 10 couture pieces, 20 ready-to-wear pieces, and an exclusive pair of sneakers, as well as the famous masks.

Onstage, Devlin had constructed a mountain, which was sometimes wreathed in flames, sometimes covered with women in long white dresses. At times it would split in two halves, or become a volcano. There was an iceberg, 12 nude-nylon clad dancers, and a catwalk, alluding back to the fashion show created with Margiela.

The speeches also became a key part of the Yeezus show. “Through the Yeezus tour the sermons came thick, fast, and very very long,” Mark Beaumont writes .

But the show wasn’t bulletproof. The tour was postponed for 18 days when one of the trucks holding part of the 60-foot LED screen was in a car crash, and the equipment damaged beyond repair. Several shows were postponed or cancelled while the gear was rebuilt.

But as always, the show went on, with Rolling Stone calling it “truly electrifying.”

The Saint Pablo Tour

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Length: August 25—November 1 Set designer: DONDA SURROUND Opening acts: TBD

Last month, West announced The Saint Pablo Tour , his first North American tour in three years.

While very few clues to what fans can expect have been announced yet, more collaboration with visual artists, à la West’s “Famous” video, could be forthcoming.

The tour will visit nearly 40 cities across the U.S. and Canada—mainly playing arenas—including dates in New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto, Chicago, Montreal, Detroit, Washington DC, Miami, and more.

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It's June and Kanye West is in London to perform at the Concert For Diana.

Later this week he will give Princes William and Harry a signed copy of Raising Kanye , written by his mum, Donda West, and subtitled Life Lessons From The Mother Of A Hip-Hop Superstar .

Before that there is work to do. In a little over three months, Graduation , his third album of hyper-catchy songs, will be released. Though West is an incorrigible tinkerer, revising up to deadline (or, in the case of his Shirley Bassey-sampling hit "Diamonds From Sierra Leone", past it, so there are two versions), and the album is incomplete, the time's come to unveil it to his record company.

Employees arrange themselves on sofas in a Chiswick recording studio. It's a well-known drill; an after-hours kickback for staff to familiarise themselves with a record they will spend 12 months selling. Yet, as soon as West arrives wearing a rainbow-coloured polo shirt, outsized Air Jordans and a showy Jesus pendant, two things become apparent. The first is that participation is required. "Can everybody tell me where they're from?" he instructs, indicating when the next person should speak by pointing a chicken drumstick at them. "Beth, sales." "Luke, new media."

And so on. Then he connects his MacBook to the studio desk and the second thing makes itself known. This will be less a playback, more a performance. As the music booms out, he jumps up and down, playing air keyboards, drums and something that might be a harp, and acting out the lyrics. During "Goodbye" he drops the volume and performs the mid-section rap to the room. After "Can't Tell Me Nothing" he explains: "Those notes cut me right there. I listen to Coldplay, Keane and the Killers. Those are notes Keane would fuck with." Mid-"Good Morning" he says: "I must point out one line:

'I'm like the fly Malcolm X/By any jeans possible.' It's one of my favourite lines."

Afterwards, he gauges reactions. "It's incredible," someone offers. "It's euphoric... This one is going to lift people. I think you wrote a self-help book." "Thank you," West says. "It's, like, what if your drawbacks ended up being your superpower? I've always had an issue with masculinity. I'm like, 'I hope this person isn't looking at me like I'm a fag.' 'Cos I have some feminine ways. Maybe I'm not the guy who kicks off [a fight] in a club. Now I'm a 30-year-old, I've accepted that. Because of that I ended up having the No.1 album.

Because" - and here he slaps the back of his hand for emphasis - "people are tired of that." "I've realised," he concludes, "everything I'm not made me everything I am."

It is 48 hours later and Kanye West has been busy. In Paris he watched Louis Vuitton's spring/summer '08 menswear show. In London's Mayfair he attended a party hosted by Dita Von Teese. And at Wembley he rehearsed for the Concert For Diana. He has also been on the receiving end of some sparkling British wit. "I was in a club taking a piss and this guy was making comments like, 'Mr East!' just drunk and acting stupid, and he slaps me on the back to get my attention," he says. "And I told him: 'Look, I don't feel comfortable holding my dick with another man's hand on me. Unless you want me to turn around in the middle of this...'" No matter: West figures the incident will prove inspiring material for his new TV series, a comedy starring himself, directed by Curb Your Enthusiasm producer Larry Charles. The internet suggests it is an approximation of West's day-to-day life, with exaggerated funny bits. "Well, my life does have funny bits," he says. "I run in to so many characters."

We are in West's London hotel room. Powering though his breakfast (an All-Bran/Corn Flakes mix, two Diet Cokes, plus egg whites and turkey), he studies the plans for the house he's having built in LA, a mile from Madonna's place. After the last one was completed he decided he didn't like the renovations, and started again. This one, the work of Giorgio Armani and Calvin Klein-endorsed architect Claudio Silvestrin, has a 105ft wardrobe. West likes clothes. Foremost in his mind is what to wear at the concert. He's been looking for a red linen suit. But he's drawn a blank. It's not as if Hedi Slimane has been much help. "I tried calling him so many times," he sighs. "I don't know what he's doing." How does he think his style will hold up against the rest of GQ 's Men Of The Year? "There are people who dress better than me," he says, "just not many celebrities. Is Jude Law in there? I think I have leeway because I'm a rapper and I'm black. I think fashion people expect less of black people."

Talk turns to the concert. "We've only got seven minutes. But it's an incredible seven minutes," he says. "I sound the way I did when I first had sex. The Princes requested "Diamonds...". So we're ending with that."

According to West, he has more in common with Princess Diana that might be apparent. "People say there's a lot of parallels with us. Like her sticking to what she believed in."

A car accident also looms in West's biography - he recorded his first single, "Through The Wire", laid up with his jaw wired shut - although, that was because he fell asleep at the wheel. "Being willing to die for what you believe in is the mark of a true artist," he continues. "It's like that movie The Prestige where he's willing to kill himself to deliver that form of entertainment. I kill myself every night to pull this shit off."

He polishes off his breakfast and heads to Bond Street to look for his red suit. He doesn't find it. Instead he wears Dior trousers, a Lanvin jacket and white sunglasses with horizontal bars in the place of lenses that feature in Graduation 's art direction. "Settled for a red tie," he says, flapping a skinny Fred Perry number. The sunglasses, frankly, look rather impractical."They do kind of make me dizzy."

Along with his manager and PR, West travels to Wembley with his fiancée Alexis, his stylist Ibyn, the current Miss Swansea (who Ibyn has befriended), his bodyguard Barry, his mum Donda and his uncle Anthony (who sings backing vocals). Donda clutches a plastic pint of lager. She wonders about the line-up: "I don't know why they put Puffy [ P Diddy] afterwards."

At the stadium, David Beckham wrestles with his kids. A pregnant Lauren Laverne is sat in a plastic chair. Patsy Kensit whizzes past on a golf buggy. Ten minutes before their slot, Team West troop up to the stage. Take That's dancers limber up. Rod Stewart, live to 500 million people, is doing "Sailing". Then West decides instead of finishing with "Diamonds From Sierra Leone" he'd like to add "Jesus Walks".

A-Track, the man responsible for the backing music, looks green.

But West's seven minutes are terrific. Afterwards, West reviews himself on the camera. "We killed it," he says.

Everyone stays to watch Diddy. While West crammed five songs into his allotted time, it soon transpires he plans to stretch one - "I'll Be Missing You" - to fill his. The instrumental intro drags on. There are some ad-libs - "So compassionate, so royal, an incredible mother - make some noise for Princess Diana, y'all"; "Prince William, Prince Harry, we love you, we respect you" - then it finishes. "He's really doing one song?" says West. "Oh."

In hospitality Dennis Hopper sits in front of us, his hand on his wife's knee.

Boris Becker introduces himself - "A big fan" - though it's not clear West knows who he is. Perhaps he's thinking of the Princes.

Soon, he'll be ushered into a room where they'll express their thanks and, in return, he will give them their books. "Some days are better than others," he beams. "This is a good day."

Originally published in the October 2007 issue of British GQ.

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⟵ 2006 • 2007 • 2008 ⟶

In 2007 , Kanye West released his critically-acclaimed third studio album, Graduation . [1] In November, his mother, Donda , passed away due to complications from cosmetic surgery involving abdominoplasty and breast reduction. [2] [3]

• 1.2 Mixtape
• 1.3 Singles
• 1.4 Guest appearances
• 1.5 Production credits
• 7 September
• 10 References

Releases [ ]

• Graduation (September 11) [1]

Mixtape [ ]

• Can't Tell Me Nothing (May 27) [4]

Singles [ ]

• Can't Tell Me Nothing (May 15) [1]
• Stronger (July 31) [1]
• Good Life (ft. T-Pain ) (October 2) [1]
• Flashing Lights (ft. Dwele ) (November 12) [1]

Guest appearances [ ]

• The Game — Wouldn't Get Far (January 23) [5]
• Rakim , Kanye West , Nas & KRS-One — Classic (Better Than I've Ever Been) (February 20) [6]

Production credits [ ]

• The People (May 22) (single) [8]
• Drivin' Me Wild (August 31) (single) [9]

January [ ]

• 23: " Wouldn't Get Far " by The Game is released as its album's third single, after the album's release in November 2006. [5]

February [ ]

• 20: The joint single " Classic (Better Than I've Ever Been) " with Rakim , Nas , and KRS-One is released. [6]
• 15: " Can't Tell Me Nothing " is released as the lead single for Graduation . [1]
• 22: Common releases " The People " as the second single for his upcoming project Finding Forever . As with much of that album, this song is produced by Kanye. [8]
• 27: The Can't Tell Me Nothing mixtape is released. [4]
• 31: " Stronger " is released as the second single for Graduation . [1]
• 31: Common 's seventh studio album Finding Forever is released. A lot of the album's tracks are produced by Kanye. [7]
• 31: Common releases " Drivin' Me Wild " as the third single for his Finding Forever album, which was released exactly one month prior. This song is produced by Kanye, as is a lot of the aforementioned album. [9]

September [ ]

• 11: Graduation is released. [1]

October [ ]

• 2: " Good Life " is released as Graduation 's first post-release single, third overall. [1]

November [ ]

• 10: Kanye's mother, Donda West , passes away due to complications from a cosmetic surgery procedure. [2]

References [ ]

• ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Graduation (album) on Wikipedia.
• ↑ 2.0 2.1 Donda West on Wikipedia.
• ↑ Kanye West on Wikipedia.
• ↑ 4.0 4.1 Can't Tell Me Nothing (mixtape) on Wikipedia.
• ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Wouldn't Get Far on Wikipedia.
• ↑ 6.0 6.1 Classic (Better Than I've Ever Been) on Wikipedia.
• ↑ 7.0 7.1 Finding Forever on Wikipedia.
• ↑ 8.0 8.1 The People (Common song) on Wikipedia.
• ↑ 9.0 9.1 Drivin' Me Wild on Wikipedia.
• 1 List of unreleased albums
• 3 Yeezus II

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No pants, no problem.

Bianca Censori might have been (mostly) covered up on top during a lunch date with husband Kanye West, but she seemed to have forgotten the rest of her outfit as the couple headed out in Los Angeles Wednesday.

The Yeezy architect, 29, wore a white long-sleeved shirt for their outing at Chateau Marmont, pairing the sheer top — which she wore sans bra — with just a pair of high-cut nude thong panties.

Censori strutted through the hotel in her cheeky outfit, accessorizing with a tan cap and a pair of black heels.

Apart from her brief curly pink hair phase in June, the Australian beauty typically wears her brunette hair slicked-back, but she wore it down under her hat for their lunch date.

As for the “Flashing Lights” rapper, 47, he went for one of his usual casual looks in a black hoodie, pants and black Yeezy Pods sock-shoes.

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Of course, this isn’t the first time Censori — who married West in December 2022 — has rocked a pantsless look for a date with the “Gold Digger” singer.

Last week, she wore a pair of nude boyshorts with an ultra-tiny silver bikini top as the two enjoyed dinner and a movie in LA, and she sported a pair of her signature sheer tights and a strapless top while visiting a science museum in San Francisco earlier in July.

As for her next barely-there ‘fit, watch this space.

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Justin Timberlake seems to be saying bye, bye, bye to *NSYNC reunion tour talks -- 'cause he's the odd man out in terms of who's willing to talk about it ... TMZ has learned.

Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ ... Justin and his team have yet to address respective proposals for a possible *NSYNC stadium tour next summer -- this despite the fact Lance Bass , Chris Kirkpatrick , Joey Fatone and JC Chasez have all responded with interest after different promoters made their pitches 4 months ago.

In other words ... JT is the only one who hasn't engaged in these convos -- and we're told the other guys are disappointed with Justin's radio silence.

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We're told Sony was also hoping for a big push on the 25th anniversary for the sake of the band's old catalog. As we reported, the band has major music labels poking around to produce a new single or album.

Remember ... the *NSYNC guys have shown up for JT a lot over the past year -- all in an effort to supplement/promote his projects, but from their POV ... the favor ain't being returned.

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We’re told overtures were made to Justin to attend today; however, our JT sources say he couldn't be in NYC because he's in Europe getting ready for his show in Poland later this week.

Keep in mind, JT's got some legal issues to deal with right now -- so he might have bigger fish to fry than an *NSYNC reunion. All depends on how you look at it, we suppose.

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ScHoolboy Q has apparaently provided context to lyrics from a song on his new album, in which he speaks on a popular music artist that’s been “cancelled” in an “unfair” manner.

According to a social media user, the TDE rapper inadvertently revealed that the artist he was speaking of on the Blue Lips song “ Blueslides” was Kanye West during a recent live performance. Reddit user u/TheMisiak, who claims to have attended a concert headlined by Q as part of his Blue Lips Weekends tour, took to the platform to share his knowledge of the rapper’s revelation.

TheMisiak says he remembers ScHoolboy rapping West’s name during the edited portion of the song’s official version released on Blue Lips . “When Q performed Blueslides he didn't censor himself like he did on the track itself,” the fan wrote on Reddit.

“Just thought it was interesting that he waited until the tour to reveal who he was referencing,” the user wrote. “While doing his interview with Nadeska he wouldn't elaborate on what that line meant or who he was talking about. Also if there are still tickets available in your city for his show I cannot recommend going enough. Best concert of my life.”

Reactions to the user’s initial post varied, with a large contingent of commenters expressing their belief that West was not actually “cancelled” and that any scrutiny or backlash received was well-deserved according to his divisive actions and statements.

On the second verse on “Blueslides,” the first single released from Blue Lips, ScHoolboy Q raps, “You ni**as see what I see?/ You ni**as really cancelled-, ni**a, I ain’t with it, nah/ We was screamin’, ‘mental health,’ and now we wanna kill ’em all,” lyrics that led to speculation regarding the identity of the unnamed “cancelled” figure.

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