Kanye West

Kim and Kanye name third child

New York - Muslimchronicle

Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West have called their third child Chicago, the reality star announced Friday, opening the floodgates to hefty doses of mockery and consternation on social media. Kardashian West announced the name on her app, later suggesting the little girl already has a nickname. "North, Saint and Chi," she tweeted to her 58.4 million followers -- to be pronounced "Shy"Read more

Kim Kardashian announces birth of third child

New York - Muslimchronicle

Reality star Kim Kardashian and her rapper husband Kanye West Tuesday announced the birth of their third child, a baby girl who was born via a surrogate. "She is here! We're so in love," Kardashian, 37, wrote in a post on her website which she then shared with her 58.3 million Twitter followers. In a brief message, she wrote that their "healthy, beautiful" daughterRead more

Parallel geniuses? Composer mashes up Beethoven and Kanye

Washington - Muslimchronicle

The orchestra charges into the furious opening notes from the last movement of Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14. A drum-set kicks in, giving way to a new melody. The violins are still in charge. But suddenly the theme isn't Beethoven but a symphonic take on "On Sight," the abrasive starting salvo of Kanye West's "Yeezus" album. The crowd, standing close-up,Read more

Kanye West makes brief return year after breakdown

Washington - AFP

Rap superstar Kanye West is back nearly a year after suffering a breakdown -- making a brief musical appearance in which he appears to keep his feud with Taylor Swift alive. West, a once omnipresent celebrity with a prolific media presence and high-profile marriage to Kim Kardashian, abruptly ended a tour and was hospitalized in November 2016 after unusual rantsRead more

Kanye pushes back against fan suit on exclusive album deal

New York - AFP

Kanye West is fighting back against a lawsuit by a fan who says the rapper duped listeners into subscribing to the Tidal music service to hear his last album. The lawsuit -- filed as a class-action suit, in which other disgruntled fans could join and win damages -- is one of the first to test the legal responsibilities of artistsRead more

Kanye West settles with Hungarian singer over alleged song theft

Los Angeles - Arab Today

Kanye West has settled a lawsuit by a Hungarian rock singer who accused the hip-hop star of sampling one of his best-known works without permission for the 2013 song “New Slaves.” The accord resolves claims that 85 seconds, or one-third, of “New Slaves,” which appeared on the No. 1 album “Yeezus,” was a copy of the plaintiff Gabor Presser’s 1969Read more

Kim Kardashian opens up about robbery for first time

Paris - Arab today

On Sunday’s episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kim Kardashian-West opened up about being robbed at gunpoint last year in Paris. “The guy came in, grabbed the phone from me, threw me on the bed and I was like, ‘This is it,’ “ she recalled. The episode, which comes nearly six months after thieves stole more than $10 million (Dh36 million)Read more

Drake returns with dancehall beats and big-name guests

New York - AFP

Drake, the prolific hip-hop star who was last year's top-selling artist, has returned with a song collection in which he ventures further into dancehall rhythms and taps fellow big names. The Toronto rapper, who has long challenged industry definitions, on Saturday dropped "More Life" and called it not an album or a mixtape but his first playlist. "More Life" isRead more

Has Kanye West dumped Trump?

New York - Arab Today

Kanye West, one of Donald Trump’s biggest celebrity supporters, appeared to have deleted his tweets about his meeting last year with the then US president-elect in which the two discussed multicultural issues. The influential rapper’s handful of Twitter entries from their Dec. 13 meeting at Trump Tower in New York, where West said he had wanted to discuss “bullying, supportingRead more

Kim and Kanye deny there’s trouble in their marriage

Washington - ArabToday

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian West has denied new claims that her marriage to rapper Kanye West is over. The reality star faced speculation that her marriage is on the rocks once again, amid reports she ordered him to stay away from her mother Kris Jenner’s annual Christmas Eve party as she partied with her sisters without her wedding ring,Read more