Kanye West

The case against re-recording albums

28 October 2023 9:00 am

In 2012, Jeff Lynne released Mr Blue Sky: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra. Except it wasn’t. It was…

Cancelled Kanye West buys cancelled free speech platform Parler

18 October 2022 4:20 am

Hear Ye Hear Ye! The news today has broken that Kanye West – who calls himself Ye – has bought Parler, the…

Repetitive, spiritless, god-bothering music: Kanye West's Donda reviewed

4 September 2021 9:00 am

Grade: C– The nicest thing one can say is that this is a marginally better album than we would have…

The art of Dolly Parton’s bra

26 June 2021 9:00 am

New York I hope this is my last week in the Bagel. I plan to fly first to Switzerland and…

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Kanye West is the sanest presidential candidate

24 July 2020 5:51 am

Kanye West has again proven his ability to draw the attention, fascination and ire of the public — this time…

If only Kanye’s run were serious

11 July 2020 5:05 am

It was June 2015. Bill Maher was holding court with assorted journalists to discuss the 2016 race. The Republican field…

Kanye West and the uncancellables

8 July 2020 1:47 am

For better or worse, the rapper, producer and sneaker salesman Kanye West is almost certainly not running for president, as…

Kanye wipes the floor with David Letterman

6 July 2019 9:00 am

My plan to cut the BBC out of my life entirely is working well. Apart from the occasional forgivable lapse…

Unignorable and uncontrollable

Musically, politically and culturally, Kanye West is uncontrollable and unignorable

9 June 2018 9:00 am

Kanye West is more than halfway in to the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame — if his politics don’t block the…

Michael Eavis has brought more joy to more people than almost any Englishman alive

4 July 2015 9:00 am

I had meant to write a dispassionate account of this year’s Glastonbury, really I had. But I’m afraid my plans…

By, with, of and for Kim Kardashian — keeping up with Kulture

30 May 2015 9:00 am

The almond eyes that rise towards their outer edges. The cheekbones that curve down to the corners of those upholstered…

Top Five reviewed: Chris Rock hits rock bottom

9 May 2015 9:00 am

The oeuvre of Chris Rock may not be fully known in this parish. He was the African-American stand-up who made…

RIP, Time magazine

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Talk about how the mighty have fallen. Time magazine was for the better part of the 20th century the model…

Superstar curators like Hans Ulrich Obrist tour the world making items desirable through their selection alone, while paranoically insisting that what they do is ‘work’. Study for Tate Modern Sign (Bill Burns, 2012)

Spoilt for choice: we are all curators now

18 April 2015 9:00 am

As words commonly used to write about the visual arts become increasingly useful to advertisers, ‘to curate’ is becoming the…

Make no mistake: the Top Gear brouhaha is cultural warfare

28 March 2015 9:00 am

It’s a famous quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one that Elton John should ponder (when he’s not out shopping, that…