Kanye West

The Six Most Factually Inaccurate Lyrics In Songs

Songs exist in a general realm of fiction, even when they are theoretically true. Still, every once in a while a lyric comes along that makes you tilt your head and say "Wait a second..." Here are the six most factually inaccurate lyrics in songs. Let us know your favorites in the comments, and plea ... More >>

Sorry, But Kanye Is the GOAT

Kanye West is the greatest hip-hop artist of all time. He's made the best albums and changed the game the most, and his music is the most likely to endure. One thing before we get going: This isn't one of those arguments meant to piss people off or "start a conversation." I really mean it. And, co ... More >>

Kendrick Lamar's Debut is One of the Most Important Hip-Hop Albums of Our Era

Editor: Tef Poe is an artist from St. Louis City. Through powerful imagery and complicated honesty, he has earned a reputation as one of the best rappers telling the story of St. Louis, which is about much more than one place. Poe has been featured in music publications such as XXL and Urb Magazine. ... More >>

The Six Strangest Crossover Attempts By Jazz Musicians

About a week ago, our Northwest sister paper Seattle Weekly ran a post about the diminishing popularity of jazz. Watch for a lengthy reply by RFT Music's devilishly handsome resident jazz guitar school dropout later this week. In the meantime, here are the six most bizarre crossover attempts by jazz ... More >>

Liking Pavement and Kanye West for the Wrong Reasons

Demographically speaking -- I'm white and I wish I could play electric guitar and I went to a four-year university -- it was inevitable that at some point I would become a fan of Pavement. My friend is white and once probably said he didn't like Kanye West, so it was inevitable that at some point he ... More >>

Will Kanye West Ever Stop Talking About His Clique?

Kanye West is rich. You might think it's easy being rich, but in fact it is often very hard to be rich; sometimes you manipulate people, and other times they manipulate you. Also, rich people have terrible taste in consumer goods, and hang out with each other to talk about how they were the only peo ... More >>

Obscurity Sucks

There is no conversation about music that is less interesting than one party talking about a band/album/song/genre that the other has never heard of or heard. Obscurity is a necessary evil when dealing with music, particularly for those constantly seeking a new aural thrill. But taking pride in obsc ... More >>

Nigel Godrich and Six Other Producers Who Stepped in Front of a Mic

If there was ever an example a good musical soldier, it would be Nigel Godrich. The British producer has been an essential behind-the-scenes figure with Radiohead for years and years and years, so much so that he's colliquolly referred to as a sixth member of the band. Radiohead's titanic sound sh ... More >>

The Six Most Absurd Pop Songs of 2011

​The old model of popular music: dumb it down to the lowest common denominator and make it go down easy. Reviewing the Billboard and iTunes charts of this past year, the tides have obviously changed. In days when nobody is buying, the flashiest, loudest, weirdest thing sells -- how else can yo ... More >>

Plympton Comes Alive

Fashion Week Music: The Highlights, The Appearances And The Odd Soundtracks

Richard GuatyAnna Wintour eyeballing Nicki's tights. Oh, to peek inside the mind of the Vogue editrix in chief in this moment.​Thank science Fashion Week is over. Isn't it just torture? If there's something worse than not being in New York City for the circus that is Mercedes Benz Fashion Week ... More >>

Kanye West Is Batshit Crazy: Decoding The Ten Boasts That Prove It

Image viaThe rules of the game: Try to guess what Kanye meant by these quotes in less time than it takes to make sure you read them correctly.​The only thing that's legitimately surprising about Kanye West comparing himself to Hitler last weekend is that he did so in a negative sense. To the a ... More >>

Kanye West and Jay-Z, The Horrors, Pepper Rabbit: This Week's New Releases

​​Each Tuesday, record-store clerks unpack boxes of albums and restock shelves with the latest releases. This week brings many notable releases, including the much-anticipated collaboration between Kanye West and Jay-Z, British shoegaze punks the Horrors and Pepper Rabbit.

Kanye West Runs A Suitor Over On His Bike In Throwback "Mama's Boyfriend"

​Before My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy fused the two sides of Kanye West into a paranoid (beautiful, dark, twisted) mess of triumphalism and (twisted) Chris Rock-aided introspection there were two West figures in evidence on his albums--the massively confident rapper and the confused, angry ... More >>

Kanye West Crashes Movie Posters

Elaine MarschikI'mma let you finish your movie, alright. But not before I let you know how awesome it would be if you let Kanye up in this mother fucker.​Kanye West loves dropping movie quotes into his lyrics. With plenty of rhyme but no reason Kanye manages to draw from an impressive range of ... More >>

Coachella 2011 Lineup: Kanye West, Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon, The Strokes

Those sneaky birds at Coachella announced their 2011 lineup about twenty minutes ago. Despite the off-hour, that hasn't stopped the Internet from being all aflutter at the announcement. The headliners of the event this year are Arcade Fire, Kanye West and Kings of Leon; The Strokes, Animal Collectiv ... More >>

Kanye West's New Food Lyrics

Screenshot: noonemanshouldhaveallthatflour.tumblr.com​For several weeks now, Kanye West's new album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, has been playing nonstop at Gut Check International Headquarters. So we were excited to discover, via Grub Street, No One Man Should Have All That Flour, which po ... More >>

Video: Kanye West, "Monster" -- The Muppet Remix

All hail an elusive crew called the Galaxy World, who just unleashed this spectacular video splicing together footage of the Muppets with Kanye West's "Monster." The clip has everything, including Miss Piggy vamping and doing her best Nicki Minaj impression. A . View the video below -- and watch it ... More >>

2010: The Year In Music

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of December 6-12, 2010

* = local, = coming to town ​Vintage Vinyl 1. T.I.---No Mercy 2. KANYE WEST---My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 3. CHARLIE WILSON---Just Charlie 4. ERIC BENET---Lost In Time* 5. QUINCY JONES---Q: Soul Bossa Nostra 6. NICKI MINAJ---Pink Friday 7. TEMPTATIONS---Give Love At Christmas 8. ANGEL ... More >>

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of November 29 through December 5

* = coming to town, = local ​Euclid Records 1. Shelby Lynne - - Merry Christmas 2. Various Artists - - A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector 3. Mavis Staples - - You Are Not Alone 4. Doors - - Live in Vancouver 1970 5. Norah Jones - - Featuring Norah Jones

New Release Highlights For November 22: A Special Monday Edition

(New releases come out on Monday this week. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on? Find out below.) The Alchemist and Oh No join forces as Gangrene​*Gangrene, Gutter Water Gangrene is a collaboration between the Alchemist and Oh No. Pitchfork gave Gangrene a 6.7, saying "the rapping ... More >>

Common, DJ Needles at Celebrate St. Louis, Friday, July 9

Although this year's mammoth Celebrate St. Louis concert series has been moved off the levee due to high water levels on the Mississippi (and is therefore no longer called Live on the Levee), the change of venue had little effect on the huge turnout. Fans piled into Soldiers Memorial Park to see Chi ... More >>

[Confirmed!] Lady Gaga and Kid Cudi in St. Louis in January?

According to Pollstar and her own website, Lady Gaga will be at the Fabulous Fox on Thursday, January 7, 2010. Hotly tipped hip-hop artist Kid Cudi is the opener. LG certainly wasted no time getting a tour together after her planned jaunt with Kanye West fell through in September. When the show ... More >>

Kanye West and Lady Gaga *Not* Coming to St. Louis

So, Kanye West and Lady Gaga's "Fame Kills" tour has been canceled, before it even started. According to Livenation:Live Nation announced today that the Kanye West and Lady Gaga "Fame Kills" tour has been cancelled, including the show scheduled for Friday, December 4th at Scottrade Center in Saint L ... More >>

Kanye West, Serena Williams and Rep. Joe Wilson: Who is the Bigger Ass Clown?

We here at Daily RFT apologize for this delayed version of Ass Clown of the Week this week, what with Kanye West's late arrival into the mix and regular news blogger Chad Garrison away from the computer screen for the next few days. So who was the rudest among these three Ass Clowns?Joe "YOU LIE!" W ... More >>

Lady Gaga and Kanye West in St. Louis?

According to Pollstar, Lady Gaga and Kanye West's "Fame Kills" tour is set to hit St. Louis on Friday, December 4, at the Scottrade Center. Neither Ticketmaster nor the Scottrade's website has this info yet, so consider it tentative until we do get word. In light of last night's events -- i.e., when ... More >>

Jumbling Towers Covers Kanye West's "Heartless"

Jumbling Towers is roaring back to activity in fine form in the months leading up to its September 11 St. Louis return. The Catbirdseat just posted "Gilberta," which is the b-side to forthcoming single "Kanetown City Rips," and the band very quietly just posted a cover of Kanye West's "Heartless" on ... More >>

Lupe Fiasco

8 p.m. Saturday, August 1. Live on the Levee, Gateway Arch and Jefferson Expansion Memorial.

Open Comment Thread: The 2009 Grammy Awards

Because I'm on vacation, I'm writing this FROM THE PAST (ooh, spooky), and there won't be any live-blogging about Sunday's Grammy Awards broadcast from me this year. However, consider this post an open commenting thread for the show. According to Grammy.com, the list of performers is crazytown:Curre ... More >>

Video: Girl Talk at the Pageant, Thursday, January 8

Our man Chad Garrison snagged some video from the balcony at last night's Girl Talk show. He caught the section featuring the Kelis/White Zombie mash-up, straight into Kanye West's "Love Lockdown." The crowd reaction as soon as it recognized West's tune is priceless.  

Top Ten Hip-Hop Albums Of 2008

A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end lists should be ... More >>

Video: Nelly Interview (Part 4): 'Keep Thinking Ahead, Keep Being Creative'

Video: Nelly Interview (Part 2): Talking Collaborators and Kanye West

Video: St. Louis Superstar Rapper Nelly Talks about His Upcoming Album, Brass Knuckles

Lollapalooza 2008 Lineup Leaked: Radiohead, NIN, Wilco, Kanye West, Explosions in the Sky, Love and Rockets, The National, Lupe Fiasco, more!

2008 Grammy Awards: The Liveblog

Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire Chat about Year-End Poll Results

Face the Nation

We find out what rocked across the country in 2007.

2007 MTV VMAs Wrap-Up: Stream-of-Conscious about Britney, Timberlake and more

2006: The Year in Music

Week of December 28, 2006

Pharrell

In My Mind (Star Trak/Interscope)

Get Down with Dave

Chappelle returns with a raucous Block Party

Healthy Distrust

Hip-hop's trends in 2005

Hip-Hop, Year 2 A.J.

Still no Jigga, but Kanye, some loveable Limeys and a great Beyoncé substitute held it down

The Mad Blogger

Byron Crawford takes no prisoners. Don't screw with him.

Late to the Game

Kanye West tries to live up to the hype -- and nearly succeeds

God Save the Scene

Sassy Brits, hoochie mamas and a dude named Beans attempted to invigorate a stagnant year for hip-hop.

Kanye West

College Dropout (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)