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Kid Cudi To Tour With Lady Gaga

Danielle Canada — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:35:09 +0000

Just a few short weeks after the “Fame Kills Tour” with Lady Gaga and Kanye West was unexpectedly axed, the' lady of the house' is announcing that the show must go on and is tapping one of Hip-Hop's biggest newcomers to help. Kid Cudi's set to replace the head of G.O.O.D. Music and has been added as the opening act for the British songstress' “The Monster Ball” tour.

Described as a “multimedia artistic experience in the style of the first-ever pop electro opera”, the tour features Gaga and Cudi touching down in over 20 cities in intimate concert venues.

The MC will join Gaga when it kicks off November 27 in Montreal, Canada.

Cudi will keep busy until then preparing an acceptance speech in case he wins an American Music Award for ‘Best Breakthrough Artist' on November 22.

The “Monster Ball” tour dates are listed below:

Nov 27 - Montreal, Quebec, Canada at The Bell Center
Nov 28 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada at Air Canada Center
Nov 29 - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at Scotiabank Place
Dec 01 - Boston, MA at Wang Center
Dec 02 - Boston, MA at Wang Center
Dec 03 - Camden, NJ at Susquehanna
Dec 09 - Vancouver, BC, Canada at Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Dec 10 - Vancouver, BC, Canada at Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Dec 13 - San Francisco, CA at Bill Graham Civic
Dec 18 - Las Vegas, NV at TBD
Dec 19 - San Diego, CA at San Diego Sports Arena
Dec 21 - Los Angeles, CA at Nokia Theatre
Dec 29 - Atlanta, GA at Fox Theater
Dec 31 - Miami, FL at Knight Center
Jan 03 - Orlando, FL at The Hard Rock
Jan 07 - St. Louis, MO at The Fox
Jan 08 - Chicago, IL at Chicago Theatre
Jan 09 - Chicago, IL at Chicago Theatre
Jan 12 - Detroit, MI at Fox Theater
Jan 16 - Atlantic City , NJ at Borgata
Jan 20 - New York, NY at Radio City Music Hall
Jan 21 - New York, NY at Radio City Music Hall

Where Are You Yeezy? Kanye West Tries To Find Himself In India

dummyhhwmadamtoussaint — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:19:13 +0000

I don't know about you but I feel like I saw this coming a mile away. Recently named one of MTV's “Hottest MCs in the Game”, Kanye West was also nominated for a whopping nine awards Saturday evening on October 10, but he did not show up to the 4th Annual BET Hip Hop Awards.

The word is after the Taylor Swift-gate Ye was going to take some time off. Then came news of Kayne backing out of the highly anticipated Fame Kills Tour with Lady Gaga and the never ending photo ops with Amber Rose.

Now Kayne is reportedly spending a month at a Hindu retreat in India.

There has been a lot of speculation about some of the choices Kanye West has been making in his life since the death of his mother in 2007 due to complications during surgery. Some say the 32 year old Ye has lost his way.

It seems West is taking some time out now for a religious retreat to reassess his life at a Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, a small coastal town in South India. According to an inside source he sees his life going in the wrong direction and feels badly about the VMA's incident.

I knew Kanye was headed for a sabbatical when I heard the Beyonce "Ego" Remix featuring the Chi-town rapper. These lyrics made me think he was headed for disaster.

Now im standing next to Jay who standing next to B
Could've been anywhere in the world but you're here with me
That's good for my ego, ha ha, me and my ego
And he go everywhere we go
My ego is my imaginary friend
He was with me when I was only imagining
I had dreams of the league,
one day I'd play Kobe or walk up to Puff
and he would really know me.
Couldn't let the dream killers kill my self-esteem.
Or use the arrogance as the steam that power my dreams and my ego

It's a celebrity like this that ends up collapsing under the weight of stuff like this. His celebration of ego had me visualizing Kanye on top of a mountain in Tibet sitting with monks, trying to find out the meaning of life and the right size for the ego. He'd put on one of their robes and drink goji berry juice.

After coming down from that thin, enlightening mountain air and getting back to his celebrity he would blog about how everybody should try goji berry juice and meditate. Maybe even throw it in a song or too and make you feel pedestrian for now being up on this new, hot ancient freshness like him.

Surely he would slip into excesses and attention whoreiness again but he'd take another sabbatical before the next album and repeat the process again.

Ok, so I was off a bit about the country. Also, I thought this "breakdown" would happen sooner, with emotional lower stakes in the media's response to his actions and that he would be back to being the Kanye South Park loved to make fun of by now.

I'll bet he is going through a rough time right now and a retreat would probably be good for him. I in no way want to make light of what Kanye West must be feeling right now and I think the loss of his mother plays a big role in this.

Hopefully he can come back an even more refreshing and creative Kanye than the one the won us over with his debut The College Dropout in 2004. Hopefully he will be more at peace but still outspoken and eager as ever...and probably with a song like Alanis Morrissette's thanking India.

50 Apologizes For Kanye Comments, Album Cover Revealed

Danielle Canada — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:16:48 +0000

Just when you thought 50 Cent had no heart, he turns around and proves everyone wrong. Or does he? His PR team was no doubt in overdrive to clean up the comments he made Wednesday on Hot 97's Angie Martinez Show. As previously reported, Fif made it no secret his thoughts about the now cancelled ‘Fame Kills' tour with Kanye West and Lady Gaga, deeming it the “gay tour.” Now he claims that he was just misunderstood. Yeah, right.

He explained himself saying:

“During an interview with Angie Martinez yesterday, certain comments I made were taken entirely out of context.
"When I referred to the Lady Gaga tour as ‘the gay tour,' I was basically repeating what I thought she had referred to the tour in the past.”

He also adds that his words were not meant to be offensive and seems to take a slight jab at Ye again. He calls out Lady Gaga directly saying that she makes “great music” but doesn't mention Kanye. Instead he says he doesn't “have a problem with anyone's lifestyle.”

"It was not my intention to offend anyone. I don't have a problem with anyone's lifestyle and have no issue with Lady Gaga. She makes great music."

Is it just me or did he just call him gay again on the low?

While he's steady throwing low key insults, 50's revealed the album cover for his latest album, ‘Before I Self Destruct.' The album cover is fitting showing a close up of the MC looking like he's half man and half machine with one side of his face destructing. The album will hit stores November 17.

Peep the cover art below: