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John Harwood on Obama’s ‘Jackass’ Comment

by Andrew Hibbard on September 15, 2009

CNBC’s Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood, a Duke alum, weighed in on ABC leaking President Barack Obama’s now infamous “jackass” comment about Kanye West at the VMAs over on Michael Calderone’s Blog on Politico.  Harwood said he deemed the comment off the record.
“The custom in television, as I understand it, is that when you have [...]

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LIVE BLOG: 2009 VMA’s

by Jordan Axt on September 13, 2009

Post Script:  I have to pass this along.  Some people have noticed a certain Michael Jackson dancer had not quite mastered the “Smooth Criminal Lean” in time for the VMA’s.  Check out the 3:34 mark on this video.  You’ll know who it is.  The King of Pop would not be pleased.
11:30 PM Personally, I think [...]

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Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label (the acronym stands for Getting Out Our Dreams) is gathering a pretty impressive stable of artists. A glance at the roster shows long-established names like Common and John Legend alongside up-and-comers like Kid Cudi and Fonzworth Bentley. And right at the top (alphabetically) of these names is Big Sean, known [...]

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Pop Psychology: “Welcome To Heartbreak”

by Jordan Axt on April 6, 2009

Okay, okay. I am aware that there are other musicians aside from Kanye West, and I promise that this will be the last Kanye/Kid Cudi-related “Pop Psychology” entry for a while. That said, I think the most recent single from 808s and Heartbreaks tackles a very important issue. In a polarizing (and [...]

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Pop Psychology: Kanye West’s “Good Life”

by Jordan Axt on March 23, 2009

Kanye West’s 2007 hit “Good Life” is really just a more catchy version of a lot of bad hip hop songs. In the track, which has a very entertaining video that can be found here, West simply lists off all of the possessions and sexual conquests that he believes will make him happy. [...]

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Top 10 of 2008: By the Numbers

by Andrew Hibbard on December 15, 2008

A whole 17 days before the year ends, we did it. We summarized the best our favorite music of 2008 on our humble blog, and its name was Justin Vernon. The Jagjaguwar re-release of Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago, our favorite album of the year, made it into six of our nine lists, all [...]

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