The Grammy nominations were released today, and lover-of-ill-fitting-pants Lil' Wayne leads the pack with eight nominations, including a nod for album of the year. Instead of a trophy, can someone get the man a belt? Or a visit from Stacy and Clinton?
Other nominees include Mollygood favorite Coldplay with seven nods; Ne-Yo, Jay-Z and anger management spokesperson Kanye West with six nods each; and Radiohead with five nods.
And you know the Jonas Brothers will beat out Duffy or Adele for Best New Artist, because the Academy doesn't want to be on the receiving end of any tween-induced riots. For shame.
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Kanye West forgot to take his meds and has once again started spewing his patented brand of crazy, this time referring to Beyonce as the greatest singer of all time:
She is just as great, if not greater, than artists we had in the past. … She’s probably greater than Tina Turner. … Nobody really wants to recognize that Beyoncé is a f***ing living legend.
You guys, I'm really concerned. Where are the ALL CAPS as of late? It's like Kanye's slowly getting crazier, but it's not as fun anymore without all that banging on the MacBook Air and calling everybody "squid brains." What about icing your knees at the airport, Kanye? Can you talk about that some more? We miss those stories. Come back to us.
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• Guess who's posing for Playboy. [DListed]
• Amy Winehouse finally dumped Blake Incarcerated, but you know it won't last for long. [Yeeeah]
• Beyonce introduces the latest line of annoying celebrity eyewear. Kanye would be proud. [INO]
• For your viewing (dis)pleasure: All of last night's American Music Awards performances. [HT]
• Hollywood's newest (and prettiest) couple: Leonardo DiCaprio and Zac Efron. [PS]
• Suri Cruise is totally over the paparazzi. [ICYDK]
America's sweetheart Kanye West took to his blog this weekend to rant about the fact that he doesn't listen to rap music in his apartment. Fair enough. But the most interesting moment came at the end of his post:
SIDEBAR: I USE ALL CAPS CAUSE I'M LAZY NOT MAD. I TYPE WITH ONE HAND AND HOLD THE PHONE WITH THE OTHER.
Finally someone is speaking out about this. We can't begin to describe the strenuous feeling that washes over us every time we have to move our pinky finger over to hold down the Shift key. And, while we're at it, moving our thumb to hold down the space bar in between words is pretty tiring as well.
GOTTHATSQUIDBRAINS!!!!
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There's no amount of money in the world that would make us sit through the American Music Awards (OK, that's not entirely accurate), so instead of a write-up of the snooze-fest, here's an exhaustive collection of photos. From the looks of things, Miley Cyrus once again made the entire event all about her (and her 16th birthday, which she's been celebrating for the past few months). Surprise, surprise.
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• That precious puppy cam is taking the world by storm. [DListed]
• Kanye West was arrested for assaulting a paparazzo. No, this isn't news from a couple months ago — it actually happened again. [INO]
• The Jonas Brothers make normal feuds sleep-inducing. Where are the train wrecks? [Yeeeah]
• Hilary Duff will be returning to our television screens in the near future. Well, at least she's no longer trying to sing. [ICYDK]
• Don't make a kissy face at us, Beyonce. [CityRag]
• Is it really necessary to show off this celebrity butt crack? [PS]
Kanye West needs to get his diaper changed or something, because this is the second day in a row that the rapper has indulged in one of his infamous rants. This time, he's back with his I'm The Greatest theme.
I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice. It's me settling into that position of just really accepting that it's one thing to say you want to do it, and it's another thing to really end up being like Michael Jordan.
There were people who had the potential to do it but they went on vacation, so when Justin [Timberlake] went on vacation I made albums. And it just came out to be that.
Yes, Kanye. It's a good thing Justin Timberlake stepped out of the spotlight so you could sneak in. If that former boy bander wouldn't have taken a vacation, there was no hope for anyone. Just look at that threatening face.
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Just when you start to feel sorry for motherless Kanye West, he has to go off on another one of his deranged tangents about things of no importance whatsoever. This time around, his anger is directed at the MTV Video Music Awards — one of the most legitimate and respected musical events of the year. Except, you know, not.
You see, Kanye thinks these awards shows — both in America and Europe — are "fixed," and he's not OK with the winners of this year's crop:
Britney Spears over Rihanna? Are you serious? I mean f—ing Jared Leto? He's my boy but he shouldn't have won over some of those other artists. I won nothing last year and I'd brought out 'Stronger.' Then this year, just because I was there, I won best urban act. This was Lil Wayne's year.
Yeah, imbeciles! You don't have any respect for the sacred MTV VMAs. Lil Wayne should have won, after all those times he walked through the airport with ice on his knees and his pants around his ankles. That takes dedication! Sheesh, effing squid brains.
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I moved to California, so did my mom. I feel my mom moved to California and did stuff that she wouldn’t have done if she was still in Chicago.
-Kanye West, on his mother, Donda, who last year died of complications from a plastic surgery procedure
There's a new obnoxious celebrity duo on the loose: Anonymous sources (who are always reliable) spilled the beans that Kanye West and Aubrey O'Day were making out recently at NYC's 1Oak. "Either they actually kissed, or Aubrey was just telling people they kissed." Here's hoping it's the latter, and Kanye offers up an amazing caps-locked blog post about how he was too busy icing his knees at the airport to be making out with the former Danity Kane nightmare.
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Raven Symone, a Cosby Show alum and former Disney star (before Miley Cyrus came along), is evidently a paparazzi target. Why any publications would want to run pictures of Raven is beyond us — this girl typically keeps to herself and doesn't do anything scandalous or exciting. Until now.
See, Raven has some sort of issue with her eyebrows. They don't look like typical eyebrows, so she normally has to fill them in. One day she got lazy and didn't take the time to do that (understandable), and the paparazzi snapped away, which led to people making fun of her eyebrows and weight issues. Up until this point we're on Raven's side — but then she had to take to her MySpace, of all places, and give us a Kanye-esque caps lock tirade of epic proportions. There's lots of exclamation points and typos, just to keep it real.
We thought about breaking it up into multiple paragraphs for your reading pleasure, but this is the way Raven intended to write her rant, so we must respect her wishes. Good luck reading the block of anger (after the jump). CONTINUED »
Two things of note here: 1. See? Told you that dancing thing was a myth, and 2. What a shame to see how to the letter rappers around the world are copying the insufferable Kanye West.
Kanye West released the characteristically-eccentric video for his new song, "Love Lockdown," on Ellen today. While he was there, he said he is trying to do his mom proud by "not [getting] hung up on the small things." He hasn't quite perfected that one yet.
Kanye West, with his clothing line and suspiciously-active blog and new Comedy Central show, is obviously trying to expand his reach in the entertainment and business world. But one of his ventures has hit a road block. West recently shot a pilot for a new scripted-but-improvised comedy show on HBO with Larry Charles, the producer behind Curb Your Enthusiasm, Borat, and Bill Maher's upcoming Religulous. We might not ever see it.
Good news for Kanye West: Looks like he's going to get off without a felony charge after getting into a scuffle with the paparazzi at Los Angeles International Airport last week. According to a law enforcement source, "The thing Kanye had was a detachable flash. It's not of felony value. It wasn't worth $400."
His road manager, Don Crowley, won't get off that easily, because he smashed the body of the photographer's expensive camera on the ground and went on to swipe at the TMZ camera.
That's all good and well, but we want to hear what Kanye has to say about this whole situation. Lord help that MacBook Air.
The paparazzi have been having a tough go at it lately when it comes to celebrities in airports: First was the epic fight with Kanye West, and now the photogs have been duped by a Jamie Lynn Spears decoy. Just a note: If a Spears outsmarts you, you know it's time to pack it up and call it a day. Anyway, the trickery took place Wednesday when a group of police officers escorted a young blonde girl with sunglasses from her flight to baggage claim. The paparazzi immediately swarmed; meanwhile, Jamie Lynn and baby Maddie snuck out another way.
LA police swore they were not escorting the woman — they were simply helping guide the crowd to baggage claim. Um, except that wasn't the case. Watch the video here.
From West's blog:
We back in the lab!!! I'm cool with the paparazzi. This guy wasn't cool. I gotta work now… I'll rant later!
Remember when Kanye West pushed through a crowd of people and interrupted an interview in order to declare that Barack Obama's DNC speech inspired him to be a better person? Apparently Yeezy's already forgotten about that proclamation and has resumed being a temper-driven mess. Surprise!
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