Kanye West has another opportunity to cause controversy at an award show- as he’s up for nine BET Awards.

The rapper has the most nominations for the ceremony- which will take place in Atlanta in October.

Lil Wayne and Jay-Z are both up for seven BET- Black Entertainment Television- awards. LL Cool J will pick up a special lifetime achievement prize.

Let’s hope West behaves himself this time. On Sunday he jumped on stage as Taylor Swift was accepting an award and said Beyonce was better.

He has since apologised on his blog and on Jay Leno’s chatshow.

http://www.mtv.co.uk/artists/kanye-w...p-for-9-awards

• BREAKING NEWS: Fame Kills tour cancelled
NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West and Lady Gaga’s tour is over before it began. Just days after announcing dates for an ambitious tour that was to kick off next month, the tour was canceled. Live Nation announced the news on Thursday. The tour promoter says refunds will be issued. The name of the tour was to be “Fame Kills.” The cancellation comes on the heels of negative publicity for West. He is still feeling the heat for hijacking Taylor Swift’s award-winning moment at the MTV Video Music Awards last month.

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aw

The first single off Kanye's new Album, Good Ass Job, Power:

Not bad

Hmmm, Im not too keen on first listen.

I heard this earlier, kinda disappointed in the way, it has a great build up but the chorus doesn't deliver. Hope it grows on me though.

Yeah I agree. The verses are great but don't really like the chorus

Power's grown on me a lot lately. Have been playing it all day.

It was released a few hours ago on itunes in the US and is already at #11, so looks like it'll be a hit :)

Kanye's first public performance since the Taylor Swift incident was a few days ago, too:

loads of rumours he's gonna be Jay-Z's special guest at Oxegen...i ****ing hope its true

When's Oxegen?

next week.....is he performing in europe around that time?

Na he's got nothing scheduled until early August, so it could be him

aw man your getting my hopes up now!!!!!! would be amazing if him and rihanna came out for run this town....

Power is flying up the charts in the US. It was released on the 30th June and as of the 8th July it is #22 on the Hot 100, and most singles take a few weeks to climb towards the top 20.

Good reviews from critics too:

The song has received universal acclaim from critics. Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone gave a positive review of the song saying, "Kanye's best single since "Stronger" rides a torrid whipsaw beat, as he takes on his spelunking media image, pinballing from self-aware ("I'm an asshole") to defiant ("Kiss my asshole"). The sentiment is classic Kanye, but he hasn't melted down this brilliantly in a long time."[3] Jason Lipshutz from Billboard praised the song saying, "With its stunning mix of rock-leaning production, memorable rhymes and unadulterated attitude, new single "Power" is a pissed-off shot of adrenaline that plays upon all of the controversial rapper's strengths. Rhyming over a soulful vocal harmony and an abrasive sample of King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man," West dismisses his doubters, takes a shot at "Saturday Night Live" and shrugs off his recent hiatus from hip-hop."

Tracklisting has been released for Kanye's upcoming album:

http://thatgrapejuice.net/wp-content.../07/kanye2.jpg

Kanye West has released the official tracklisting for his upcoming studio album, ‘Good Ass Job’. The record, which hits stores on September 14th, will feature collaborations with Nicki Minaj, Jay-Z, Eminem, John Legend, Katy Perry, Lil Wayne and others. Check out the full lineup below:

1)Hell Of a Life (feat. Lil’ Wayne) [Kanye West x DJ Toomp]
2)Dark Fantasy [RZA]
3)Power [S1]
4)Chain Heavy (feat. Eminem x Jay-Z) [Kanye West]
5)Ghetto University (feat. T.I.) [Kanye West x DJ Toomp]
6)That’s My Girl (feat. Katy Perry x Kid Cudi) [Kanye West x Jon Brion]
7)Runaway [Kanye West x Q-Tip]
8)Lost In The World (feat. Nicki Minaj x Rick Ross) [Kanye West x No I.D.]
9)Gorgeous (Ode To Kardashians) (feat. Drake x Game x Ludacris) [Kanye West]
10)Monster [Kanye West x DJ Premier]
11)Holding Me Back (feat. Mos Def x Talib Kweli x Phonte) [Kanye West x Madlib]
12)Devil In a New Dress [Pete Rock]
13)The Joy (feat. Common x John Legend) [Kanye West]
14)So Appalled (feat. Drake x Jamie Foxx) [Kanye West x No I.D.]
15)Blame Game [DJ Toomp]
16)Sweat On My Face [DJ Premier]

http://thatgrapejuice.net/2010/07/ka...-tracklisting/

wow, looks amazing. I can't wait for this album now even though I still think Power is underwhelming.

I've been listening to Graduation a lot recently, I actually think it might be his best album, it's very cohesive.

Graduation was one of the best albums of the decade, can't say i disliked one song on that album " I Wonder " should have been released

I think it was so great because there wasn't an ounce of fat on it. Late Registration has moments of strength but ultimately was so long that it wasn't consistent.

I can't wait for the Katy, Eminem and Nicki Minaj collaborations. Also looking forward to hearing the DJ Premier produced tracks, I think he and Kanye will work well together, I love his sound.

Eminem's gonna be everywhere this year, he's collaborating with Wu Tang Clan aswell....

Two tracks leaked from the album:

All of the Lights (Ft. Drake)



Lost in the World




Lost in the World is amazing

So Appauled Remix > The Orignial.

smh.

All of the Lights is being released on Feb 21st here in the UK. Video has already been made I think. Monster video has been made aswell but hasn't been released yet.

Picture: Rihanna on Kanye West's 'All of the Lights' Video Set

Although the already-previewed "Monster" music video hasn't arrived yet, Kanye West has already filmed a clip for another single "All of the Lights". While "Monster" features cameos from Jay-Z, Rick Ross and Nicki Minaj, "All of the Lights" is likely to have him sharing screen with Rihanna.

On Tuesday, December 21, RiRi tweeted a picture of herself wrapped in a warm fur coat posing alongside music director Hype Williams who wears a hoodie. The Bajan songstress wrote, "Me and hype...Turn up the lights in here baby, EXTRA BRIGHT b***hes!!!"

Both "Monster" and "All of the Lights" are taken from Kanye's new album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". Beside Rihanna, there are also Elton John, La Roux's Elly Jackson, Stacy Ferguson and Alicia Keys contributing to the latter song.

Early version of the song initially featured Drake but he was later dropped from the featured guests line-up. He commented on the removal, "We make music differently. I make what comes to me and I hate changing it, whereas 'Ye will change something 30 or 40 times to get it perfect. To each their own, and the change was to put all those people on it, and I wasn't one of them. That's completely OK."

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