Kanye West Sued for Samples Used on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Billboard has reported that record label TufAmerica is suing Kanye West for what they claim are illegal usages of song samples on his 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy....  read more

Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

There was a time when Kanye West seemed too inventive, too smart and too good for pop music. “Jesus Walks” and “Gold Digger” won him Grammys; the Katrina telethon and Christian-baiting Rolling Stone cover earned him wider cultural attention. But what made West such a perpetually compelling figure was the sweeping sense of purpose that motivated his every enterprise. His music, forever brazen in its disregard for structure or subtlety, seemed like an acquired taste, yet he made fans out of everyone: indie snobs, rap purists, anybody who could appreciate the frustrations and rewards of unbridled ambition....  read more