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Born in Atlanta, this rapper and producer moved to Chicago with his mother when he was 3 years old. He's considered to be one of the most commercially successful "back-pack" rappers. West has said he was largely influenced by Wu-Tang member RZA. The first major label song he produced was Jay-Z's "This Can't Be Life," featuring West's signature sound of taking old, soul samples, speeding them up, and adding his own drum sounds and other instruments. In 2001, he broke out as a producer, largely because his sound was all over Jay-Z's critically-acclaimed "The Blueprint." In October 2002, West survived a car accident after falling asleep at the wheel of his car. He recorded "Through The Wire" ab...
Born in Atlanta, this rapper and producer moved to Chicago with his mother when he was 3 years old. He's considered to be one of the most commercially successful "back-pack" rappers. West has said he was largely influenced by Wu-Tang member RZA. The first major label song he produced was Jay-Z's "This Can't Be Life," featuring West's signature sound of taking old, soul samples, speeding them up, and adding his own drum sounds and other instruments. In 2001, he broke out as a producer, largely because his sound was all over Jay-Z's critically-acclaimed "The Blueprint." In October 2002, West survived a car accident after falling asleep at the wheel of his car. He recorded "Through The Wire" about two weeks after the accident with his jaws wired shut. It was featured on his debut album, "College Dropout," released in February 2004, on Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records. The Grammy-nominated album sold more than 3 million copies. In August 2005, West released his highly-anticipated follow up "Late Registration," which sold more than 860,000 in its first week. In September 2007 he released "Graduation," which sold more than 950,000 copies in its first week.
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TV today: Nov. 23
As far as we know, Jimmy Kimmel can't carry a tune, but he's our host for the 2008 American Music Awards (8 p.m., WPLG-Ch. 10, WPBF-Ch. 25). Scheduled performers include Christina Aguilera, Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Coldplay, Miley Cyrus, the Fray, the...Tags: New Kids on the Block, Rihanna, Jonas Brothers, Coldplay, Leona Lewis
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MUSIC ON TV
WHO Kanye West WHERE|WHEN "Letterman" (Monday, 11:35 p.m., CBS/2); also "Conan" (Tuesday night, 12:35 a.m., NBC/4) WHY Whether or not West is the voice of his generation (!?!), his new "808s & Heartbreak" album is out Monday. WHO The Killers WHERE|...Tags: Game Playing, Scott Weiland
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HOT STUFF
MOVIES 'AUSTRALIA.' Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman star in Baz Luhrmann's large-scale, pre-World War II epic. Opens Wednesday. 'MILK.' Sean Penn stars as San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to hold a major public office. Opens...Tags: Baz Luhrmann, Hammerstein Ballroom, James Levine, Australia, Best Buy Company Incorporated
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Polo Ralph Lauren fits 88-Keys just fine
He wears many hats -- rapper, singer, producer for artists such as Mos Def and Macy Gray -- but 88-Keys, whose teasingly genre-bending debut "The Death of Adam" was released this month, insists that all his hats bear one label: Polo by Ralph Lauren....Tags: Macy Gray, Mos Def, Rap, Tommy Hilfiger Corporation, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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TiVo this: 'Shield,' 'Monk' and more
SUNDAY
Performing at the "2008 American Music Awards" are Rihanna, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Pink, Coldplay, Ne-Yo, Taylor Swift, the Jonas Brothers and New Kids on the Block. Jimmy Kimmel hosts. (ABC,
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MONDAY
She can't sleep, so what does...Tags: Rosie O'Donnell, Coldplay, Tom Hanks, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Charlie Wilson
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Kanye West turns '808s and Heartbreak' into his most personal album
Tribune criticUh-oh. Kanye sings! That's sort of like hearing that Michael Jordan wants to play baseball, or Elvis is going to take up acting—and we know how those ventures turned out. Kanye West's ego trips have been well documented. He has trouble with anger...Tags: Rap, MySpace, Vehicles, Michael Jordan
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Sunday's Highlights
SERIES
Valentine: A rebroadcast of this new drama series' premiere introduces the Valentine family, who, sent from Mt. Olympus to contemporary Los Angeles, use a little old-fashioned magic to bring soul mates together (8 p.m. CW).
Nature: The new episode...Tags: Sacramento Kings, Annie Lennox, Valentine, Major League Baseball, Disasters
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Dido discovers drums, digs into her core
Tribune NewspapersLOS ANGELES—Talking about her new album at a Hollywood rehearsal studio last month, Dido Armstrong used one word more than any other—14 times, in fact, over the course of an hour. The word was "emotion." This was a bit surprising, because Dido...Tags: Sade, Eric Clapton, Brian Eno, Eminem, Marianne Faithfull
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TV Eye: Jack Bauer Returns; 'Redemption' Revives Fans' Memory Of '24'
He's been away so long you'd think that the digital clock had long since gone dead. Jack Bauer hasn't been seen in a new adventure on TV in 18 months. Bombs, abduction and torture never stopped him on the gripping " 24," but the TV writers' strike...Tags: Coldplay, Nokia Theater, Leona Lewis, Christmas, Chris Brown
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Heartbreak' gets first official full listen on MySpace Music
NEW YORK (AP) _ Add Kanye West to the list of artists previewing their new CDs on MySpace Music. The 31-year-old rapper's "808s & Heartbreak" doesn't come out until Monday, but fans have been able to hear the entire CD starting Friday. West is the...Tags: Beyonce, Paul McCartney, MySpace
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