Kanye is scheduled to perform on Saturday, September 3, in what CoD publisher Activision is crowing is Kanye’s first public performance since the release of his and Jay-Z’s Watch the Throne album.
Call of Duty XP runs from Sept 2-3 and costs $US150 a person. A paid ticket gets you a copy of Modern Warfare 3 (a voucher, most likely, since the game isn’t out until November), a world’s-first hands-on with MW3‘s competitive multiplayer, live-action recreations of elements of the series and more. All proceeds go to the CoD veterans’ charity, which makes you wonder: who is paying Kanye?
Kanye West Performing Live at Call of Duty XP [CoD XP site, via Twitter]
Whiplash
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 9:11 AMThis battle between CoD and BF is fun to watch.
vincent
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 9:37 AMdouche bag singer for a douche bag gaming franchise…..
Robby
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 10:11 AMKanye West is a superstar – and a genius producer. It’s just too bad he associates himself with this kind of thing, but then again I guess its what adds to the persona.
Neo-Kaiser
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 9:38 AMAm I the only person who’s getting annoyed and worried that gaming has been connected to raping in the last few years?
Rap hasn’t been relevant since the early 90s, is this how they’re trying to remain alive?
Baron
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 9:50 AMLol hope you meant ‘rapping’ instead of ‘raping’ ;-)
Neo-Kaiser
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 9:51 AMTo my ears there’s no difference.
Chuloopa
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 10:46 AMzing
jamesmacusedmyhandle
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 11:31 AMRap hasn’t been relevant since the 90′s???
Guess that’s why Eminmem had the biggest selling album of 2010…
Or why Jay-Z and Kanye smashed itunes records two weeks ago…
warden
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 6:27 PMkids these days with their hippity hoppity, and their rape music, and their gamestations…
u straight ignant cracka
Chuloopa
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 10:46 AM“yo – imma let you finish, but battlefield 3 is game of the year – GAME OF THE YEAR!”
Di11enger
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 11:43 AMto re-iterate your earlier comment…
Zing
villa100
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 12:45 PMkanye west is no superstar.. hes a egotistical douche who thinks hes king shit.. i hope he gets booed .. wat gamer wants to see that dude perform id rather listen to lady gaga
Pakka
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 1:54 PMOh dear, I pray this is someone trolling.
Papasmurf
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 1:27 PMI wouldn’t trust a person who likes fishdicks.
Another crap product bought to you by MTV
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 2:10 PMAnother of today’s so called talented musicians….LOL.
Just another overrated fool who’s success has come from Autotune, both singing and producing. Without Autotune he and the fakes he has produced would be just like us….no singing ability at at all..
CanyonOasis
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 3:46 PMKanye is a really talented musician. His new record was genius, there were some bad tracks but he is a brilliant composer and producer. He can have a string quartet lead in to All of the Lights and it doesn’t feel mashed together, it feels like a new genre.
Yeah he is an idiot, but have you seen Amadeus? Sometimes the idiots make the best music. Most people don’t expect me to like Kanye because they have type-casted me as a music listener.
The Bon Iver tracks on Dark Fantasy is chilling. The harmonies are so rich and the producing adds to the track not subtracts.
tl;dr picking on hip hop and rap is just trendy.
That said one thing I don’t like about hip hop is its constant affiliation with brands and marketing. It goes way back, Run DMC and Adidas comes to mind.
Maybe it should be applauded that music that used to be restrained to ghettos is now a business, and these people can’t help but exploit the attention after a history of exploitation.