Kanye West

Let's be cliche and talk about Kanye West about 48 hours after the VMAs and after every celebrity has dissed him on twitter and every vlogger on YouTube has stopped ranting about Taylor Swift being America's sweetheart. Let's talk about what really matters at the VMAs and to the music industry in general; who sells records. In the end its always about numbers and cold hard cash. So to every annoying talking head on The View who is claiming that Kanye's career is over, there is a record executive grinning and maybe even egging him on. Kanye West's outbursts (and there have been MANY anyone remember the Hurricane Katrina fiasco?) are not leading to declining downloads of his albums on itunes, they are not limiting the number of singles he has been guest featured on, and they are certainly not dimming his star power. So he is the biggest asshole in the business, yeah sure after the "I'm the voice of this generation speech" I just about had enough of him Auto-Tune and all, but the man can sell albums, and he is innovative. I can rant all day about how much I hate Kanye, but he produces some top notch performers including Kid Cudi, Telib Kweli (he produced Kweli's latest album) and Big Sean. you put Kanye West on your little pop track or rap song and it can become gold or even platinum because the man can rap...not SING (get that Kanye please STOP "singing") RAP. If you are an artist like Drake, (who I still can't stand by the way) this man would be nothing without the support of Lil Wayne and yes...Kanye West. So at the end of the day people can tweet about how horrible Mr West is, but they're still going to be shelling out 99 cents to buy his next single on itunes.

Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West - Run This Town, and Chris Brown -Changed Man

Mehh...Rihanna seems to be recovering her career nicely, while Chris Brown is a "Changed Man" please. Both songs are pretty generic but marketable, Run this Town will probably reach the Bill Board top ten with in a month, but its quite boring. Rihanna does her trademark yodeling, Jay-Z appears on the track for a minute talks about how he's the shit, and then Kanye does the same thing and raps about how tough it is to be him. OH Kanye I feel your pain it must be horrible being you, having lots of groupies, sucking up energy in your McMansion...horrible.

Chris Brown's new song is questionable, he does what he does best which is not sing well...usually he does that annoying whiny voice that has worked for him for so long. Its arguable whether the public will embrace him again. Its funny how Micheal Vick is getting more heat for running a dog fighting ring and making a come back and Chris Brown the idiot who beat his girlfriend is practically making a smooth transition (not that I am saying dog fighting is a petty crime, or that Vick shouldn't be punished...don't go all PETA on me ok? And I know I know dogs are people too).

All and all Run This Town is no Disturbia or Umbrella, but with Jay-Z, and Kanye attached it should sell. Chris Brown's new song could go either way be a big flop or garner him the sympathy vote from the prepubescent crowd...all I'm saying is Whitney Huston still had a career after Bobby Brown beat her, and where did Bobby Brown's music career go? Wife beating isn't cool or trendy Chris, and being a bad singer isn't either...but I can't hold that against you.