Gwyneth Paltrow spent New Year’s in Vegas at the opening of the Cosmopolitan where Chris Martin’s Coldplay was hired to perform along with Jay-Z and Kanye West. It was a big name event. So many big names. Almost everyone was photographed there this weekend. But for G. She managed to keep out of range of cameras, did not walk the carpet, and stayed close to Beyonce. Full Story

Did you download Kanye West’s new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy? I did. And I’m really into it. Haven’t been able to go through it over and over again yet, but on first play it’s good. Some would even say it’s great. Even the critics. Almost unanimously. Which is an accomplishment in and of itself since, well, he’s not exactly Mr Popular with the media. Full Story

On Monday night in New York, Kanye West received the ACE Award for Stylemaker of the Year. He was there in person to accept and, well, not surprisingly, had some sh-t to say. Here’s what I don’t understand when I hear people complaining about Kanye West. He’s a douche! He’s an asshole! Ugh, he should just shut up! But why? Kanye is like Mimi: ALWAYS ENTERTAINMENT. Full Story

The Daily Show is taping from Washington all week leading up to the Rally to Restore Sanity on Saturday. Want to go. Won’t be going. If you’re going I’m jealous. Anyway, timely enough, Jon Stewart has also just been named the Most Influential Man of the Year, according to AskMen.com Full Story

Written by Duana The ominous and much hyped reappearance of Kanye....after mixing meticulously on his sample board that looks like he whitewashed a Fisher-Price something, he goes into it. Toast for the douche bags, toast for the assholes, goats for the scumbags, toast for the jerkoffs - none of them bleeped, I notice. Full Story

Written by Duana Girl portions of the evening are, who are we kidding, the best part of the night. So Gaga wins for "Bad Romance". Gaga's coterie of assistants getting her up to the stage looked like an ordeal. Not a fun time. Full Story

Kanye’s Twitter is, as he would say, totally my sh-t right now. Love it so much. At first I thought it would get contrived and soon. I mean, how long can you sustain 140 characters of brilliance without overthinking it. But he doesn’t. Full Story

Drake performed at the Molson Amphitheatre last night in hometown Toronto. "I love this city with my entire life.” It was the last stop on his Away From Home tour and he was joined onstage by Rick Ross, Fabolous, Young Jeezy, Kardinal Offishall and... Well can you imagine the reaction for Drizzy + Shady? HOT. Full Story

Twitter was made for Kanye West. And Kanye West’s real Twitter could just be better than Karl Lagerfeld’s fake one. Kanye joined yesterday in advance of the upcoming release of his new still untitled album in September. As you know, and as I’ve said many times, I am a Kanye apologist. Full Story

In an auditorium full of world class entertainers, Chris Brown tried to usurp the occasion by trumping the rest. Well, he can eat their sh-t. You’ve already seen the amazingness of the Prince tribute, but Brown’s tears also took a back row seat to performances by Kanye West, Eminem, and Drake. Full Story

He was everyone’s punchline last night at the Country Music Awards but Kanye was far away in Europe, spotted in Rome buying sh-t for Amber Rose. Remember when she couldn’t pay a $300 bill at American Apparel Full Story

Kanye West told Jay Leno that he’ll be disappearing for a while, that he needs time to fix his sh-t. Does fixing his sh-t include getting rid of Amber Rose? She’s part of the f-ckery. So if he’s promising to cut out the f-ckery, in theory, he should be cutting Amber Rose out too. If Kanye is a man of his word then, well, Amber Rose will have to find a new ass to ride. Full Story

Kanye West appeared on Jay Leno’s inaugural show last night for a performance with Jay-Z and Rihanna. Before taking the stage however Kanye requested a few moments with Jay to speak about the VMA incident. Here’s the clip: If we’re comparing apologies, Chris Brown and Kanye West… Kanye’s is infinitely superior. Full Story

Let’s make it about Taylor Swift first. Because he could have destroyed her. And not 15 minutes later she came out and delivered a performance without resorting to drama queen tactics. Can you imagine if that had happened to Lindsay Lohan? Lilo would have locked herself in her dressing room with her Crack Twitter and a razor and a paparazzo, and refused to come out. Full Story