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Post by Admin on Aug 18, 2020 5:57:20 GMT
Kanye West has qualified to appear on the Utah’s presidential ballot in November, a state elections official confirmed Monday. West filed the necessary paperwork with the required 1,000 signatures from registered voters by Monday’s deadline to appear on the ballot as an unaffiliated presidential candidate, Utah elections director Justin Lee told The Hill. West, who first announced his 2020 White House bid last month, has filed Federal Election Commission paperwork for his campaign but has already missed the filing deadlines for several states. West has, however, qualified to appear on ballots in states including Arkansas, Oklahoma and Colorado, according to The Associated Press. The rapper was previously a vocal supporter of President Trump, and multiple Democratic officials have expressed concern that his bid is an attempt to handicap presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. West’s application to appear on the Wisconsin ballot is being challenged by the state’s Democratic Party, which argues his campaign was late in submitting signatures and questions the names listed, which allegedly include Mickey Mouse and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
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Post by Admin on Sept 19, 2020 0:42:00 GMT
Kanye West has said he will “personally” help Taylor Swift get her master recordings back as he continued to discuss rights issues in the music industry on Twitter.
The rapper began the conversation around record deals and artists’ rights earlier this week (September 15) when he shared his own contracts with Sony and Universal.
West posted pages of his deals on Twitter and said he wouldn’t release any new music until he was released from the contracts. He also labelled himself “the new Moses” and said the music industry is a “modern-day slave ship”.
Now, the star has vowed to help Swift, who had her masters bought by Scooter Braun in 2019 after he purchased her old label home of Big Machine Records. “I’M GOING TO PERSONALLY SEE TO IT THAT TAYLOR SWIFT GETS HER MASTERS BACK,” West tweeted. “SCOOTER IS A CLOSE FAMILY FRIEND.”
In a series of follow-up tweets, he also promised to “move the entire music industry into the 21st century”. “WE’RE GOING TO TRANSPARENTLY CHANGE EVERY ALBUM DEAL EVERY PUBLISHING DEAL EVERY MERCH DEAL EVERY TOURING DEAL EXCEPT FOR DRAKE’S DEALS,” he wrote.
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