Kanye West hosting exclusive event to premiere Famous video
Kanye West will premiere his new video Famous at a glitzy event near Los Angeles on Friday (24Jun16).
The 39-year-old rapper is known for never doing anything by halves, and has chosen to unveil the "groundbreaking visual" for the track at The Forum in Inglewood, California on Friday afternoon.
Fans will be able to get their hands on tickets to the exclusive
event for $25 when they go on sale at 10am PST on Thursday
(23Jun16). In addition, new merchandise created especially for the
event will go on sale.
Once tickets to the 17,500 capacity venue have sold out, others
will be able to watch the event via a live stream on Jay Z's Tidal
music service.
This latest event follows Kanye's sold-out Yeezy Season 3 fashion
show at Madison Square Garden in New York back in February (16),
where he premiered his latest album The Life of Pablo.
It is unclear just what Kanye has planned with his Famous video,
but the track hit headlines earlier this year (16) when it was
revealed that he jokes about sleeping with Taylor Swift and calls
her a "b**ch" in the lyrics.
There has since been a heated war of words between Taylor and Kanye
via their representatives. While Taylor's spokesperson blasted his
lyric choice, Kanye then claimed the singer had given him the OK to
reference her in the track.
Kanye's wife Kim Kardashian then got involved in the row during a
recent interview with GQ magazine, in which she claimed Taylor
"totally knew" about the song, and that a tape of the phone call in
which she agreed to the track being released exists.
Following Kim's chat with GQ, Taylor's representatives released a
statement in which they accused the reality star of being
"incorrect" in her claims.
But Britain's The Sun newspaper then claimed it had seen a legal
letter sent by Taylor's lawyers, in which they are said to have
demanded that the tape of the conversation should be destroyed.
"Taylor got her lawyers to threaten Kanye and demanded that the
recording was killed," a source told the newspaper. "They stressed
the phone call was confidential and that publishing it would
violate her rights.
"It validates that a taped conversation where Taylor was on board
with the song does exist, and just shows how worried she is about
the truth coming out."