KANYE WEST Vibe Magazine February 2009

KANYE WEST’S JESUS WALKS NO MORE

In VIBE magazine’s February issue, music editor Sean Fennessey conducts the only in depth Kanye West cover story interview with a major magazine. It is a revealing and audacious interview about the release of his controversial new album, 808s & Heartbreak and life after the passing of his mother. In the story, Fennessey asks West if he ever considered therapy to cope with the 2007 death of his mother, Donda West. The “Jesus Walks” songwriter reveals, “I don’t believe in therapy. I believe you gotta walk it out, you gotta live it out...And sometimes you have to cry it out…I don’t believe in medication or painkillers. And I don’t believe in religion and giving it all up to Jesus.”

Also in this issue,

VIBE PRESENTS THE VAMMY'S: AKA HOW TO SAVE THE GRAMMY AWARDS.

One of the world’s most prestigious music awards are around the corner, and VIBE magazine, the definitive voice of multicultural lifestyle and culture, is weighing in. In the fresh February 2009 issue, VIBE resident music guru, Sean Fennessey, writes “THE WORD: How To Save The Grammy Awards,” which express the long standing feeling that the award show, since introducing the first hip hop category 20 years ago, continues to miss the beat of popular culture by omitting key categories and giving awards to artists not on the top of most true hip hop lovers’ lists. So, VIBE magazine has created the first annual Vammy Awards, featuring categories and nominees VIBE thinks will make the award show ballot hotter and hipper in 2009, including Vammy categories: “Best Ringtone,” “Best Hook,” and “Best Hook Artist.” The Vammy Awards winners will be determined by tallying the artists who garnered the most votes in a nationwide sweepstakes launching January 12 (12 noon EST) on VIBE.com. All entries get a chance to win an all-expense paid trip to a VIBE photo shoot along with other special prizes. Winners will be announced on February 9th, the day after the Grammys.