I recently had the opportunity to sit down and speak with one of the most popular and successful hip-hop artists of our time: Mr. Kanye West. The following is a transcript of our interview.
BDF: Good morning. It's truly an honor to be able to get to meet with you.
MR. WEST: Yeah, it is.
BDF: Do you mind if I call you Kanye?
MR. WEST: Naw.
BDF: Ok, Kanye
MR. WEST: I said naw. Don...
BIG APPLE NEWS SERVICE - A slight unassuming man, even while wearing a $3000 suit, U. Pei Me is finding out the hard way that being a world-class architect is a lot more than just pushing the print button and watching the money roll in.
Recently, we caught up to Dr. Me at his New York offices on Fifth Avenue. He charged me $850 to have this conversation about his work, some customer complaint...
Rhode Island had a good year in 1774.
As a delegate to the First Continental Congress Stephen Hopkins wrote, "As both wheel and axle require sufficient grease to proceed in good function, so do voices in defense of free speech require such libation as may be necessary to accomplish this sacred purpose
" And a tradition was born.
The well-connected Hopkins appointed a nephew, a lad by t...
26th April 2012 The Nottingham Pickpocket Supplement
The Bartholomew Utterswaithe Column
This week, I've been out on the streets of Nottingham, to get peoples views about:
Should teenagers be stopped from looking at porn on the web?
A matter of great concern for many parents and shoplifters locally.
The first person I interviewed, as he came out from the Deltalove Adult Shop, at 147...
7 months ago:
I managed to got permission to hold an interview with The Right Honourable Kenneth Clarke QC MP, Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State for Justice for the UK. For Thursday 5th April this year.
I had to inform them of all the questions and possible questions I might ask him, 6 months in advance.
6 months ago:
Mr Clarke's first assistant, The Rt Hon Lord McNally Minister of State...
Are you fed up of getting rejected again and again by companies because your resume or Curriculum Vitae fails you? Well it is time to stop worrying! It is time to realize that the content in your CV does not depend on what you have done with your brains but what you have done with an organ much below it!
After running a secret operation on big companies in the consulting, marketing, finance an...
I'm sitting in Starbucks sat opposite the man of the moment - Martin Gamble, Professor of Behaviour, Undestanding and Motivation at the University of Redbrick. Martin has a unique gift, he is able to create a new Psychological Syndromes in his lunch break
I ask Martin how he does it? Martin laughs and throws back his lustrous brown hair. He has a warm laugh. It's like taking a bath in rich crea...
In an exclusive interview conducted not twenty minutes ago super villain Simon Cowell opened his heart to this reporter. So Simon...
Simon Cowell: Please refer to me as Mr. Cowell or a simple your majesty will do.
Ok. Mr. Cowell it's being a very hectic year for you hasn't it? All the scandals and trauma with the US version of the X-Factor must have really taken it's toll on you?[/i](Ther...
A diary of one man's utter failure, depression, frustration, cock-ups, and poverty, starting in August 1947
Chapter 33 - The Job Assessment
I'd spotted a job for an American Delivery Company just starting up in Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, England, for Telephone Advisor's. The money on offer was fenomon... phunomin.. very good.
I contacted the number given, and it was arranged for me to g...
LAS VEGAS, Nev.--Moments after Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s 4th round knockout of Victor Ortiz, 80-year-old HBO commentator Larry Merchant challenged the 34-year-old Mayweather on the fairness of his winning blows.
Mayweather, 42-0, almost immediately l...
SHERMAN OAKS - The man who went from having two goddesses to being totally goddess-less now says that he realizes that the two were only using him to advance their own careers.
Charlie Sheen has lots of nicknames but one that perhaps fits him the...
In this global society we live in, employers are turning to Skype to help find it's best job candidates. Having a job interview on Skype is a lot different that talking with friends. I have compiled a list of tips for all of the novice Skype users out there.
Put away all evidence of your Internet porn escapades
Future employers don't want to see the soaked towel thrown to the side of your...
Michael Gove was born in Edinburgh in 1967 and brought up in Aberdeen. Educated in England and Scotland, in the independent sectors, where he had to suffer his 'Fags' waking him up with breakfast, before they cleaned his shoes each morning.
Michael is married to Sarah Vine, who is a leader writer at The Times, and they have one daughter, Beatrice, and a son, William, who was born at Frimley Par...
CHICAGO - The two biggest interviewers in the nation are starting to carry on over which one will be the first to interview the world's most famous maid of honor, Pippa Middleton.
Pippa, the sister of Kate Middleton, aka The Duchess of Cambridge,...
Here is an interview with Chief Superintendent Hamish McSporrin leading the recently re-opened investigation of the Maddie McCann case by Scotland Yard. In line for a knighthood some say, Mr.Sporrin, a graduate of Edinburgh University, was once a director of MI5. The investigation was launched by Prime Minister David Cameron.
Q: The British public are of course paying for this investigation so...
I am Theo Seemore, editor of "Oculus" a magazine devoted to enlightenment. Recently I traveled to Poona in India to meet with The Dalai Lama. I was interested in the clinic he had established there and which he runs with his monks. Called "Transience" it deals with an unusual type of invalid, one which we in the West do not consider an invalid at all.
I met Tibet's great spiritual leader in hi...
Billy is a boa constrictor. He lives in a zoo. He doesn't do much, other than lie about on a tree branch all day making it difficult for visitors to spot him. He isn't overawed by fame, and he is a non-smoker.
This is his story:
Reddon: Hello Billy.
Billy: All right mate.
Reddon: So...what's happening?
Billy: Not much.
Reddon: Have you eaten today?
Billy: Nah.
Reddon: The z...
Flat Stanley, adored by school children and teachers alike, left the Betty Ford clinic last month after entering around Christmas of 2010. When he entered rehab, he was sullen and pale. Not to mention high as a kite and cussing out the nurses. After a month long bender of crack and tequila, friends checked him into rehab. He looks like his perky old self now, and I was able to sit down with hi...