Music Ally

We’ve been very bullish about the benefits of Twitter in recent months, so it’s only fair to report the downside. Kanye West is the latest artist to complain that his Twitter account has been hacked – and for good measure, he says his MySpace profile and Gmail account have also been infiltrated.

The hackers were responsible for spreading an online rumour – seemingly from Kanye himself – that he was plotting a move into bisexual pr0n movies. “Please I beg you, give me a break!” West wrote on his blog, which appears to be the only arm of his online empire NOT to have been hacked.

Yet.

We’ve gotten used to artists debuting new albums on sites like Imeem a week or so before their official release, in online listening parties. But Kanye West has taken the idea a step further, by releasing a new remix compilation on the site.

It’s called Sky High, and is a mixture of old Kanye songs and newer tracks, all remixed by DJ Benzi and Plain Pat (we’ve not made those names up). The album will also be streaming on hip-hop blogs later this week, apparently.

It’s an interesting promotional tactic – remix albums used to come out around the end of a campaign around an artist’s album, but for West it’s serving as a warm-up for his new platter. If we still call them platters. Anyway, it’s an interesting move – get it here.