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"Name one genius that ain't crazy?"

That line, off the song "Feedback" from Kanye West's The Life of Pablo album, has become something of a rallying cry for ardent fans of the 39-year-old's music, who find themselves time and time again having to confront his antics -- from bizarre rants to controversial proclamations.

While he's certainly a lightning rod for both sides of the public opinion spectrum, "Yeezy being Yeezy" is something many have come to love about the larger-than-life star.

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Still, it's hard for the support not to turn to concern when West's off-kilter antics give way to increasingly erratic behavior and onstage rants, the abrupt cancellation of more than 20 Saint Pablo tour dates, and ultimately, his hospitalization -- as the Lapd confirmed to Et on Monday.

"The guy just needs some rest. Sleep deprivation...

After the year he’s had, Anthony Hemingway already knows what the next question will be.

“Let me have it,” he chuckles. “‘The People v. O.J. Simpson.'”

In a long, drab hallway on the second floor of New Orleans’ Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, where Hemingway is promoting Wgn America’s acclaimed “Underground” at Essence Festival, the prolific director leans against the wall. He knows, when asked to discuss his other projects, what “other projects” now means: FX’s anthology series “American Crime Story,” the most-watched new show on cable and the frontrunner in the Emmys’ stacked Limited Series category. But for Hemingway, whose credits also include “Empire,” “Orange Is the New Black,” “Power,” and “Treme,” the work of bringing underrepresented perspectives to the screen transcends specific episodes and TV series.

“It’s about giving us these references to remind us, ‘Let’s wake up, people!’ Let’s be better,...

A&E has passed on hip-hop crime drama pilot The Infamous, from A+E Studios. I hear the studio is talking to the project’s producers about potentially shopping the pilot starring Bokeem Woodbine and Jason O’Mara elsewhere. Written by Joshua Zetumer and directed by Anthony Hemingway, The Infamous is set against real events in turbulent 1990s Los Angeles leading up to the L.A. Riots. It revolves around two complicated men on a collision course…...