Seriously, Kanye is effing everywhere. There’s his Louis Vuitton sneaker collaboration, which we’ve been anticipating. Then there was the whole wah-Radiohead-waaaaah squabble, which entertained us for a fun few days. After that, we started fixating on the fact that he technically opened for Kelly Clarkson on American Idol. (In an unlikely and troubling jeans-on-jeans ensemble, no less.)
Next, he confirmed that he employs two people–two!–to help him run his infamous little corner of the Interweb. Just yesterday, we learned via People that West will lay down vocals for a Family Guy spin-off, in which he’ll play rapper Kenny West. Dropsonic thinks West is a bit of an egomaniac, but not so, according to the show’s producers!
According to executive producer Richard Appel, “Before we came to the table … there was only one line he didn’t love and he came up with another idea and in a completely modest, nice way said, ‘Would you mind if I changed just this one line?’ And our feeling was, how many raps have we written? One? And how many has he written? Be our guest!”
See? He’s humble, too! And this morning, the AP finally confirmed West’s performance at SXSW. So what will he perform? Will he turn up the 808s for “Heartless”? (Our personal favorite “my life is over and you suck” jam)? Another rousing reinterpretation of “Love Lockdown”? Is it possible Young Jeezy can make time in his schedule to join West in “Amazing”?
Perhaps he’ll go old-school with some cuts off Graduation. That would make us happy. Optimism really does abound at SXSW, despite our fiscal apocalypse! Or so we continue to tell ourselves.
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