According to Rolling Stone and Billboard, Kanye West was a surprise speaker at the iHeartMedia Music Summit in Burbank, California on Thursday, and gave a 45-minute, ‘stream-of-consciousness speech about his responsibility to innovate’… he said stuff like ‘Things are going good so far, so I have risk being Kanye—I’m the best motherfucker at innovation’… ‘Sometimes innovation means you have to move on; sometimes I don’t like where I’ve moved on to…like not being on the radio.’ Did someone record this? I really would like to waste 45 minutes of my life to listen to one of these long operatic Kanye rants that go nowhere and let you with a what-the-fuck-was-that? after-thought…
But the rest is even juicier, the rapper talked about this recent collaboration with Paul McCartney, ‘Only One’, and revealed that he asked the famous Beatles, ‘What was pussy like in the Sixties?’ Really? You have the chance to collaborate with a legend, to approach him and this is your trite question Kanye? Too bad that Kanye was not capable to give Macca’s answer, and that he proceeded with an acapella version of ‘Only One’, and then played his new collaboration with Rihanna on his laptop. He also added: ‘Me, Rihanna, ‘Ye and Paul [Mc Cartney] got a song about to drop as well. It’s gonna drop soon. I heard they shot the video recently. I don’t know what the final title is, but I know it’s crazy, so just be looking out for [it].’
Kanye West is a teaser and a shocker, you don’t say this without elaborating more!!! Or you don’t use the word pussy! I learned much more from the journalist I saw last Sunday, Ivor Davis who followed the Beatles during their US tour in 1964. He said that the Beatles often took advantage of all these girls who were more than willing to follow them everywhere. He even said that a few girls had managed to get into Lennon’s hotel room once… Girls in the 60’s weren’t certainly shy. Anyway, there are tons of books about the subject but, yeah, I forgot, Kanye is ‘not a fan of books’ and is ‘a proud non-reader of books’, so he wouldn’t even know what I am talking about.
Then, Kanye got a standing ovation, what’s next? A Kanye TED talk? People take him so fucking seriously and I still can’t understand a word of what he means when he starts one of his grandiloquent and empty rants. I find this comment on Reddit, and although it’s a bit vulgar, it sums up my thought: ‘ I’m pretty sure Kanye could say he’s dropping something new very soon, drop his pants, and take a shit on the stage. And people would STILL give him a standing ovation for some reason.’ Yeah, exactly and it is ridiculous.
