Kanye On Nightline: "I Have Baby Tourette's"
In which we learn Kanye doesn't write down lyrics because he's part of a new breed of rapper for which "paper's just a middleman." Last night, Nightline's Terry Moran spent sometime with Mr. West, whom Terry later called "carnivorously appetitious" in his inquisitive quest for knowledge. Think he was impressed. The piece's lead talked up 'Ye's near-million first-week sales and gave him that good ol' "can he save the music business?" tag (poor Rubin, only held that press-generated question-crown for not even a month). But Kanye laid it out: "I am the Coca-Cola, the Disney ... the McDonald's of music." Moran meets Mom-ye West (from whom we gleaned proper syllabic emphasis: Kan-YAY) and also got Kan to give us a tour of his Hollywood Hills crib ("I've always been into Michaelangelo").
All interesting infobits if you don't have time to read the 1,001 mag articles on him this month and last. But we tuned in to his Nightline segment in particular in hope of more more memorable political talk. He delivered.
TERRY MORAN: In the heat of the moment it came out. Reflecting now, do you still believe George Bush doesn't care about black people?
KANYE WEST: I mean, I have a hard time believing George Bush cares about anyone. So ... Sidebar -- black people also.
TERRY MORAN: Will you say that again?
KANYE WEST: No. It's already been said.
Well played Kanye. He also told Nightline "the press is editing me." So we'll leave it at that. And let him tell you in his own words to stay in school.
So ya know, get educated. Or be a college dropout and fill your walk-in closet with Louis Vuitton. Also: Kanye's not on drugs, so we're like siamese twins in that case.
Posted at 12:02 PM in Video
Tags: Kanye West
Close your bold tags! Isn't that the first thing they teach you in blog school? That and don't post shitty obviously fake sex vids.
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Is it just me, or have the comment sections on the ol' 'Gum gotten downright nasty and unreadable? If you don't like what they do, THEN DON'T READ IT. GO ELSEWHERE.
Okay, off my soapbox now. Keep up the good work Scott & co.
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Does Kanye's emotional tourettes thing turn you on? (click on my name for the link)
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Yeah, Steve. Since the xXx-ws this section became very popular and unreadable indeed.
Now back to "I am the Coca-Cola, the Disney ... the McDonald's of music." Wha!?
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trolling, complaining, and spam for other blogs.
this short thread really sums up the stereogum comments section.
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"carnivorously appetitious"? Just say, "ravenous," dumbass.
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Apetitious? Terry Moran's got Don King Disease, hasn't he?
And as for Kanye, he'd do himself and his record a big favor if he tried something different for a change: not promoting.
DwD
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I just saw State Property II, in which Kanye West stabs somebody. The movie lost what little credibility it had when that happens.
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TERRY MORAN: In the heat of the moment it came out. Reflecting now, do you still believe George Bush doesn't care about black people?
KANYE WEST: I mean, I have a hard time believing George Bush cares about anyone. So ... Sidebar -- black people also.
Brilliant Reply! Good for Kanye.
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seriously, why do so many stereogum readers have sticks up their asses? it's like every bitchy commenter is auditioning for pitchfork or something.
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Stop being a bitch ally, and get off your holier-than-thou soapbox. I bet you're one of those douchebag NYC scenesters that was againt Ahmadinejad speaking at Columbia and the UN yesterday. It's called freedom of speech, Jew.
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http://nahright.com/news/2007/09/25/video-kanye-on-nightline/#comments
The Videos by a blog who knows what they're doing before they post.
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Ah, "nahright" the "blogger" who works for Complex and gets fed everything from Def Jam
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So Stereogum delivered an incisive report on Kanye's ABC appearance, Nah Right illegally uploaded the entire freakin broadcast without any context ... and you prefer the latter?
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does anyone else not give a shit about kanye, especially given the fact that he feels the need to constantly congratulate himself and talk himself up? #1 in music? everybody else is #2? seriously dude, music is not a competition.
i realize that propping oneself is a staple in hip-hop but dude is way over the top, and on his way to becoming king kanye of douchebag mountain.
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fkw
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Dexter:
"I am the Coca-Cola, the Disney ... the McDonald's of music."
equals
"I am the lowest common denominator or music."
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oh I believe in freedom of speech. Everyone has the right to be an asshole, I just don't know why so many people choose to do it.
but um, calling me both an NYC scenester AND a Jew totally made me day, cause those are both things I'd like to be!
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Ha, anyone remember the gameshow-within-an-SNL-skit, Jew Not a Jew?
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The Kanye-bashing in the comments is getting a little old. Statistically, the comment mentioning Lupe Fiasco is lurking just around the corner.
If you do like him, check out his appearance on the Friday Night Project (UK), it should be on YouTube.
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