Birthdate: June 8, 1977
Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia
Soundbyte: "I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying."
Kanye West frequently uses his blog to talk about what's on his mind, something he's been doing a lot of lately. After appearing at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in mid-June, Kanye put fingers to keys after concertgoers booed him for being late, saying he was "the most offended I've ever been". When Amy Winehouse dissed him at the Glastonbury music festival last week, Kanye, tongue planted firmly in cheek, wrote, "This just in... Amy Winehouse hates me!!! Now I’ve really made it!!! LOL!!!!"
Kanye's latest post, however, is directed at Harper's Bazaar. Seems the fashion mag has ticked the legendary rapper off after reporting that a painting on his dining room ceiling is a self-portrait of him as an angel. In the article, the cutline describes the mural as "a ceiling-mounted painting featuring a winged West."
Not true, says Kanye:
"Harper’s Bazaar came to my home, took pics, asked a lot of questions and then assumed the painting in my dining room was of me as an angel," he wrote. "This isn’t true and it bothered me greatly because people think I’m so so so cocky that I would have something like that."
Kanye wrote that he wished the magazine would have "put in some type of blurb" to set its readers straight, and likened the way he was portrayed in the article to "Ben Stiller’s character in the movie Dodgeball with the huge pic of him wrestling a bull in his office."
In this case, it's kind of a good thing that Kanye has a blog and keeps it updated on a fairly regular basis, because I gotta admit, I would have totally believed that Kanye had a picture of himself as an angel painted on his ceiling.
He just strikes me as that kind of guy.
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