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News & ArtsTuesday, May 26, 2009
Books Fuck a Kanye-Ism In the Eye
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Kanye West, who is "a proud non-reader," is publishing a book:
His book is 52 pages — some blank, others with just a few words — and offers his optimistic philosophy on life. One two-page section reads, "Life is 5% what happens and 95% how you react!" Another page reads "I hate the word hate!"...He calls his wisdom "Kanye-isms.""My favorite one is 'Get used to being used,'" he said.
I can't believe I used to like this guy.
"Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed," West said. "I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph."I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life," he said.
West wrote the not-even-52-page-long-book with the help of a ghost writer.
(Thanks to Slog tipper Jayme for the stomach-churning tip.)
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How does he keep getting more obnoxious?! What kind of self-loathing star-worshiping writer would stoop to ghost write this "book?" Adrian Ryan? Heh.
(Just kidding Adrian! I just can't get over your Natasha Lyonne blowjob interview.)
(Just kidding Adrian! I just can't get over your Natasha Lyonne blowjob interview.)
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LOL Kanye's mom died from complications of plastic surgery which he paid for. Dieing to be thin; dieing to be what she couldn't be.
LOL KANYE YOU'RE MOM WAS A SHALLOW BITCH
LOL KANYE YOU'RE MOM WAS A SHALLOW BITCH
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I don't mind Loveschild, her backwards POV is kind of endearing...but can we please ban StillNon for being an idiot AND boring?
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Kanye West - not exactly an intellectual, but who ever thought he was?
Can't fault him for not reading, though. If I were in his shoes, I'd also be too busy living my life to read books.
Can't fault him for not reading, though. If I were in his shoes, I'd also be too busy living my life to read books.
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I wasn't like every other kid, you know, who dreams about being an astronaut, I was always more interested in what bark was made out of on a tree. Richard Gere's a real hero of mine. Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.
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WHAT...THE...FUCK!?!?! That last block of quotations is just utterly ridiculous. But the guy does have more money now, than I will ever get in my entire lifetime. So I guess we know who won this round. Damn you Kanye!
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Been 40 years since Yoko Ono's Grapefruit.
Guess we were due for some artistic narcissism.
http://books.google.com/books?id=3S8Rwr-…
Guess we were due for some artistic narcissism.
http://books.google.com/books?id=3S8Rwr-…
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I'd like to see a book give an autograph. This is one dumb fuck who can't see the difference between an object and its creator.
Just the kind of role model poor black kids need too-he may not do drugs or call women whores, but he doesn't need to read to get anywhere. I wonder what his contracts look like?
Just the kind of role model poor black kids need too-he may not do drugs or call women whores, but he doesn't need to read to get anywhere. I wonder what his contracts look like?
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This bozo is straight out of the movie Idiocracy. Can't you just see him as the President?
Somebody give him some more electrolytes.
Somebody give him some more electrolytes.
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@15: Oh, that is priceless! Honestly, do we want to fund the Social Security of the generation that brought us that kind of self-absorbed tripe?
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Has no time to Tweet
Further the myths he tries to break
One glove away from Michael*
*Comment prepared by my personal ghost writer.
Further the myths he tries to break
One glove away from Michael*
*Comment prepared by my personal ghost writer.
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