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Friday 14 October 2011
Kanye West, don't ever change, you big uncool puppy

I can understand why people mock him: there are his displays of laughable grandiosity (in Made in America, it’s implied that the canon of notable humans goes as follows: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jesus, Kanye West); his notorious oversensitivity (in the same track he bangs on about how South Park dared to make fun of him, suggesting he hasn’t quite attained Jesus’s forgiving nature); his tendency to do embarrassing things and then flagellate himself over them long after everyone has moved on (no one but Kanye would pretty much open a song with “Sent this bitch a picture of my dick / I don’t know what it is with females but I’m not too good at that shit”); his utter inability to self-edit, which sometimes is brilliant (“George Bush doesn’t care about black people”) but more often is not (“Imma let you finish”); and his amazing self-belief (debuting his fashion collection at the height of Paris fashion week) undercut with his need for approval (his grief that he wasn’t feted as the new Chanel).

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