Kanye West in the 'nati

[nathansmart]

Unbelievable.

I went to see the Glow in the Dark tour on Friday night and wow. If you thought rappers had egos, Kanye West makes them look like shy 4 year-olds. The stage looked like a desert landscape and it was supposed to be another planet like Mars or something. He had huge moving screens, including a floor screen that had hydraulics on it.

The story is, while on a space trip home to Earth, there is a crash and Kanye is stranded on this planet. His spaceship has a computer named Jane that talks to him giving him encouragement and advice. He talks back and forth to it though out the show and it keeps the story moving between songs.

And speaking of, every song is treated like it's the last song he'll ever sing. I've never seen such importance being flaunted in a rap song. The intensity Kanye infused into every performance made a song like Gold Digger sound like "I have a dream..." or "Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do..."

Highlights:

1) Kanye getting eaten by a (and I don't use this word much) FUCKING dragon and then spit out.

2) A creepy mannequin, calling itself a shooting star, telling Kanye that he is the biggest star in the universe.

3) Kanye: I can't do this anymore Jane. I need more in my life. I need a woman. I need PUSSY Jane!
Jane: I can help you with that.
Kanye: How can you help me? You're just a stupid computer!
[GOLDEN BIKINI WOMAN appears]
Next Song: Jesus Walks

4) Kanye tells Jane that he's going to give up and then a woman appears and sings the first verse and chorus of Don't Stop Believin' by Journey (and if it wasn't clearly a woman's voice (and body), you would've thought they were just playing an MP3 of the song it was so accurately played by the band).

5) Jane telling Kanye that the only way he (and really us) can get home is with the power of his shining star, as all the other stars have just come and gone. He's the only one left.

6) Kanye addresses the Bonnaroo incident and says he had done 45 shows before then and hadn't been late once.

All in all, it was very entertaining - but it just made me despise his own image of himself even more than I already had. I just hope that his ego never gets in the way of making good music because he's done an OK job so far.

[BananapeelWilliams]

I am reallyy cracking up just reading this.

[Hated Milk Machine]

3) Kanye: I can't do this anymore Jane. I need more in my life. I need a woman. I need PUSSY Jane!
Jane: I can help you with that.
Kanye: How can you help me? You're just a stupid computer!
[GOLDEN BIKINI WOMAN appears]
Next Song: Jesus Walks

AHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

[nathansmart]

Kanye: How can you help me? You're just a stupid computer!

ACTUAL QUOTE, NOT PARAPHRASED

[pollymaepry]

I really wanted to go to this here. And Rihanna was there RIGHT? This sounds so awesome and I love it. I love the ego thing. Awesome.

[nathansmart]

No, she wasn't there. It was Lupe Fiasco and N.E.R.D.

[Trial]

He joined the Illuminati?

[nathansmart]

He IS the Illuminati.

[TimBuktu]

I just saw Kanye at Lollapoloosestool and I wanted him to be crazy. He was, but I was also swayed by how good he is. He did go on for about 5 minutes about how people are mad at him for saying how great he is... how people hate him for claiming he's the next Jimi Hendrix. The guy lacks/has an excess of self esteem at a staggering level.

I paid $60 to see Gnarls Barkley and Kanye yesterday. I like Gnarls a lot more than I like Kanye, but I liked Kanye a lot more than Gnarls yesterday.

Drinking rum in the sun, the city as a back drop... I hate crowds and I hate concerts, but I'm going back next year. I had so much fun this weekend, dudes.... and I only saw two acts, the last day of the festival.

Guys, I just had one of the best weekends of my life. I showed my old lady the city I love, I ate great Italian food (authentic), I had a hotel room that was opulent and had an incredible view of the lake and the festival.... I watched bands I like, I drank with friends old and older ... and oldest... I took boat rides....

This is the view from my room. We could see (and hear) both stages. I jumped around, buck naked, and sang along to "Killing in the Name Of" from Rage on Saturday night...... 14 floors above the park, in a room that most likely slept a lot of Chicago's most notorious.



Holy crap guys. I did it. I enjoyed myself for 3 days.

[BananapeelWilliams]

I just saw Kanye at Lollapoloosestool and I wanted him to be crazy. He was, but I was also swayed by how good he is. He did go on for about 5 minutes about how people are mad at him for saying how great he is... how people hate him for claiming he's the next Jimi Hendrix. The guy lacks/has an excess of self esteem at a staggering level.

I paid $60 to see Gnarls Barkley and Kanye yesterday. I like Gnarls a lot more than I like Kanye, but I liked Kanye a lot more than Gnarls yesterday.

Drinking rum in the sun, the city as a back drop... I hate crowds and I hate concerts, but I'm going back next year. I had so much fun this weekend, dudes.... and I only saw two acts, the last day of the festival.

Guys, I just had one of the best weekends of my life. I showed my old lady the city I love, I ate great Italian food (authentic), I had a hotel room that was opulent and had an incredible view of the lake and the festival.... I watched bands I like, I drank with friends old and older ... and oldest... I took boat rides....

This is the view from my room. We could see (and hear) both stages. I jumped around, buck naked, and sang along to "Killing in the Name Of" from Rage on Saturday night...... 14 floors above the park, in a room that most likely slept a lot of Chicago's most notorious.



Holy crap guys. I did it. I enjoyed myself for 3 days.

I hope you made a tape

[man124]

4) Kanye tells Jane that he's going to give up and then a woman appears and sings the first verse and chorus of Don't Stop Believin' by Journey (and if it wasn't clearly a woman's voice (and body), you would've thought they were just playing an MP3 of the song it was so accurately played by the band).

I have a question, why is everyone doing covers of "Don't stop believin"? This is literally the third concert I have heard about in the last week where the band did a cover of that song. I love Journey, but this is getting ridiculous.

[KevinLee]

Sopranos in the City

[crazysheet]

I guess America has finally stopped believing

P.S. How could Kanye West be the next Jimi Hendrix? I'm pretty sure Jimi Hendrix played an instrument.

[nathansmart]

I thought Corey Glover was the next Jimi Hendrix... Or is it that Kanye is the next Corey Glover?

[Umlaut]

I saw the infamous Kanye Bonnaroo show (well, as much as I could take before I started to fall asleep standing up). By far one of the awkwardest performances I will ever see. One of the biggest stars in the world with one of the most legendary egos in music history performing for thousands of thoroughly irritated and exhausted festival goers coming down from their various trips (myself included).

For those who don't know, Kanye had pushed his show back to 2:45 am from a 1 am time just the Tuesday before the festival. He did not take the stage until 4:25 am, when his set was supposed to end. A crowd of people who had been out in the heat and rain all day coping with the effects of various drugs were belligerent. Later we would find out that Pearl Jam played much longer than anticipated, and the clean up and set up for Kanye's massive set delayed the start, but the crowd was quick to blame Kanye's ego, especially after he had already pushed the show back just days before, fucking with everyone's Bonnaroo schedules.

"Fuck Kanye" and "Kanye Sucks" chants started every couple of minutes, along with fans worriedly debating these chants, "No! That's just going to piss him off more and he'll make us wait longer!" The highlight of the whole night had to be during the interminable wait, the crowd of guys who were rolling balls next to me, decked out in headresses made of glowsticks. One of them was sitting Indian-style on the ground, rocking back and forth, while chewing on a wash cloth and stroking it (er, the wash cloth that is). People started chucking glowsticks at the stage, a few of them connecting with his moving big screen, which was then damaged throughout the show.

All of this is fairly well-documented elsewhere, but I still wish I could have seen his show in better circumstances. The storyline of his show was one of the dumbest things ever, but the set and light show was fairly incredible (but also irrelevant as the fucking sun began to rise). I still love Kanye, though. I may even think he's as great as he thinks he is, if that is possible.

[Americas Team]

http://idolator.com/400011/jay+z-map...-square-garden

Kanye West was kind enough to post the professionally shot, high-quality clip of Jay-Z dropping by his Madison Square Garden show last night to perform a snippet from a new, Kanye-produced track off The Blueprint III, which will I guess be called "Jockin' Jay-Z." I bet you the people who went to Kanye's Tuesday night MSG show were pissed that they got sent off with nothing more than a lecture about why Soulja Boy isn't all that bad. [kanYe West: Blog via Nah Right]

[Osquip]

I went to MTSU which is right next to where Bonnaroo happens. I had several friends that were working there. The story I was told is that he refused to perform while anyone else on any stage was still performing. My friends that worked for him said he was more difficult to work with than Leonard Skinnered who threw Whiskey bottles at the roadies.

[Americas Team]

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/articl...ger-to-chicago

If you believe Men's Fitness Magazine, Pitchfork's hometown of Chicago currently stands as the 20th fattest city in the U.S. Best believe we're coming for that #1 spot (uh, again) thanks to the tireless efforts of Kanye West.

According to Crain's [via Chicagoist], Kanye's KW Foods LLC plans to open the very first Chicago-area location of the gluttony-forward California-based fast food chain Fatburger. Fatburger will open the doors at their new spot in suburb Orland Park next month, with another coming in January on the south side. Crain's reports that KW Foods has secured the rights to open 10 Fatburger joints in the region, and are currently seeking a lease on a third locale.

Of course, one cannot help but point out the irony of the dude who penned "The New Workout Plan" opening up a restaurant with that particular name, but, shit, man, Kingburgers and Fat Fries make their own rules.

Thanks Kanye! We're back on top, fam!

[Jerkmonivich]

http://idolator.com/400011/jay+z-map...-square-garden

Kanye West was kind enough to post the professionally shot, high-quality clip of Jay-Z dropping by his Madison Square Garden show last night to perform a snippet from a new, Kanye-produced track off The Blueprint III, which will I guess be called "Jockin' Jay-Z." I bet you the people who went to Kanye's Tuesday night MSG show were pissed that they got sent off with nothing more than a lecture about why Soulja Boy isn't all that bad. [kanYe West: Blog via Nah Right]

That show WAS sick.
I LOVE kanye.
The end.