Man, this thing has been floating around on YouTube for three whole years and no one even noticed until today. How is that even possible? Either way, today the pilot for Kanye West’s canned HBO series finally surfaced. If you remember, all of the way back in 2008, Kanye was planning a Larry David-style series on HBO, but then it came and went with no follow up from the initial story (Complex is saying that it never made it to air because the content was too hardcore.)
So the project got deep sixed, but on the internets, nothing really dies. And an actress from the series, Alison Quinn, upped an extended reel to YouTube. So now we can finally see what direction the series was headed in.
[Executive Producer Larry] Charles did say that the show is roughly Kanye’s version of Larry David’s show, “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” an idea that Kanye thought up himself. “What Kanye West said to me the first time, he said, ‘I’m the black Larry David.’ That’s the first thing he said to me. So it’s like a Kanye-and-‘Curb’ show, it’s kind of improvised about the situations and stuff.