Ever been to a concert, a party or a baptism and someone, unannounced and uninvited, creeps up and starts rapping at you in your ear or face? All in your grill like “I’m about to spit these bars, fam!” No? Well, it happens to me quite often, so I gotta stay woke. However, I’ve never had Kanye West do this to me, but super famous Hollywood star Seth Rogen has.
“Me and my wife had gotten some dessert and were in the lobby getting plates to bring back to our room … And Kanye was like, ‘What are you guys doing? Want to hear my new album?’ So he takes us to this limo van and starts playing his album – except theres no lyrics only beats. So he raps the whole album and after each song, he stops it, like ‘So what do you think?’ We were in the van for 2 hours!”
“Now I realize the next person he sees that he knows is getting pulled into that van,” Rogen says, laughing, “But I learned a lesson from it -which is that Kanye is seeking input at all times. Processwise, it showed an openness and a fearlessness. We started screening our movies more and in rougher versions for our friends because of that.”
Now, it’s pretty annoying when MC John Doe comes up and kicks sweet nothings in your ear, but hearing Kanye rap his new album verbatim is a whole other story. Yeezy season has returned.