Kanye West XXL Cover [October 2010]

I don’t think we’re going to escape Kanyemania anytime soon.  He took a year off, but dude is going to do his best to make that up – in double time.

I guess he’s penning the article on himself as well as serving as the creative director of the entire issue.  100+ pages of Kanye and advertisements.  Oh boy!

But honestly, at this point who really gives a shit about the Tayor Swift incident?  These people are all entertainers.  It’s what they’re paid to do.  It made history now let’s get over it.  You’d think Kanye drugged Taylor, accidentally killed her and then dumped her body in the middle of the ocean.  Kanye Vandersloot.  Let’s move on to something else, it really wasn’t that big of a deal. 

Some choice quotes:

“I stress that the incident wasn’t about Taylor personally,” he explains in the story. “And it definitely wasn’t about race. Where I messed up is, at the end of the day, it’s your show, Taylor. It’s your show, MTV.”

“The relationship with the public and with your fans is like the relationship with your girlfriend,” he adds. “How could I not, at a certain point, be like, ‘I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have been at the awards show. I’m sorry.’ Not that I don’t deserve to get beat up or change who I am inside, to make sure that that doesn’t happen again.”

Mr. West said that, following his VMA outburst, he immediately dedicated himself to the studio. “I knew I wasn’t in a great spot publicly after the incident, but I would just block it out and work as hard as possible and let my work be my saving grace,” he shared. “In a way, I had thrown a Molotov cocktail at my own career, and it gave me an opportunity, for the first time, to go away and find out who I was. Because I felt very alone.”

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