It was a throwaway line, meant to add nothing more than a shade of personality and a tinge of local colour – the merest of peeks, if you will, behind the Kardashian-West curtain, the briefest taste of how it might feel when tempers inevitably fray to reveal those few loose threads, which otherwise bind together the most sumptuous drapery in…
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On The Life of Pablo Kanye West doesn’t just engage in sexual relations with bleach-bottomed models as he transcends the Yeezus persona to become something more than a son, his exploits showing a strange synergy with – alongside assorted other ‘P’ plosives – the painter Picasso and the apostle Paul. He is artist and patron, seer and saint, a missionary…
Inevitably the steady slumber of Kanye West’s video for his song ‘Famous’, the repeated inhalations and exhalations, the subtle grabs for the bedsheets, the settling oneself on pillows, the occasional whinny and snore, have been disrupted by louder noises of condemnation as the preeminent artist of his generation once more finds his way to the altar of controversy, and at the…
