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March 16, 2009

Kanye West Dresses Up Like An Old Man And Raps About Viagra

Perfect. It's like they always say, rap what you know.

Congratulations, of course, to Mr. West for finally arriving at his popstar indulgent costume moment. It is a rite of passage for anyone climbing the fame ladder. It took 50 Cent six years to invent Pimpin' Curly. The Beastie Boys were successful for eight years before making the "Sabotage" video. In just four and a half years, West has transformed himself from a regular human being with a narcissistic hunger for international recognition to fill the void of his standard-issue "life" into a famous human being whose narcissistic hunger is fulfilled enough that he can "have fun" with it (in the pursuit of even more recognition and all-consumingly-desirable attention). Brava.

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CarolineA

Kaaaaan, you're making it harder and harder for me to love you
*Plugs in and drowns in the wonder that is Graduation*

Posted by: CarolineA profile link at 03/16/09 2:22 PM | Reply
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donnytilla

graduation is so fucking good

Posted by: donnytilla profile link in reply to CarolineA's comment at 03/17/09 1:37 AM | Reply
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jacob666

yuck

Posted by: jacob666 profile link at 03/16/09 2:37 PM | Reply
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This is tyler-perry-humor.

Posted by: adam at 03/16/09 2:58 PM | Reply
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bananafana feux

Tyler Perry has humor?

Posted by: bananafana feux profile link in reply to adam's comment at 03/16/09 3:32 PM | Reply
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Very misleading post. This a guest appearance by Kanye on someone elses track. The track is by 88 Keys.

Posted by: KVN at 03/16/09 3:02 PM | Reply
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Yes, extremely misleading, Videogum. After all, you acted like Kanye West dressed up like an old man and rap about Viagra. In reality, he dressed up like an old man to perform in a 88 Keys music video and rap about Viagra.

Posted by: talkingstove in reply to KVN's comment at 03/16/09 3:17 PM | Reply
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ugh i hate this just like i hate everything else kanye west does.

Posted by: njoy at 03/16/09 4:20 PM | Reply
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Alright, I can't seem to find it anymore on youtube, but kanye did a remix of rich boy's song "throw some D's" a few years back and in that video he also (inexplicably) was dressed up as an old man while rapping about breast implants.

Posted by: Ben at 03/16/09 6:16 PM | Reply
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Yeah Kanye is da man. I've been on his music since tha 8th grade, i been hook on his shit ever since.

Posted by: tevincage17 at 07/15/09 11:29 AM | Reply
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