You’re a joke, Kanye

Dear Kanye West,

I hope this finds you well, whatever your definition of that may be. I’m writing to you in the wake of your most recent Twitter tirade, an oddly compelling and frankly disturbing saga that has involved Wiz Khalifa and the cost of textbooks in the US to Bill Cosby’s innocence and your supposed $53-million “personal debt.”

I assumed that with the arrival of your son Saint and, more importantly, that you now appear to command the attention of fashion’s powers-that-be (despite the establishment’s overall skepticism toward you and your lack of serious fashion cred), that you would, as the youths say these days, “have more chill.” But everything you’ve said online lately confirms that all is not well with you, Mr. Kim Kardashian.

Let’s start with your “Yeezy Season 3.” I’m still figuring out what’s more impressive: that you were able to cram thousands of people into Madison Square Garden for the debut of your latest clothing line and your new album, “The Life of Pablo,” or that the venue was big enough to hold everyone and your ego. 

Distasteful Inspiration

I also find the fact that a photo of a Rwandan refugee camp served as both the invitation and inspiration for the show — if you must call it that — about as tasteful as an Auschwitz-themed amusement park. Moreover, your decision to plug your laptop into the sound system of MSG to play your new tunes at an earsplitting volume was very derelicte of you.

If you really want to fulfill your dream of one day becoming the creative director of — cough — Hermès like you told Anna Wintour, however, being known as the maker of ugly-as-sh*t footwear and clothing isn’t the way to do it. Or maybe it is. I don’t know anymore. I’m still confused as to why anyone would want to buy your overpriced crap just to cosplay any character from Mad Max: Fury Road.

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Sigh. Every time your name comes up, I can’t help but think of a meme that came out during the time you and Amber Rose were still a thing. It features a kitten’s paw placed over a person’s hand and a caption that read: “It’s time to stop posting.” (Appropriate af.) I mean, you’ve asked “white publications” such as Pitchfork and the New York Times not to comment on “black music” anymore, but then you’ve also begged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for help to the tune of $1 billion. Listen, if you can afford to buy “furs and houses” for your family, perhaps you should funnel some of those funds into your so-called art instead. That is, only if you’re truly serious about it.

What happened to the old Kanye who made music without the bullsh*t theatrics and the social media melodrama, the Kanye who reworked old soul records with the playfulness of a kid who gleefully spun 33s at 45 rpm? I was your fan from “The College Dropout” until “808s & Heartbreak.” I secretly smiled when a random stranger at a mall in Pasadena called me “Kanye” since I turned up the collar of my Brooks Brothers rugby shirt that day, yes, in your honor. I even bought goddamn shutter shades because you made them so goddamn popular. Then you gave in and believed your own hype and you lost me after that — forever. I didn’t even bother to illegally download your subsequent albums.

Now I see you more as a joke, a self-centered quack who fancies himself a revolutionary artist, a caricature of someone who is dying to be taken seriously but is failing at it. You rail that people don’t understand what it means to be the great grandson of ex-slaves and “make it this far,” yet you seem to be doing your ancestors a great disservice with your repetitive, vulgar and often nonsensical declarations of your own vision, genius and god-like attributes. You had me fooled before but I’m not buying it, not anymore. You are the embodiment of The Emperor’s New Clothes and someone needs to tell you that, unfortunately, you’re not all that. Kendrick Lamar is so much better than you.  

Cheers,

Listen to Kanye West call Taylor Swift a ‘fake ass’ in explosive ran

It seems like this Kanye West v Taylor Swift feud will just keep running and running.
The rapper reportedly threw a major hissy fit backstage on the set of Saturday Night Live before his performance over the weekend.
Leaked audio obtained by Page Six has captured the rant in all its glory – and just like his Twitter tirades it’s truly epic.
Of course, we don’t know for sure if it is him.
He starts off by calling Swift, who recently made a dig at him at the Grammys, a ‘fake ass’.

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The rapper then yells at NBC staff telling them: ‘Don’t f*ck with me.’
He also threatens to pull out of the show fuming: ‘I went through six years of this f*cking sh*t.’
Of course, it wouldn’t be a Kanye rant without a statement of extreme narcissism.

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He then claimed he was 50 per cent more influential than any other human being ‘dead or alive’.
Kanye, don’t ever change.

'Oliseh's Youtube video was manipulated. NFF can't continue sacking coaches!' - Sports Minister

The Nigerian Sports and Youth Minister, Barrister Solomon Dalung who intervened and stopped the NFF from sacking embattled coach Sunday Oliseh after his 'insane' video rant has blasted the NFF for their incessant sacking of coaches in the past and has warned the football body that such practices won't be tolerated in the future.

 

In the long media briefing the minister also made a 'wild' assertion that Oliseh's YouTube rant was manipulated as the video was 'fluctuating' when he was watching the video. Lol!

 

According to Goal.com

“The decision to fix matches is the direct responsibility of the NFF not on the rectangular size of my table," Dalung said in a Tuesday media briefing in his Abuja office.. 

"I can tell you that they have already had problems with the Kaduna venue because the coach wants Port Harcourt, while the federation was insisting on Kaduna.

“When I waded into it appealing to them, the coach told me that the team is playing against many negative things but when I asked the leadership of the federation, they started the whole story about the crisis with the coach.

"But I told them they were drifting too far into the issue of sacking the coach since I was not interested in listening to their stories.

“We should be able to build a country where we should celebrate somebody that did well and sympathize with him if he fails, encouraging him to do better. I told the federation that overconfidence ruined the team.

“I told the federation that they don’t need to sack the coach because he lost a game. They brought the issue of YouTube complaining that the man embarrassed Nigerians and must apologise.

"But I told them that they should not judge him based on the YouTube because technology is now so sophisticated that a man can be manipulated having an affair with a woman when it is not true.

“Yes, I agree that I am a novice as they claimed but I looked at that video and the way it was fluctuating convinced that there was an act of manipulation. This is my own judgment and I am free to hold this opinion.

“I told them if they have not heard from Oliseh directly concerning those things on YouTube, they have to hold on until I speak to Oliseh. When I spoke to him, he did not indicate any bitterness throughout the 16 minutes the discussion lasted. He rather pointed at issues we have to address.

“I know very well the circumstances with which he trained the players and even NFF know.  I told the federation that based on the discussion, we have to look at how we can make progress out of it instead of sacking Oliseh now and bringing another person we will sack again when he loses against Egypt.

“After sacking another, we will then look at how we can sack the NFF because if we sack the coaches, we will face the people that employed them since they have also failed too. It is going to be a sack game which is what we should avoid. I told them it is natural to discipline coaches but not to sack them.”

 “If I will still be here when the elections into the board of the federations will be done, I am assuring Nigerians that nobody will pick his in-law or farmers’ association chairman as a member of a board.

“Those who are contesting must show their commitment, they must show how they will guide their federation to success.

“Most of all the problems we are having in the federations are linked to this. We have federations that are existing and cannot do anything except the ministry gives them money.

“The ministry even funds the ticket for a president [of a federation] to come for meetings. At the end of the day, you will discover that the federations have been reduced to a battle ground; nothing but fighting over relevance and resources.

“A man who was a leader of a farming group in the village will now be appointed a board member in a football federation.

"Immediately he arrives on the board, he considers himself as having been appointed into a big political office where he must be paid allowances and he must be given money, he has nothing to contribute but much is going to be spent on him.

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Katy Perry and new boyfriend, Orlando Bloom pictured kissing at Adele's concert

Singer Katy Perry and actor Orlando Bloom have quietly been dating for weeks now but couldn't resist kissing each other publicly as they attended a star-studded Adele concert in Los Angeles on Friday night. The A-list stars were photographed happily dancing, singing and kissing as they enjoyed the show with other stars, including Tom Hanks, Robbie Williams, Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence. See more photos after the cut..

Katy's ex John Mayor was also there with a female companion