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Kanye Compares Kanye To Hitler, Thus Creating Attention-Grabbing Headlines For New Album Release

2011_08_kanyehit.jpg When will Kanye learn to keep his big trap shut? Apparently somewhere between "not anytime soon" and "never," if recent comments are any indication.

"I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I'm fucking insane, like I'm Hitler," he said onstage at the Big Chill music fest in England this weekend. "One day the light will shine through and one day people will understand everything I ever did." He followed that up with an apology for arriving half an hour late, explaining that he needed to ensure his performance was great, just like this guy: "Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much shit going on in music right now and somebody has to make a fucking difference."

Oh, and in case you've been living under a hermetically sealed, soundproof rock for the past six months, Kanye has a new album with Jay-Z, Watch The Throne, came out today, which has already spawned a list of rules on Twitter for proper listening technique (@RobMarkamn: "#WTTRules No. 1: The album has to be out a FULL 5 DAYS before any person, publication or Online outfit declare it 'Classic.'").

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  • marco_esquandolas

    I call bullshit.  When was the last time Kanye actually walked down the street?

  • birdtird

    maybe they should go back in time, back to when they made him the newest member of "the roc" , and not do that.

  • callmeL

    Kanye is aight, but he is his paranoia is hard to swallow.

    Take your meds! 

  • birdtird

    Funny that he brought up hitler and Jordan because MJ has a hitler stashe right now

  • Dead Himmler

    Adolf Hitler does not care about black people. 

  • nice one!

  • calcetines

    aka kanye is ripping off odd future's nazi imagery because he's feeling old and irrelevant

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