Kanye West alongside Jamie Foxx in
Gold Digger. Jamie Foxx is the one who can actually sing (although he sounds a bit like someone has applied mole grips to his testacles); Kanye West is the one who chants total and utter bollocks over the song. The original song is
I Got A Woman by Ray Charles. That was originally a damn good soul track, back in the day: I am glad for poor Mr Charles that he did not live to hear this bastardisation of his work.
The idea that this narcisistic, uncouth and boorish drunken oaf has either the talent to be a successful musician and the taste or intellect to know shit from boot-polish when it comes to which pop video is better than which is laughable. His opinion on anything does not need or deserve to be taken seriously. President Obama wasn't whistling Dixie when he called this man a
jackass.
I had never even heard of Taylor Swift before the deplorable MTV Awards incident. I was so staggered by the gratuitous insult to an almost defenceless young woman barely out of High School that I made a point of viewing and listening to her video of
You Belong With Me just to piss on Kanye West and now I most definitely a Taylor Swift fan. She is pretty, sweet, charming and writes most of her own words and music. There's more talent in her toenails than in Kanye West's whole egotistical being.
Kanye West: I shit him.