Rolling Stone - Kanye was inspired by a candid photo of Rihanna (the muse of his new 808s & Heartbreak video “Paranoid”) stepping into a yellow cab in New York City. “Yo why can’t all paparazzi photos be this good?” Kanye asks. “This pic is hardcore. Peep the perspective shot of the city in the back. Sometimes the paps overexpose the lens or have the flash too high taking all the emotion out of the moment. This moment is captured in time now. Then, Kanye got controversial.
“I look at our current superstars like legends in the making. Like Justin [Timberlake] is the new Mike [Michael Jackson], Beyoncé’s the new Tina Turner, [Lady] Gaga’s Madonna, Jay[-Z] is Sinatra, [Lil] Wayne is Hendrix, Thom Yorke is Roger Waters,” Kanye said in his Match Game. A couple issues, obviously. For starters, Lady Gaga has a long way to go before even being in the same weight class as Madonna, Jay-Z can’t sing or act like Sinatra, Weezy can’t shred like Jimi and while Roger Waters can be considered the heart of Pink Floyd, guitarist David Gilmour was the soul. Plus, let’s see Radiohead continue on without Yorke like Floyd did without Waters.
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