Where did my IQ go?

[Betty Rage]

Oh right, it left in disgust after I read this article.

Proud non-reader' Kanye pens a (short) book
'Thank You And You're Welcome' is a 52-page collection of rapper's theoriesSlideshow


NEW YORK - Rapper Kanye West does not read books or respect them but nevertheless he has written one that he would like you to buy and read.

The Grammy Award winner, known for his No. 1 albums and outspoken statements on everything from racism in America to the banality of Twitter, is the co-author of “Thank You And You're Welcome.”

His book is 52 pages â€" some blank, others with just a few words â€" and offers his optimistic philosophy on life. One two-page section reads, “Life is 5% what happens and 95% how you react!” Another page reads “I hate the word hate!”

“This is a collection of thoughts and theories,” West, 31, said in an interview about his spiral-bound volume, which was written with J. Sakiya Sandifer.

West said he put his thoughts in a book because “I get paraphrased and misquoted all the time.” He calls his wisdom “Kanye-isms.”

“My favorite one is 'Get used to being used,' ” he said.

“I feel like to misuse, overuse or abuse someone is negative. To use is necessary and if you can't be used, then you are useless.”

So does he fancy himself a modern-day Confucius?

“I'm trying to end the confusion,” he said, laughing and adding, “I'm gonna put that on the next album.”

West's derision of books comes despite the fact that his late mother, Donda West, was a university English professor before she retired to manage his music career. She died in 2007 of complications following cosmetic surgery.

“Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed,” West said. “I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph.

“I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life,” he said.

West, a college dropout, said being a non-reader was helpful when he wrote his book because it gave him “a childlike purity.”

West dedicates the book to his late mother.

“My mom taught me to believe in my flyness and conquer my shyness,” he said, defining “flyness” as confidence. “She raised me to be the voice to allow people to think for themselves, to find their own way.”

[Popeye the Sailor]

My head.



It hurts.

[roy-nexus-6]

“Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed,” West said. “I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph.

I find it interesting that someone can dismiss the awesome intellectual achievements of others as being 'self absorbed',.... and then needs a ghostwriter to record 32 pages of trite aphorisms.  

[DCXCV]

I would never want a book's autograph.

I want a book's autograph.  Those damn uptight books never even talk to me, though.

[swampduc]

I find it interesting that someone can dismiss the awesome intellectual achievements of others as being 'self absorbed',.... and then needs a ghostwriter to record all 32 pages of trite aphorisms.  

Well put 

[herm]

paging c. darwin........

[vonkeswick]

[Grampa]

biggie shot the wrong guy

[Grampa]

his manager, Malcolm McLaren, could not be reached for comment.

[ZLTFUL]

I find it interesting that someone can dismiss the awesome intellectual achievements of others as being 'self absorbed',.... and then needs a ghostwriter to record 32 pages of trite aphorisms.  

Ironically, he plagerized the 5%/95% quote...and I love the word hate because I hate people who couldn't write an original thought if their life depended on it.

[Grampa]

chapter two

I like fishsticks

[vonkeswick]

chapter two

I like fishsticks

bah-ZING!

[CairnsDuc]

I just wonder, does anyone give 2 shits what this guy says anyway?
Is he that self absorbed to think that anyone will buy and read this rubbish, let alone have a life changing experience from reading his thoughts?

[ZLTFUL]

I just wonder, does anyone give 2 shits what this guy says anyway?
Is he that self absorbed to think that anyone will buy and read this rubbish, let alone have a life changing experience from reading his thoughts?

Sadly, those are the same people who thought that Obama getting elected would pay their mortgage and they would never have to worry about anything ever again... (not a political comment mind you more of a state of humanity comment)

[Drjones]

The sad part is that someone will buy his book and actually like it.  I was going to say the sad part is a publisher decided to print his crap, but then again they'll print fly shit if they think it'll bring in a profit.