NEW YORK - Kanye West, with a crown of thorns atop his head, poses as Jesus Christ on the cover of the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone. The outspoken rapper defends his brash attitude inside the magazine's pages, on newsstands Friday. He is also pictured posing as Muhammad Ali.

"In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts," he says. "You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?"

West also says his hit song "Gold Digger" was the best song last year and that it should have been nominated for the Grammy's best rap song category: "That's a gimme Grammy."

Nevertheless, the 27-year-old is nominated for eight awards, including album of the year for his sophomore album, "Late Registration." The
Grammys will be presented Feb. 8.

West has always been forthright in saying what he feels, most famously when he said "
George Bush doesn't care about black people" during a telethon for Hurricane Katrina victims.

"If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained," he says. "My misery is your pleasure."

The strangest tangent of the Rolling Stone story, however, is when West says he's addicted to pornography. He remembers first seeing his father's Playboy magazine when he was 5 years old.

"Right then," West says, laughing, "it was like, `Houston, we have a problem.'"

"In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts," he says. "You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?"

West also says his hit song "Gold Digger" was the best song last year and that it should have been nominated for the Grammy's best rap song category: "That's a gimme Grammy."

"If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained," he says. "My misery is your pleasure."

when West says he's addicted to pornography. He remembers first seeing his father's Playboy magazine when he was 5 years old.

SHOES!

That made me laugh so hard, but thats not the song.

Still, I got a hell of a laught out of that.

       

kudos to him for definitely knowing how to get some attention LOL

Kanye is such a dramaqueen

Whether or not he's overrated is subjective. From a hiphop standpoint, Late Registration was lackluster with its repetitive lyrics, basic rhymescheme and beats that really didn't appeal to the hardcore hiphop fans. Musically, it was absolutely brilliant.

KanYe has said some off the wall shit, but he's right a lot of the time.

^ yea i guess jesus and kanye got something in common in that they are both not real

Yeah but Kanye didn't do anything to benefit human-kind but complain...He has nothing in common with Jesus except for their determination.

He's very cocky to do that. What Jesus did was sacrifice himself for the good of all people. What Kanye did was struggle and I guess you can sacrifice a few things for HIS own success. And he complains a lot about society and yet he doesn't take advantage of his power as a celebrity (considering how people look up to him therefore has the ability influence people) to actually fix those wrongs. (except for donating a portion of his money to a few charities...but I'm not quite sure if he did that, i only heard from someone else that he did)

I don't like Kanye because hes ignorant and he said he started the the clean rap movement.  Number one, his rap isnt what I would call clean, and DUH!  Everyone knows Will Smith started the clean rap movement.  Besides, hes just ignorant.  did I already say that?  Oh well I should also mention he is ignorant.

Yeah but didn't Kanye believe in Jesus as a savior and some representation of "good" (of some kind?). So in Kanye's situation, posing as Jesus means that he thinks he's a representation of what's good.

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