Kanye West might consider himself the greatest thing ever, and even if you don’t it’s hard to argue he that he doesn’t own the moment.
As New Yorker music writer Sasha Frere-Jones says in a review of Kanye’s Yeezus show:
In only the past few days, West lectured on design at Harvard; released a terrible video starring his fiancée, which may lead to in a brief spike in flannel sales; watched David Blaine pull an ice pick out of his hand; and accused President Obama of using him as a convenient foil.
The video in question, for Bound2, was widely savaged throughout the internet, including in a comment piece from Christine Sams on smh.com.au, who said the clip “proved an uncomfortable truth; that she is simply an object, a body, a way to prove his ‘manhood’”.
It takes someone special to inspire so much love and some much hate.
You might not be surprised that the final guest in Kanye’s two-two hour plus show - much of which took place on a fake iceberg - was Jesus.