Before the Grammy nominations were even announced, Kanye West went ahead and declared himself winner of the album of the year.
Now, he’s backing down. But only a little bit.
“I actually haven’t listened to Paul McCartney’s album, I won’t lie to you about that,” he told MTV News. “I’m going to check it out. I’m going to make sure I feel like I should win.”
In a backstage rant last week, West predicted that politics would keep him from walking away with the Grammy Award for his album “Late Registration,” saying it would be backlash for his outspoken public criticism of President Bush.
“If I don’t win album of the year, I’m going to really have a problem with that,” he said. “I don’t want to hear all that politically correct stuff. You put the camera in front of me, I’m going to tell you like it is.”
West considers his album worlds better than the other nominees’, including Mariah Carey’s “The Emancipation of Mimi”; Gwen Stefani’s “Love.Angel.Music.Baby”; U2’s “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb”; and McCartney’s “Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.”
Anyone else out there missing a little band called Humble Pie right about now?
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