{"id":20916,"date":"2010-11-22T22:49:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T21:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=20916"},"modified":"2010-11-22T22:49:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T21:49:36","slug":"kanyes-complex-cover-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/kanyes-complex-cover-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye’s Complex Cover Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kanye West graces the cover of the December\/January issue of Complex magazine. For the cover story, Editor-in-Chief Noah Callahan-Bever provides a rare look inside Kanye\u2019s Fantasy Rap Camp in Hawaii and the making of My Dark Twisted Fantasy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The sun sets, and Q-Tip and Consequence arrive, straight from the plane. Kanye asks RZA if he\u2019d voice the hook\u2014\u201dChampagne wishes and 30 white bitches\/You know the shit is, fuckin\u2019 ridic\u2019lous\u201d\u2014and the Abbott steps into the booth and obliges, immediately transforming from sedate and stoned to amped and aggressive. It\u2019s enough to make us all chuckle on his first take; wrapped around those words, his thick and bizarre drawl just sounds so perfectly\u2026RZA. But Kanye notices something off in the delivery, and he presses the intercom button to talk to RZA: \u201cUm, fam, it\u2019s actually \u2018thirty white bitches,\u2019 not \u2018dirty white bitches.\u2019\u201d RZA laughs. \u201cI\u2019ll do it again,\u201d he says, \u201cbut to be real, the way I be saying words, you ain\u2019t gon\u2019 be able to tell the difference.\u201d Ha! At Rap Camp, the shit is fuckin\u2019 ridiculous.<\/p>\n

The rest of the trip settles into a fairly routine pattern, if by \u201cfairly routine\u201d you mean \u201ca succession of both magical and mundane moments starring the musicians who defined your adolescence alongside the most exciting artists of today.\u201d Each morning begins with a 10 a.m. breakfast at Kanye\u2019s Diamondhead residence. Pusha, Tip, RZA, Cudi, Cons, and Kanye\u2019s crew slowly assemble to enjoy the absurdly tasty cooking of Kanye\u2019s in-house chefs. If you\u2019re smart, you order the French toast with the flamb\u00e9ed banana. An hour later, Kanye pulls up in his Porsche Panamera, fresh from the studio. That\u2019s right, from the studio. During my five days in Hawaii, Kanye never slept at his house, or even in a bed. He would, er, power-nap in a studio chair or couch here and there in 90-minute intervals, working through the night. Engineers remained behind the boards 24 hours a day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read Noah\u2019s full story, as well as some testimonials from some of the album\u2019s stars (Pusha T, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, Nicki Minaj) here<\/a>. There are also a good 40 or so never before seen candid photos from the studio sessions that you can check out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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