Kanye West Turns 30; Ready to Annoy An Entirely New Generation of Music Listeners
(Don’t you just love how his drink matches his shirt?)
Rapper and vocabulary trendsetter Kanye West celebrated his 30th birthday in June at a party at New York’s Tenjune nightclub. The event was attended by such A-list celebrities as Mariah Carey, Rihanna (and her umbrella - ella - ella - ay -ay), Ashlee Simpson, and Pete Wentz. (And I’d really like to know if this group all went through the Taco Bell drive thru together after the party.) It has also been reported that Kanye’s name was misspelled …. as Kayne (isn’t that the guy from Project Runway) …. on his own birthday cake. How sad!
Kayne Kanye apparently commenced with the annoying just seconds before midnight:
As the celebrations began,
KayneKanye said: “I’m in my 20s as we speak right now, but at midnight, I’ll be 30. I’m already 30 in Japan and London and everywhere else.”
Way to forget the entire midwest, central plains, west coast, Alaska, and Hawaii Kayne Kanye! But I guess your birthday is kind of like New Year’s Rockin’ Eve in Times Square …. once the ball drops in EST everyone packs up and goes home and the rest of the country ends up standing there awkwardly with a stupid party hat and a handful of confetti getting all sweaty in our palms.
After the birthday was over, however, West got down to the serious business of educating the world about proper vocabulary:
“Only white people and older black people say ‘bling’ now. If a white person uses slang too early, then that makes them look like a wigger. But if black people use slang too late, then it makes them look like a wigger.”
Well, smell you, Nancy Drew. For the record, I don’t think I’ve ever used the term “bling,” (or “bling-bling” for that matter), unless it was an ironic use of course. Gee, I guess in Kayne Kanye West’s eyes, that makes me cool! Just what I needed! Validation on cutting edge hip-terminology from the guy who recorded a duet with Adam Levine!
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August 13th, 2007 at 1:22 am
“I’m in my 20s as we speak right now, but at midnight, I’ll be 30. I’m already 30 in Japan and London and everywhere else.?
That man is a true philosopher-king.