If you get a few moments today, read GQ’s profile of Kanye West. It’s truly fascinating, an in-depth look at a man who I can only describe as the biggest egomaniac the world has ever known.
The interview revealed two amazing things about Kanye West.
1) The New York Post story about his wedding wasn’t fiction after all.
Many of us who read the piece assumed it was parody. There was no way Kanye busted out a saw on his own wedding day. Well, yeah, he really did.
GQ: Can I read you something? The New York Post’s Page Six has an account of your wedding that reads, in part: “Kanye returned one hour before the wedding and didn’t like the all-white bar that was in front of the Gold Toilet Tower. He took a saw and started sawing it in half himself. Two men held the bar stable as he sawed, and sawed, into the bar, defacing the entire front, screaming at everyone around him. He said it looked like a bar from Texas. Then he ordered two pieces of raw wood to be nailed onto the front of the bar. Once the wood was in place, ‘Now,’ he said, ‘it’s art.’ The Italian construction teams looked at this guy and couldn’t believe what they were seeing.”
Kanye: For the person that wrote that, were they involved with anything last year that was as culturally significant as the Yeezus tour or that album? They didn’t even talk there about the photographs, or the dress, or Andrea Bocelli singing, or the marble tables. They’re like: “It’s a gold toilet.” No. The bathrooms—that usually would be a porta-potty—were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort. The bar was terrible, and the wedding planner didn’t approve it with me. I was having issues with this wedding planner the entire time on approvals, and I get there and they threw some weird plastic bar there. So the same materials that were used to cover the bathroom, we said, “Let’s just use that, because this is all we have to make the bar look better.” Which it did, in the end. And anyone knows that you cannot pick up tools yourself, because of—what are those rules about the workers?
2) Kanye West is a blowfish
I was hoping GQ would ask Kanye about Kim Kardashian’s status as a hobbit. Alas, they skipped over that one.
Photo via GQ
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