Mr Candid West sorry I meant Kanye wrote his own cover story for the magazine with a personal account of he went through in the past year. The rapper aslo directed a 40 page section for the special collector's edition. Below is an extract from his cover story...
I knew I wasn’t in a great spot publicly after the incident, but I would just block it out and work as hard as possible and let my work be my saving grace. In a way, I had thrown a Molotov cocktail at my own career, and it gave me an opportunity, for the first time, to go away and find out who I was. Because I felt very alone.
In other news Mr West Talks Runaway Short movie!
Kanye West is preparing a forty minute promo video for his forthcoming single Runaway. The forthcoming visual which was shot in Prague for will be 40 minutes long and the concept behind it follows below...
I’m color-correcting this film I shot in Prague a couple weeks ago. I want to edit the film on a boat. Where are the good editing boats?” — is called Runaway, and is a 40-minute noir piece based on his new album. “It’s the story of a phoenix fallen to Earth, and I make her my girlfriend, and people discriminate against her and eventually she has to burn herself alive and go back to her world,” he told us. “I’ve been feeling the idea of the phoenix. It’s been in my heart for a while. It’s maybe parallel to my career. I threw a Molotov cocktail on my career last year, in a way, and I had to come back as a better person.”