“South Park” Humbles Kanye
"South Park" masterminds Trey Parker and Matt Stone have always aimed their guns at the biggest criminals in pop'n'roll, with Michael Jackson and Bono just two of their previous targets to be lampooned. Kanye West must have feared he was pretty close to the top of their hit-list, as was confirmed on Wednesday, when he made a brief appearance as an arrogant, humourless ego-maniac. Himself, basically. His role centred around a joke made up by Cartman, involving a play on words along the theme of fish sticks.
In the show, Jimmy Kimmel, Jay Leno and David Letterman were seen on their US chat shows adopting the gag to universal uproar, and only one person in the world, it seems, didn't get it. Namely, Kanye. "Hey, man. I'm a genius. I'm the most talented musician in the world. If I was a homosexual or a fish, I would know", was his reaction to the jibe, before the episode culminated in the rapper being transformed into a gay fish. Showing at least a degree of humour and irony, West has now taken to his blog in response, in which he admitted the programme makers had "murdered" him.
"It hurts my feelings, but what can you expect from 'South Park'!" he wrote. "I actually have been working on my ego though...I just wanna be a doper person, which starts with me not always telling people how dope I think I am. I just need to get past myself, drop the bravado and just make dope product", said Kanye, perhaps in reference to the new energy drink he will apparently be "creating" with beverage company Guru. "I can put what inspires me into this new product", he said this week announcing the deal. What, like fish sticks, perhaps?
What is truly nauseating is how much Kanye's latest declaration reveals that he isn't humbled at all by South Park's bombastic ego slam, he's just going to take his sociopathic narcissism private, thank God and South Park for that at least. But still truly regurgitatively gurgle-inspiring.