Justin Laboy claimed on Twitter that West had played the record to him and that it would be out within days.It was subsequently confirmed that the album would arrive this Friday – aka today – and that it would be preceded by a public listening event.
And as listening events go, it was a pretty memorable one.Artists often say that sitting in a room with people who are listening to their music for the first time is painfully uncomfortable.
Not for Kanye West, apparently. With a sell out crowd filling all the seats in the Mercedez-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, just one single person stood in the centre of the standing area of the venue: West.In my head, he played the album holding a ghetto blaster over his head, like John Cusack in ‘Say Anything’..
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