Kanye West fails to single-handedly save B&O's handset biz
By Nilay Patel 
posted Oct 30th 2008 5:14PM
posted Oct 30th 2008 5:14PM
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The moment I read "B&O" on the title I immediately looked at his armpits for wetness.
this post just screams for someone to mention the "you know what" phone...
Also.. is it just me or is his T-Shirt more interesting than the B&O phone... :)
http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/client_images/kanyewest/3164_02bcaca02b9d699ea8bc71dcec7d11cf.jpg
What is funny is how everyone on Kayne's website is oohing and aaahing over how cool that phone is...
That's star power for you I guess.
I immediately thought Monopoly when I heard B&O [Railroad].
Kanye West is an insufferable tool [and I'm happy this mom died.]
Edited by Flashpoint
@ILoveApple
What's funny is that I saw the black guy holding it up and thought wow, Engadget's got a black editor.... but nope, it's just Kanye. The last black guy I saw on a tech show was Will on Attack of the Show. What's the deal, am I the only black guy that digs technology?
@ Legend
Nope, you're the second. I was first. :D
Kanye West is a stubborn jack ass. He always thinks he's the best rapper out there. Well screw him =D
A) All rappers think that.
B) Kanye is one of the best out there.
nobody asked you what you think about his music... the article is about a mobile phone being unboxed by a celebrity... and his albums are far better than some other shit out there... even the auto-tune crap... so next time you wanna bash Mr. West go back to youtube where you belong
Engadget does not care about black people.
He does happen to be one of my least despised rappers. Pretty smooth voice, and for the most part doesn't talk about killing cops and beating hookers. Only rapper with a song still on my Zune.
I wish Kanye West was a hooker so some cops would beat him.
killing cops and beating hookers? what, are u stuck in the early 90's? tool.
*cough* asskisser *cough*
There's a grammatical error on the shirt that Kanye is wearing.
FAIL! unless....do you think....someone else.....OWNS THEIR BACKS?!?! R'UH R'OH!
What?
Hey Jer, didja stop and think that perhaps he meant the shirt leaves off an "s" to agree with the plural subject " MC's " ?
There shouldn't be an apostrophe there.
You're correct about the apostrophe, it's not supposed to be possessive. But when have rappers ever cared about grammar? They're all about semantics, yo!
MC is an acronym. Shouldn't there be an ' when you use possessive genitive with an acronym? In my mother tongue you do.
in other news... iEye watched a leaked copy of Futurama "Bender's Game" today
said: "funny"
the funny thing is.. the fact that you said "funny" after watching a not so funny show is actually NOT FUNNY!
you funny fanboy, you...
Anyone who thinks Futurama isn't funny is dumb and should die. The movies weren't very good, but still.
can you hear that?... it the sound of my foot racing towards you sphincter for being so bloody rude... since when did my opinion that Futurama isn't that funny become an universal truth... what happens to be loved by some probably isn't by others...
I guess education is pretty hard get in the mountains, huh... sheep fucker...
Look at your grammar. In a post telling me I'm uneducated.
I wonder if he got it at Lucky Plaza...
I also wonder if he Visited the Orchard Tower aka "The Four Floors of Whores"
Wonder if you're done dropping names of locations so that we all know you've been there.
Oh you got me...
Critic, can I have your autograph?
I guess that settles it: B&O's handset hates black people.
I believe he actually cursed the cellphone.
@sideshowRaheem
Thank goodness! someone else understands sampling! i don't use any samples in my music that aren't royalty-free, but i totally understand the process and i really wish people had a clue that it's not as easy as it seems to make a hip hop beat out of any old song.
On the Subject of his music. On top of sampling Daft Punk; he's kind of stealing their shtick. The Whole "Glow in the Dark" tour is very similar in style to Daft Punk's Sci-Fi concert Style.
Maybe that's because they were performing alongside him on tour...?
Though they have given him their blessing, they are not on tour with him... Though I believe they did consult on the design.
Fact Remains instead of creating his own style he's cribbing off of others.
He did at least one show with them, and besides, trying to keep a consistent style with somebody whose music you're sampling is far different than stealing somebody's style outright.
Kanye is a great rapper, but as a producer he is known for sampling other music. So if hes blindly "stealing" from everyone wouldn't someone have noticed. His "unique" style is "copying" others.
Besides if you hung out with someone who wore shades all the time, you might wear shades too.
Wow "stealing", I'm pretty sure Daft Punk got a pretty big paycheck for the use of the sample not to mention Kanye being a very main stream artist brought a lot of attention to a group that maybe some people were not aware of. If your definition of stealing is someone breaking into your house and leaving you a big screen TV and a new mac book pro I guess it's stealing.
You guys are ridiculous, if anyone "stole" a sample, it's daft punk, for harder better faster stronger they more or less just looped cola bottle baby by edwin birdsong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sklZ-f6Wstw . at least in kanye's song all he did was take the vocals and actually built his own beat around it.
its called a collaboration, artists do it all the time
So THAT's who Mr. Blurrycam is!
Wow Engadget, I don't think Kanye would be too happy to read this post :P
Somehow I doubt he will read it. If he did read engadget, he would know that the Serenata is around a year old. Seeing as how he prides himself on that "this ain't out yet" style, I doubt he read the engadget article about it. If he had, he would not be giddy and writing "I got the 'new' B&O phone!"
Unless these photos are old.
ehh, I could care less about that SMUG SNOB.
I definitely agree.
I do think it's funny to see this particular smug snob bragging about getting 'the new B&O phone' when it's about as fresh as his music.
So... this is off topic, but...
That phone sucks bawrlz...
Imagine for a moment that instead of a famous hip-hop artist, he's a civil engineer. No one would be impressed. We would all think he's a tool. He liked it because of it's exclusive style. But seriously, all the urban hip crowd has QWERTY these days. He ain't gonna be texting anyone on that thing.
I think Kanye's pretty awesome. This was my first time on his blog and it's actually pretty decent. The phone's really hot for those who say they just want their phone to be a phone, but have a little extra money to spend. I prefer my iPhone, but to each their own.
People who are complaining about sampling in Rap just don't understand it and should probably just stick to what they like. Rappers use samples in the way that designers use fonts. Some designers make their own fonts, but for most, their art is in the composition. The rapper is given respect for how well he raps. The producer is given respect for how well he mixes what the rapper does and the music. If it helps, you can think if the producer as more of a DJ for the rapper, but one who changes the music, somewhat. Kanye West does both. The daft punk sample, for instance, has a heavier drumbeat in the Kanye version and I actually find it more interesting. The Daft Punk one can get a little repetitive for me. Photographers don't invent their subjects, but instead capture it in ways that many people find interesting. I'm running out of metaphors here, but hey... I'm no rapper.
love my Serene :)