Author and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis stated in his most recent podcast, that Kanye West approached him to do series of pornographic films featuring music from 2016’s Life of Pablo. While the project “fizzled out,” according to The Fader West apparently contacted Ellis has recently as a few months ago to revive the project.
Ellis had previously worked with West in 2013 while doing a promo for Yeezus. West first came into contact with the American Psycho author that year to do the promo, which was a parody of the American Psycho film starring reality TV stars Scott Disick and Jonathan Cheban.
“In the five years I had known him, I had never seen him this focused, this together,” Ellis said during the podcast regarding his recent meeting with West. According to the Fader, Ellis also seemed to push against the idea that West was a “drugged-out freak gibbering on Twitter.”
This year has been a packed one for West, who released the fifth album release from his “Wyoming Sessions,” this year with Teyana Taylor’s K.T.S.E on June 23. The releases from these sessions began began with Pusha T’s Daytona, back in May, which was the followed by West’s eighth-studio album ye a week later. The West and Kid Cudi collaborative project Kids See Ghosts soon followed, along with Nas’ Nasir which continued the trend of weekly album releases, that ended with K.T.S.E.
West has also seen his fair share of success this year, landing his eighth consecutive number one album on Billboard this year with ye, with every single track debuting on Billboard’s Top 40. This feat has West tied with rapper Eminem and The Beatles as the only musical artists in history to land eight consecutive number one albums.
Following the album’s release, West dropped a few lyric videos for the tracks “Violent Crimes and “All Mine,” on Jun. 19. On “Violent Crimes,” West makes references to and apologizes for some of his misogynistic attitudes and lyrical content, which caught the ire of critics such as the Guardian’s Kitty Empire as early as 2010.
This year as also been controversial for the Chicago native, who posted himself wearing a Make America Great Again hat on Twitter, before making controversial statements implying that slavery was choice in a TMZ interview.
In more recent events West caught the ire of Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor, who claimed that the rapper and R&B vocalist the Weeknd copied his live show. In a prior interview, Reznor also claimed that ye “sucked, and that’s it,” before going on to add “He has made great shit; he’s not in a great place right now.”
Despite this, West is far from slowing down this year, on June 30th Chance the Rapper stated that he will be working with the artist and fellow entertainer Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover on an upcoming album.
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