I dunno, I don't think he had to exaggerate too much to make Kanye look so ridiculously pompous, coz he is. I think its good having pieces like this to puncture an over inflated ego now and then. And its not just Kanye he's attacking, its the whole capitalist circus and falsity that he's surrounded himself in.
That said, he definitely under-represents his producing talent in the article. Which is why I was asking people here about the good stuff he's been doing over the last couple of years with other artists. I'm sure there must be quite a lot to redress the balance after his last shitty album that I don't know about.
(apart from Lollipop remix which I have heard and is obviously great)
sorry, did warn you i was in a foul mood, and i've just had the sex scene in Tie Me Up Time Me Down spoilt by a load of berry radiohead fans shouting outside my flat, so expect more of the same.
i just thought he conflated a really good story (the thing about Kanye stopping the gig to flash his review onstage is hilarious) with a hatchet job to make it more than it was (fwiw, his account of the Westminster is somewhat dishonest, as i recall). The gig was a bit of a scrappy mess, because it was being filmed and there was a lot of stop-start. When Kanye really plays he's actually fucking great, one of the few rap performers today who can really carry off a big gig.
And yeah, i know the capitalist circus and media partners and corporate hoo ha is a great big fucking fart blowing off in your face every single time and his points on this are fair enough (and well made), and mayeb I'm just being petty because he's visiting the sins of the industry on one artist I happen to really like. But then what's the alternative in these days of downloading? A bunch of sanctimonious tossers in the park next door to me posing as monks while dreaming up gigantic publicity stunts that benefit them and screw anyone who hasn't had the benefit of EMI's publicity department working their case for the previous 15 years.