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“Any random person can type something on the Internet and then the world believes it. I don’t talk to press or do TV or do promotions of any sort. I’ve stopped chasing and buying into fame. Fame is like cigarettes with no surgeon general warning. It destroys most people as it did to the true and only King of Pop. We exploit ourselves and eat our own egos ’till there is nothing left. I have a feeling that this won’t be the last false statement with my name on it, but this will be the last time I defend myself. I’m done.”
-Kanye West, responding to rumors that he had declared himself “The New King of Pop” following the death of Michael Jackson. West heard the topic being discussed on Wendy Williams’ radio show and fired up his blog to dispute the quote. “”Not only did I not say that, I haven’t said anything,” West wrote (in all caps, of course). “It makes me feel bad that obviously I made people feel that I would be corny enough to say something so whack after the passing of an idol, a legend and, more than that, a human being with feelings and family.” West also used his blog in the wake of Jackson’s death, leaving the message “Thanks for everything, Mike” on the day that the singer died. And of course West’s own “Good Life” samples Jackson’s “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing).”