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Oh, IT'S ON (is something I've always wanted to write and really mean it, so thank you, Kanye). According to Vogue UK<\/em>, Kanye West has called Saint Laurent's creative director Hedi Slimane of plagiarism. <\/p>\n

"So, when I see Hedi Slimane," the rapper said to BBC 1. "And it's like, 'Okay this is my take on the world,' yeah he's got some nice $5000 jeans in there, it's some nice ones here and there, some good shit here and there, but we are a culture…Rap is the new rock and roll. We are culture. Rap is the new rock and roll. We are the rock stars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane. It's been like that for a minute. We are the biggest rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them."<\/p>\n

We know, Kanye. We all know. <\/p>\n

But how did this even begin?<\/p>\n

Well, West claims he invented leather trousers, as seen in collections by Saint Laurent, Isabel Marant, and Alexander Wang — but not before comparing himself to The Truman Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n

"Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour, or a listening party with Pusha-T or in Rome with Virgil [Abloh], giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down…[we] brought leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi and they said no," he claimed. "How many motherf—-s you done seen with a leather jogging pant?"<\/p>\n

"They classify my motivational speeches as rants,"  West added. "I have reached the point where my Truman Show<\/em> boat has crashed into the painting."<\/p>\n

Kanye West, never change. As for the rest of you: do you think he has a point? Or were leather pants independent thought created specifically by the self-appointed "number-one living and breathing rock star"?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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