Kanye West asks you to rap on several tracks on his next album....

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this thread really isn't about that. it's about whether or not you would be too embarrassed to put yourself out there by performing on a major album.

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Yeah I'd do it for the money, why not? Could I wear a mask, like MF Doom but white and shit?

I've had plenty of fantasies about making music with my idols, but they generally involve me playing an instrument that I have at least some competency on. I'm self-aware enough to know that my rapping skills are non-existent and I should never be allowed near a hip hop album even in the role of the funny white guy who can't rap.

32 bars about what a worthless human being Kim Kardashian is? no problem!

How much money would someone likely make from rapping on several tracks on the next Kanye West album? I don't really know that much about music industry economics. Would the money be dependent on you embracing your new status as national punchline and appearing on chat shows and adverts and things? Or would you make a lot just for appearing on the album in itself?

Which option did you choose in your dream, Treeship? Did you know how to rap in the dream/ do you know how to rap in real life?

Yeah I'd do it for the money, why not? Could I wear a mask, like MF Doom but white and shit?

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damn it this was going to be my answer

I'm gonna go listen to mf doom now

Is there anyone on ilx who does know how to rap but would still decline? I know this isn't an option in the poll, I was just curious.

already excited at what disgusting, eyerolling blowjob metaphor I can come up with....

In the dream I declined and kanye was furious. We were really close friends in the dream and he felt betrayed xp

do you dream of Kanye often

First time but i hope he shows up in more dreams in the future

gotta be more opinions on this topic

I could probably outrap Kanye....BRAGGIN
Dude can't even stay in his lane...ZAGGIN
Puns so shitty they should be disallowed...FLAGGIN
But everytime I flow I leave they bums...WAGGIN

i remember watching one of those charlie sheen webstreams three years ago while st0n3d and identifying strongly with charlie sheen. i felt freaked out by the fact that he was humiliating himself in front of literally millions of people and was convinced that the human mind couldn't withstand that sort of pressure. if i were to rap on a kanye album, i think it would be a similar sort of deal owing to the fact that i am not an experienced rapper.

I've given this some thought and decided that I would accept on the basis that this point n my life I am unlikely to become notable for anything else, being the funny person who can't rap on a Kanye album would be something at least. Also sometimes I read articles about the super-rich, like the 20 something children of Russian oligarchs and Central European dictators and think that if I could get to meet some of these people I could befriend them and spend the rest of my life sponging off them and going to exclusive parties and stuff, this might give me the chance to get my foot in the door.

I'm afraid to be a bad rapper on a Kanye album and get clowned for it because I'm afraid I'll be invited to be on Web Redemption

Although if get I understand you correctly, the premise of the question is that you are already friends with Kanye, so I guess you could use his connections to get in with the super-rich without rapping on the album, unless he was so offended that you turned him down that he blackballed you. So I guess I would make out like I would rap on his album until I felt that I was in enough with the super-rich that I could stay part of that crowd even without his patronage, and then blow him off, stop returning his calls and stuff.

then we'd get 808s and Heartbreaks 2: Bends Edition

I'd feel kind of bad about it, but I'm sure he'd get over it. He must have lots of interesting types wanting to be his friend, I'd be doing him a favour really, he's have more time to spend with interesting types.

in the dream, i told kanye that it was best for both of us if i didn't rap because i would fuck up his album but that made him even angrier

I feel kind of guilty about how quickly I turn mercenary when even thinking about meeting famous people, but I can't help it. Have you ever seen the Alexi Sayle bit where he's talking about how becoming successful as a comic meant he sometimes got to meet people like Paul McCartney when doing TV shows and stuff, and all the time he was talking to them he'd just be thinking 'give me some money! Go on you tight bastard, buy me a house! It wouldn't even make any difference to you!'?

I see the guy who played Ashley in Coronation Street in my local supermarket sometimes and there's a part of me that thinks 'how can I turn this to my advantage? Can I befriend him and use him to befriend people who are more famous?'. Kanye probably better of without me.

lol. i don't think i'm pushy enough to ever get my foot in the door anywhere. at a party the other week i was talking to a dude who wrote "choose your own adventure" novels and asked him how he got into it and if there was anywhere i could send a writing sample. he was visibly annoyed at this question, though polite about it, and i felt guilty for the next 18 hours.

When I was at university the guy who played Gary Mallett was on my course as well as a mature student, we spoke a few times but I don't know if he would remember me now. But I thought maybe that could be my opening with Ashely, ask him if he ever sees the guy who played Gary Mallett still and say that I knew him when he did this university course about ten years ago.

i have a fantasy of pretending not to recognize a beautiful, famous actress or something and hitting on her, apparently on the basis of her looks alone, and her falling in love with me on the basis of my interest being more pure than that of men who at least on some level were drawn to her because of her fame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsNFuVDacYI

The blond floppy haired guy here was married to one of the English teachers at my senior school, there was a photo up in the class room of him sitting on a bench eating a packed lunch with some kids on a school trip he was a chaperone on. I think his name was V1nc3nt D3-Ath. He was in an epiosde of Taggart as well, I think.

All the kids who went on the school trip came back with his autograph.

Oops, I've just looked him up on imdb and his name was Ch@rl3s D3'@th, not Vincent.

how does a guy like that not decide to lose the apostrophe in his last name?

When he was born it was immediately obvious that Harold was no ordinary pig. The fact that he was inflatable was one thing but the ambition he had was what made him stand out. After a few years on the farm as an outsider he just left and wound up with a circus, helping out with odd jobs. And then, one night, when the main act fell sick (and fell on top of his act – the fleas) Harold steps up. Fitting his whole body into a jam jar, Harold becomes famous. However with fame comes pressure and nobody stays at the top forever. This documentary looks back at his career, from the perspective of those that knew him best.

Opening with a tense scene with a birthing pig, this film immediately marks out its territory with the birth of an inflatable pig. We then start a mock documentary where everyone talks in all seriousness about this pig and what happened to him once he became famous. It is rarely laugh-out-loud funny

^synopsis and part of a review of one of the films he has been in.

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