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Ordinarily I try not to give one particular artist too much burn on a given day especially in back-to-back post but I guess I’ll make an exception for Kanye given his album drops today.  He deserves the attention from what I hear its a very quality project.  For those who are interested in copping, word is Amazon.com is selling the album for only $3.99 for a limited time.

In promotion of said album, Mr. West is featured in a cover story for Complex Magazine this month.  For the interview, the reporter ventured to Kanye’s studio hideout in Hawaii where he was photographed next to a wall of notes.  Careful examination of such notes reveled a list of commandments if you will outlining appropriate behavior in the studio in effort to respect his craft and keep his work under raps.  Perhaps a little self-absorbed but we wouldn’t expect less from Kanye and given the massive leakage of his previous works we’ll give him a break as borderline necessary.

The Rules

No hipster hats

No Tweeting

All laptops on mute

Just shut the fuck up sometimes

No blogging

No negative blog viewing

Don’t tell anyone anything about what we are doing

Total focus on this project in all studios

No pictures

No acoustic guitar in the studio

No lacking focus while music is being played or music is being made

While some of these “commandments” seem reasonable like no picture taking or laptop noises others could only be contrived by Kanye.  Like what’s up with the ban on “hipster hats?”  What exactly is a hipster hat.  Perhaps he should had a visual aide with that one.  His “Just shut the fuck up sometimes” law is one piece of advice perhaps he should follow.  The don’t tell anyone anything about we’re doing sounds like Fight Club.   But I really can’t for the life of me figure out his prohibition on acoustic guitars.  Someone please help me out with that one.  Only Kanye boy I tell you.