As we discussed yesterday, Kim Kardashian was having a “miserable” time of it in Greece with her family. The Kardashian-Jenner clan traveled to Greece late last week for an all-expenses-paid (by E!) vacay in which Lamar Odom and Kanye West were not able to attend. And Kim was sad! Because it was humid and she’s super-preggo and all she wants to do is arrange photo-ops with Kanye. So in a rare moment of generosity towards his baby-mama, Kanye West came to Greece for a few hours and then he ordered a private plane for himself and Kim and they went to Paris.

Kim Kardashian is on a European adventure! After spending several days in Mykonos, Greece, with her family — and taping scenes for Keeping Up With the Kardashians, natch — the pregnant reality star received a visit from Kanye West on Monday, Apr. 29, Us Weekly can exclusively report.

The A-list couple “had a quick meal in Greece with her family,” a source reveals. Shortly after, the pair chartered a private plane to Paris, France, where the 35-year-old rapper is currently working on his next album. Kardashian’s famous family, meanwhile, stayed behind in Greece. (Stepbrother Brody Jenner and half-sister Kylie Jenner were seen doing flips off a yacht, while the rest of the family went jet skiing and horseback riding.)

After being whisked away by West, Kardashian tweeted that she had the “best day ever.” The following day, she subtly revealed her new location. “Bon jour!” she wrote. “Gym time.”

The twice-wed 32-year-old will welcome her first child in July. Though West has yet to propose, the mom-to-be does see herself walking down the aisle a third time. “I do think I would get married again,” Kardashian revealed during Ryan Seacrest With the Kardashians: An E! News Presentation, which aired Sunday, Apr. 21.

She added, “”That’s what I’ve always wanted. And just because you think you find it and you realize that’s not it, I think I was brave enough to realize that quickly and not waste time.”

[From Us Weekly]

Radar’s version of this story is that Kanye did NOT come to Greece, that he only sent a private plane to pick her up and she flew to Paris to meet him there. I don’t know which story is true, but my guess is that Us Weekly got the tip from “someone” (Lucifer’s homegirl?) and they’re probably right. Anyway, you can breathe easier knowing the Kat-Face is now in Paris. And honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if Kim did end up giving birth in Paris. That’s not what she wants, I bet, but she thinks it will make her more like Brangelina, and she really doesn’t want to leave Kanye’s side now. I think it’s sad that she’s the one changing around everything to be with him, and he barely does anything to make it easier on her.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Here are some more photos of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West out and about in NYC yesterday. Two days in a row! Kanye let Kim famewhore him two days in a row! Kanye doesn’t look too happy about it, but he’s really been looking miserable with Kim for a while now. Is it the end? Or are they going to power through for another year or so? Dunno. But Radar says Kanye has been keeping his distance because he doesn’t want to be keeping up with Kardashians.

Their get-together in New York on Monday won’t be for long. It’s only a matter of time before Kanye West will be back working in Paris and staying as far away as possible from Kim Kardashian‘s reality TV world, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

Kanye is recording in Paris and a source familiar with the situation tell RadarOnline: “He doesn’t want to appear on Keeping Up with the Kardashians and being out of the country made that impossible.”

The perfect excuse? While some may think so, Kim has explained their separation by blaming work commitments. But a source tells Radar that Kanye’s team has advised him that appearing on the Kardashian reality shows is bad for his brand, and his bottom line.

“Kanye did appear on the show several times before he and Kim hooked up but that was because he was trying to get with her. Now that he has her, Kanye wants nothing to do with the reality shows. He most likely won’t appear at all in the upcoming season of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. Kanye won’t even let Kim talk to him on the phone while cameras are rolling. Kanye wants to maintain his private life,” the source says.

During an interview that Ryan Seacrest did with the Kardashian clan for an E! special Kim revealed that the rapper didn’t have time to appear on the show because of his work schedule, but “always enjoys watching it on television.”

Our sources beg to differ with the sex tape star. “Kanye thinks the reality shows are a waste of time, and contribute nothing. He wants Kim to focus on her fashion designs, and maybe pursue an acting career. But he wants her to quit the reality shows.”

[From Radar]

Ha, Kris Jenner will have something to say about THIS. Anyway, Kim already said that she’s contractually obligated for like two or three more seasons, and she plans to honor her contract. You should know that reality show “seasons” are like 13 episodes filmed over a month, so she could knock out three seasons this year easily, and then Kim and ‘Ye could live happily ever after. Ha.

Meanwhile, Kim is still talking about her pregnancy and she’s alluding to the fact that she’s miserable:

After a bumpy start, Kim Kardashian has finally found her pregnancy sweet spot.

“Now I think I’m past all the awkward phases and stages, and once you feel the baby kick, it’s a whole new experience,” the mom-to-be tells the Huffington Post.

“I finally really embrace it. I love it now, but it took a minute. It was a lot … of body changes and stuff.”

Kardashian, 32, has even managed to allow her fears of the future — mainly the labor and delivery of her first child — to fade away.

“At the beginning, that was what I feared the most, and now, I mean, it’s inevitable,” she says of giving birth. “It’s gonna happen — I’m really not worried or nervous.”

The reality star and her boyfriend Kanye West already know whether they’ll be filling their home with shades of pink or blue — but they’re not sharing. And with so much media attention, the expectant actress admits the couple have had to get creative to keep the baby’s sex a secret.

“We buy all white,” she says with a laugh. “Or we’ll go and buy both [girl and boy clothing], and then no one will know!”

[From People]

I can’t really hate on Kim for being scared of the delivery. I suspect that she’s already scheduled a C-section anyway, and I have no judgment for her about that. I will have a panic attack if I even think about childbirth and now that I’m watching Call the Midwife regularly, my childbirth fears have gotten MUCH worse. But seriously, Kim is going to have the drugs and the C-section. Bet on it!

Also – it’s been confirmed by Life & Style that Kim and Kanye will be at the Met Gala together on May 6th! Kanye is performing and it’s believed that Anna Wintour was trying to deny Kim for the second year in a row, but I guess Wintour relented. Kim is going to be there!

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Here are some photos of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West TOGETHER!! They were in New York yesterday – I’m assuming she flew in from LA and he flew in from Paris (where he’s been living and working on his new album). To celebrate the first time they’ve seen each other in some-odd 20 days, Kim poured herself into this tight LBD and she wore a pair of Kanye-designed high heels. Kanye dubbed these shoes “Cruel Summer”. Are those itty-bitty wings?

As you know, Kimye has barely spent any time together in the past four months or so, and it really looked like they weren’t even going to make it as a couple through Kim’s pregnancy. But everything’s coming up Kat-Face these days! First, Kim “wins” her divorce (ha) and now she can focus all of her energy into forcing this Kanye thing to stick. The first move was to plant the seed via TMZ – Kanye and Kim are fine, he’s been visiting LA “secretly” to go with Kim to her doctors’ appointments, etc. Now it’s the photo-op in NYC (and maybe another one in Paris… soon!). Kim is also spending some time talking about how she probably wants to get married again HINT HINT HINT.

Kanye and Kim take New York! Three days after settling her year-and-a-half-long divorce battle with ex-husband Kris Humphries, Kim Kardashian stepped out in New York City on Monday, April 22, looking healthy, happy, and more confident than ever. No doubt at least part of that has to do with her being reunited with boyfriend Kanye West, who has been living and working in Paris, France, for the last several months. A source confirms to Us Weekly that the two met up on Monday in the Big Apple, where West has an apartment.

Leaving her hotel with sister Kourtney and mom Kris Jenner, the six-months-pregnant reality star showed off her growing baby bump in a tight black dress and matching black cardigan. She paired the monochromatic ensemble with white “Cruel Summer” sandals from West’s collaboration with designer Giuseppe Zanotti.

The first-time mom-to-be was presumably en route to meet up with her rapper beau, whom she last saw earlier this month during a whirlwind trip to the City of Lights. (The couple spent Easter weekend together in Paris.)

Their reunion in New York City couldn’t come at a better time — with Kardashian’s divorce now finally behind her, the couple can at last move forward with their lives. For the moment, at least, they’re focused on getting ready for the July birth of their baby, but as the 32-year-old star hinted to Ryan Seacrest, she hasn’t ruled out another wedding.

“I do think I would get married again,” she told Seacrest in the E! special Ryan Seacrest With the Kardashians: An E! News Presentation, which aired Sunday, April 21. “That’s what I’ve always wanted. And just because you think you find it and you realize that’s not it, I think I was brave enough to realize that quickly and not waste time.”

“I found what I really wanted,” she continued, referring to her year-long romance with West. “So I think I definitely do want that.”

[From Us Weekly]

Of course she wants it. I was listening to “Golddigger” while I was working out yesterday, and I had a realization about how absolutely prophetic that song is for Kanye. It’s like his young self was rapping to his older self. Now, I would actually love it if Kim and Kanye got married. Just because it would be a total mess and I think Kanye’s credibility as an artist would take a permanent hit. But… I doubt they’ll ever really make it down the aisle. We’ll see.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Last week, we heard (from the tabloids) that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have barely been together at all since she got pregnant. Kanye was been camped out in Paris, working on his new album, and Kim has gone to Paris a few times to see him, but it doesn’t really seem like Kanye has been putting much effort into spending time with Kim at all. One tabloid claimed that Kim and ‘Ye had only been together 18 days out of the last 108 days. But that figure might be untrue. God knows. Anyway, TMZ claims that Kanye HAS been coming to Kim and going to her doctors’ appointments in LA, he’s just been doing it under the cloak of darkness, like Batman.

Kanye West is doing everything he can to support Kim Kardashian during her pregnancy — even though he’s in Paris working — and it’s costing six figures to do it … TMZ has learned.

Kanye has been travelling abroad the past few months — for events, performances and to record a new album — but is still hitting up Kim’s doctor’s appointments.

We’re told Kanye has made at least three trips via private jet from Paris to L.A. (costing about $100k total) so that he can be in attendance for Kim on her checkups.

Our sources say Kanye even reaches out to the doctors beforehand to discuss the appointments and to make certain his schedule allows him to be there.

According to our sources, Kanye has also flown Kim out to Paris on a private jet so they could spend extra time together before Kim is set to give birth in July.

[From TMZ]

Do you believe that? I’m kind of disbelieving, although I guess it might be possible for Kanye to come to LA and no one knows about it. I guess it’s possible that Kim could avoid famewhoring every single detail about her life for a few months. Maybe. My take is that Kanye and Kim aren’t “over” but that there relationship is pretty stressed right now, and that Kanye isn’t even prioritizing the relationship at all. He’s back in “work” mode. He’s recording. That’s his priority.

Meanwhile, Radar had a totally pathetic (my opinion) story about how Kris Humphries only settled their divorce case because he “felt sorry for her.” Yes, you’ve gotta love those shifting goalposts of the rabidly anti-Kardashian. Kris’s defenders are like Olympian gymnasts at this point, twisting and turning to find any possible way to claim that Kris “won”. Oh, he “won” because the Kardashians are out of his life? They could have been out of his life a year ago, HE chose to make the divorce into some huge, moronic carnival of stupid. You can still dislike Kim Kardashian AND think that Kris Humphries is an idiot with no legal leg to stand on.

Anyway, this is what one of Kris’s friends told Radar (I think the “friend” is a basketball): “Yes, he was angry at Kim for the way their marriage ended and he truly did feel defrauded by her and the show. But lately, especially in recent weeks, he just feels sorry for her. She’s pregnant and obviously under a lot of stress. He didn’t want to be part of it any more.” Radar’s sources also insist that Kris finally had a come-to-Jesus moment when his lawyers sat him down and told him there was absolutely no way he was ever going to get an annulment or prove “fraud” and that at this point, he was hurting his team and his career. Basically, what I’ve been saying for months. He’s an idiot.

Here are some more photos of Kim over the weekend. I would like her V-neck sweater without the pocket, but I really, really want the white cardigan.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

Here are some photos of Kim Kardashian at last night’s MTV Movie Awards. I don’t know you guys, I think she looks pretty good here. The dress fits, she’s not falling out of it or hanging out of it, it’s an appropriate length and the black is flattering. I’m calling this a total win for Kim. Kim has also really popped and I think her baby bump does a lot to balance out her butt. Suddenly, she looks proportional!

By the way, have you heard all of this stuff about Kanye West camping out in Paris and how he and Kim have barely seen each other in the past few months? Well, I know you’ve heard about it because you guys are always telling me that. I guess I didn’t realize that Kanye has basically been in Paris for months now, and the only way Kim sees him is if she flies TO him. Which sucks if you’re pregnant. Well, over the weekend there was a renewed flurry of stories about Kim “wanting to give birth in Paris”. Yeah.

As Kim Kardashian struggles with criticism of her pregnancy fashion, Ray J’s ‘diss’ track “I Hit It First” and painful divorce proceedings, baby daddy Kanye West is living it up in Paris and is seriously considering moving there full-time, says a source.

“Kanye is loving Paris and is having a great time there working on his album,” the insider tells Page Six. “He’d like to move there.”

West has been in the French capital since Fashion Week in February. Whispers of him making a permanent move there first surfaced in March, with claims that Kim would also move to be with the kilt-wearing rapper so he can finish his sixth studio album and start his next fashion line. A report yesterday said Kardashian’s now even considering giving birth in gay Paree.

But Kardashian, who Page Six reported is due mid-June, has not packed up — nor is she leaving her LA-based family and reality TV empire — to join the singer full-time.

On Tuesday, she was spotted out and about with West in Paris, where she’s been shuttling back and forth from LA to see him since she had a miscarriage scare while flying back to California last month.

Sources told us at the time that doctors had ordered her to slow down on her jet-set lifestyle. On Friday, Kim was back in court in LA for a hearing aimed at settling her increasingly nasty divorce with Nets player Kris Humphries — who did not show up.

Meanwhile, on Thursday, West, who has not visited Kardashian in LA since his move to Paris, joined Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) onstage during his concert in France to perform the song “Can’t Tell Me Nothing.”

Representatives for Kanye and Kim had no comment.

[From Page Six]

TMZ said something similar yesterday – that while she was in Paris last week, Kim “stopped into a hospital specifically to scope out the maternity ward.” Kim is interested in moving to Paris because – hahaha you won’t believe this – “Paris has strict anti-paparazzi laws.” Um, really, Kim? More likely, she wants to move to Paris because Kanye has all but abandoned her and she wants to force him to participate. Good God.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Here are some photos of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West arriving back in LA after their Easter jaunt to Paris. That’s a long-ass flight to do twice within a few days! LA to Paris and then Paris to LA within, like, four days? What’s the point? I think a little jaunt to Paris sounds fun, but I’m not going to waste an entire day of my life going back and forth on what is probably… what, like a ten-hour flight?

As you can see, Kim is still dressing with relative comfort. She’s wearing sensible tennis shoes and baggy, comfortable-looking layers. I doubt she’s even wearing maternity Spanx under that outfit! So, a small relief. Have I told you that my mom is obsessed with Kim’s pregnancy? This is what my mom said: “I have never seen a pregnant woman carry a baby entirely in her ass.” My mom is totally fascinated. Not so fascinated? Model Helena Christensen, who wrote an open letter defending Kim and her changing body. Here’s part of the letter:

It is disgusting and despicable the way that certain media constantly harass the pregnant Kim Kardashian. It’s enough that they persistently project a negative focus on women’s physical shapes; but a public bullying and attacking of a pregnant woman because of her growing shape is just lower than low.

Whatever else the tabloid-media feel a sick need to spew out of their venomous bowels, let that be their lame choice. But there should be some moral compass. It doesn’t matter who the woman is or what she does. No one should ever be publicly judged for their body, but to attack an expecting mother is sacrilegious and just plain wrong. A pregnant woman should not be criticized for her shape, period!!

[Helena’s Open Letter, via HuffPo]

Eh. I mean, I agree that a pregnant woman shouldn’t be attacked for gaining weight, and I said the same thing when it was Jessica Simpson and the world was all “OMG SHE’S FAT”. Now, I don’t think it’s “sacrilegious” – it’s just rude, unpleasant and mean to yell at a pregnant woman. But… I think it’s totally acceptable to chuckle a little when a woman tells blatant lies about her weight or to laugh at a woman’s terrible maternity fashion. Thankfully, Kim is keeping her mouth shut now and she’s finally wearing actual maternity clothes.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Here are some new photos of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West in Paris yesterday (I think). Fame/Flynet says they went to Paris for a “weekend getaway” and they went to dinner at Ferdi and went shopping at Bonpoint. This is the first time Kim and Kanye have been photographed together in a while – I believe Kim made her New York trip last week without him, and it had gotten to the point where people were really asking, “Damn, where’s ‘Ye?”

Well, here he is. He hasn’t abandoned her. He isn’t over her. Although… his body language and expressions in these photos aren’t exactly that of a man who is enjoying his girlfriend’s pregnancy. Kanye looks like a dude who bit off more than he can chew. My theory is that Kanye actually isn’t bothered at all by Kim’s weight gain or anything superficial like that – but he might be bothered by her family, by her famewhore ways, by all of the Kardashian sketchiness.

As for Kim’s size… my problem was always with the way she was dressing her bump and with her lies (or what I felt were her lies) about her size. Like, Kim is wearing glorified track pants in these photos, but I guess I should be happy because she finally looks sort of comfortable. But I guess I need to put on Kardashian-conspiracy tin-foil hat, because I haven’t gone off the deep end like The Enquirer, which claims that Kim is totally faking her pregnancy:

A source close to Kim believes the star might have hatched a sensational scheme with her money-hungry momager Kris Jenner to fake her pregnancy while secretly having a surrogate mom carry a baby for her and her lover Kanye West.

“How convenient is it that Kim got pregnant just as she was making a mad push to wrap up her ongoing divorce from Kris Humphries?” the source said. “Now Kris is claiming the delay in grant­ing a divorce is stressing Kim and the unborn baby. A fake pregnancy cleans up a lot of problems all at once and gar­ners Kim sympathy.

“It also would be an insane coincidence that Kim just so happened to get pregnant soon after she learned the girlfriend of her ex-boyfriend Reggie Bush – Lilit Avagyan – is pregnant.

“Best of all, for someone who’s always cooking up new moneymaking schemes, Kim stands to earn a windfall from her pregnancy.”

Insiders estimate Kim, who is 200 pounds and growing, could earn a whopping $16 million from baby product endorsements, a birth special for the E! network and even a post-birth weight-loss deal for a big-name diet company.

“Momager Kris has to be licking her chops thinking of the money she could potentially bring in by exploiting a Kim K baby, as well as a TV special and a post-birth weight-loss deal with a diet company like Jenny Craig,” a source says.

However, a friend says: “You’ll never see a bloody birth on TV – like the way her sister Kourtney did it. Kim is far too vain to let herself be filmed at such a vulnerable moment.”

Suspicions of a pregnancy hoax have ignited a firestorm of speculation on the Internet that Kim isn’t carrying her rapper beau Kanye’s baby and is instead using a pros­thetic belly insert, just as singer Beyonce was once accused of doing.

“If the pregnancy is fake, Kim has a built-in excuse to let her figure go and gain some weight, enjoying the fattening foods she truly loves.”

Shocking telltale pictures seem to show that Kim is duping her legions of fans – with her belly bump seeming to play here-today, gone-tomorrow.

[From The Enquirer]

For the love of God! I like a good conspiracy as much as the next person, and if you want to talk about Beyonce’s bump, I’m STILL game. But Kim? Look at these photos… I’m sorry but these are not photos of a woman who is faking a pregnancy. Everything about Kim looks pregnant, from her face to her boobs to her legs to her bump. She IS pregnant.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

A few days ago, Radar had an early excerpt from an interesting Star Mag story. You see, Anna Wintour hates Kim Kardashian. This hate-on has been going on for a while, but Wintour took it to the next level last year when one of Anna’s favorite men, Kanye West, began dating She Who Shall Never Be High-Fashion. Anna refused to extend an invitation to Kim to last year’s Met Gala, and sources claimed Anna openly snubbed Kim during New York Fashion Week last fall. Radar said that Anna was looking to ban Kim from this year’s Met Gala too, even though Kanye is set to perform at this year’s punk-themed event. Well, the print edition of Star had even more stuff, and it gets even better and more delusional:

“The Met Gala is $25,000 a ticket, but Kim refuses to buy her way in,” says a source.

That may change this year, since Kanye is set to perform at the May 6 soiree, which will have a punk theme and Kanye will surely be free to take Kim as his plus one.

While Kim should feel fortunate to simply attend the party, the reality starlet is pressing her luck and aiming for the ultimate Vogue approval: a cover pictorial!

“Kanye is practically begging Anna to make it happen,” explains the tipster, “but so far, his pleas haven’t worked. He might have a better shot if he offered an at-home feature with their baby.”

Though even that seems unlikely as Anna Wintour reportedly sniped to friends that Kim would grace her magazine’s cover “over her dead body.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

So, if I’m getting this right, Anna is all “Your girlfriend can buy a ticket if she really wants to come to the gala” and Kanye is all “Girl, imma let you finish, but Kim is the most fashionable girl in the whole world! Not only is she coming to the event, you’re gonna put her on the cover!!” So, while I think Nuclear Wintour is fighting a losing battle with the Met Gala, I think Anna is saving her strength for more important battles. Kim is going to the Met Gala, for sure. It’s May 6 – she’ll be seven months pregnant and by God, she will find some horribly tacky couture gown and it will be a disaster, but it’s happening and we need to accept it. But Wintour will NEVER, EVER allow Kim anywhere near Vogue. Never. Ever. Which is fine with me – I get tired of Kim’s magazine shoots. She’s not an interesting subject at all.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

A few weeks ago, Kanye West went on a tirade during one of his concerts, and his targets were many but included Grammys and the corporate nature of the music industry (even though this is the guy who is blind enough about his own role in the machine that he wore a $30,000 outfit to Occupy Wall Street). In addition, Kanye took aim at Justin Timberlake’s latest single, “Suit & Tie” by ranting, “I got love for Hov but I ain’t f–king with that ‘Suit & Tie’.” Then he went on to shout, “I hate business people. How much shampoo can you sell with your face on it and sh-t? Remind me again why we in this sh-t. Can you remind me again why we in this sh-t? Since when [is] making music about getting rich? Since when [is] making art about getting rich?… Remind me again why we in this sh-t. Remind me again why the Grammys couldn’t suck my d-ck.”

Kanye’s rant went largely unnoticed by the gossip world until Timberlake decided to use his performance time on this past weekend’s “SNL” episode to respond to Kanye. JT actually modified the lyrics “Suit & Tie” to suit his own purpose of dissing Kanye right back, and here is how he did it:

Justin Timberlake picked the perfect moment to slam Kanye West, who dissed his album’s lead single, “Suit & Tie,” during a February concert in London. During Timberlake’s live performance with Jay-Z on Saturday Night Live March 9, the singer changed the lyrics from “Aww, sh-t so sick, got a hit and picked up a habit” to “my hit’s so sick, got rappers acting dramatic.”

West, 35, trashed Timberlake’s track on stage at the Hammersmith Apollo. “I got love for Hov, but I ain’t f-cking with that ‘Suit & Tie,’” the outspoken rapper told the crowd during a three-minute rant about the commercialism of popular music.

The dis came as a surprise to fans, given that Kim Kardashian’s boyfriend frequently collaborates with Jay-Z. The hip-hop heavyweights even released a joint album, Watch the Throne, in August 2011. West was recently ranked No. 7 on MTV’s Hottest MCs list.

While West may not be a fan of “Suit & Tie,” former ‘N Sync member Lance Bass can’t get enough of Timberlake’s mid-tempo jam. “I think it’s something that no one expected him to do,” Bass told Us Weekly in January. “I think everyone was expecting him to do a crazy [dance track], but he went back to his roots and I like it. It’s very nice!”

[From Us Weekly]

I already included a video clip of JT’s performance of “Suit & Tie” on this morning’s “SNL” post, but here it is again. Since Kanye and Jay-Z are such close buddies, I wonder what Jay (as a performer in this video) thought of Justin’s modified lyrics.

You know, it would be one thing if he were merely criticizing the quality of “Suit & Tie,” which is a pretty atrocious song, but Kanye is merely (I think) criticizing what he perceives as the manufactured nature of the song. Never mind that Kanye has no problem with dating and knocking up Kim Kardashian, who is the ultimate commodity of reality television these days, but that’s beside the point I guess.

Photos courtesy of WENN

Have you ever heard of The Streisand Effect? It’s definitely a First World Problem, of course, and it’s about a phenomenon in the celebrity world. “The Streisand Effect” is when a celebrity pitches a fit (legally or just in the media) about a barely-publicized story or photograph and because of the massive celebrity fit, the original photograph, story or event gets WAY more attention. Celebrities do this inadvertently all the time when they go out of their way to deny a specific tabloid story that barely got any play. The phrase “the Streisand Effect” began when Barbra Streisand pitched a fit about photos of her Malibu estate taken from a helicopter – she sued the photographer and made it into such a big deal that photos of her property got even wider play.

Anyway, Kanye West is Streisand Effectin’ all over the place. MTV released a completely inconsequential list of “the Hottest MCs” of all time. Sway is hosting some kind of special about it, so I guess if you’re not tuned in to MTV all the time, you would have had no idea. MTV and VH1 do these lists and “specials” of the “Best of” whatever all the time. So Sway has the list, and Kanye is on it. But ‘Ye is only listed at #7!!!! Don’t you know that Kanye is THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME?!?!? So Kanye called into Hot 97 to complain:

Kanye West is riled up about his ranking in the rap community. The hip-hop superstar and first-time father-to-be called in to New York City’s Hot 97 radio station on Tuesday, March 5, to dispute being named named the No. 7 “Hottest MC” by MTV.

“I feel like for them to put me at No. 7, they had to bring up things they didn’t like, like they didn’t like Cruel Summer album,” he said of his poorly-received effort. “And I’m, like, ‘That’s a compilation. It’s not all rappers on [it].” He then listed several of the album’s songs, like “Mercy” and “Clique,” as examples of underrated tracks. “You can’t name five records like that on an album,” he argued.

West claimed the list’s creators were biased in other rap artists’ favor. “What happens with these type of things and the people that review it, when I come in and I have the pink polo and the backpack, I’m checking all the boxes of that A Tribe Called Quest era and all that, so they want to champion it,” the musician said. “They don’t like Givenchy Kanye. They don’t like Kanye in a kilt, they don’t like Kanye in a relationship.”

The outspoken star added that his verse in “Cold,” which was reportedly aimed at girlfriend Kim Kardashian’s estranged husband, Kris Humphries, was superior to anything his peers did in the last year. “Ain’t no bar of the past 12 months that’s hotter than that bar,” he said.

West said Lil Wayne deserved the the title of “Hottest MC” and added that Jay-Z and Eminem “are the greatest rappers of all time. He also praised his “Mercy” collaborator Big Sean, who edged him out for the No. 6 spot.

“I’m happy for Sean,” West told DJ Enuff during The Angie Martinez Show. “But I feel like he should be on top 5. He’s bodying records, like the way he started off that ‘Mercy.’” The top four MCs have yet to be revealed.

[From Us Weekly]

Thus far, the list is: #3. Rick Ross, #4. Nas #5. Drake, #6. Big Sean, #7. Kanye West, #8. A$AP Rocky, #9. Future, #10. Meek Mill. I have honestly NEVER heard of 8 through 10, so I guess I’m out of touch with MCs. But seriously, do people really get upset about this? Maybe Kanye does have a point – I think he’s more talented than Drake and Big Sean, for sure, although I’d probably put ‘Ye about even with Nas. But was Kanye the right person to make a big stink about it? Does anyone really care this much about a random list? Now I want to know who gets #1. It’s Jay-Z, right? Also: sorry ‘Ye, but Cruel Summer sucked. You’ve made incredible albums in the past, but Givenchy Kanye and Cruel Summer are made of dumb.

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