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Kanye West raps new album at Seth Rogen in the back of a van
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 10 December 2014
It’s hard to tell if Kanye West has any sense of humour at all (calling his daughter North West would suggest not). So it was probably quite traumatic for Seth Rogen when the rapper cornered him shortly after his parody of West’s ‘Bound 2’ video appeared online and bundled him into the back of a van*.
It was alright though, West just wanted to play Rogen his new album for some reason. And play it he did, but there was a problem, Kanye hadn’t yet recorded any vocals. That was alright too though, because Kanye West is the very rapper who has appeared on all of Kanye West’s albums to date, and will appear on this one too.
Rogen explains to Rolling Stone: “There’s no lyrics, only beats. So he raps the whole album, and after each song, he stops it, like, ‘So what do you think?’ We were in the van for two hours!”
*Rolling Stone says it was a limousine, but Rogen specifically uses the word van, and it’s funnier if we say it was a van. I’m thinking a rusty 1989 Ford Transit.
