Kanye West is not the King of Pop. Really.

There's been too little Kanye in this here blog recently, so here you go. Enjoy.

…or so he claimed in a recent blog post.

Statements released mere days after the late Michael Jackson’s death quoted the hip-hop superstar as saying, among other things: “First there was Elvis, then there was Michael, now in the 21st century it’s Kanye’s time to rule.” In that post, however, Kanye denied those claims, stating that, “any random person can type something on the Internet and then the world believes it.”A true statement, to be sure.

In fact – and this may come as a shocker to many of you – I’m inclined to side with Mr. West on this one. The only source for the quote comes from a backwater news website called Scrape TV, which looks like it was designed circa-1999 with nary an update since. And while Scrape’s editor-in-chief has since stood by the truth of the quotes, this still strikes me as a huge grab for website hits. Heck, I feel bad even linking to the site. Not only is it terribly designed, but it’s also littered with poorly-placed ads.

So, end result: I dislike deceptive journalism practices much more than I dislike Kanye’s blathering. So when forced to take sides, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Everyone who reads this should boycott Scrape TV in the future, up to and including any erroneous quotes.

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