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Unbelievable.

I went to see the Glow in the Dark tour on Friday night and wow. If you thought rappers had egos, Kanye West makes them look like shy 4 year-olds. The stage looked like a desert landscape and it was supposed to be another planet like Mars or something. He had huge moving screens, including a floor screen that had hydraulics on it.

The story is, while on a space trip home to Earth, there is a crash and Kanye is stranded on this planet. His spaceship has a computer named Jane that talks to him giving him encouragement and advice. He talks back and forth to it though out the show and it keeps the story moving between songs.

And speaking of, every song is treated like it’s the last song he’ll ever sing. I’ve never seen such importance being flaunted in a rap song. The intensity Kanye infused into every performance made a song like Gold Digger sound like “I have a dream…” or “Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do…”

Highlights:

1) Kanye getting eaten by a (and I don’t use this word much) F*CKING dragon and then spit out.

2) A creepy mannequin, calling itself a shooting star, telling Kanye that he is the biggest star in the universe.

3) Kanye: I can’t do this anymore Jane. I need more in my life. I need a woman. I need P*SSY Jane!
Jane: I can help you with that.
Kanye: How can you help me? You’re just a stupid computer!
[GOLDEN BIKINI WOMAN appears]
Next Song: Jesus Walks

4) Kanye tells Jane that he’s going to give up and then a woman appears and sings the first verse and chorus of Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey (and if it wasn’t clearly a woman’s voice (and body), you would’ve thought they were just playing an MP3 of the song it was so accurately played by the band).

5) Jane telling Kanye that the only way he (and really us) can get home is with the power of his shining star, as all the other stars have just come and gone. He’s the only one left.

6) Kanye addresses the Bonnaroo incident and says he had done 45 shows before then and hadn’t been late once.

All in all, it was very entertaining - but it just made me despise his own image of himself even more than I already had. I just hope that his ego never gets in the way of making good music because he’s done an OK job so far.

This guy just couldn’t get enough of lupe fiasco at the glow in the dark tour.