Nothin’ quite like being well-known! Kanye West’s debatable, NSFW music video for his observe “Famous” raised eyebrows and left jaws at the flooring when it premiered at the Forum in Los Angeles (and streamed on Tidal) on Friday, June 24 — and we’re no longer simply talking about fans!
“Why I gotta have the plumbers butt/crack showing WAX figure?” Chris Brown captioned a screenshot of his likeness in the video, sandwiched between ex Rihanna and Taylor Swift, both in the nude. “This n—-a KANYE CRAZY, talented, however loopy.”
Brown, 27, was once the first of the ten featured nude celebrities (12, including West, 39, and his wife, Kim Kardashian) to publicly react to their surprising appearances in the video.
The other celebrities in West’s voyeuristic video come with George W. Bush, Anna Wintour, Donald Trump, Rihanna, Ray J, Amber Rose, Caitlyn Jenner, and Bill Cosby.
An aide for former president Bush tells Us Weekly, “That’s not him.”
“At this time, no remark will be made regarding Kanye’s video ‘Famous,'” a rep for Cosby tells Us.
A rep for Wintour had no remark, nor did a rep for Jenner. Reps for the other stars featured have not but replied to West’s explosive new work.
The rapper previously made headlines when he dropped the monitor at his New York Fashion Week Yeezy Season 3 debut in February, which integrated the now-infamous line: “I think like me and Taylor may nonetheless have sex / Why? I made that bitch well-known.”
Swift, 26, later delivered a pointed snipe at West during her acceptance speech on the Grammys later that month, but West’s spouse, Kardashian, called BS in a recent interview with GQ.
The Selfish author claimed that the “Wildest Dreams” singer had given her husband approval to use the road in a filmed telephone dialog, however later backtracked.
“Rick Rubin was once there. So many respected folks in the music trade heard that [dialog] and knew,” the mom of 2 informed the mag. “… It used to be funny as a result of [at the name with Kanye, Taylor] mentioned, ‘When I am getting at the Grammy crimson carpet, all of the media is going to think that I’m so in contrast, and I’ll just snort and say, ‘The shaggy dog story’s on you, guys. I was in on it the whole time.’ And I’m like, wait, however [in] your Grammy speech, you totally dissed my husband simply to play the victim again.”
In the video, all 12 celebrities lie on what appears to be an outsized mattress utterly in the buff, their limbs tangled in silky white sheets.
“[The video] leaves you guessing as to which of the celebs are playing themselves and which can be probably handiest there by means of the grace of some advanced prosthetic wizardry (will the actual Taylor Swift please get up?),” an article at the Vanity Fair web site reads.
According to the web site, the music video used to be “filmed over a duration of three months and cycled thru four different formats and a number of other different collaborators till West felt he’d completed the result he wanted.”
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