Kanye West has been so present in the media lately, between promotional appearances and his regular mid-concert "visionary streams of consciousness" (as he calls them), that any interview warranting a mention must be pretty damn special. His showing earlier today on New York's Power 105 is one such interview. For over 40 minutes, the hosts (especially Wendy Williams' former sidekick, Charlamagne the God), pummeled Ye with questions, frequently pointing out his contradictions. These included:

"I felt like the main character [in 12 Years a Slave]. And what I'm dealing with even as a mega-popular rich celebrity, you know, 'Fuck you, who do you think you are to complain about anything?' situation that I'm in." - Kanye West

It all started, as most things do, with a Bret Easton Ellis podcast.

Question: Why won't Kanye West let himself be great? Answer: Kim Kardashian.

The Kardashian Klan was no doubt hoping to keep all the footage from Kanye and Kim's "Proposal in the AT&T Park" under wraps until such time as they could profit from it, but thanks to the co-founder of YouTube of all people, the crux of the ceremony is now online.

Excitable man Kanye West is engaged to wed popular divorcée Kim Kardashian, after presenting her with a 15-carat diamond ring at AT&T Park in San Francisco via Jumbotron in front of family, friends, and a private 50-person orchestra playing Kim's favorite Lana Del Rey song ("Young and Beautiful") as is the style of the day.

It turns out Kanye West and Kim Kardashian don't actually mind living their private lives in public, so long as they're the ones invading our personal space.

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Kanye West's Otis Redding-sampling "Gone," from his 2005 sophomore release Late Registration, entered Billboard's Hot 100 this week at number 18, thanks to Marina Shifrin's "I Quit" viral selfie.

The first thing you should know about Kanye West's manic episode on tonight's Jimmy Kimmel Live is that he had some shit in the left corner of his mouth for a large portion of it. That was very distracting, and made everything he said that much harder to take seriously.

Last month, Kanye West reamed out Jimmy Kimmel on Twitter, bellowing, among other things, "YOU DON'T HAVE SCUM BAGS [sic] HOPPING OVER FENCES TRYING TO TAKE PICTURES OF YOUR DAUGHTER." Today, one of those snap-happy scumbags has been identified: West's lovely girlfriend, Kim Kardashian.

I really hope that in a few months' time, we don't find out that Kanye West has some personality disorder or other mental-health issue, because watching him react to the world is just too damn fun and I never want to feel bad about enjoying him.

On tonight's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Kimmel addressed West's earlier Twitter meltdown. It appears, based on Kimmel's monologue, that West is legitimately angry with him. But one can never really be too sure, I suppose.

Apparently angry over this skit, rapper Kanye West went crazy Thursday night on Twitter, attacking Jimmy Kimmel WITH LOTS OF CAPS for being mean, unfunny, and lacking in good pussy.

It's gonna take a lot for a headline to come along today that's more incendiary than "Miley Cyrus and Kanye West Reportedly Team for 'Black Skinhead' Remix," but hey, it's still early.

The public unveiling of North West wasn't the only thing that made Kanye West's hour-long sit down with his baby's grandmother notable. The whole thing had a the stilted air of an infomercial (missed opportunity: a segment in which the quasi-in-laws vacuum-sealed shit for a segment). Kanye was alternately sedate, engaged, sulking (sometimes he'd go from being engaged to sulking over the course of a single, benign topic), and paranoid about the press. Highlights are above, bullet points are below. Pick your poison.

As shown on Kanye's ridiculous, sedated, everyone's-throwing-their-heads-back-and-laughing appearance on Kris Kardashian's talk show, Kris.

Remember four years ago when something happened to photogenic millionaire Taylor Swift while she was accepting a fake award at a ceremony held by a channel that exists to market cell phones to teenagers? Taylor Swift remembers too. It's the first thing she thinks about when she rolls out of bed and the last thing she pictures before she falls asleep. Her life is an endless carousel of misery, circling 'round and 'round that single moment. Every day she wakes up and discovers it is September 14, 2009; every day is the day after Kanye West's bizarre outburst ensured that the 2009 VMAs would forever be remembered as one of Taylor Swift's Top Four Worst VMAs Ever.

An apology is in order: Kanye West's ill-fated Curb You Enthusiasm clone isn't horrible. Tonight the full, half-hour version, once feared lost to history, was screened before a small audience. It was one of the most batshit crazy, wonderful pieces of television you can't imagine.

Last week, Rolling Stone's decision to feature Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its August 1, 2013 cover caused such a major brouhaha that Mayor of Boston denounced the magazine in a statement and a string of retailers declined to stock the issue. But the Marathon Bombing suspect wasn't the editors' first choice for the cover. Know who was? That's right, Yeezy!