Kanye West Could Eat Corey Taylor For Breakfast

Kanye West has to be one of the most contentious performing artist/songwriter’s of today. His outrageous ego, his over-the-top lifestyle, his penchant for controversy by constantly voicing his opinion, of course without being asked. Then to top it all off, he goes and marries into the biggest celebrity family, famous for not doing anything besides being friends with Ryan Seacrest.

And yet he’s arguably one of the few artists that’s been consistently on top of the game. Multiple critically acclaimed albums, playing sold out arenas, even getting Paul McCartney to play on a song. West was the most talked about artist from Glastonbury albeit for a range of reasons - from the usual haters that hate just because to being exponentially lauded by fans and critics alike. Never to squander a presented opportunity, the rapper went on to tell the Glastonbury crowd that they were witnessing “the greatest living rock star on the planet!”

Without a doubt, keyboard warriors had a field day with this one. This claim had also brought the ire of Corey Taylor, the lead singer of Slipknot (a nu-metal band that wears Halloween masks and calls banging on trash cans “percussion”), and lead singer of Stone Sour, a band that sounds like every other hard-rock band of mid-to-late 2000’s sponsored by Monster Energy Drinks. While both bands were highly successful in their heyday, Slipknot has fallen from grace into hard rock purgatory, co-headlining tours with Korn, another nu-metal band still attempting to stay relevant (even going so far as to collaborate with Skrillex for some Nu-Metal Dubstep).

So why is he so bitter that West has proclaimed himself to be the greatest living rock star? Currently Taylor seems to be abiding his time by playing small venues with max capacities of 5000, so his small stage pales in comparison to the Yeezus Mountain West towers over. In every comparison, record sales, ticket sales, Grammy awards, West has Taylor beat by a huge margin. The better question is why do we really care what Corey Taylor thinks?

Yes we all know West likes toot his own horn like it’s the only one left, but he’s surely not the only musician to give himself such praise. John Lennon infamously said that he was bigger than Jesus, then Oasis frontman said they were bigger than Jesus as well and eventually the Beatles. There’s also another similarity between these three aggrandizers, they can actually back it up with multi-platinum albums and adornment by critics. Corey Taylor cannot say the same.

Taylor said West is acting like he just got laid. This is Kanye West we are talking about, do we really need to go into the women he has been intimate with? His songs ooze so much sex that Prince gave it up for protest songs instead.

Love him/hate him, Kanye West is here to stay to keep turning heads and stomp onto new ground. He’s the epitome of what it means to be rock star –loud, egotistical, and genius. And if that pisses off Corey Taylor, then Yeezy is doing something right.