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Kanye West Doesn't Care About Anti-Britney People

The opinionated rapper draws a line in the sand: Either you like Britney Spears, or you're wrong.


The always loquacious rapper and Stephen Colbert arch-nemesis took time out from promoting his new album, 808s and Heartbreak, to sing the praises of another performer: newly minted 27-year-old Britney Spears.

Calling out the elitism of music fans who look down on commercially successful music as "necessarily bullsh*t," the 31-year-old opined to Australia's Sydney Morning Herald: "Look at all those indie guitar bands who look down on pop music. My question to them is: 'Do you not want a song of yours to explode and be heard by everyone?' Look at Britney Spears and how people talk about her...if you don't like Britney Spears, then you're just wrong."

Kanye West: I Love My...Shades

Kanye West reinvigorated the striped sunglasses fad in his Stronger music video.

The specs aren’t really functional. They don’t protect the eyes from strong rays of sunlight, but they look super fly.

Kanye rocks them in almost every color; some glow in the dark. They’re called "Shutter Shades" because they look like window blinds, a name popularized in the 1980s.

The shades debuted in the music video for Glittering Prize by Simple Minds, from 1982. Kanye’s cleverly designed specs were directly inspired by an Alain Mikli version. Shutter Shades are now known as Kanyes.