![]() It was the latest in a series of incidents that have caused some voices to suggest West might be "bonkers" as well. Eight minutes long, set to a tinkling piano accompaniment and peppered with random bursts of Auto-Tuned singing, it variously covered the amount of time it had taken him to get to the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards, the career of Michael Jordan and the work of Helmut Newton, before concluding "people look at me like I'm Hitler" ("the infamous Hitler," one US reporter clarified, for the benefit of anyone who thought he meant Dickie Hitler, the unassuming philanthropist). Thus, you might imagine he would think long and hard about teaming up with Kanye West, a man who last weekend was once more to be found treating an audience to one of his famous on-stage speeches. ![]() Jay-Z later suggested the problem was that Kelly was "absolutely bonkers". A mini-album with nu-metal band Linkin Park was at best a minor addition to his oeuvre, but it looked like a roaring success compared to his collaborations with R Kelly, which spawned two terrible albums – the latter promoted by a tour Jay-Z colourfully described as a "nightmarish odyssey", and which abruptly concluded when Kelly was maced by one of Jay-Z's entourage en route to the stage at Madison Square Gardens. Y ou have to be impressed with Jay-Z's resolve when it comes to the matter of collaborative albums, perhaps the one chequered area in an otherwise triumphant career.
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