The Worst Things That Kanye West Has Ever Done

Any band can release two wanky singles and have a Greatest Hits record. Just ask Hilary Duff. But for some reason no one has ever released a Worstest Hits record. Enter Noisey.

Kanye West is an incredible artist who, despite releasing six records, has made it impossible for us to finger-point an outright seminal release. 808s and Heartbreak inspired everyone from Drake to James Blake to Frank Ocean to T-pain. Yeezus broke hearts, The College Dropout changed lives and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy smacked everyone around the face with an aural paintbrush that validated West’s penchant for realised portraiture. And Late Registration and Graduation were pretty great, too.

But Yeezy has also done a bunch of bad stuff. I’m not talking about the Taylor Swift incident, the George Bush incident, the Zane Lowe incident. I’m talking about the shit he thinks everyone's forgotten about.

Here’s Kanye West’s Worstest Hits.

HE REMIXED FALL OUT BOY

By the time Fall Out Boy released their third record Infinity On High, everyone in rap music wanted a piece of Pete Wentz’s penis and eye-liner empire. Jay Z introduced the record with a bit of spoken word and for the deluxe edition Travis McCoy, Lil Wayne, Lupe Fiasco and Kanye West jumped on a remix of “This Ain’t A Scene, It’s A Goddamn Arms Race” which features the following bar:

“In spite of anything you might've seen or heard/ This scene occurred/ Word”

HE WAS IN THE LOVE GURU

The Love Guru is one of those films that always looks up at me from the shelves of a Computer Entertainment Exchange begging to be bought, just so it doesn't have to spend another night get molested by a dusty copy of Free Willy 2. Anyway, Kanye West was in it.

Best line: “I love hockey!”

THIS TERRIBLE (BUT NOT SO TERRIBLE) THING

People can act like Yeezus was Kanye's first attempt at destroying the dancefloor, but they obviously haven't heard "Alors On Dance (Feat Kanye West & Gilbere Forte)". This is a track that is the aural assimilation of all of the worst (or best) parts of the club easily conjuring up the role call made by snap-backed bros, the lopsided photo face made by the girls, and the taste of bright coloured liquids that cost £1. Personally, I love it and it's my new favourite song, BNM, 9.0, please play at all pre-drinks forever. Strangely, Sam Wolfson hates it and made me put it in.

THE MEGAUPLOAD ADVERT

The era of Megaupload was a halcyon one in which watching a relevant and easily-tweetable Stateside show didn’t involve sifting through Putlocker and having Dave from MyFreeCams.Net invade your speaker to announce that he “has the secret free live cams”. Unfortunately, the man killed Megaupload and Kim Dotcom had to rebrand under the MEGA umbrella. All that lives of Megauploads past is this advert which somehow managed to feature every celebrity ever, despite the fact that we’re frequently told downloading is bad, don’t do it, fuck you, buy our records.

AND THIS ONE WITH MADONNA THAT ALSO SUCKS