SOUNDCHECK

MANCHESTER APOLLO, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND

Kanye West

Monday, July 2, 2007

Between the run-up to Graduation and his release-day face-off
with 50 Cent, Kanye West didn’t hold his tongue very much
during the summer. But he did exercise restraint with the royals.
“One of them said, ‘I thought those glasses were bling,’” he said
of Princes William and Harry, whom he met in the U.K. “I didn’t
have the heart to tell them that I’m the anti-bling.”

PHOTOGRAPH BY DANNY NORTH/NME/IPC+ SYNDICATION

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