Is Kanye West Finally Growing Up Or What?

By Zach Dionne Posted Mar 14th 2011 08:45PM

When Kanye West got turned away from Paris fashion shows last week, we waited for the inevitable explosion, for Yeezy's newest dozen-tweet rant.

It never came. Our curiosity climbed. Then Kanye tweeted about Paris Fashion Week, and it was no kind of tirade; it was a happy photo of himself and a bevy of fans [above], simply tagged "photo from paris last week." What's going on here? Is Kanye West actually, seriously, finally growing up?

The fact that Kanye West is an artist of great merit is indisputable (sorry, haters -- just own it). Another truth -- evidenced by 'Ye's line "my life is like a child's illusions become reality" on a B-side to 2010's ubiquitously praised 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' -- is that Kanye isn't the most mature guy out there.

Anyone compiling a roundup of Kanye's childish behavior has plenty of fodder: In the last few months alone, West ticked off Lily Allen with a tweet about abortion, possibly ripped off the video concept for 'All of the Lights,' bravely held back a full-on tantrum on the 'Today' show and apparently staged his whole "they banned my album cover, WTF!" controversy. And, of course, Taylorgate. Never forget.

This time, Kanye, the self-proclaimed Louis Vuitton Don, impressively stayed tight-lipped about the Paris Fashion Week snub. Alone, that feat may not have been so commendable. But take February into consideration, when Justin Bieber lost the Best New Artist Grammy to relatively unknown jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding. Kanye seemed on the cusp of another rant, tweeting:

And that was all. Not only did Kanye not say the wrong thing -- he didn't say anything. Whether Kanye would have defended Bieber -- who he had a brief Twitter bromance with, resulting in a remix of 'Runaway Love' -- or continued his long spree of speaking out on behalf of black America (see: "George Bush doesn't care about black people"), we never found out. Kanye kept quiet.

Now Idolator reports 'Ye will join a stacked lineup at South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, this week. The performance could be a good first step to erasing a bad festival experience at Bonnaroo in 2008, when Kanye kept attendees waiting until 4AM to see a lackluster, thankless performance. It could also be a good warm-up for Kanye to headline another massive festival, Coachella, in April.

Boombox wrote that the three-day fest's $319 tickets sold out in record time and speculated that Kanye may have had something to do with it. PopEater wondered if Kanye would be ready for Coachella after tarnishing Bonnaroo in '08 and ruining the VMAs in '09. Now our fingers are crossed that the April 17 gig at Coachella marks the debut of an increasingly adultlike Kanye West.

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See the flashy video that announced Kanye's SXSW appearance:

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Tuesday 15 March

By simpsonsimpmike

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Waiting for the West rant that never came? Probably had laryngitis

By redrum4008

"The fact that Kanye West is an artist of great merit is indisputable (sorry, haters -- just own it)."

He has no talent that is worth mentioning. He is egotistical, self-centered, and self-serving. The fact that you are so moved by his work only proves this peice of tripe isn't journalism, but a feel good peice trying to get into his good graces. Grow up and go back to fox news.

By JoeyO'H

West is a moron with no social values. Anyone who tweets a picture of their penis has the mentality of a grammar school kid.
Kanye West = No talent, loser, big mouth, uneducated, punk... I could go on and on...

By Bubbles

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NO! He just got stung by his STUPID ANTICS and it hurt him financially. Everyone gets that...even stupid Kanye.

By YellowRose3218

I dont know anyone who thinks they can treat people like crap, and expect the same people to buy his 'music.'
Kayne needs to rethink his attitude, its not done him a lot of favors in te past. Only a misguided teenager would want to hear him. I do hope he can keep up this new act of his, then I might stop writting negative things about him.

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