Cover Wars: Rolling Stone goes West — or does it?
Kanye West is on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine - or at least that's what he wanted us to think. On Wednesday night, the Yeesuz singer shared an unauthorised cover of Rolling Stone magazine, featuring his portrait, a headline that read ''Kanye" and a caption: ''Does he like mustard?"The legendary music magazine were quick to quash any confusion. ''While we love Kanye," they tweeted, "and have many mustard-related questions for him, this is not an actual cover of Rolling Stone."The famously self-confident rapper tweeted, ''I bet you this still becomes the cover though."He then launched a Twitter poll, asking fans whether the cover should be used. Of 54823 voters, 55% voted in favour of West's cover.The cover is the latest in a line of attention-grabbing stunts that West has pulled in the run-up to his new album, which will be released next Friday...
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