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Kanye West Releases "Devil In A New Dress," Goes Crazy On Twitter, Apologizes To Taylor Swift

12:09 p.m. · September 4, 2010 · by Julian Hattem

Busy morning for Kanye West's Twitter account. Late last night he dropped the latest of his weekly Friday Twitter releases, "Devil In A New Dress," which sounds like old-school, Late Registration-era Kanye. Then, for the next three or so hours, he, uh, went kind of crazy. Over the course of dozens of tweets he apologized to Taylor Swift for the publicity stunt he pulled last year, mentions that he's written a song he'd like for her to perform, said that he had become George W. Bush overnight and tries to get all Marshall McLuhan on us with some commentary on the state of contemporary media.

There's no real way to explain the weird levels of self-deprecation and feigned humility he offers, so you should probably read it yourself. At one point he blames "the media" for trying to demonize him, comments on the state of race in America and remarks that he "accept[s] the idea (ideal) that perception is reality."

"I'm ready to get out of my own way. The ego is overdone... it's like hoodies," he tweets. Which goes along nicely with the "Devil In A New Dress" line, "it's hard to be humble when you're stunting on the Jumbotron."

Lastly, this: "Also on blogs if I can get a click through back to my blog ita be dope. Put it on the inside of the post so you still get the extra click." I gotcha Kanye.