from pitchfork:
The record will include an exhausting 17 songs and four skits, featuring no less than 13 guest stars (not to mention Mr. Brion). Alas, M.I.A. is, uh, M.I.A., and Adam Levine from Maroon 5 seems to have taken John Mayer's place as hip-hop's favorite awkward white adult-contemporary dude. When The Guardian asked Kanye how he felt about M.I.A. declining his invitation to appear on Late Registration, the college dropout paused and simply said, "I'm Kanye West."