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Kanye West wrote:I was inspired a lot by the movie Dune—remember those big padded collars they wore? Well I did that padded look as a flap at the back.

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Not sure which collars he meant - the shoes look a bit Lynch-Harkonnen... or maybe he saw COD? - That had a lot of collar

EDIT: Just pasted this into ebay: some of these are selling for £1000... ouch

Feyd's collar, maybe?

Call that a collar?

THIS is a collar...


But yeah, Feyd does have a bit of a collar - That padded ribbed thing the shoes does have a Harkonnen-esque vibe.

Oh, you guys don't even want to mess with the other Feyd's collar:



... or neck-thing ... or whatever the hell.

if this "kanye west" is who I think he is,
he must be talking about the movie or TV ...
no effing way he read the book ...

hey, isn't that the guy who tortured and killed
Carlos Mencia for calling him a "gay fish" on South Park ?

that guy ?

Thats pretty surprising that Kanye, a world famous rapper, would be a fan of Dune. And yeah, I agree, he definitely didn't read the book.

Sandwurm88 wrote:... a world famous rapper ...

Never heard of him. Makes me wonder how "world famous" he is?

I'm just sayin'.

I've heard of him.

Wasn't there something about his mother in the news as well? About a year ago or so?

(She was devoted to him and his career and died ... or gave birth to a pride of lion cubs ... something like that. )

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Not a fan personally, but if he saw the lynch or sci fi series.... more power to him.

Wonder if there is a way to send him a greeting from Jacurutu and offer that he check out the
audio book if his busy schedule doesnt allow to read the written word?

Famous folks to bulster the fame of Dune (Franks version of course) works for me.

TheDukester wrote:

Sandwurm88 wrote:... a world famous rapper ...

Never heard of him. Makes me wonder how "world famous" he is?

I'm just sayin'.

He's pretty much one of the biggest rappers in the world right now, multi-platinum huge. He also pretty much sucks, but that's not the point.

A Thing of Eternity wrote:He's pretty much one of the biggest rappers in the world right now, multi-platinum huge.

All of that is nothing to me. I'd read Kevin J. Anderson's entire output, start to finish, before I'd listen to an hour of that shit.

TheDukester wrote:

A Thing of Eternity wrote:He's pretty much one of the biggest rappers in the world right now, multi-platinum huge.

All of that is nothing to me. I'd read Kevin J. Anderson's entire output, start to finish, before I'd listen to an hour of that shit.

That's a bold statement - the average KJA audiobook is ~18 hours long. Start with 10 nudune books and 7 SoSS books - that's more than 300 hours.. or 13 solid days just for those. If you start now you'll be dead in 2 weeks. Or worse you'll be a brain-dead card-carrying member of the KJASF.

I'll take an hour of sub-par rap any day

TheDukester wrote:

A Thing of Eternity wrote:He's pretty much one of the biggest rappers in the world right now, multi-platinum huge.

All of that is nothing to me. I'd read Kevin J. Anderson's entire output, start to finish, before I'd listen to an hour of that shit.

I don't care if it means anything to you, you asked how big this guy really was (and were obviously insinuating that you figured he wasn't very big), and I let you know that he is in fact gigantic. That is all. Not sure where you're going with this.

Kanye is awesome.

A Thing of Eternity wrote:Not sure where you're going with this.

Duke's working on his "cranky, bitter old man" -
next is : "You kids shut the hell up with all that damn racket"
followed closely by "Get the hell off my lawn" .....

and this guy under discussion, same guy who did the
"Bush hates Black People" thing after the hurricane,
and threw some kinda fit after not winning a Grammy, amirite ?

DuneFishUK wrote: If you start now you'll be dead in 2 weeks.

I'd never make it that far. Even with good narrators, my head would explode somewhere around the second day.

The arteries/veins on my temples stand out after about five minutes.

So there's something on the news this morning about him stealing the mic/spotlight at some awards ceremony over the weekend?

Yeah ... use them Dune shoes to ... RUN AWAY!

And they call that shoes????

I call it a pile of crap, what is it with rappers turned stylists that they want to superimpose layer after layer of tack?

They might go down well with the "insta' rapper kit":

SandChigger wrote:So there's something on the news this morning about him stealing the mic/spotlight at some awards ceremony over the weekend?

Yeah ... use them Dune shoes to ... RUN AWAY!

Kanye Disses Taylor Swift

She's HOT, he's NOT.

lotek wrote:And they call that shoes???

No, they call that a shoe...

sorry if i offended your fashion sense here, it's just that I really found them ugly, that's all!

Why was his mic even on?

Im still cracking up about the "Instant Rapper kit", to think that grown adults sat around a table in some corporate office and seriously discussed and approved the product for creation and sale.. is hilarious.

Other than Kanye Dune footwear, whats next "how to get a date with Fergie?" instruction manuals?