There’s something about Jay-Z and Kanye West that almost seems like a big brother-little brother relationship. Just go all the way back to 2009 when West interrupted Taylor Swift’s Video Music Award acceptance speech to praise a video by Beyonce, otherwise known as Mrs. Jay-Z. Or even when Beyonce announced her pregnancy at this year’s VMA show and cameras showed a jubilant West jumping up and down behind Jay-Z. The actions seem close to a brother trying to garner favor with an older sibling. The question is why?
“Everyone in the country is in therapy and spending all their money on self-help books so their little internal voice will be able to say, ‘I am good and I am OK,'” producer Jon Brion told Rolling Stone. “If you’re going to believe all the stuff about positive thinking and self-actualization, that we affect our environment by the way we think about ourselves, do you want a better example than Kanye West? [Forget] Tony Robbins. Kanye West should have infomercials.”
