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Kanye West, the rap superstar and stranger to modesty (“I realise that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the voice of this generation”) moved to London earlier this year for an extended visit. West stayed at one of the city’s

Marty says he was scared real bad when it happened, and he says thats why it happened, too, on account of him being scared so bad. He says he was afraid he was going to die, afraid a man with a shotgun was coming into that little bathroom to blow a hole ri ght through him, splatter him all over the walls