Kanye West to Host Live Chat Today

From the Taylor Swift/VMA incident to "George Bush doesn't care about black people", Kanye West certainly knows how to get attention during a live event.

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And while it's not national television, we have a feeling something memorable will happen when he hosts a live chat on Ustream today at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT. In the past couple of days, he's admitted that the VMA incident showed that he was "someone who had to grow", talked about the nude pictures of him that landed on the Internet, and even said he understands George Bush's "disgust" with his Katrina comment.

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RollingStone.com will be streaming the live chat with Kanye starting at 4 p.m.

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Song Stories

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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